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Wynekoop Son Meets Mother.
Wynekoop Son
Meets Mother
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Leaves Hiding to Tell Her
Farewell at Gates
of Prison.
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Dwight, Ill., March 29 (AP).--The long-missing Earle Wynekoop reached the door of the Illinois Women's Reformatory today just in time to bid farewell to his mother, Dr. Alice Wynekoop, as she entered upon a 25-year prison term.
It was a startling epilogue of the tragedy--the murder of Earle's wife, Rheta, in his mother's surgical office, and the trial of the mother while her son remained hidden.
Shabbily dressed, his hair disheveled and untrimmed, the son for whose love Dr. Wynekoop was charged by the State with having taken the life of her daughter-in-law, appeared in the crowd at the prison entrance about three minutes before his mother's arrival.
The strength of the 63-year-old prisoner, who was being helped into the prison anteroom, failed her at the sight of her son. She fell into his embrace.
Earle help his mother into a chair, and bending low he whispered rapidly for several minutes. He appeared to be trying to win her to assent to something, but the mother shook her head vehemently.
Then attendants helped her to her feet and she was half-carried away for the routine incident to her imprisonment.
It was the first time Earle and his mother had met since their joint questioning at the Fillmore Police Station in Chicago, immediately after the murder last November 21.
Source:
Unknown, "Wynekoop Son Meets Mother," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Friday, 30 March, 1934, p. 4.
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