, 1891-08-14
A W0MAN'S REVENGE.
Miss Millie Pfaffmann of Kansas
City Under Arrest
For Blowing Up the House of
Joseph M. Juvenal.
Loathsome Sights in San Fran
ciSco's Chinatown.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. l3.-The
two-story frame cottage of Joseph NJ.
Juvenal, agent of the Consolidated Tank
Line company, at 627 South Third street.
Kansas City, Kan, was wrecked by
dynamite shortly after IL O'Clock last
night. Mile Pfaffmanu. a Young woman
of 20 years. is under arrest suspected Of
being responsible Tor it. A dynamite
cartridge was placed on Juvenal's front
porch and it was exploded by a lighted
fuse, which ran nearly to the sidewalk.
In the house at the time of the explo-
sion we're Juvenal and his wife. his sister,
Mrs. Ricketts, OF Excelsior Springs. and
her two children. They all narrowly
escaped death. The front porch was
reduced to a mass Of tangled spllnters,
the windows blown out, the heavy front
door cracked and wrenched and the glass
10 its upper half blown into little bits. All
the china ware about the house was
smashed and broken. the pictures thrown
to the floor, bits of the stone foundation
unsettled and the wooden walls of the
house cracked and wrenched in many
places. A picture hanging over Mrs.
Ricketts, bed fell upon her and bruised
her slightly, aud the three children. who
we're in one cot, we're roughly shaken up,
as we're Mr.. and Mrs. Juvenal. but the
insane attempt at wholesale murder
failed. About 3 O'Clock Juvenal,
who did not retire after the explo-
sion, saw a man peering in his window.
He seized his revolver and ran out OF the
house. He caught sight of the man In the
yard aud FIVE or six shots we're exchanged,
but none took effect.
Juvenal is now living with his second
wife. to whom he was married one month
alter being divorced from his first. Some
thing over one year ago he met Miss
Piaffmaun, IAN orphan with some money.
They became engaged, the girl being I'M
aware of the fact that he was a married
man. When she learned the truth he
promised to get a divorce. This he was
slow in doing and last April she broke off
the engagement. Last Friday she learned
that Juvenal had, since she last saw him,
been divorced and again married. Last
night two persons, a Mrs. Andrew Blaine
and j. W. Jameson, saw a woman loiter-
ing around Juvenals place. She had a
black shawl about her shoulders. These
facts. coupled with Juvenal's own state
ment, caused Miss Pfaffmann's arrest. The
accused is a pretty girl, bears a good
reputation aud talks and acts like a lady.
She declares that she spent last night
with Mrs. Minnie Bray, a sick woman
living at Thirtv-6rst street and Fairmount
avenue in this city, and Mrs. Bray con-
firms her statement. Miss Pfaffmann
was ~arraigned before Justice Shannon
this afternoon. charged with sending
threatening letters thror ii the mails.
Her attorney sent word uo the chief OF
police of Kansas CITY. Kan, and the
prosecuting attorney of Wyandotte county
this morning that she was ready to come
to Kansas to answer any charge against
her, but no charge has been made. The
prosecuting attorney said tina. the in
formation lodged with him was net suf-
ficient to justify MIN 10 issuing a warrant,
There being no charge except that filed in
Judge S%hannon's court she was released
this afternoon upon giving a $3.50 bond
for her appearance Monday.