Dr. Harry R. Dapper was murdered on August 20, 1928. His murderer was never found.
He was married to Margaret Mary Englert and had a 3 year old daughter Jane.
After his death Margaret married John A. "Jack" Mulvihill.
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Pittsburgh: Detectives tonight were scanning meager bits of evidence in an effort to learn what fear possessed Dr. Harry R. Dapper, 27-year-old physician, as he went on a fatal ride into the country near here with an unidentified stranger on the man's pretext that his wife was ill. Dr. Dapper never returned from the nocturnal automobile ride. On a secluded road, he was shot to death and his father, Henry J. Dapper, vice-president of the Fort Pitt Brewing Company, was struck across the head.
The father said their assailant escaped in Dr. Dapper's automobile. When the stranger called at Dr. Dapper's office in Carrick, a suburb, last night, the doctor, while apparently not reluctant to accompany him, was afraid, for he telephoned his father and asked him to go along. Mr. Dapper said today his son never had made a similar request before. While Mr. Dapper was in a serious condition at his home, suffering from shock and lacerations about the head, detectives questioned him apparently in an effort to learn the reason for his son's fear. Some color was lent to a robbery theory when Mr. Dapper reported losing a wallet, containing valuable papers but no cash.
Authorities also investigated the possibility that someone with a grievance against the doctor might have committed the crime. The dead man's youthful widow, who was nearly prostrated by her husband's death, told detectives a boy died recently while under Dr. Dapper's care. She said, however, that relatives of the boy, of foreign parentage , took their loss calmly and made no complaint. Meanwhile, search went on apace for "a foreigner about 35 years old," the description of the killer furnished by the slain physician's father.
[Schenectady Gazette, NY, Aug. 22, 1928]
Contributor: Patty Krueger (48925687)
He was married to Margaret Mary Englert and had a 3 year old daughter Jane.
After his death Margaret married John A. "Jack" Mulvihill.
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Pittsburgh: Detectives tonight were scanning meager bits of evidence in an effort to learn what fear possessed Dr. Harry R. Dapper, 27-year-old physician, as he went on a fatal ride into the country near here with an unidentified stranger on the man's pretext that his wife was ill. Dr. Dapper never returned from the nocturnal automobile ride. On a secluded road, he was shot to death and his father, Henry J. Dapper, vice-president of the Fort Pitt Brewing Company, was struck across the head.
The father said their assailant escaped in Dr. Dapper's automobile. When the stranger called at Dr. Dapper's office in Carrick, a suburb, last night, the doctor, while apparently not reluctant to accompany him, was afraid, for he telephoned his father and asked him to go along. Mr. Dapper said today his son never had made a similar request before. While Mr. Dapper was in a serious condition at his home, suffering from shock and lacerations about the head, detectives questioned him apparently in an effort to learn the reason for his son's fear. Some color was lent to a robbery theory when Mr. Dapper reported losing a wallet, containing valuable papers but no cash.
Authorities also investigated the possibility that someone with a grievance against the doctor might have committed the crime. The dead man's youthful widow, who was nearly prostrated by her husband's death, told detectives a boy died recently while under Dr. Dapper's care. She said, however, that relatives of the boy, of foreign parentage , took their loss calmly and made no complaint. Meanwhile, search went on apace for "a foreigner about 35 years old," the description of the killer furnished by the slain physician's father.
[Schenectady Gazette, NY, Aug. 22, 1928]
Contributor: Patty Krueger (48925687)
Dr. Harry R. Dapper was murdered on August 20, 1928. His murderer was never found.
He was married to Margaret Mary Englert and had a 3 year old daughter Jane.
After his death Margaret married John A. "Jack" Mulvihill.
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Pittsburgh: Detectives tonight were scanning meager bits of evidence in an effort to learn what fear possessed Dr. Harry R. Dapper, 27-year-old physician, as he went on a fatal ride into the country near here with an unidentified stranger on the man's pretext that his wife was ill. Dr. Dapper never returned from the nocturnal automobile ride. On a secluded road, he was shot to death and his father, Henry J. Dapper, vice-president of the Fort Pitt Brewing Company, was struck across the head.
The father said their assailant escaped in Dr. Dapper's automobile. When the stranger called at Dr. Dapper's office in Carrick, a suburb, last night, the doctor, while apparently not reluctant to accompany him, was afraid, for he telephoned his father and asked him to go along. Mr. Dapper said today his son never had made a similar request before. While Mr. Dapper was in a serious condition at his home, suffering from shock and lacerations about the head, detectives questioned him apparently in an effort to learn the reason for his son's fear. Some color was lent to a robbery theory when Mr. Dapper reported losing a wallet, containing valuable papers but no cash.
Authorities also investigated the possibility that someone with a grievance against the doctor might have committed the crime. The dead man's youthful widow, who was nearly prostrated by her husband's death, told detectives a boy died recently while under Dr. Dapper's care. She said, however, that relatives of the boy, of foreign parentage , took their loss calmly and made no complaint. Meanwhile, search went on apace for "a foreigner about 35 years old," the description of the killer furnished by the slain physician's father.
[Schenectady Gazette, NY, Aug. 22, 1928]
Contributor: Patty Krueger (48925687)
He was married to Margaret Mary Englert and had a 3 year old daughter Jane.
After his death Margaret married John A. "Jack" Mulvihill.
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Pittsburgh: Detectives tonight were scanning meager bits of evidence in an effort to learn what fear possessed Dr. Harry R. Dapper, 27-year-old physician, as he went on a fatal ride into the country near here with an unidentified stranger on the man's pretext that his wife was ill. Dr. Dapper never returned from the nocturnal automobile ride. On a secluded road, he was shot to death and his father, Henry J. Dapper, vice-president of the Fort Pitt Brewing Company, was struck across the head.
The father said their assailant escaped in Dr. Dapper's automobile. When the stranger called at Dr. Dapper's office in Carrick, a suburb, last night, the doctor, while apparently not reluctant to accompany him, was afraid, for he telephoned his father and asked him to go along. Mr. Dapper said today his son never had made a similar request before. While Mr. Dapper was in a serious condition at his home, suffering from shock and lacerations about the head, detectives questioned him apparently in an effort to learn the reason for his son's fear. Some color was lent to a robbery theory when Mr. Dapper reported losing a wallet, containing valuable papers but no cash.
Authorities also investigated the possibility that someone with a grievance against the doctor might have committed the crime. The dead man's youthful widow, who was nearly prostrated by her husband's death, told detectives a boy died recently while under Dr. Dapper's care. She said, however, that relatives of the boy, of foreign parentage , took their loss calmly and made no complaint. Meanwhile, search went on apace for "a foreigner about 35 years old," the description of the killer furnished by the slain physician's father.
[Schenectady Gazette, NY, Aug. 22, 1928]
Contributor: Patty Krueger (48925687)
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