Dr. Wynekoop Ill;
Trial Date Set for Jan. 4.
Dr. Wynekoop
Ill; Trial Date
Set for Jan. 4
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Lawyers Warned to Keep
Silent Until Then;
Victim Exhumed.
Chicago, Dec. 4 (AP).--Judge Joseph B. David gave orders today for the trial of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop to begin a month from today and clamped down, meanwhile, on further public statements by State and defense attorneys on the operating room murder case.
Her own illness and the desire of the court to remain unprejudiced until the trial will keep the elderly woman a prisoner in the County Jail until January 4.
Another collapse as she tried to walk from her jail cot kept her from pleading today to the charge of murdering Rheta, wife of her son, Earle. Dr. Francis McNamara said she felt faint and dizzy, and the court instructed that she need not appear until the day of trial.
Attorney Frank Tyrrell withdrew a motion to release Dr. Wynekoop under bond, when Judge David said:
"While the defense has a right to ask for bail, I ask that they do not make this request. It is necessary for the court to hear much evidence to rule on the question of bond, and this evidence will undoubtedly prejudice the court's mind one way or another. The court wishes to enter this case entirely unbiased."
Judge David then warned prosecution and defenders he would consider it unethical for either side to give any more interviews.
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Indianapolis, Dec. 4 (AP).--The body of Rheta Gardner Wynekoop was taken from its grave here today, examined by two physicians representing Coroner Frank Walsh of Chicago, and was quickly returned to its resting place.
Source:
Unknown, "Dr. Wynekoop Ill; Trial Date Set for Jan. 4," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, 5 December, 1933, p. 10.
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