Dr. Gilbert H. Wynekoop, once noted surgeon, a brother-in-law to Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, went to trial before Judge Harry B. Miller and a Criminal court jury yesterday, on the issue of his sanity. Dr. Wynekoop had been in custody since Nov. 13, on a charge of attempting to rape a nurse for whose services he had advertized.
    Although Dr. Henry R. Hoffman director of the Criminal court behavior clinic, declared Dr. Gilbert insane, and two other physicians summoned at his own request declared him to be suffering from delusions, the jury was unable to agree on the defendant's mental status. Deadlocked 6 to 6 after two hours' deliberation, the jury announced itself unable to agree and was discharged by Judge Miller, who set a new hearing for next Tuesday.
    On the stand in his own behalf, Dr. Gilbert excitedly averred that Dr. Hoffman was trying to "railroad" him to an asylum in order to steal several inventions such as a set of wooden cutlery, a lockable safety razor, and a cellophane bathing suit. He was merely suffering, the defendant said, from a malady known as "alcoholic inconsistency," but added that he never drank to the point of intoxication.

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Unknown, "Jury Disagrees On Insanity Of Wynekoop Kin," Chicago Daily Tribune, Friday, 8 December, 1933, Page 19.