Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — Woman Physician Murdered- Known by Local Doctors. [ARTICLE]

Woman Physician MurderedKnown by Local Doctors.

Dr. Helene Knafte, an Indianapolis woman physician, was murdered some time-Monday night at her apartments in the Delaware Flats in that city. The police are without a clew as to who could have perpetrated the crime. Her throat was cut from ear to ear. Dr. Knabe waß a wonderful woman. She came here a peasant girl from Germany and after working as a servant she determined to become a doctor and handicapped by having had practically no education she worked her way through college, graduating from the Indiana college of Medicine. Dr. A. R. Kresler and M. D. Gwin, of this city, were in college at the sanie time Miss Knabe was but neither were in her classes, Dr. Kresler graduating two or three years before and Dr. Gwin a year later than she. Dr. Knabe worked for some time in the office of Dr. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, conducting considerable of the experimental work in his department and he speaks of her ability in the highest terms of praise. The local physicians, also, who had become better acquainted with her, by meeting her at the meetings of the state medical society, speak highly of her ability. - -- There was thought to be some evidence of suicide but the Indianapolis police have hooted this idea, although they are- unable to suggest any possible murder clue.