Evening star., 1950-02-26
Karpe Autopsy Fails
To Find Death Cause;
U. 5. Pressing Probe
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tunnel south of Salzburg Thurs
day.
Amid welter of rumors about
the case, Army sources said ef-
forts are being made to determine
the names of everyone on the
train at the time of Capt. Karpe's
death. Most of them will be
questioned.
Dining car stewards said the
captain spent some time on the
train with an American couple
The stewards did not know their
names. The couple left the train
at Kitzbuehel.
Four Persons in Sleeper.
Only four persons were in Capt.
Karpe's sleeper car. Two were
the American couple and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wright. The American stu
dent had a compartment in the
next car.
Capt. Karpe periShed less than
48 hours after Robert A. Vogeler,
a close friend, was sentenced in
Communist Hungary to Is years
In prison on charges of sabotage
and spying in his position as row.
Ing Eastern European representa-
tive of the International Tele-
phone Il Telegraph Co. Mr..
Vogeler's home town is New York.
Capt. Karpe's was Delhi. La. Both
graduated from the United States
Naval Academy.
Mr.. Vogeler's Belgian-born wife
said today she is convinced the
captain was slain.
She told of three mysterious
telephone calls to her home yes
terday by some woman, speaking
good English-each before any
Austrian newspaper or radio sta
tion had carried the story of Capt.
Karpe's death. Mrs. Vogeler was
not accessible to go to the phone
for the first two calls, but an
swered the third.
The woman asked: "Have you
heard about your friend?"
Believing the caller to be an ac-
quaintance, Mrs. Vogeler replied
that she had.
you just keep him in mind"
the caller said, and hung up.
Given Cigarette Lighter.
Capt. Karpe visited the Vogeler
home here yesterday on his way
back from Bucharest. Mrs.
Vogeler gave him cigarette
lighter of Mr.. Vogeler's that the
captain wanted as a memento.
She quoted the captain as say
ing: II am going to show this
lighter to every one back in the
United States. I'll tell them it be-
longs to Bob Vogeler and that
they shouldn't forget he is still in
a Hungarian jail"
The lighter was located in
Capt. Karpe's clothing after a
trackwalker found his mutilated
body in the tunnel.
II am sure Gene Karpe was
pushed off that train," Mrs.
Vogeler said. 1T couldn't have
been an accident-he had been on
ships and trains all his life. And
besides he was a lazy sort of guy
who wouldn't go chasing up and
down train corridors-especially
in a tunnel"
Suicide Doubted.
Mrs. Vogeler said she considered
there was no question of suicide:
He didn't have a worry in the
world except about Bob and about
the gout in his left foot. He prob
ably never had the gout before,
but he got it in Bucharest. 1t was
quite joke around here. We told
him the gout was old fashioned"
United States Army authorities
raised a possibility that the cap
tain was killed not in a fall from
inside the train but in trying to
get back on after it started for
the tunnel following an unsched-
uled half-hour stop at Golling
The tunnel entrance is three min
utes by train from the station.
Many passengers got off at
Golling to stretch their legs.
+ An Army spokesman said bal
last between the track and the