Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-07-06
ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER
Dick Kidder Slashed His Wife
in Neck with Pen Knife.

In NECK with ZEN hnlre.
Bloody Deed in Pleasant Corner Res
taurant Building Friday Night
Woman in Hospital-Kidder in Jail
without BaiI-Diyoree Suit and
jealousy Caused Deed.
Between twelve and one o'clock
Friday night, Dick Kidder, brick
LAYER attacked his wife, Ella Kidder
in her rooms above the Pleasant
Corner restaurant, and literally cut
her to pieces with pen knife. The
woman was taken to the hospital,
wnere her wounde are slowly heal
ing. Kidder is in jail.
The crime seems to have been a
deliberate attempt at murder. Ac-
cording to the story told by the off
GERS Kidder went to his wife's rooms
in the restaurant building Friday
night, and quarrel of some kind
or other took place. He locked the
door and piled the furniture against
It. il is said turned out the gas, and
crying. "Tll fix you now attacked
Mrs. Kidder with pen knife, which
he drew from his pocket. He slash
ed her on both sides of the throat
uutil the jugular veins showed. He
inflicted deep wound in her neck
and breast. The moman screamed,
and number of people ran out to
see the cause.
They saw Mrs. Kidder clinging to
the window sill with both hands,
and her husband drawing knife
across her arms and wrists, cutting
deep gashes trying to compel her
to let go. She finally loosened her
hold on the sill, and dropped to the
pavement on Peasants street.
Policemen Garrison and Yoke had
been attracted by the noise, and when
they learned the cause, began a
search for the would be wife murder
er. He had opened the door OF the
room, and made his way through the
attic of the building to window IN
the rear. and thence on to a small
fiat roof. There the officers found
him lying close in the shadow.
A large crowd had gathered and
cries of ''Get rope, y Lynch him
and the like were frequent. The
crowd followed close, up Peasants
and Chestnut streets to the Jail but
no violence was attempted. kidder
was placed safely in jail
Sunday morning, he was taken be-
fore Squire Shoemaker and sent to
Jail without bail to await the result
of his wife's wounds. He was taken
to his wife at the hospital for identi-
fication. She recognized him and
when he was about to leave, he held
out his hand to her to say good by
The officers hustled him away.
Kidder is a brieklayer and works
in Uniontown. He has been IN the
habit of coming home on Saturday
evening but this time came on Fri
day for the Fourth. According to
Mrs. Kidder's statement, her hus-
band attacked her on account OF a
divorce suit which she has brou ght
against him in Harrison county.
Her name was Williams before she
was married. Her first husband was
a man by the name of Bell, who was
killed on the railroad. He is the
father of two children. After his
death, sue married Kidder, but has
lived with him but little, and there
has been trouble between them at
different times.
The rooms she occupied were
rented by her for the period of one
month. The month expiring oatur-
day. and she had all of her goods
packed up ready to leave.
The husband had been drinking
before he attacked his wife, but has
stated that he was not drunk, and
that he knew exactly what he was
doing. He believed his wife guilty
of intimacy with other men.
The viciousness of Kidder's at
tack upon his wife can be imagined
from the wounds she received. On
the left side of the neck, were two
long gashes and a short one. On
the right side, were three long CASH
es laying bare the jugular vein.
Another long cash, deep IN the
heavy muscles. extended from the
back of the neck around the shout
der. When she jumped from the
window and chung to the sill, kidder
slashed her arms and hands, nearly
seyering the fore finger. In all the
cuts the woman received, measured
39l inches, and it required 53 stitch
cs to close them. In spite of reports
to the contrary, Mrs. Kidder is doing
well, and will recover. She is in the
best possible condition.
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