Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-07-10

1ENING, JULY 10, 1883.
ABL00DY AFFAIR.
Joseph kiter Shoots His Mistress and Him.
self-He is the Son Of Yankton Parents.
The Sioux City Journal of Sunday
contains the following account of .
bloody affair in that city last Saturday,
one OF the principals being the son of q
highly respected Yankton family:
Joseph Kiter shot and fatally wounded
Minnie Dixon at Maple Grove At 3
O'Clock yesterday afternoon, and then
shot himself. The shooting occurred in
the apartment of tho house of prostitu.
tion referred to, known as the private
parlor. The injured woman was attended
BY the Ds. Guyton, who found that q
bullet had perforated her skull on the
left side, just above the temple, and had
passed diagonally through the brain to
the forehead, and there came out. The
braln.matter was oozing from both holes,
and it was the opinion of the surgeons
that the wound was fatal. Kiter bleed
ing from his wound. escaped from the
house shortly after the shooting and ran
out through the back way into an alley
and from there to Douglas street. which
hs crossed, and fell headlong through the
Douglas street entrance Of Frank Will.
sons saloon. He was picked up and
seated in Q chair, and his wound exam
med BY DR.. B. A. Guytop, Of. It was dis.
covered that the ball had entered his
mead at q point above the ear and had
passed out about two inches farther front
ABOVE his forehead. He was given sur
glcal attendance and lies in critical
conditioD, although partly conscious, in
the e. side room attached to the saloon.
The tragedy created the utmost con.
sternation and commotion among the
residents of the quarter of the city in
which it occurred. More than 500 people
gathered about the two places where fav
tne unconscious girl apparently dying,
and the likewise unconscious man. Who
had pulled the trigger of his revolver
with possibly dual effect. The many
theories and surmises which were ad-
vanced regarding the manner and the
cause of the shooting were as different
as numerous in number. Not few in
dlcated that the man had not done all
the shooting, and that there had been q
sanguinary duel in the parlor which the
two alone occupied. Others thought
that the woman had been the one who
alone fired the weapon. A reporter of
the journal was upon the scene almost
Immediately after the tragedy, and in.
vestigated thoroughly into the affair
which developed the following particu.
lars of the shooting.
The woman, Minnie Dixon, was an in
mate of the house of i'll fame known as
Maple Grove. She came to this city
frem Davenport on March 6, and for two
weeks was an inmate of "The Allen"
She then went to "The Grove" and, up
to the time of the shooting had been
one OF the most attractive ladies of not
doubtful reputation who made their
homes there. Her parents, who are
named McG Glaughlin, live in Davenport,
where she was married about two years
ago to a man named Ezra Murdoch, who
is engaged in running hack line IN the
same city. The name of Dixon is entire
" assumed. She was not over-attentive
to her husband in Davenport, nor he to
her, and as result, they separated, and
the woman came to this city via Council
Bluffs, and sought her livelihood in the
paths of shame.
After she had been here about two
months she met Kter. He is the son of
w. F. Kiter of Yankton, and who is well
known as originally book-binder of
Council Bluffs and afterwards the pub.
Usher OF the Panta4rsph of Sioux Falls.
The young man, who was the principal
in the tragedy of yesterday afternoon,
is about twenty-five years of age. He
has never been very conspicuous in bust
ness enterprise, having devoted most of
his time to bar-tending. and recently here
IN conducting the uncertain revolution
OF the roulet wheel at the gambling es.
tablishment over the Bank Exchange on
Fourth street. Among places where he
is acquainted and has worked are Coun.
Gil Bluffs and Ottumwa. When Kiter
and the woman Minnie became acquaint.
ed they became largely acquainted, and
intimate to such an extent that he was
generally recognized as her accepted
"lover," peculiar relation which is held
by divers young men toward women who
imagine they have found in the same
masculines the perfectness of devotion
and physical development which entitle
the young man to especial privileges up
on such occasions as occur when the
more remunerative general public isn't
l oAOunNs ~ AOe AuA1cQuCuLly uHHp6UE
that the "lover" is so constituted that he
is not entirely an animal, but has some
thing of the man about him, and obiects
to being only q lap dog to be played
with and then put in the back shed wher
other company comes. But all youne
fellows are not wise; and 30 it came about
that the young man who lies helples.
from an intended suicidal shot, with tb.
mark of murderer upon him, was I'M
wise and became insanely Jealous O.
the woman he had known at the best al
only an inmate of an establishment oi
which the very purpose is leachery an6
the whole intent dishonor and base asso
Citations. About month ago the woman
received notice of the illness of hel
mother in Davenport. and Kiter furnish
ed her the money to go there and to re
turn and has been very attentive to hel
in many ways. With the usual flippan
cy of the women of her class it is claimed
however, that she had not returned an,
especial gratitude for these favors, ane
was, instead, planning te give him the
shake" or, more properly, to throw hin
aside for another with more charms o
clothes or pocket-book. However thi
may be, it is certain that Kiter. suspi
cioned something crooked in her conduc
and kept close watch on her doinge
On Friday in company with another in
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