SHOOTING MYSTERY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 643, 22 December 1932, Page 1

SHOOTING MYSTERY.

Strange Features Surround Yacht Murder. (Special to the “ Star.”) LOS ANGELES, December 12. Mrs Aloha Wanderwell, widow of Captain Walter Wanderwell, who was ! shot in the back in his yacht Carina, took her husband’s body to sea to-day ! in the vessel and held a sea funeral out of sight of land. The police are making intensive efforts to discover the murderer. Wanderwell was shot on the eve of ; his departure for a cruise in the South ; Seas with a mixed party of photographers and writers on board, i Cables from Buenos Aires say that Wanderwell was, in reality, a Pole named Pieczynski, and his “ work around the world educational club ” was really a gigantic hoax. Crew Warned to Stay. The organisation drew 7 substantial subscriptions from emotional people at Buenos Aires who were impressed by his clfever appeal to outlaw war by | creating an ultra-powerful international J police force. About 20 premium-paying volunteers ! from Argentina, who journeyed to the United States and joined Wanderwell’s expedition, bitterly denounced his desertion of them. Edward Eugene Montague, second son of the Duke of Manchester, who signed on as a member of the crew, and other members of the crew of the , Carma have been warned not to leave Los Angeles until the police make further investigations of the shooting. William James Guy, aged 24. has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered Captain Wanderwell. Guy is said to have been born at Cardiff, Wales, but lived mostly in j Sydney and Melbourne. “ I have been expecting you,” Guy told the police. He denied the accusation of murder and offered to produce half a dozen witnesses to prove that he could not have been near the yacht when the murder was committed. Guy met Wanderwell at Buenos Aires in September last year. Recently he quarrelled with him about the profits of a tour to South America. Women’s Complaints. The police have received a number of complaints from young women who say that they were duped by Wanderwell. They say that Wanderwell was trying to turn his ship into a travelling matrimonial agency by encouraging men in his crew to marry girls whom he took with him. Apparently, 20 or 30 women, residing in San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles, signed up for the tour of the South Seas and Australian ports.