Article from the "St Louis Post Dispatch", Jan 7 1932:
CONFESSION CLEARS MYSTERY OF SLAYING OF ST. LOUIS WOMAN
St Louis, Jan 7 - Charles Campbell, 29-year-old machinist, employed by Louis E. Sauer in his downtown machine shop, confessed the Maplewood police today that he murdered Mrs. Etta Sauer, his employer's wife, in her home at Maplewood Monday.
His confession, clearing the murder mystery, came less than three days after the body of Mrs. Sauer, her head crushed by blows of a piece of iron pipe, was found on the dining room floor by one of her three children, returning from school.
The motive for the murder, as confessed by Campbell, was a desire to get money from Mrs. Sauer in order that Campbell and his wife, who had been estranged, might be reunited and go to California. He said he called on Mrs. Sauer, whom he had never met before, and that when she did not respond to his appeal for financial help, he struck her with a piece of pipe, which he had carried in a pocket "for the purpose of getting money to leave St Louis."
CONFESSION CLEARS MYSTERY OF SLAYING OF ST. LOUIS WOMAN
St Louis, Jan 7 - Charles Campbell, 29-year-old machinist, employed by Louis E. Sauer in his downtown machine shop, confessed the Maplewood police today that he murdered Mrs. Etta Sauer, his employer's wife, in her home at Maplewood Monday.
His confession, clearing the murder mystery, came less than three days after the body of Mrs. Sauer, her head crushed by blows of a piece of iron pipe, was found on the dining room floor by one of her three children, returning from school.
The motive for the murder, as confessed by Campbell, was a desire to get money from Mrs. Sauer in order that Campbell and his wife, who had been estranged, might be reunited and go to California. He said he called on Mrs. Sauer, whom he had never met before, and that when she did not respond to his appeal for financial help, he struck her with a piece of pipe, which he had carried in a pocket "for the purpose of getting money to leave St Louis."
Article from the "St Louis Post Dispatch", Jan 7 1932:
CONFESSION CLEARS MYSTERY OF SLAYING OF ST. LOUIS WOMAN
St Louis, Jan 7 - Charles Campbell, 29-year-old machinist, employed by Louis E. Sauer in his downtown machine shop, confessed the Maplewood police today that he murdered Mrs. Etta Sauer, his employer's wife, in her home at Maplewood Monday.
His confession, clearing the murder mystery, came less than three days after the body of Mrs. Sauer, her head crushed by blows of a piece of iron pipe, was found on the dining room floor by one of her three children, returning from school.
The motive for the murder, as confessed by Campbell, was a desire to get money from Mrs. Sauer in order that Campbell and his wife, who had been estranged, might be reunited and go to California. He said he called on Mrs. Sauer, whom he had never met before, and that when she did not respond to his appeal for financial help, he struck her with a piece of pipe, which he had carried in a pocket "for the purpose of getting money to leave St Louis."
CONFESSION CLEARS MYSTERY OF SLAYING OF ST. LOUIS WOMAN
St Louis, Jan 7 - Charles Campbell, 29-year-old machinist, employed by Louis E. Sauer in his downtown machine shop, confessed the Maplewood police today that he murdered Mrs. Etta Sauer, his employer's wife, in her home at Maplewood Monday.
His confession, clearing the murder mystery, came less than three days after the body of Mrs. Sauer, her head crushed by blows of a piece of iron pipe, was found on the dining room floor by one of her three children, returning from school.
The motive for the murder, as confessed by Campbell, was a desire to get money from Mrs. Sauer in order that Campbell and his wife, who had been estranged, might be reunited and go to California. He said he called on Mrs. Sauer, whom he had never met before, and that when she did not respond to his appeal for financial help, he struck her with a piece of pipe, which he had carried in a pocket "for the purpose of getting money to leave St Louis."
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