The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-01-22
KIPPIE ANDDUFF COMPARED
THE TWO TERRIBLE TRADGEDIES
SIMILAR IN MANY DETAILS.

cAMAAdH 4N In An DIIAILSs
Curious Crowds Still Throng the Street In
Front of the Scene of the Double Murder
Funeral of the Victims VIII be Held
This Morning-Duff May Have Been at
Large but for One Circumstance.
Edward A. Duff, the murderer of his
wife and mother-in-law, still remains
moody at the jail and persistently re-
fuses to talk about the murder. All
efforts to induce him to talk have
proven fruitless. All day yesterday and
last evening large crowds continued to
visit the scene of the murder and last
evening the sidewalk in front of the
house at No. As Greene street was
blocked for fifty feet with the crowd
gazing at the house and talking of the
murder. The bodies of the two victims
We're taken to the Greene street house
Thursday evening and yesterday after
noon We're placed in coffins side by side
in the Duff home. Police officers were
stationed at the front door and the pub
lie was admitted a few at a time to
view the remains. The faces of the
two women look very natural in death
and friends who were intimately ac-
quainted with them say that they can
see no traces on their faces of the ter
rible ordeal through which they had
passed. The funerals will be held this
morning and the procession will leave
the house at As Greene street at $3.50
and will proceed to st. Patrick's r. c.
church, where services will be held at 8
o'clock.
1t is probable that had the murder oc-
Cured a little earlier or little later
in the evening Duff would not have
been caught so soon after the affair oc-
cured The murder took place a few
minutes before o'clock and at that
time the squad of policemen who go on
duty jumped in the wagon by direction
of the sergeant and preceded to the
corner of Hamilton and Greene streets
while the remainder of the o'clock
squad was divided up into twos and
threes and these details were sent in
citizens clothes out in various direc-
tions to keep lookout for the muir
derer in case he escaped from the
wagon detail Had the affair not hap
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would have been no adequate force in
the station to have sent out and Duff
would probably have escaped and might
have been at large yet.
Coroner Mix has practically concluded
his Investigations of the murder and
will transmit to State Attorney Will
lams this morning report of his find
ings. The coroner refused to give out
a report in detail last night, saying
that he could not do SO until he had
presented his findings to the state at
torney. He said, however, that there
was only one finding which could be
made in view of the evidence and that
was that Mrs. Duff and Mrs. Maher
came to their death through the shoot
ing by Edward A. Duff. The coroner
considers that Duff's case greatly re-
sembles that of Kippie's and in fact
there are many things in the personal
appearance, characteristics and disposi-
tion of Duff which still further increase
the similarity between the two cases.
Jealousy in each case apears to have
been prime motive as did also the
refusal of the woman to live with the
husband. In each case the persistent
and bloodthirsty ferocity of the murder
was a distinctive feature.
Duffs folks are, however, respectable
people and are greatly shocked at the
tragedy The father, an old man, lives
| with one of the two daughters and the
mother is dead. Duff's people have had
little to do with him for ten years. He
| was at one time empoyed as a ma
chinist at Colts armory in Hartford
and his work was on revolvers. 1t was
there that he learned the deadly quail
| ties of the long barrelled pistol of the
pattern which he used in the tragedy.
At the factory the workmen always
said that the aim was truer with the
long barrel