The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-09-22
Woman shoots Her Former Lover.

The Boston Globe gives the following
PARTICULARS of recent Lowell tragedy
Drs. Pillsbury and Gilman, the at.
tending physicians of Charles Kicker,
a Lowell, who was shot in the lower
nortion of the abdomen Thursday night
bv number - bullet, fired from sew
ea.shooter by Miss Lucy Ann Mank, in
formed him Saturday noon that there
was no hope Of his recovery, and an
hour afterwards he made his dying
declaration in regard To- the affair, in
response to interrogatories propounded
by Judge Crosby, OF the Lowell Police
Court, aud District Attorney Stevens,
recorded by Samuel Z. Hadley, Esq,
Clerk of the Police Court. He said that
he had kept company with Miss Mank
since FEBRUARY last, but of late had not
been so frequent in his attentions. She
followed him on the street, and has
seemed anxious for renewal of their
former intimacy. She invited him TO
visit her on the night of the fatal shoot
ing, and she was with him two hours at
her room on the third floor of No. 50
Merrimac Street. About twenty min
utes before she fred the pistol she lock-
ed the door. She went 10 sink in the
room (Which was dark, rs she said, for
the reason that She had no kerosene for
her lamp for drink OF water, as he
supposed She returned, and standing
partially against the door to keep
him from going out, and facing
him, fired the pistol when only "A
foot distant. He didn't see the pistol
til the moment she fired, and woGld
not have seen II then had he not hap
pened 10 look down. There was no
,cuille ana no angry words preliminary
10 the firing lie held her hands after
the shot was fired 10 prevent second
discharge of the pistol, and as soon as
his cries brought help, he went to the
Doctors Office and then 10 his lodgings.
She asked him few minutes before
the firing to lio upon the bed, if only
for five minutes, and get rested. Kicker
died from his injuries az 4:40 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 native of VALID
bOro, Me, 33 years of age, and has
been employed at the Lawrence hosiery
mill in Lowell. Kicker became ac-
guainted with her several months since
az the clearinghouse of his brother,
No. 60 Lawrence Corporation, where
She was employed As domestic at the
tine. He was intimate with her until
he was told by a ownswOman Of his
that she was tried at one time for shoot
mg DIR. Baker, of Warren, Me, and
narrowly escaped conviction and Just
punishment, as all the neighbors
thought, for her otlense.
She was ~ one time housekeeper for
Dr. Baker, who was quite intimate with
her. She left him in 1873 to keep house
Tor her brother, who was widower;
aud in the early morning of a day i'm
May OF that year the Doctor was found
dead, shot by pistol bullet, and lying
weltering in mis- blood near the door OF
her room. II appears that her brother
was absent from the house on the night
q the murder, leaving two boys, one 10
and the other Sycars of age. DIR. Ba-
aer came 20 visit her early in the ev, -
ing, and shortly after the children went
90 bed, leaving her alone with him in
,te house. At about 10 o'clock that
night she ran 10 the nearest neighbOrs'
and told them, in great apparent excite
ment, that she had been shot. Shewas
known 10 be almost insane in anger or
excitement, and, rs there was no
other evidence that she was shot, but
little notice was taken of her remarks.
The next morning the largest boy went
up stairs TO call her. He opened the
door 10 her room and found DR.. Baker
dead on the floor with bullet in his
heart. She was arrested and twice or
dered for trial, besides serving out a
,Nmonths' imprisonment. She denied |
having had any pistol at the time of the /
murder, and none could be found on or
about the premises, and the jury failed |
70 convict her, although the neighbors |
had no doubt of her guilt. II is sup
posed that she killed him because he |
would not marry her. She claimed TO |
have had a child by him, which is said |
20 have died under suspicious circum-
stances soon after birth Lucy is dark |
'ompleXiosed, of medium height, and |
weighs about 100 pounds. She has /
oeen reticent since her arrest.