Evening star., 1933-11-24
WOMAN PHYSICIAN
ADMITS KILLING Of
DAUCHTER4N-LAW
Dr.. Wynekoop Says She Shot
When Girl Failed to Re-
vive From ChIoroform.
SONS FEARFUL PLEAS
BREAK MOTHERS DENIAL
Earle Declares His Married Life
Unhappy-Tells of Wife's At.
tempts to Poison Family.
BY the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 24.-The con-
3esSion of DR.. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
that she fired bullet into the heart of
her daughter-in-law, Rheta, while the
girl was unconscious, was announced
today by Capt. John Siege.
Breaking down at last after nearly
three days of exhausting examination
and the fearful pleas of her son that
she confess If she did it, the 62-year-
old woman physician acknowledged
that she had administered chloroform
to her sons 23-year-old wife, in ex-
amining her for a pelvic pain, of which
the girl had complained.
She had gone to her surgical Office
in the basement of her Monroe street
house last Tuesday afternoon to find
Rheta partly undressed, weighing her
self.
Administers Chloroform.
Rheta complained of severe pains,
DR.. Wynekoop said, and she placed the
young woman on her operating table
and began to administer chloroform to
ease the pain and facilitate examina-
tion.
DR.. Wynekoop told Capt. Siege she
kept asking Rheta if she could feel The
pain and that her daughter -in-law con-
tinued to answer aff1ramatively FL
nally, the physician explained, Rheta
lost consciousness and for 25 minutes
she tried strenuously to revive her.
When she realized she was losing
ground, DR.. Alice said, she became panic
stricken.
"All the events of my life flashed
through my mind" DR.. Wynekoop was
quoted, land thought of a pistol in
an adjoining room"
Fearful of blame for killing the girl
with the anaesthetic, she said, she OBJ
tanned the pistol and, holding it inches
from the bare back of the unconscious
girl, fired single shot. The shot perle-
trated the shoulder blade and passed
through Rhetas heart.
Capt, Siege placed the time of the
killing between 2:30 and pm. Tues
day. at time when DR.. Wynekoop had
said previously she was absent from the
l6-roOm mansion.
Meets Son.
For the first time since the mysteri-
Gus killing, Dr. Alice and her son Earle
had met in the police quarters where
both had been subjected to night-long
questioning, separately. Near the
breaking point but always protesting
his innocence, the 28-year-old widower
had said he knew of motive. and
wanted to see his mother.
On her shoulder, he sobbed a plea
that she admit her guilt if she had
done it because of her great love for
him.
Looking solemnly into his reddened
eyes, she said Il didn't DO it,"
Earle had told the police his wife
had been termed by a physician slight
ly deranged," and that she had put
iron filings and drugs in f00Q az tfE
After their two-hour meeting Earle
had been led away 10 lunCh, Thtn
began the final questioning that re-
suited in the doctors statement. with
to be unsatisfled.
Physicians Confession.
Dr. wynekoop's alleged confession, as
made public, follows:
"On November 81, about 1870 or 2
o'clock in the afternoon, Rheta decided
she would go to the Loop and buy some
music.
"She went down to my surgical cham
ber to weigh herself when she changed
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