Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1919-07-12

ening after the testimony has been
typewriter by Miss Ireland and sub
scribed by the Witnesses.
Coroner Lillis found that the de
ceased had left two letters to be de
livered after his death, one to his
wife, Hazel Bray Mckinney. and the
other to Mrs. |. G. Johnson. The
letter to Mrs Johnson is a request
made to her as an old friend, as to
notifying the dead mans mother.
Neither of the letters were made pub
lie.
Willis F. Mckinney is given a good
character by those who know him
best. He is said to have been sober,
Industrious and devoted to his wife
and baby He was an expert work
man and has been in the employ OF
the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rail
road shops as a blacksmith for sew
eral years. Those who have been in
his confidence as to the details of his
matrimonial troubles do not hold
Mckinney by any means entirely to
blame, if at all
1t is claimed by his friends that he
was not a drinking man and that
the charges made in the divorce COM
plant filed in his wife's suit against
him are unwarranted by the facts.
Mckinney had taken certain ones in
to his confidence as to his troubles
recently, and it is claimed for him
that his chief desire was that he
might have a real home with his
wife and baby there. He claimed to
his friends that his wife was induced
by her mother to work in the res
taurant and that this resulted in
breaking up the home.
The elimination of McKinneys un-
happiness the final straw, the impel-
ling reason for his rash act, was
doubtless the complaint which his
wife filed in her suit against him for
divorce The summons. and also an
injunction restraining Mckinney from
disposing of Liberty Bonds which he
has partially paid for, were served
upon him yesterday.
The suit is entitled Hazel b. Me
Kinney VS.. Willis F. Mckinney. The
wife in her complaint alleges thai
plaintiff and defendant were married
in this city August 4, 1917. That de
fendant was insanely jealous at a
dance in Las Vegas in June. 1918.
That he later came home in an in
toxicated condition. That about De-
cember /, 1918. three or four months
prior to the birth of their child de-
fendant in an effort to obtain posses
sion of certain liberty bonds which
plaintiff had in trunk. sent word to
her that he would break open the
trunk with an axe, and upon her re-
fusal to open it started toward her
in a threatening manner as If to do
her bodily harm, and that plaintin
believes he would have done her SER
ious injury had he not been prevented
by plaintiffs brother That on July
3, 1919, defendant suggested to plain
tiff that she go to the public ball
with his brother; that subsequently
defendant came to the ball in an in
toxicated condition and scolded and
found fault with plaintiff in the pres
ence Of others That later the same
evening when plaintiff returned home.
defendant threatened to kill her and
himself and that plaintiff was so
frightened that she could not stay
with defendant the remainder OF the
night, but went and stayed with her
mother. That July 5, 1919, defend
ant left home and was gone all night
returning the next morning. That
he did not tell plaintiff where he had
been and commenced quarreling and
finding fault. and ordered her to get
out of the house. On her refusal to
go. that defendant violently showed
and pushed plaintiff out of the house
ana lOck6u ltlo uOOI, hCCpiIl6 Inv
baby. That thereafter, plaintiff got
the sheriff of Clark county to accom-
pany her to the house for the purpose
of recovering the child, and when
they arrived found that defendant had
given the child to a neighbor woman
to care for.
The complaint further alleges that
defendant is a man of violent and un-
governable temper and very fire.
quently has applied to plaintiff vile,
opprobrious and abusive epithets.
and on many occasions threatened to
choke and kill plaintiff. That plain
tiff has at all times conducted her.
self toward defendant as a good.
kind and loving wife. That defend
ant is a skilled mechanic. to-wit: a
blacksmith. and is employed by the
Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad
Company and earns $3.50 per month.
and that he has subscribed to Liber-
ty Bonds to the amount of $780, of
which $3.50 has been paid through