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WIFE MURDER CHARGED
Harvard Professor Took Body to
Chicago Fer Burial
ARSENIC FOUND IN STOMACH

Erich Muenter, AgainSt Whom Aeon
salon is Made, Disappeared After
Funeral-Was a Faith Curist-B urin
Certificate Refused by Physicians
Second Child Born.
Cambridge, Mass.-A warrant was
sworn out by the Cambridge police
charging Erich Muenter, an instructor
in German at Harvard University, with
the murder of his wife, who died about
two weeks ago.
fMuenter took the body to Chicago
for burial on April II, and then dis
appeared. He is a native of Germany,
and before coming to Harvard was
all instructor in his native language
at the University of Kansas, Law
renee. Kan. He is thirty-ive years old
and lived at LOT Oxford street, this
city. His wife was formerly Miss
Leone X. Krembs, of Chicago.
The attention of the authorities was
called to the case just after the wom-
ans death on April 16. Ten days be-
fore that time a child was born to
Mrs. Muenter, who was attended by a
faith cure doctor and by two nurses
Of the same cult. The physician was a
Mrs. Nicherson, of Winchester. The
nurses are both residents Of Cam
bridge, a Miss Case and Miss Derrick.
Some time after the child was born
two regular physicians, Drs. Frederick
W. Taylor and Herbert Mcintyre, were
called in. Both of these physicians
decided that Mrs. Muenter was suffer-
ing from some ailment of the stomach.
They prescribed for her, but later. it
is alleged, they ascertained that the
nurses were not following directions.
Drs. Taylor and Mcintyre then de-
clined to have anything further to do
with the case. A few days later Mrs.
Muenter died.
On the same day Muenter applied to
Dr.. Mcintyre for his signature to the
certificate of death. but Dr.. Mcintyre
declined to sign the paper. He de-
cided that the case needed investiga-
ton, and notified Medical Examiner
William D. Swan, who as soon as he
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formed an autopsy on the body.
The Medical Examiner sent the
stomach to Professor W. T. Whitney,
the chemist of the Harvard Medical
School. Having taken this step DR..
Swan permitted Muenter and the two
nurses to take the body to Mrs. Muen-
ter's former home in Chicago for
burial. The party left Cambridge and
took along Muenter's two children,
Helen. aged three. and the infant.
A report of the analysis Of the stom-
ach was received by Medical Examiner
Swan from Professor Whitney. Pro-
fessor Whitney reported that he had
found marked traces Of arsen'-. DR..
Swan Immediately laid the case before
George A. Sanderson. District Attor-
ney for Middlesex County, who in turn
notified the Cambridge police.
The authorities quickly issued a war
rant for Muenter, charging him with
the murder of his wife. The Chicago
police were notified to hold the man if
he could be found in that city. and
circulars were sent out containing his
complete description.
The report of Professor Whitney
caused intense surprise at harvard
University. The university authorities
stated that Muenter was appointed in
structor in German nearly two years
ago, while he was stationed at the
University of Kansas. He at no time
had acted as professor at Harvard,
but received his appointment as in
structor temporarily, that is, from year
to year.
He was serving his second year at
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