The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-12
CAPT. KENY0N'S TRIAL.
Fresh Developments in the Murder
Case To-day.
KENYON HIMSELF ON THE STAND
Fine Exhibition of Sparring-Kenyon
Argues Every Point and Contradicts
Himself on Cross-Examination - He
admits That He Had Been Drinking.
ESPECIAL TO THE NEws.l

WAKEFIELD, X L., Nov. IL. The trial
of Capt. Geo. n. Kenyon was resumed at
$3.50 this morning The defence put in
additional testimony as to Jack McInnis's
reputation for being troublesome when
drunk. As a rule this evidence was of
the veriest trash, and it has been such
from the first to the last. Those who
swore the most positively that Jack Nc
Innis was troublesome when drunk were
keepers Of Narragansett Pier bar rooms,
and who said he had been in their saloons
on numerous occasions to get drink.
Capt. Kenyon then took the witness
stand. Mclnness went TO work for him
about April ), last. IL was arranged that
Jack should be kept away from the rum
shops, and that he should not be paid
until his work was done on the morning
of the homicide. He asked Jack To put
cattle to pasture, Jack declined Rudolph
Boldt was left in charge of the premises,
while the witness went up TO the Globe
farm. Returning from the farm he got
dinner and then went out to to start up
the pump in the mill that the garden
might be watered He saw Jack in the
mill. He had TO pass Jack TO get TO the
cockpit. He didn't speak TO him.
Opening the trap door, he got into the
pit to put the belt on. Jack began to
SVNtdI ~ tTOOptr anu sttlu l. Will XIII
you" Jack was jealous because kenyon
wouldn't speak to him. Witness was in
the pit and had got the belt half way on,
when Jack jumped on his back and nearly
pushed him into the fiume He told Jack
to get out and he did so. He made sec
ond jump on his back and grabbed him
10y the collar and he said "you -
- I'll push you into the flume." Jack
made no attempt TO strike him.
WitnaCS drnva Taclg off otyai,, onI ,,ot
out of the pit and closed the trap door.
At this time the little girl came in and
called witness, and Kenyon left the mill
knowing that il was necessary for him to
get away from Jack, for he meant mis-
chief. As witness entered the house he
saw Jack come in and warned him TO keep
out, and said, Don't you come into this
door" Jack was then at the corner of the
mill. Witness tried TO close the door and
went directly to his room. Jack came to
the door, and witness said, Don't you
come over that threshold" Jack didn't
stop, and witness took up the rifle to
frighten Jack. He didn't stop.
The witness could see Jack through the
curtain. He fired one shot To frighten
Jack, but that didn' I stop him. Jack kept
comingtoward him in the bedroom and said
you son of a-Tllkill you anyway, witness
believed at that time that Jack. had a
we ipon. Because he saw Jack put his
right hand to- his side. After the first shot
and before the second he believed that
Jack was armed. He had every reason TO
believe IL and he feared not only for his
own life but for the lives of his family.
When the second shot was fired Jack
might have been four feet away Wit
ness's wife and Josie Blackmore were
frightened. Witness disputed his wife's.
the little girls, Rudolph Boldt's and
George Weeden's testimony as TO the
n,.l laI a a l. Al
room door. In the workshop McInness
didn't speak about pay. After McInness
was shot and had disappeared the witness
kept the gun in his hand and went to
look for Jack Witness could not saw
that his wife between the shots opened
the door of her room and said, Don't
Shoot
Capt Kenyon's cross-examination was a
great exhibition of sparring as between
the government who looked for informa-
ton, and Kenyon, who wanted to argue
every point.
His first answer was in dispute of his
direct evidence that Jack went To work i'm
April and was 10 have $50 a month, and
had received - only.
issue, and that the fact that money was
owed would not justify the shooting or
Jacks alleged assault.
Kenyon admitted that Jack had earned
the money that had not been paid him.
and that he (kenyon) drank rum with
some of his help that morning. He bought
the rum at grocery store. He couldn't
tell how many times he drank or how
much.
Kenyon swore that when he went into
the wheel pit he had no fear of Jack. and
this time he said that Jack didn't Jump on
his back. But that Jack straddled him.
Jacks body didn't strike his, at all, but
Jack put his hands on him. Kenyon has
always sworn that when he was i'm the pit
Jack jumped on his back with great force,
and that the blow nearly threw him into
the flume. With all Jacks ripping. rear
ing, tearing and swearing, the witness
kept right on with his work in the pit
between the time of the first and second
assaults with all the pulling and hauling
kenyon's clothes or shirt were not torn
When he left the mill he wasn't so afraid
of Jack that he took the shortest way out.
He stopped To think, and went the other
way vet he would have had but three feet
TO step from the door sill TO the ground
He didn't dream that Jack would dare TO
come into the house after he had been for
hidden TO enter.
which the witness went, had "A lounge
across il, and he took the other way TO get
to his room the soonest. He did have an
idea that Jack would come in. and was i'm
"A hurry To get out Of his way. The cur
tain was down over the second door and
while he could see Jack, the latter couldn't
see Kenyon.
Partly pulling the curtain back he
seized the gun and fired once 10 frightcn
Jnck and stop him. He had no doubt but
that the bail went through the curtain.
Kenyon saw that he had put his foot into
something and said that he pulled the
curtain back before Jack came in and that
he went TO get the rifle because he felt that
while Jack couldn't see him he might
climb over the sofa. He didn't propose 10
let Jack near enough to allow him TO cut
him.
A recess wns takcn until op NJ