Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-09-18
COWARDLY MURDERS.
A Dastardly Gardener
Wipes out Two Lives
WITH A PISTOL LIKE A FIEND.
Kills his Wife and the Man Who
Gave her Hospitality, Mortally
Wounds a Girl, and suspect
ed of Numbering his Son,

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which two people have already lost their
lives and third one Is very near pass.
ing away. Joseph Baynton, gardener,
81 years of age, born in Somersetshire.
England. resides with his wife and four
children at 1923 Olive street. The ED.
est Is but s years old and the youngest
Is baby in arms. He is a drunkard
and was violent and abusive TO his wife
whenever he was IN that condition. He
used to beat her aud has threatened to
kill her. She at last found life SO miser.
able with her brute OF husband that
she resolved to separate from him, and
the project was being resolved In hei
mind yesterday, before murderous
pistol cut of her life, at the hands Of
the man who should have shielded and
protected her. Blynton returned home
at o'clock last night and, as he had
been drinking, was ugly again. His
wife had prepared supper for him and it
didn't suit him. So, after awhile, fear
ing violence, she left the house with her
children and went to J b. Kipp's house
at No. 643 Olive street, near the corner
of Il ghth street. She begged Mrs.
| kipp's permission to leave the children
for awhile, whilst she went to seek
policeman to have her husband arrested,
| who threatened her with violence. Mr..
Kipp, a man of 81 years, in the mean
while sat Tn his front porch smoking
| pipe. The house is small cottage. two
| front rooms Of small Dimensions doing
| duty as bedrooms, and the back room,
which is somewhat larger, serving rs
kitchen and dining room. In front OF
the house is small garden, sep
arated from the street by a
fence. Very soon afterward Baynton
was heard outside quarrelng with his
wife, and Mr.. Kip came INSIDE, saying
he didn't like to hear such goings on in
front OF his house. Mrs. Baynton soon
after came in and. preparatory to
removing her children to another
neiQhbor, sat down for few minutes
| old daughter, Matte, Mrs. Baynton,
and some OF her children, and Mrs.
Kipp was in the kitchen, which com
municsted with the front room. 1t was
Just little before 8 o'cl eek. Suddenly
the door opened, and without word OF
warning Biynton commenced shooting
professionally into the room. 1t has 10 N
impossible to learn who was shot first,
but Mrs. Bsynton, who was standing in
the door between the front apart
ment and the kitchen, received
a bullet into the right breast,
which cut he aorts. and she fell dead
on the floor. MIR. Kipp was shot in the
left hip. On the side of his face were
some wounds inflicted with some other
| instrument than gun. He ded OF q
quarter to 0 from conclusion Of the
brain A fence post, which had been |
corn from the fence, was prob bly, used |
by the murderer to beat the old gentle |
man, but this IS not quite certain, Tue
third victim, Nettie kpp, a beautiful |
II ear old girl, but who appears at
least three years older, was the next |
victim. She was sitting on the bed,
fronting the door. Biynton shot her
twice, one bullet entering the abdomen |
two inches to the right and below the |
navel, and the other one penetrating /
her body Just over the crest Of the rignI
hip. Mrs. Kipp, being in the kitchen,
was not hurt. Upon the sound OF the
firing, several neighbors rushed up and
secured the murderer, who was removed |
TO the city jail by Frank Baker, and
locked up. He disclaimed knowing OF |
having hurt anybody, and pretended to
have shot at big dog in Kipp's yard.
The pistol with which the bloody deeds
had been done was found on him, the |
six shells empty and recently fired /
1t is 44calibre self cocker, of |
English make. II was not then known |
hat any Of his victims had died and he |
was charged with assault to murder, bnt |
as soon ms the news arrived that his |
wife was dead, the charge was changed |
to murder Drs. w. b. Percival, L. j. |
Mccarthy, w e. LindIey and Mr.. IL.
Bert Ellis, a medical student, were soon
upon the spot. They could do nothing
for Klpp, who died unconscious three
quarters of an hour after the assassin
mad shot him All possible assistance
was rendered to Miss Kipp, who WIS
perfectly conscious, but greatly torment
ed by pains in the stomach. She was de-
sirous of making statement to HER.
AID reporter. but the doctors would not
allow her to spenk, for fear that the ex-
citement might prove fatal. They pro.
nounce her wounds very dangerous but |
not necessarily mortal Her wounds |
were dres ed, though it was impossible |
TO look for the bullets, and she was |
given hypodermic injections. To a
question from the reporter as to the |
cause of the deed, she said: HE did it |
out Of spite and meanness, and on ao-
count of drink She added: my |
fathers name is J. b. Kipp, he works
for VIM. Moody, in secondhand store
IN Spring street, and sew carpets at
Dotter & Bradley's" The doctors then
eniuined her to refrain from talking. In
tho next room Mrs. kipp was bending
over the hfeless bo y OF her husband, in
a pitiful state of excitement bordering
on insanity. Soon after Orr 4 Sueh re-
moved the body of the murdered woman
10 their establishment, and after the
strongest resistance from Mrs. kipp,
which was finally overcome by the inter-
cession of her friends, she also allowed
her husbands body to be taken to the
ander;aker's, for the purpose OF having
It dressed.
In the street groups of people stood
talking together, mutterlng curses
against the murderer, whose reputation
n his neighborhood seems far from good.
A policeman had to be stationed at the
loor to prevent the morbidly inclined
rom filing the house. The muir Tered
woman was tall and dark. haired, and
appeared hard work ng, i'll used per.
900, of about 30 years OF age.
After returnu from the scene of
the horror, the reporter sought an inter-
view with the nurderer, who was locked
up in cell three of the ely jail. B'yn-
on is a bull headed, reI.faced, black
moustachea fellow. with au unpleasant,
.ottish and brutal face. He drinks, and
was treated for delirium tremens about
six weeks ago by DIR. Mccarthy. Last
| hight, whilst in the cell, his face ap.
| a.,.nsJ rerx, rod ood a atnhhv heard If