Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-19
A PASTORS CRIME.
Rev. James KcmIn Staus uiS Muc, Cuts
uis throat nnd Jumpr irum Au
timer story Wiruuw

gcv. James ncmin StsDs uis wife, Cuts
tits hroat nnd jumrc itom au
upper story window
About | o'clock Tuesday the crowds |
moving up and down Fulton street before !
the Atlantic bank in E,Ookiyu, y. ! +, |
were shocked to SEQ the body Of man
with his throat cut from car to car fall
upon tho pavement lite had jumped from
the fourth story oi the bank building and
his brains were spattercd upon the pave
mcut where he fell.
Two or three OF the persons who had
seen the horrible suicide rushed uIStaiTS
to learn, II possible, somc,hluG about the
dead man. In the front room, ON the
fourth floor, they 50" the "atm but HE
less body of a young woman whose throat
had been cut with a cllvinE knitc winch
| lay upon the floor by her side. Nearly
every article ul iuCuItu'e ~ tho room was
| bcsmcared with blood. lh' body oi the
man was identified aS that OF the key
lanes krmlu, lat" pastor oi the Neiormed
| Presbyterian church a. SnnnI'Ie, \. j"
and siding IN Newark. il' dead |o,nau
! was his wlic.
! From what occnwcI u wiN evident that
! murder and suicide bad been committed.
The room presented houin'e ana SieHeh
ing appearance, the carpet p'lnE saturated
with blood. There WAS blood spattc'ed
over tho wall near tho entrance, blood on
the clean plates laid really tor d,nucr "nj
blood on the bed which rtund near the
open window from which hcmIn hAd
taken the terrible leap. Ihc sill "i the
window on which ho b." placed hls hands
befnrC taking his leap was broadly stained
with h'uri. Ihe theory Of the cAsc Is
that kcmln, aouug under some insane I'M.
pulse, first stabbed hlN vile audi then cut
his own throat while they were alone
That she had resisted Am Is shown 10y the
screams that were ur1ld previously ~
persons living On thc door below, and by
lhc fact that the ball oi hor lGit thumb II
deeply gasAed, as q shA had caught the
knife III her hand.
1t appears that Rev. Mt hemID had for
, some time been disturbed IN his mind,
partly from maIaral fever and patty from
, CDuCern by his having been laid of by his
church after vacation. lie and his wde
had Dwe TO visit old Mrs. kcmIu, who,
+ for several years, has occupied apartments
! on the fourth story Ji tho back building.
. They had only becu halt au hour IN the
| house, and old Mr, kamlo wa, getting
5 dinner ready Tor them, the cooking utensils
5 being already on the range. The old lady
| had just gone out O. plrcla'a some moIt,
. and during her absence the tragedy OC
Cured.
Il Rev. Mr.. kemID A4d his wife, Frances,
' had been but faT years married. lie
/ was thirty -liyo years ut age, lie was a
son OF Mr. Gideon himIp who IS engaged
IN the office at the New York Et.uWg
- Post. The suic,dc was -r.iuh'c oi Rut
gers college and was ordained four years
, ago. Mrs. hemlo was lady about TWEEN
~ iour years OF age, aud q Nttln over hVs
| feet Ia height. SLc had long DiACE ha'r
and interesting features, and wore = ia!
green dress ~ tho time OF the tragedy
Mr.. kemlo's mother, who IS about seventy
| years OF age, was found by the reporter IL
one Of the apartments adJDlnlDg the one IL