TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1934, Page 7

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.

American Woman Doctor Found Guilty of Murder. SON'S WIFE KILLED. CHICAGO, March 7. The second trial was concluded yesterday of Dr. Alice Wynckoop on a charge of murdering her son's wife. Accused was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Rheta Wynckoop, aged 23, a talented violinist, was found early in tho evening on November 21 with a bullet in her heart, and lying with a blanket wrapped about her on the operating table in the surgery of her mother-in-law, Dr. Alice Wynckoop, aged 63. The case took an extraordinary turn when Dr. Earle Wynckoop, husband of the dead woman, completely repudiated his mother's confeswion and insisted that he alone had committed the murder. He was sent to gaol charged with the murder, but the police could not substantiate his confession, and he was released. The first trial of Dr. Alice Wynckoop was discontinued. The judge ruled to that effect after a committee of doctors had reported that accused was so ill that the ordeal of the trial would endanger her life.

A POLICE PLOT? SEDITION TRIAL CHARGE. (Received 1 p.m.) TORONTO, March 7. In the oursc of the trial of the Rev. A. F. Smith, a leading local Communist, for alleged seditions utteranes regarding the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. R. B. Bennett, Mr. E. J. MeMurray, defending counsel, made a charge in his address to the jury that the whole accusation against his client was really a plot on tlio part of the police to "railroad" a .Communist leader to prison. FOOTBALL AT HOME. VILLA AND MANCHESTER TIE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 7. Results of football matches played in Britain this afternoon: — Soccer.—First Division: Aston Villa drew with Manchester City, 0 —0; Portsmouth heat Leeds, 2 —l. Second Division: Bolton drew with Hull, 3—3; Bradford City beat Preston, I—o. Northern Division: Wrexham beat Rotlierham, 4—o. Scottish Cup (fourth round replay): Motherwell beat Albion, 6 —o. Rugby.—Berkshire beat Sussex, 17 —S; Newport beat Abertillery, 5 —3; Civil Service beat Royal Air Force, 9—3.