Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-03
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.
4 Man Shot Dead In HIS o.cn Door,e

a Man Shot Dead In His O.Cn Dooravay.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, Oct. 3l.-A
most atrocious murder is exciting our town
tonight. Interest is added to the murder by
the mystery attending the affair. The mur-
dered man is Samuel Kenyon, a well.to-do
farmer living three miles and a half out of
town, and known in town as hotel and livery
man. The circumstances in brief are these {:
Kenyon, his wife, her sister, Kenyon's mother,
and his only daughter, Dora, girl Of
II years, were in the sitting
room. Mrs. Constantine, Kenyon's sis
ter-in-law, was reading to them from
paper. Mrs. Kenyon, wife of the deceased,
retired at $40. The remainder of the COM
pany stayed few minutes later, until the
story was finished, when Kenyon said, ''It is
getting late now; let's all go to bed and finish
and went to the back door and out to the well,
which is situated about six feet from the
house, and halfway between the corner of the
building and the door. Through the window
looking out into the porch, Mrs. Constantine
saw Kenyon 60 to the pump and draw bucket
of water, after which he went toward the cor
ner of the house and stood directly in front of
the winaow, with his face toward it. She
heard him say to some one: "Come in; why
don't you come in?n The only answer heard
was the sharp crack of a revolver, followed
by the sound of struggle and the fall of a
body. Mrs. Constantine and Kenyon's moth
er ran quickly to the door and looked out,
but.no signs of any persons were to be seen.
Supposing the man had missed his mark, and
that Kenyon was in pursuit of him, she
hastily awakened the whole family, consisting
and 8 years respectively, and
q hired man. Kenyon's wife had
not fallen asleep. After the shot was fired, she
heard a horse go downthe road at full speed,
but could see nothing on looking from the
window. The whole family went out on the
porch where Kenyon had last been seen, and
found him lying on the ground at the end Of
the walk, dead. The neighbors were quickly
aroused, but the murderer had escaped. Frank
Kenyon, the elder of the children, was in the
village, and started home about 9 clock in the
evening. When halfway out he met horse
man, with coat closely buttoned and hat
drawn over his eyes, with the evident inten-
tion of avoiding recognition. Kenyon knew
nothing of the rider, and took no further
notice of the man, but described the horse. A
boy was sent to town for physicians and Off
GERS. Sheriff Allen, Marshal E: A. Hamsted,
and County Judge Perry arrived at the farm
house about o'clock in the morning, got
the trail of the horseman, and fol-
lowed it to town, where it was lost. A post
mortem disclosed the fact that the bullet en-
tered the skull over the left eye. The missile
was found EMBEDDED in the center of the brain.
The caliber Of the ball was 80, and it made an
ugly wound. There is no reliable clew to the
murderer. Deceased was not known to have
any enemies, but the wise ones wink signIf-
cantly and hint darkly at woman in the case.
There is nothing tangible on which to base
such conclusion. The case is being thor
Oughly Investigated, the cOrOner's examina-
ton having been postponed until Thursday