The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-27

Bauer, 3s-year-old chemistry pro- kesgor taking graduate work at the University of Michigan, died from noss of blood after gasping out the story of savagery and turning the hunt upon zenge.
 He loved Louise--perhaps ne hid it," the professor said.
 Mrs. Louise Schaffer Batter, the widowed bride who spent only three hours with her husband be- fore he left her at Kirksville, Mo, 10 go to Ann Arbor, was cast today bn the role of mystery woman In the case.
 Openly defiant to investigators, she is held in what Assistant States Attorney Charles s. Dough prty described as voluntary GUS body" pending her testimony.
 She has given police only ink sings of her friendship with Zenge hnd her sudden decision to marry She dapper professor.
 | In Bauer's room in Ann Arbor Igwas found packet of cryptic
 hotes, several to his bride. One called their marriage Just q hoax" Another, written to a friend hn Kirksville, betrayed the profes- bor's suspicious of Louise and Genge.
 1 Widow Keeps silent { They've been seeing each other, | understand" he wrote.
 Confronted with the letters, Mrs. Bauer stubbornly shook her head.
 Because of her close-lipped at- 3itude the state may not call her As . witness, but may ask Judge Cornelius J. Harrington of the kriminal court to place her on the hkand as a courts witness, thus en- hbling both prosecution and de- Sense to ross-examine her. Zenge, assuming the role of a gallant lover in his jail cell and
 toutiy denying any knowledge of 1he crime or ever having met Bauer, said he still wants to marry &he 13-year-old nurse whom he had Bought $425 engagement ring lRniy to learn that she had married eknother man.
 WA4UC BhLthC6 buGhtbhaathub 1frs. Bauer, who has lost her |bcsition as night superintendent of nurses at the osteopathic hospital in KirksvilIe where she first met Bauer, indicated she isn't con- Ninced her former suitor killed her husband.
 The state promises. however. to bring q score of witnesses into fEOurt to accuse the son of a Ewealthy dairy farmer and identify 'hin as the man they saw with the Dor to Chicago and as { h g man who fled from the scene of the fatal operation on Chicago's South side.
 Among other state witnesses will be Lee Durham. q brothcr-in-law 0f Mrs. Bauer, said by investigators to have overheard Zenge threaten Do "kill that doctor if ever get my hands on him"
 1 Dying Statement to Be Read ! The dying statement of the pro- kessor bridegroom, whose home fwas in Cleveland, will be read be- Fore the jury, relating how a Stranger obtained lift" in his Tar, forced him to drive here and bound him with oily rags in a thinly-populated part of the city while the operation was performed with . pen knife.
 Before God. I never harmed a woman or a girl in my life" he leobbed to Dr. l.. C. Walton in Jackson Park Hospital a moment before he died. Why should any }one do this to me?"
 Zenge, pronounced sane by Dr. EHarry B. Hoffman of the county Behavior clinic and other alienists, ks described as one of the most enigmatic murder defendants ever Brought to trial. His plea for a private examination by a defense lpSychiatrist has been granted by Nudge Cornelius J. Harrington. On the night of July 31, about M1 houpa affer Raiier,a death Joh n