The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-17
DOCTOR WEBSTER
 DEATH UNSOLVED
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ster's appointment book. Believe Patient Killed

Ster'S appointment book.
 Believe Patient Killed
 Investigators have theorized that it was patient, former patient or someone else with "a real or fancied grievance" that mortally wounded the society doctor in the vestibule of his fashionable East Side home and escaped apparently without leaving a clue.
 All patients named either in Dr. Webster's appointment book or pro- fessional records were being visited by detectives in the hope of un- earthing possible lead"
 Cooperating was Dr. Webster's secretary, Miss Dorothea Gilligan, B.
 Deputy Police Superintendent James J. Cusick, directing the in- vestigation, frankly admitted he was at loss for motive for the murder. Robbery was discarded after it was found that nothing in Dr. Webster's luxuriously appointed home had been disturbed and $500 in his pock- cts was intact. He was known as a "home-loving man."
 Several Changes
 After 24 hours investiga ton, police made several changes in their original reconstruction of the crime.
 Dr. Webster returned to Provi- dence about p. m. (EDT) after consulting with Dr. Richard Arlen at Jamestown, police said, and drove to Simmonds drugstore in adjacent Cranston, where he stayed nearly five hours talking with friends in back room.
 "He didn't seem to be disturbed about anything" said Proprietor Horace Simmonds. He came in and sort of waited around. He did that now and then. Several doctors sit around the back room, talking. They can be reached here on the telephone"
 About 9:30 p. m., he telephoned his wife Kathryn at their summer home at Watch Hill, where she was staying with daughter Marjorie, z, and maid.
 When the drugstore closed at l a. m., he motored home, arriving about F minutes later.
 He entered by a rear door with out bothering to remove the keys from ignition switch or to lock the garage door.
 About 1:30 a. m., the door bell rang and he opened the front door. The porch was dark, someone hav- ing clambered to the top of 8 nearby telephone pole and un- screwed street lamp that usually lighted the front of the house. Crime Is Done
 The slayer stepped into the vesti. bule and immediately opened fire One bullet lodged in Dr. Wobster's abdomen, another penetrated 6 shoulder and the third went wild The slayer fled.
 Mortally wounded, the physician crawled through the dining room into the buffers pantry, where ht telephoned police.
 When Patrolman Charles H. Nc. Namara arrived minutes later, Dr Webster was seated on the couch On the coffee table in front of the doctor was magazine opened te Designed for Death" The front door was ajar.
 "Who shot your" asked McNamara and other officers who arrived short ly thereafter.
 "I'll tell you all about this shoot ing If I recover" he said. But less than an hour later al Homeopathic hospital, where he was chief obstetrician, death sealed his lips.
 Widow Prostrated
 Frustrated with grief, Mrs. Web. ster was taken to the home of Car A. Lindblad, director of Homeo. pathic hospital.
 In the veStibule of the Webster home, police found three empty A caliber shells. A brass jacketed bull. let was found in the cellar, where it had ricocheted from a stairway.
 Dr. Webster was educated in tn, Westerly public schools, the Quaker Boarding school at Westtown, Pa. and the Hahnemann Medical col. lege, Philadelphia. He had practic. ed here since 1924.
 Besides wife and daughter, ht leaves his father, Dr. Samuel c | Webster, milk officer of Westerly,