DID NOT CONFESS.
Police Put Words Into Her Mouth, Woman Says. CHICAGO MURDER CASE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Cocy right. (Received November 28, 12.55 p.m.) CHICAGO, November 27. Dr Alice Wynekoop, through her attorney, to-day repudiated the confession that she shot her daughter-in-law. “ The words were put into my mouth by policemen,” she said. “ I was without sleep while I was being questioned. I did not shoot anyone.” Rheta Wynekoop was found shot dead on her mother-in-law’s operating table. Both the mother-in-law, •Dr Alice Wynekoop, and Rheta’s husband were arrested. The doctor confessed that she fired the shot, after Rheta's heart had begun to fail when she was under an anaesthetic whilst undergoing an examination for a pelvic pain.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 930, 28 November 1933, Page 7
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119DID NOT CONFESS. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 930, 28 November 1933, Page 7
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