The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-27
Leavenworth Has Lively Sun
day Record.
One Murder, One Attempted
Murder and a Suicide.
QUARREL OVER Is CTS.
White Man Kills Negro in a Sa.
loon BraWl.
Jealous Man Shoots a Woman
Then Himself.

Leavenworth, May 27.-Sunday was
an exciting day in Leavenworth. One
murder, one attempted murder and one
suicide is the record for the Sabbath
The murder was committed at an early
hour when Jim Baker, white. shot and
instantly killed Robert Simpson, color
ed, in a saloon brawl The attempted
murder and suicide occurred about z 80
o'clock in the evening, when "YOt'' Ed
wards shot Mrs. Carrie Keglmyer and
then turned the revolver on himself
shooting himself through the right tenn
pie The woman will recover, but Ed
wards will die Both are white.
The tragedy at night occurred in Mrs.
keglmyer's boarding house at 706 Cher
okee street. Edwards was extremely
jealous of Kaglnyer- He appeared at
the boarding house about o'clock in
the afternoon in an intoxicated frenzy
and made several attacks on the woman
but she finally succeeded in getting him
away. However, he reappeared about
7;30 o'clock and she was unable to make
him leave the house. Both were stand
ing on the second story back porch He
attacked her and she started to run in
side toward the front Of the house. Ed
wards then shot her in the back, the ball
taking effect between the shoulders Mrs.
Keglmyer ran down the front stairs to
call for the police and as she did so Ed
wards entered the kitchen and shot him
self. She fell in the street and was af-
terward carried up stairs to her room.
Mrs Kaglrnyer is about 46 years old
and has been running the boarding
house since the death of her husband
Joseph Keglmyer, about a year ago Ed
wards is a man about "a years old and
conducted a livery stable at 712 Cherokee
street He was single. Mrs. Keglmyer
has one adopted child, a boy years old,
who is paralyzed on one side.
Mrs. Keglmyer was out all the after
noon with George Koker, of Jarba1o,
Kan, and this is supposed to have ex-
cited Edwards to commit the act Ed
wards formerly boarded with Mrs.
Keglmyer, but he caused her so much
trouble that she made him leave Last
Christmas Edwards became angered at
Mrs. Keglmyer and threw lighted lamp
at her. setting fire to the house.
Robert Simpson was shot and instant
" killed by Jim Baker shortly after ,
o'clock in the Little Gem saloon, corner
Fifth and Miami streets Both men are
negroes. The trouble which resulted in
the death of Simpson arose over g" crap
game and Is cents
Simpson and Wade Reed. another ne
gro We're playing a game OF craps
when they got into a. dispute over Is
cents which Simpson owed Reed.
Simpson, after he was shot, staggered
out the front door and fell in the gut
ter where he expired. The police were
notified by some one in the neighbOf-
hood of the shooting. When they arriv-
ed on the scene Simpscn was dead and
the saloon had been locked UP and ev-
erybody was gone. Andrew Renner and
Wade Reed, two negroes, were standing
by the body of Simpson when the police
arrived. They were taken to the sta
ton and told the story of the affair
Baker skipped out after the killing. He
was arrested at Beverly, Mo, and will
be brought back here as soon as the po-
lice can get a requisition for him. The
611llQt which killed SfropS0T1 Y1accnf7
through his heart, lodging near the
spine.