Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-21
4 Woman Shoots Her Former Lover.


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Til Boston Globe gives the following
particulars of a recent Lowell tragedy:
Drs Pillsbury and Gilman, the at.
tendig physicians of Charles Kicker,
of Lofell, who was shot in the lower
portio of the abdomen Thursday night
by a number % bullet, fired from a sew
en-shoter by Miss Lucy Ann Mank, in
formed him Saturday noon that there
was ne hope of his recovery, and an
hour afterwards he made his dying
declaration in regard to the affair, in
respone to interrogatories propounded
by Jude Crosby, Of the Lowell Police
Court, and District Attorney Stevens,
RECORDED by Samuel 2. Hadley, Esq,
Clerk q the Police Court. He said that
he had iept company with Miss Mank
since February last, but of late had not
been s~ofrequent in his attentions. She
FOLLOWED him on the street, and has
seemedanxious for a renewal of their
formerlntimacy. She invited him TO
visit hG on the night of the fatal shoot
ing, and she was with him two hours at
| her room on the third floor of No. SO
Merripac Street. About twenty min
utes bfore she fired the pistol she lock-
ed the door. She went to a sink in the
room which was dark, as she said, for
the reason that she had no kerosene for
her lamp for a drink of water, as he
supposed. She returned, and standing
partially against the door to keep
him rom going out, and facing
him, fred the pistol when only a
foot distant. He didn't see the pistol
till the moment she fired, and would
not have seen it then had he'not hap
pened 20 look down. There was no
scuffie and no angry words preliminary
to the firing. He held her hands after
the shotwas fired to prevent q second
discharge of the pistol, and as Dol as
his cries brought help, he went to the
doctors Office and then to his lodgings.
She asked him a few minutes before
the firing to lie upon the bed, if only
for five minutes, and get rested. Kicker
died from his injuries at 40 O'Clock,
Saturday afternoon. The murderess,
whose real name is Lucy Ann Mank,
but who, since coming to Lowell, in
November last, has assumed the name
of Lulu A. Martin, is a native of VALID
boro, Me-, 3S years of age, and has
been employed at the Lawrence hosiery
mill in Lowell. Kicker became &C.
quainted with her several months since
at the clearinghouse of his brother,
No. 60 Lawrence Corporation, where
she was employed as a domestic at the
time. He was intimate with her until
he was told by a townswoman of his
that she was tried at one time for shoot
ing a DIR. Baker, of Warren, Me-, and
narrowly escaped conviction and just
punishment, as all the neighbors
thought, for her offense.
She was at one time housekeeper for
DR.. Baker, who was quite intimate with
her. She left him in 1878 to keep house
for her brother, who was a widower
and in the early morning of a day in
May of that year the Doctor was found
dead, shot by a pistol bullet, and lying
weltering in his blood near the door OF
her room. 1t appears that her brother
was absent from the house on the night
of the murder, leaving two boys, n II
and the other s years of age. DR.. Ba'
ker came to visit her early in the even
ing, and shortly after the children went
to bed, leaving her alone with him in
the house. At about 10 o'clock thai
night she a to the nearest neighbors
and told them, in great apparent excite.
ment, that she had been shot. She wa:
known to be almost insane in anger OIL
excitement, and, as there was NJ
other evidence that she was shot, but
little notice was taken of her remarks
The mex morning the largest boy wen
up stairs to call her. He opened the
door to her room and found DR.. Baker
dead on the floor with q bullet in hi:
heart. She was arrested and twice or
dered for trial, besides serving out
six months Imprisonment. She denied
having had any pistol at the time of thu
murder, and none could be found on o
about the premises, and the jury failet
to convict her, although the neighbor
had no doubt of her guilt. 1t is sup
posed that she killed him because h
would not marry her. She claimed t.
have had a child by him, which is sal
to have died under suspicious circum
stances soon after birth. Lucy is darI
complexioaed, of medium height, an,
weighs about 100 pounds. She ha
been reticent since her arrest.