, 1906-05-03
YOUNG MAN WHO SLEW HIS COM
MON LAW WIFE AT DENVER
SPENT EARLY soYHooD
IN THIS CITY.
Father Was Saloonkeeper Here, Going
To Colorado Some Fifteen Years
Aeo-kiIling of Woman Witnessed
by Another Woman, Who Gave
Version of the Affair-Dead Wo-
man Came from Ireland.

formerly a resident of Laramie, many
years of his boyhood life having been
spent here. His father, ]. L. Penning-
ton, was a business man Of this city,
at one time conducting a saloon where
the Temple bar on Thornburgh street
is now located. The Denver Post of
yesterday afternoon adds some of the
details of the brutal killing of the wo-
man by Pennington:
Bartender in Fathers Saloon.
Pennington is 20 years old and is
employed as a bartender in his fathers
saloon.
In the city Jail this morning he said:
why, l never intended to kill her. 1t
was the last OF my thoughts TO do any
such thing as that. She was drunk,
and / told her over at the saloon a
short time before that she had better
go home n get to bed.
"She did as l advised, and / closed
up shortly afterwards and went oyer
short time and went back to u room.
She was not there, and l found her
asleep in Mrs. Shea's room next door.
81 told her to get up and come into
our room, and she said she was hungry,
and l went over to the Boston bar and
got her something to eat.
Landlady Cautions Them.
when l got back to the she
would not come into our and one
word led on to another. l stepped out
into the hall, and the landlady, Miss
M. Miller, came up and told me we
would have to keep quiet; that we were
waking up all the other roomers.
81 went back into the room, and
when l told Ruby what the landlady
had said, she began talking all the loud
er, and then l smacked her with my
open hand, the heel of which caught
her on the chin.
Death Due to Weak Heart.
THAT smack was not lard enough to
kill, and l am ure that death was due
to her weak heart. She was troubled
with that a great deal"
Pennington was asked about his rela-
tons with the dead woman He said:
1--WE had been living together as man
and wife for the past four years. She
came to Denver one Saturday night
from Arizona, where she had lived a
year with a man, and l met her the
following Monday night.
Brothers Are Wanderers.
"She was born in Ireland and her
name was Ruby Tobin. Her parents
are dead and her only relatives are
three brothers. They are wanderers,
and there is only one l now anything
about. He runs a restaurant some
where in Missouri"
The features Of the dead woman still
bear the impress of the beauty of form
err days. She was a typical brunette,
but her form had wasted away until
she weighed scarcely ninety pounds,
while Pennington weighs fully 200
pounds.
Family Has Police History.
Charles M. Pennington is the older
brother of Roy Pennington, who five
years ago was charged with assaulting
Jessie Kinport, the daughter of Mrs,
Carrie G. Kinport of l19 West Ninth
~avenue, on July s, 1901. The case
against him was dismissed after one
jury had failed to reach a verdict.
The Pennington family came to Den
yer a number of years ago from Cen
trial City. Pennington and his wife had
made some money running a dairy, but
on coming to Denver Pennington
bought out a saloon run by William
Malone, and he gave up the com.
panionship of his wife for other women
(which resulted in a divorce.
Statement by Eye Witness.
Agnes Shea signed a statement she
made before Captain of Detectives viii
lis Loomis, Detectives Sanders and
Kenney this morning. She said in
part: Babe as Ruby was common
ly known, came to my roc at II
O'Clock. She had been drinking, but
she was not drunk. She said that she
and Charley had some words over in
the saloon, and that he had called her
bad names.
QuarreIed Between Themselves.
she went to bed with me. She took
off her outside skirt and collar, leav'
ing her shoes and the remainder OF
her clothes on She was sound asleep
when Charley came up to their room
which is next door to mine. He put
his dog in there and came into my
room and woke Babe up and talked tc
her. / did not think he was drunk al
the time. He told her to get up and
go in their room. After some talk he
went out for lunch for us. She got VI
and sat in a rocking chair. When he
came back they began quarreling be
tween themselves.
Ordered Him to Get Out.
Charley said that if she was goins
tn fuss at him he would leave. HI
started to their room, and when he
opened the door she said: You ha6
better take your stuff out of there
"He came right, back very fast ant
said that he would break her jaw. The1
he struck her with his closed fist. Sh,
was still sitting in the chair, n whel
he hit her in the neck 1t sounded 81
loud that it cracked. I am sure h
struck her with his right hand.
"When he hit her she staggered an,
lfell. her head in my lap.
Charley left the as fast as b
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