Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-25
TROUBLES END IN TRAGEDY
Domestic Infelioity in the Kinkenon Family
Leads to an Attempted Murder
HUSBAND WINDS UP BY KILLING HIMSELF
Woman in Dangerous Condition.
but May NccoVcr-HusbnndF Foi-
lowed Her Around the
Streets All Evening.


toonth and Douglas streets. dozen steps
behind her was a man who waved revol-
YER in his hand and cursed her as she ran.
Midway down the block in front of the
Diamond saloon, he caught up with his in
tended victim and, bringing his revolver
to a level, fired at her point blank. The
woman fell to the pavement and the man
turned tho revolver upon himself, placing
the muzzle just above the right ear, and
pulled the trigger He died instantly.
The woman was Mrs Stella kinkenon,
who has been employed at the Arcade hotel
as a pastry cook for the past three months.
The man was John NJ. Kinkenon, her hus-
band, from whom she has been divorced
Jealousy, love and the custody Of two small
children are supposed to have been the mo-
tives for the crime.
o. Rubenstein, a tomale man who has
stand at the corner of Fourteenth and Doug
las streets, was witness to the whole aitalr
and gives the following version of 1t: THE
woman, in company with another woman,
the man who shot her and a young boy,
went by my stand about $50 They were
having an argument and The woman seemed
anxious to avoid the man, who followed
slightly in the rear. About twenty minutes
after 10 O'Clock the woman with whom this
party had been arguing ran wildly UP to
me and grabbing me by the arm cried: oh,
My God! He is going to kill me" The fell
low, who was running after her with re-
volver in his hand, started to catch her by
tho arm, but she lodged him and they both
ran east on Douglas street y few seconds
later heard the shots and saw them both
fall TO the sidewalk"
Henry Weise one of the owners of the
Diamond. was standing in the front Of his
saloon when he saw Kinkenon near the
woman and heard him say: Il told you !
WAS ll1ing to do IL yOuN' He then fired
tho shots.
SHOT IN THE NECK.
officer Dillon was the first to arrive on the
scene of the tragedy. With the assistance
of several bystanders he picked up Mrs.
Kinkenon and carried her into the saloon.
The woman was conscious, although bleeding
profusely from a cut on the forehead, which
had been sustained by the fall, and she
complained frequently of wound, which
she said was in her back. She could give
no version of the affair, except that her hus-
band had been following her for several
weeks past, and had threatened frequently
to kill her in case he caught her on the
street after night. She was removed to the
police station and later taken to st. Jo-
seph's hospital, where DR.. Carpenter discov-
cred upon examination that she had re-
ceived a bullet wound from a S2-caliber re-
volver in the lower portion of the neck. The
bullet remained in the fieshy portion OF the
neck, and the wound bled freely. Shortly
woman lost consciousness, and her eondi-
tion is thought TO be serious, although there
is a possible chance for recovery.
The body OF K.nkenon Jay where it had
fallen for nearly half an hour, when 1t was
taken In charge by Coroner Burket and re-
moved to the morgue. There was but
small amount of money upon the remains and
a few papers, which showed that the de- |
ceased was engineer and had formerly |
been employed on the Union Pacific rail- |
JI, had npin
which bore a late date and had evidently |
been much used. Coroner Burket will hold |
an inquest on the remains Saturday at
o'clock
Officer Dillon, who has the Douglas street |
beat says that he saw Mr.. and Mrs. Kin |
kenon about $50 last night, as they were |
on their way up Douglas street. The wo- |
man came up to him and said: This man |
has been following me around town for sew |
cral weeks and has threatened to shoot me. |
am afraid of my life and | want him ar |
rested" Dillon went up to Kinkenon and |
asked him what he meant by his threats. |
He replied that the woman was his wife |
and that he had right to walk with her II |
he wished. The officer searched kinkenon'
but failed to find any weapon. He then |
warned him to cease his prosecutions and |
to walk along by himself. The quartet COM |
posed of Kinkenon, Mrs. kinkenon, her son, |
Elmer Kinkenon, and a woman named Anna |
Jackson, continued on their way up the |
street.
FOLLOWED ALL EVENING.
Anna Jackson, a chambermaid at the Ar
cade hotel, was with Mrs. Kinkenon the en-
tire evening. She says: Mrs. Kinkenon
and myself left the hotel about quarter
past o'clock. We had no sooner reached !
the sidewalk than her husband came up TO
her and asked if they might walk up the
street together. My companion refused and
told him that she did not care to talk with
him. We were Joined then by Elmer Kin
kenon, and as we went along kinkenon be-
gan talking to his wife In an angry tone,
When we got to the officer she told him to
arrest her husband, as she was afraid of
him. We then went TO Morand's dancing
Harney street and stad there
about an hour. KinkenOn followed us into
The hall but did not talk to us. When we
left he must have followed in our rear, but
we did not see him. a, the corner of Four
teenth and Douglas streets he attempted to
ak to her again, and upon being refused
pulled his rovoNer and fired the shots.
From Miss Jackson IL was learned that
and his wife had had more or less
trouble since 1884, at which time they were
divorced Mrs Kinkenon secured position
rs pastry cook at the Arcade hotel about
three months ago and roomed at l1l7R Burt
street, where she lived with her three chill
iren-Elmer, a lad of II years, employed
It Bliss china store, and two little boys,
lged and years, who have been going to
school until recently, when they were sent
o friend over in Iowa. Miss Jackson said
hat Wednesday afternoon Kinkenon met his
wife on the street, and after importuning her
o again live with him, and being refused,
lad said: 81 will wait some time until you
ire alone and then | will make my threats
good" meaning that he would kill her
officer Barnes, who was on the Douglas
itreet beat about six weeks ago. says that
Mrs. Kinkenon came up TO him one night
md asked for protection from her husband,
Who was following her The officer called
lim down, and in a conversation with him
Iinkenon stated that he cared nothing about
living with his wife, but that he wanted the
custody of the children. He said that his
wife had sent them away while he was out
IN trip in Colorado, and that she intended
leeping them away from him. He told
Barnes that he was employed as an engineer
IN the hoisting machine at the new post
,ffce and that he was able 20 take care OF
lis own children. He said his wife had had
everal children by a foy, husband and
hat n anu MuriGlt 4eortQ. - age.
Sinos. Delmore ana Us = Kinkenon called
Jye and Hughey are " told Captain King
rformers. The motograpble with her hus-
,est devices for the productio.been divorced.
ctures, will be- introduced. nt OF assault
llested her.
At Boyds today matinee and nphioer Dill
,mances OF "The Shadows of a Greathootins
N be given. x the
had
special holiday matinee will be e OF