The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-10-26
PROBE
PRIVATE LIFE
OF DIR. KNABE
MURDERED WOMAN WAS OF THE
HIGHEST CHARACTER, AND
DEATH MYSTERY DEEPENs
Negro Janitor is Freed-Story of
Suicide Seems untenabIe, Becau,s
Knife With Which Woman Was
Killed Cannot Be Found.

indianapolis, Oct. 25-Detectives to-
day took to police headquarters for
examination Augusta Knabe, a cousin,
and Katherine McPhersC) an asais-
taht to DR.. iILlene Knabe, former
state bacteriologist, who was found
eead with er t..'oat siasnea In her
apartment early yesterday.
Why there was a delay of over an
hour in summoning the police after
Dr. Knabe's body was found by Miss
Mcpherson. and what were the other
changes in detail were questions put
to the two women.
After Miss Mcpherson entered DR..
knabe's fiat and saw her body with
gaping wound in the throat, sne
stated she had first called by tele-
phone Augusta Knabe from her home
in a distant part of the city
Miss McPherson's Statement.
The dead woman, Miss Mcpherson
said, was lying on the bed on her
back without cover. Her night dress
was wadded under her arms. Miss
MCPHERSON added that she pulled the
night dress down over DR.. Knabe's
body before the arrival of physicians,
whom she summoned before the po-
lice were notified.
This action, the detectives said,
would explain the presence of blood
on DR.. Knabe's left leg, for the night
dress was soaked with blood.
Saw No Knife.
Miss Mcpherson and Miss Knabe
We're with the body of DR.. Knabe for
nearly an hour before the arrival of
DR.. Ernest Reyer, who was the first
of DR.. Knabe's other friends to arrive.
Miss Mcpherson called Miss Knabe
and DR.. Reyer and other physicians by
telephone. She denied emphatically
as did Miss Knabe-that she saw a
knife that might have been used in
killing the physician.
The detectives today turned to the
investigation Of theory that DR..
Knabe might have ended her own life
and that some of the group of her
friends gathering in the fiat before
the police inquiry got under way may
have sought to take away evidence OF
suicide. A number of persons, it was
said, would be interrogated along this
line.
Investigation of Private Life.
Investigation today of the private
life of DR.. Knabe, found dead with hei
throat gashed yesterday in her apart
ment, was the work cut out for de
tectives assigned to the mysterious
case
They purposed to question the dead
woman's friends in the medical pro
fession first, for it is said her ac-
mountaineering was almost entirely
confined to persons interested in sci
entific subjects, in physical culture OIL
in social hygiene.
The quiet, orderly routine OF DR..
Knabe's daily life has discounted any
possible theory that scandal might at
tach to her violent death.
She lived alone in the apartment II
which her body was found, because
she devoted all her spare time tt
study and experimentation. She was
member Of the Young Woman's
Christian association and frequently
lectured to its members.
Often she spoke to students of this
high schools on social hygiene, invar-
iably urging the necessity of purity IL
all social relationships. She was deep
ly interested in physical and menta
culture among women, and today wal
to have taken an examination for in.
stractorship in the North American
Gymnastie union at the Germa1 HoBss
In this city.
WADE E-nAN HnAT