BRUTAL OUTRAGE
Professor Abducted and Slain JU/TED LOVER SUSPECTED. Chicago, July 31 Walter Bauer, professor of cheminstry of Ohio University, who is himself taking courses at the University of Michigan, was abducted, it is believed by one of his wife’s rejected suitors. While being driven in an automobile from Aannabor he was so badly mutilated with a penknife by his abductor that he died from wounds upon his arrival here. Professor Bauer, who was found lying in a pool of his own blood as the automobile drive up to a petrol station, told the police before he died that he believed a disappointed lover against whom his wife had warned him, had bound, gagged and mutilated him. Mrs Bauer, who married the professor only three weeks ago. has been summoned from Cleveland with photographs of the alleged slayer. The police said that an operation, which was performed without anaesthetic or antiseptic showed considerable surgical skill.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIII, Issue 11786, 2 August 1935, Page 3
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