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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Sept. 22, 1954
Wagenknecht Wants Exhumation—
Not My Wife, Declares Bonner Springs Man
Kansas City, Kan.—(U.P.)—A 47-year-old electrician, Henry W.
Wagenknecht, charged here yesterday with his wife's murder, told officers the body in her grave was not Mrs. Eva Elinor Wagenknecht.
He said she was trying night-
to tell him from beyond the grave
and strangle her to death at the couple's home in Bonner Springs.
The murdered woman communicates with him through nocturnal dreams, he said.
The body he viewed for the first time at the funeral was not his wife, he said yesterday, and called for an exhumaction to prove it.
At his arraignment, Wagenknecht was ordered held without bond pending preliminary hearing Oct. 5.
...An "exhaustive investigation" preceded the man's arrest, Mr. Martin said. The county attorney added that evidence discovered during the investigation was "sufficient in my opinion to justify filing of the charge."
Wyandotte County Attorney Donald E. Martin issued the warrant yesterday and Wagenknecht was arrested. He was held for questioning immediately after discovery of the body but released for "lack of evidence."
Mrs. Wagenknecht, 44-year-old mother of seven children, was clubbed and strangled in a bedroom of the home the night of Aug. 16. The nude, battered body apparently was dragged to a ditch bordering the Lack yard of Wagenknecht's Bonner Springs home. Police said the weapon was a two-by-four board 18 inches long. But they said her death was caused by strangulation.
Wagenknecht has denied all knowledge of the crime, declaring he spent the night of his wife's death in the living room "watching television and napping." He said when he discovered her absence from a nearby bedroom, he went immediately to a neighbor's house
and shortly afterward their search led, to the body.
A dramatic episode developed at the burial services for the victim when a married daughter screamed st Wagenknecht: "Why did you kill her?"
He shouted a denial, "I didn't do it. I didn't."
Study Begins On Union Fund
Los Angeles —(U,P)— Rep. Samuel K. McConnell Jr. (R-Pa.) and his house subcommittee on health, education and labor, opened a nation-wide probe of union welfare funds here today in the face of criticism from Dave Beck, president of the AFL Teamsters union.
Beck charged yesterday that the subcommittee's investigation was "politically inspired."
"Let 'em go in and investigate," Beck said at the AFL convention. He indicated, the fact that the subcommittee is beginning a nation-wide inquiry in the same city where an AFL convention is in session makes the move look like a GOP bid for votes.
subject of the subcommittee's probe here are the welfare funds of Culinary union workers in San Bernardino and San Diego, Calif., and the funds of the Los Angeles sheet metal and plasterers unions, McConnell said.
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University Band Adds 78 New Members
Seventy-eight n e w members have been added to the University of Kansas band this semester. Tom Seigflord, college sophomore, is the new drum major.
New members:
Ann Hines, Janice Staves, Ann Johnson, Jane Ratcliff, Raymond Haines, Sandra Steele, Richard Haines, Jim Barbour, Karmen-folo) Twigg, Ed Fording, Sheila Nation, Jim Neihart, Howard Johnson, Bill Witt, Janetha Schmalzied, Mailyn Haise, Barbara Teas, John Stoddard, Claude Keen, Allan Harris, Ruth Daniels, Ralph Oliver.
Donna Duncan, James Coble.
Keith Kuhman, Billie Connell
John Dealy, Tony Torcia, Sharon
Stewart, Carl Sundin, Roger
Pruitt, Joanna Lord, Jerry Kirkland
Russel Brandon, Bill Shores, Fero
Gehring, Davis Gustafson, George
Reida, Wanda Lathom, Richard
Smith, Larry Mueli, Winston Gran-
ham, Newt McCluggage, Pete Hagart,
Jon Harrison, Lowell Novy
Jane Steinle, and Doris Cinzcelz
Bob Terrill, Kathy Ehlers, Lawrence Updegrove, Gary Olsen, Fau Hansen, Edgar Dittemore, Harold Supernaw, Wallace Greenlee, Don Williams, Warren George, Jack Melody, Bill Wilson, James Mahoney, Nada Hess, Ramon Wilson,
Allen Smith, and Judd Durner
Allen Smith, and Judd Durner:
Don Farrar, Richard Ohmart,
Keith Bell, Jim Durner, Joe Goss,
Glen Lush, De Ross Hogue, Bob
Wagner, Rugh Ladig, Eddie Force,
Margaret Throm, and Dayid Mc
Donald.
Seventy-five per cent of 8,000 persons interviewed recently reported they drank coffee every day, one out of every four of them claiming four cups or more every day.
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