SHOT IN THE BACK
SEA CAPTAIN’S FATE. LOS ANGELES MYSTERY. LOS ANGELES, December G. The murder of Captain Walter Wandenvell on the eve of his departure for the South Seas in the yacht Car ma, a converted rum-runner, has stirred Los Angeles. Wanderwell was shot dead in the hack in his own cabin. Wanderwell had been an untiring adventurer all over the world.
Mrs Wanderwell told the police that a. middle-aged stranger came aboard early in the evening, and accompanied her husband to his cabin. Tt is believed that he shot Wando-well when the captain was bending down to examine panel’s in a drawer of a divan.
Those aboard die ship were four seamen, two students, a cameraman, two women short-story writers, Mrs Wanderwell, and Wanderwell’s two little daughters. VOL ____________
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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