Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-10
MURDER OF INNOCENTs.
An Interview with tho Holyoke Man
Who Killed His Three Children.

Springfield, Mass June 21.-The
Herald reporter secured an interview
with KENNEL at the station. house,
and learned from his own lips the de.
tails of his crime. His utterances
were strongly Teutonio, but this &C.
cent will not be attempted here.
Reporter-They say you have shot
your children. Is this possible?
Prisoner with emphasis) Yes, OF
course ! have. / shot them all, and
they died right off and went to heav
en-.
R.-But they world not need to
come on the town; you are not an old
man and could support them well
enough
Pr am about 4s years old. l am
too old to work, and 1t makes no
difference what becomes of me; and
now my wife won't have the children
to take care of. She can do washing
and other work, and earn enough to
live or. 1t is better for her than to
have the children.
Rid you love your children ?
P.-Why, of course / did, and
that was why ] shot them. They
didn't seem to feel it. put the pis.
toll up close 70 their heads and they
died right off aud went to Heaven.
R-But Anna didn't; she is alive
now and has suffered terribly.
Pts that SO? No 1t can't be !;
you are fooling me. can't under
stand, l thought l killed them all.
meant to: and if had supposed that
Anna was not dead l would have
gived her another shot. l had plen.
ty more cartridges and If you will lie.
me l will 60 right down there now
and finish her.
R-Tell me just how you shot
them
P.-Well yeu see my little Emma
was lying on the bed and my eldest
little girl was taking care of her.
The little one fell off the bed the
other day and hurt her very much,
and was very sorry for her. / al
ways loved my children and couldn't
bear to see them take any hurt, so /
told the oldest to take care Of her
when she was on the bed, and see
that she didn't fall again. So she
was standing by the bed and called
my little Anna into the other room,
and told her / HAD something to
show her with a fendish laugh.
Then / pulled my revolver out of my
coat pocket and when she was look.
ing at it she said, ooh, how pretty =
aud / put 1t to her temple and shot
her, and she fell right down. Then
l went to the bedroom where the
others were and my little one lay
right there on the pillow, aud /
thought l could shoot her too, so she
would die right off and never feel it.
R.--And then you shot the eldest,
didn't you?
P.-Yes; it was the day they had
got TO die. and / thought l might as
well kill her then, and so | shot her,
too, and she fell right down on the
floor.
Rid you bring Anna into the
bedroom and lay her on the bed?
P.-Yes; picked her up off the
floor and carried her in where the
others were and laid her on the bed
just rs nicely as / could.
R-But you left the eldest lying
in the blood on the floor. Why did
mt you pick up her body too?
P.-She hled so much that
thought the blood would get all over
the bed, and it could be cleaned of
from the floor much more easily than
off from the bed.
R-What do you suppose will be
done with you?
P.-I don't know. Perhaps they
will shut me up in Jail. 1t makes no
difference. am just as well off
there rs anywhere.
R-But they will hang You for
this.
P.-Well l don't care. They may
do what they please don't make
the laws. i had got to do it; those
children couldn't live to come on the
town and 60 to bad houses. l would
not have it. If | wasn't Christian
1 I MIGHT