"Mistake," Says Dr. Wynekoop.
"Mistake," Says Dr. Wynekoop.

"Mistake," Says
Dr. Wynekoop
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Aged Physician Begs for
Quiet in Cell After
Guilty Verdict.
_____

    Chicago, March 7 (AP).--Shocked by the verdict which branded her a murdress [sic] and consigned her to 25 years in prison, Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop today lay in a half stupor on her county jail cot and begged to be left alone.
    The enigmatic physician, however, found strength to maintain her innocence of the death of her daughter-in-law, Rheta, and to assert that the jury which yesterday convicted her had made a grievous error.
    Her son and daughter, Walker and Dr. Catherine, maintained a stoical calm, but were reported to be near a collapse. They had been at every session of both trials. Her other son, Earle, husband of the slain Rheta, was not here. He was last reported in Kansas City.
    Attorney Smith visited his client later in the day and reaffirmed his intention of carrying on the fight for a new trial. When the motion comes up for hearing March 24 before Judge Harry B. Miller.


Source:

Unknown, ""Mistake," Says Dr. Wynekoop," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Thursday, 8 March, 1934, p. 10.

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