The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-14
Bulgarian Sex Degenerate Is
Blamed for Denver Murder.
Charles GeleSkO Encheff, Ak
Man, Chicago Official Says.
TWICE HE MAKES ESCAPE
Mysterious Deaths Follow His
Escape in Chicago.
Has Appearance of Man of
Means, Schuettler Says.

Colorado Springs. Aug. 14.-Niss
signe Amelia Carlzen. the Denver
music teacher whose mutilated body
vas found on the Montclair road near
Denver, was murdered by Charles
Gelesko Encheff. Bull arian sex de-
generate, in the belief of Chief of Po-
lice Stanley D. Burno. who, in connec-
ton with the Wayne-Burnham murder.
made a careful investigation of the
series of crimes that have shocked the
United States in the last year.
Encheff, in the opinion of H. F. Schu-
ettler. assistant chief of the Chicago
police and one of the most eminent
cr:ninologists of the world, is respon-
sibIe for the Wayne-Burnham sextuple
murder in Colorado Springs, those Of
Monmouth, Ill; Paola and Ellsworth,
Kan: Villisca Ia, and a dozen others
i'm different parts of the western portion
of the United States
Goes over scene of Death.
Schuettler was here a short time ago
to confer with the local authorities us
to the details of the Wayne-Burnham
murder. He went over the ground step
by step and when he left here, it was
his belief that the local murder, as we'll
as others that had been committed up
20 that time. were the york of Encheh-
On sunday, september L. MI anu
Mrs. H. F. Wayne and their 1-year-old
child. and Mrs. A. ]. Durham and her
two children. aged , and years, were
murdered with an ak in their homes on
West Dale street. The details of the
horrible crime are still fresh in the
memory of Colorado people.
Two weeks later Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Dawson and their daughter were
murdered at their home in Monmouth.
III Dawson was sexton of a Monmouth
church and the tragedy was discovered
when he failed to prepare the church
for a funeral. The heads of the victims
Nv ere crushed with an ak.
Blamed for Kansas Killing.
Two weeks later Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
liam Snowman and their three children
were found murdered at their home in
Ellsworth, Kan. As in each of the
crimes. the weapon used was an ak,
and the faces of the victims were hack
ed beyond all recognition.
For some months thereafter the
tragedies ceac ed, but on the tenth Of
last June, the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs
RCllin Hudson were found in their
home at Paola, Kan. The skulls had
been crushed with an AK and their
bodies were n-utilated.
On the following Sunday night Mr..
and Mrs. James E. Moore and their
four children and the Misses Lena and
Ina Stillinger were killed at Vnlisca,
Ia. Again an ak was used and again
the bodies were terribly mutilated.
Speaks German FIuentIy.
Encheff the man suspected of the
murders, is a sex degenerate. Ac-
cording to the description furnished
the local authorities by the Chica go
police, he has the appearance of a man
of means and speaks both German
and English fluently. He escaped
from the Chicago authorities in May
1911, shortly before the first of the
series Of murders occurred.
First Crime in Chicago.
On the night of January 20. 1911.
the naked body of a murdered woman
was found in the Chicago tenderIoin.
on the body were mutila tions that
correspond to those found on that of
Signe Amelia Carlzen. In every de-
tail, the actual crime correspondent
with that in Denver Saturday.
Encheff was arrested for the muir
der. At the time of his arrest he was
violently insane He was sent to an
asylum.
From this hospital, by some unac-
countable way, he made his escape.
returning to Chicago. There he was
arrested again by the police and
again, at the time of his arrest, was
found violently insane He was or
dered to a Chicago hospital and on
the way again made his escape The
series of crimes, each of which was
the work of a sex degenerate, dates
back to a period shortly after the
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