Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-01
MUT|LAT|ON CASE
SUICIDE INDICATED
Note Signed "MandeviIIe"
Reported as Suitor Is
Widely Hunted.

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August IA suicide
note signed Vaudeville" was found
today In the search for Vaudeville
Zenge, 26, wanted for questioning in
the mutilation- killing of DR.. Walter j.
Bauer.
On a coat containing the note were
spots which Police Capt John Siege
said were Enthusiastically blood stains,
with more on handkerchief found in
the breast pocket.
The note was turned over to police
in the midst of a four-State search
for Zenge, a disappointed sutton for
the hand of Bauer's pretty 23-year-
old widow, Louise, Kirksville. Mo-,
nurse.
Found by Driver.
John Giannini, cab driver, found it,
he reported. in clothing left behind by
a passenger he drove to navy pier, on
Chicago's near North Side, about
10:45 o'clock last night.
Unhappy About Louise"
Penciled in a red notebook, the
note was dated July 81. and addressed
to Dear Dad" 1t said:
Il left home because I was so mis-
erably unhappy over losing Louise
that I couldn't get along with any
one and was making every one I'M
happy at home.
Thought maybe if I could get up
here could forget. But can't and
I'm going to end it all. Don't let
Louise know about this, as love her.
Il don't want to make her I'M
happy suppose she is better off
married to that doctor than she would
have been with me.
She told me before I came up here
she was happy and am glad for her
Dad, guess I have something
lacking in me. 1t seems like 1 have
failed in everything l ever tried to
do. However this is one thing in
which I am going to succeed.
Tell mother, June, Lottie and Aunt
Nellie good-by for me. Also Louise.
Oh. love that girl. There was never
and never will be girl like her.
Dad. you and mother have been
good to me. So have June and Lottie
Dad. have a $4,000 insurance policy
in the top left hand drawer of your
desk.
with it you can finish sending
June to law school.
Denies Being Crazy.
at wish you and mother would en-
Joy yourselves with the rest of it.
Jottie told me several times lately
that 1 was crazy, but I am not. I
know what am doing. I'm sorry
I can't pay you the money borrowed
from you. but you have the car which
! hope you will enjoy.
However, I believe you could use
the money better. Tell Lloyd and
Eileen good-by for me.
II am going to take a cab to- the
lake and jump in. Will leave this in
some one will send it to you. BY
dad
your son,
vaudeville"
Capt. Siege said he had no doubt
that the note was authentic. He
said:
IT believe Zenge wrote this note
because he describes his home"
However, We won't consider
him drowned until the body is found.
This looks like the same stunt that
Marty Durkin pulled a few years
ago"
Durkin, a Chicago gangSter, who
shot a Federal agent, left his clothing
on a Lake Michigan beach with
suicide note, but was later captured.
The discovery of the note was re-
ported after an inquest into Bauer's
death had been postponed until Au-
gust 25 for further investigation.
The police today received a tele-
phone message from Lieut.. Loomis
of the Michigan State police, identi-
flying a photograph of zenge as the
man who registered in the Jennings
Hotel, in Ann Arbor, under the name
Of Jones.
DR.. Bauer's widow, a nurse en-
ployed in a Kirksville, Mo-, hospital,
hurried to Chicago and was ques-
toned briefly. She was in a hysteri-
cal condition, but told the police she
had kept company with Zenge for
several years before her marriage to
Dr. Bauer July IA. She also said
she was to have met her husband
within few days for belated honey
moon.
Surprised at Wedding.
Mrs. Bauer. %, arrived here last
night, accompanied by several Kinks
vile, Mo. police. She told the police |
here that early last week she saw
Zenge and that he seemed surprised
when she told him she was married
He asked me if I were happy"
she said, land when told him 1 was
he just wished me luck and drove of
In his car
Mrs. Bauer identified the hat and
coat as zenge's and after reading the
note, wilted into the arms of her
father, w. j. Schaffer, sobbing:
: Poor thing; 1t looks like he's dead.
too"
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