A CHICAGO MURDER
(Press Assn.*-
wynekoop case YOUNG HUSBAND LIBERATED BUT MOTHER-IN-LAW DETAINED a stra*nge story
-By Telegraph — Copyright).
C'hicago, Dec. 11. Earle Wynekoop was set free today following a charge of being an accessory before the fact in connection with the murder of his wife. His mother, Doctor Alice Wynekoop,, remains in the cells charged with murder. A cable message on November 26 announced that Rheta Wynekoop, aged 23, wife of Earle Wynekoop, was found dead on the operating table of her mother-in-law, Dr. Alice Wynekoop, in Chicago. She was naked save for a blanket and had a bullet wound through the heart. The husband eonfessed to the crime but his story was repudiated. The mother-in-law also- eonfessed saying the young woman came to her complaining of pains. The doctor placed her on an operating table and hegan administering chloroform in order to ease her pain and facilitate examination. The daughter-in-law finally lost consciousness, and after 25 minutes the doctor tried to revive her. Realising that the girl was losing grourid, the doctor became panicstriken. Fearful of blame for killing the girl with an anaesthetic she said she obtained a revolver and fired a shot in the shoulder blade through the girl's heart. The police say the confession was so worded as to indicate the doctor wished the slaying to appear as a mereiful killing, but they declare that new evidence indicates the girl was chlojjoformed after the shot.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 713, 13 December 1933, Page 5
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240A CHICAGO MURDER Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 713, 13 December 1933, Page 5
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