Scouts Mystery Hint
In Death of Husband of Dr. Wynekoop.
SCOUTS MYSTERY HINT
IN DEATH OF HUSBAND
OF DR. WYNEKOOP
Veiled hints that there were mysterious circumstances surrounding the death on New Year's day, 1920, of Dr. Frank Wynekoop were discredited last night in a comment of Dr. Frederick Tice, one of Chicago's best known physicians. Dr. Tice was summoned to attend Dr. Wynekoop, the husband of Dr. A. Lindsay Wynekoop.
"I was called from my home, a block from that of the Wynekoops, at about 2 p. m.," he said. "The call came from the wife. Dr. Wynekoop was alive when I arrived, but died a few minutes later. At the time his case appeared clearly to be one of heart involvement. There was nothing to arouse suspicion and I signed the death certificate.
Dr. Tice was one of the physicians called into consultation after the late Mayor Cormak was wounded by an anarchist in Miami, Fla. His comment on the death of Dr. Frank Wynekoop came after Dr. Gilbert H. Wynekoop, a brother of Dr. Frank Wynekoop, in an interview had asserted that the death certificate was signed "under protest." There was no protest, Dr. Tice declared. Dr. Gilbert Wynekoop is in the county jail on a nurse's charge that he attempted to rape her.
Source:
Unknown, "Scouts Mystery Hint In Death of Husband of Dr. Wynekoop," The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Thursday, 23 November 1933, p. 3.
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