The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-03
FENCE DENIES MUTATION DEATH, EW4AUSTS LINGUISTIC
ZENGE DENIES
MUTILATI0N
Staying

CHICAGO, Aug. 8 GNS0-To
pretty Louise Schaeffer Bauer
. authorities turned today in their
efforts to elicit from dour, defiant
Vaudeville Zenge a confession
that he was the mutilation-mur.
derer of DIR. Walter j. Bauer,
Kirksville, Mo-, chemistry pro-
lessor.
The tall, tanned Canton CMo)
carpenter maintained surly calm
as investigators questioned him
hour after hour.
His stock reply was:
II don't know anything about
that"
Early today his exhausted in
quisitors revealed they had tele-
graphed Mrs. Bauer requesting her
to return from Cleveland, where
she will attend the funeral Of her
husband this afternoon. to con-
front her rejected sutton.
Hope For q Break
Capt. Daniel Gilbert, chief in
vestigator for the States attor-
ney,s office, apparently more ex-
hausted by the ceaseless inquisi-
ton than the rugged. love-lorn
Missourian, declared:
81 believe the sight Of this
girl, whom he loved so madly,
will break his seemingly granite
nerves.
Perhaps, too, she will plead
with him to tell the truth
about her husbands DEATH"
The stolid Zenge courte d
Louise Schaeffer, night Superin-
tendent of nurses at q Kirksville,
Mo-, hospital, for seven years
prior to her sudden marriage to
DR.. Bauer July IA.
Her marriage broke him, he
admitted to his father in a fake
suicide note.
Zenge and the pretty 23.year-
old nurse were to have been mar.
fled July II, they learned. From
his savings the carpenter had
bought a wedding ring and an en-
gagement ring.
But when Zenge called on his
fiance July IA to make final ar
rangements for the wedding, she
Informed him she had married DR..
Bauer a few hours earlier. The
chemistry professor had left i'm
mediately after the ceremony to
resume his studies at Ann Arbor.
TIL Fix That Doctor
Louise had known DR.. Bauer
but a few months. Asked at the
inquest here concerning her sud.
den marriage and her jilting Of
Zenge, she would only say:
II liked the doctor better than
Vaudeville"
Brooding, Zenge became imbued
with the idea, it was learned, that
DR.. Bauer was miStreating Louise.
Basis for his belief is not known.
To one of his friends Zenge de-
clared, police learned:
"T'lI fix that doctor so he
won't be able to treat another
girl that way"
How much Of Zenge's belief was
based on fact and how much on
fancy, police are unable to state.
Four witnesses identified Zenge
as the man who fled from south
side filling station where the
fiendishly mutilated and dying
DR.. Bauer was abandoned in his
car early Wednesday morning.
The manager and clerk Of the
Ann Arbor, Mich, hotel from
which the victim was kidnapped by
a man registered as "E. L. Jones"
have identified Jones" as Zenge
from photographs Of the sullen
carpenter.
AS he lay dying the chemist
told police the man he knew only
as Jones asked him for a ride,
drew a gun, forced him to drive
to Chicago and stop in q lonely
alley, tied him hand and foot,
crudely mutilated him with q
penknife.
Descriptions Tally
Descriptions of Jones tailed
with those of Zenge, who had left
his home in Canton July %. and
an immediate search was begun
for the carpenter.
Mrs. Bauer was to have Joined
her groom yesterday in Ann
Arbor for a belated honeymoon.
Zenge was taken into custody
yesterday, after staging a fake
suicide which failed to shake in
yestigators off his trail.
He stubbornly denied his
identity, even when faced by his
father, j. Andy Zenge, kindly,
horny-handed. aged Missouri
farmer.
There was no CLINT Of recogni.
ton in the eyes Of father or son
when the faced each other.
Later the broken father ad.
mitted the tall tanned man
dressed in the baggy, soiled tweed
suit was his son Mandy"