Berserk Father Slays Six In Family, Self l ' -3PY &&? Vli -J h'M' jam I it' T - if Here are six of the seven in the William D. Bauer home At left is William D. Bauer, 48; and their six-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Jane. At right . is Bauer's father-in-law and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. U. C. Nuber. Mrs. Nuber holds the Bauers' other child, Peter David, 2. Also found slain in the home was Bauer's mother, Emma, an 84-year-old invalids - Police said Bauer killed six. members of his family and then himself. PARSIPPANY - TROY HILLS, N.J., Jan. 28 (J) A quiet and popular civil engineer, a devout worker in the Methodist Church, killed six members of his family and then himself as they prepared for a gay trip to Florida. An anxious neighbor; worried be cause William r. Bauer hadn't left for Florida as planned yesterday. looked into the handsome Bauer home 'today and uncovered the macabre story. ' :' The 48-year-old Bauer, ft- New York state inspector of road material, had gone berserk and, trig gering a pump shotgun, slaughtered his wife, their two small chil dren, his mother and his wife's parents. Then he turned the 12-gauge gun on himself, shooting himself in the left side with one shot and blowing his head off with a second shot PoUce Chief Led d'Orsi pronounced the case a multiple murder and a suicide. The shootings apparently occurred about 1 p.m.. yesterday. Bauer had been advised to take Florida vacation by a doctor who was treating him for "nervous ness," the captain of Morris Coun ty detectives, Edward J. Gebhardt, said tonight. A family physician, however, said he had appeared in good spirits. Tries To Flee Bauer fired two shots at his wife, AP Wirephoto people found slain Saturday in Parsippany-Troy Hills, N. J. his wife, Florence Alice, 36, 36-year-old Mrs. Florence Alice Bauer, as she fled. She was killed at close range. His 6-year-old - daughter, Eliza beth Jane, was slain as she calmly ate a sandwich. Half of it was left in her hand. His son, Peter David, 2, was killed in the hall, Neighbors said he was devoted to his children. He had planned build a playground for them and their, playmates in ,a .vacant -lot next door within a few months. - Bauer's mother, Emma, an 84' year-old invalid, was shot as she lay in bed. Friends said he had worried over her health constantly. The Bauer car had been backed up to the front door of the $21,500 six-room ranch house on Sedgefield Drive at Exeter St., in the Sedge- field area, to take her to a nursing home while the family was Florida. Shot Near Doorway Mrs. Bauer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. U. C. Number, of t Camden Rd., - in nearby Lake Parsippany, were shot near the doorway of the home. They had arrived to keep the children while the elder Mrs, Bauer was being moved. Neither police nor neighbors could give any motive for the shootings. It was the third major multiple murder in New Jersey in recent years. ....