A photograph of Clair Guy Wingert, of Clarks Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken into custody some time shortly after the February 1937 murder of William McElwee.
The murder was allegedly committed by Clair Guy Wingert, a trapper from that area, who claimed that the persons he fired shots at, William McElwee and his wife Dorothy McElwee, had poisoned his toe.
The photo appeared in the Harrisburg Telegraph, 20 February 1937 and was accompanied by the following caption:
Clair Guy Wingert, known in the Clarks Valley section as a hunter, fisherman, and trapper, is shown at State Police barracks here where he is being held on charges of […] a man and a woman who overnight guest he was. He is shown with State Trooper Edward Bouse.
Today’s post is the fifth of a multi-part series in which newspaper images and articles of the time are used to describe the affair.
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For other parts of this series, see: The Poison Toe Murder, 1937.
News articles are from Newspapers.com.