Supposedly, a photograph of Clair Guy Wingert, of Clarks Valley, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken some time 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 was from the wire service (Associated Press) and appeared in the Hanover Evening Sun, Hanover, Pennsylvania, 22 February 1937 and was accompanied by the following caption:
Clair Guy Wingert, 47-year-old [sic] trapper of Clarks Valley, Pennsylvania, was charged with murder in the shooting of William McElwee, 40 [sic], who he said “injected poison in my big toe, the left one.”
Today’s post is the fourth 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.