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Show Victim Of Brutal Operation Dies CHICAGO, July 31 U.R Walter J. Bauer, chemistry professor, died today after a penknife operation which police believe wa,s performed perform-ed by a former suitor of Bauer's bride of three weeks. Police said that before he died in a hospital Bauer told them of being bound and gagged and forced to submit to mutilation in a parked automobile. He lived long enough after the torturous ordeal to tell hospital attendants or his suspicion that a disappointed lover chose this form of revenge when he found Bauer had been successful in wooing a pretty Kirksville, Mo., hospital nurse. 1 Bauer said he had been in Ann Arbor, Mich., for the past week taking a summer school course at the University of Michigan. He first saw his assailant on the campus there, he said, but did not know his anme. |