Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-17 | Page 1 | Wanderer Once More Will Face Murder Charge

illEOEO ONCE : MORE HILL FACE MURDER OKARGE i Former Lieutenant Imagines Spirit of Dead Wife Pays Him Visit i N" E. A s: .rf Special.) STATE l'i:.VITKTIAKV. Jolie:. III. Jan. IT. t.'arl Wanderer, former army lieutenant Is trying to keep up his bravado while facing the gallows the second time. lint he's thinner and worried I!-- BmlloSpkbut the smile Is BlcklyJ Wandi rt r In serving 25 years for the murder of his wife. Ruth. He will soon bo, tried for the murder of the 'ragged stfantcer" whom he killed ii the same time he shot his wife. The slate charges that Wanderer hire.j ttv- ''ragged KtririKcr" to stage a. fakr holdup so thai Wanden r might kill his wife and her unborn child. mi ST LIKE WOMAN!" Wanderer forced a smile today w hen told that Ruth's mother. Mrs. Eugenia Eu-genia Johnson, hopes that he does not escape the gallows on his second trial. ' 'Just like a woman." h4 said. "Hurt the kid and the mother s sore. I don't blame her fur wanting my neck stretched. You have to die some time, what's a few years, more or less?" SP1 ll.lt l CELL. 1 Then he twisted the lorn lapel of Ills prison Jacket. ! "1 thought I saw her Ruth one night." he said and the sickly smile faded "Her (.ice was shining through the barn an.', sli" held out her hand to me. She seemed to try to talk to me. "I blinked and she went away. But I don't know if it really wa.s her spirit. She wouldn't want to come bt r . do you think so7'