Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-02-19
accuse BROTHER
OF killing BROTHER
Frank Jenkott Checked to
Death After Attacking
His Father
DIDN'T KNOW HIS
VICTIM WAS DEAD

Charged with the murder Of his
brother. Frank Jenkott, better known
as Jonkett, Valentine Jenkott and his
brother, Joseph, were arraigned in
the Municipal Court this morning.
Upon the application of Valentine,
speaking for both defendants, the
hearing was postponed until Friday
morning, to which time the accused
were held without bail. Their father,
Joseph Jenkott, aged So years, and
13-year-old sister were held under
$500 bail each as material witnesses.
Valentine, who is % years of age,
and his brother, Joseph, aged II
years, were arrested Saturday night
charged with causing the death of an
other brother, Frank, at the fathers
home. No. $40 Anchorage street.
According to the police, Frank had
attacked his father, and valentine,
who was called to his fathers assis-
lance by his little sister, is charged
with having choked the brother TO
death after he had dragged the dead
youth from his father. The police
and relatives say that Frank came to
the house on Saturday evening, show
ing the effects of drink, and proceed
ed to beat his father. The little girl
ran to Valentines home, and told him
OF what was going on, and asked him
TO come to her fathers home and help
her father.
According to Valentines story to
the police, he went TO the Anchorage
street house, and found his brother
beating the old man, and he pulled
him away from the father and held
him so that he could not renew the
attack. He says that Frank then got
hold Of a butcher knife from the
table In the kitchen, where the
trouble occurred, and attempted to
cut him with it, and that he grabbed
his brother by the threat and choked
him until he lay quiet. Then, he
said, he carried his brothers uncon
scious form into another room, and
laid it down on the sofa, and then
went back to his own home and went
to bed. without the least idea, so he
says. that his brother was dead.
The police found Valentine in bed
and while he was dressing to accom-
pany them to the police station told
them that he could easily have killed
his brother. for that was how he felt
Before being taken to the police
station Valentine was taken to the
Anchorage street house and there h'
showed the OINCeIS WuHIG ne hdt
found his father and Frank locked il
a desperate struggle. He showed then
how he pulled Frank from his paren
and how he had caught hold
Of and held him. He showed then
the blood spattered about the room.
He said that after he had caugh
hold Of Frank his younger brother
Joseph, helped him to hold him.
was this statement that caused tn
arrest OF the boy as being implicate
In the murder. Valentine said JOSEF
did not choke Frank, he valentine
doing that himself
The prisoner was then taken L
the room where the body was lyine
but at first he did not believe Franl
was dead He placed his hand upoi
the younger mans head. and thel
felt of his heart, and then he wa
satisfied that life was extinct. He ap
peared too stunned to understan
fully the seriousness Of the predica
ment in which this placed him. II
and Joseph were then taken to tn
notice station and locked up, and tn
father and sister and other occupant
of the house were taken as witnesses
The body OF the dead man was re
moved to the morgue. The nee
showed plainly several finger mark
and scratches where the nails ha
cut through the flesh.