Connecticut western news., 1920-01-22
MISS ELSIE R. KIMBLE
 KILLED BY MANIAC Was Sister of Mrs. Clifford Fitzgerald of This
 Place

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 After killing his cows in fit Of insanity last Saturday, Victor Lippo- enn, a Finnish farmer of Brooklyn, Conn.,, attacked his neighbors with an axe, killing Miss Elsie R. Kimble, sister of Mrs. Clifford Fitzgerald of this place and probably fatally iniur- ing her mother, Mrs. Charles Ray Following is a graphic account of one of the most atrocious tragedies in the records Of this state no it appear ed in the Hartford Courant:
 Running amuck with nn exc dur. ing fit of insanity at Brooklyn Sat- urday Victor Lipponenn, 3s years old killed four persons, slaughtered four cows, set fire to barn, totally des- troying it with two horses, . quan- tity of hay, grain and farm imple- ments, attacked a mother and daugh- ter with the axe, tried to set ire to a house, chased children with the bloody weapon and Shen fled into a sheep shed, and hanged himseif with reins taken from his horse.
 Among the dead is Lipponnens 4-days-old baby and a woman who was nursing Mrs. Lipponcnn. Inc latter saved herself from death by rolling from the bed when her hus- band struck at her with the ixe. The weapon grazed her head, and she @ not only suffering from that wound but also from exposure, having fled from the house in scant attire whea she saw murder in her husbands eyes.
 The crazy man left trail of vic tims on his mad excursion To tho homes of neighbors in this ftt& town. His wife is not expected w live, and neither is Mrs. Charles Ray, whose head was split open by the ao0a- The dead are:-
 Victor Lipponen.
 Christian c. Ritter, 46 years old.
 Mrs. Selmia Luonialo, the nurse.
 Baby Lipponenn, days old.
 Miss Elsie Rose Kimble, IS yeaxw old. lli Lipponenn was a farmer, and shd1 worked for several other farmers. aias latest lob being on an ice job, ana none recall bis ever showing sksy tendency toward mental derangemern
 This morning he left his homesaH the western part of the town, axs1 going directly to the woodshsd. ps- cured the axe, which he sharpened Opening the door of the barn, t hU swung the axe on the head of -htkn nearest COW, and kept up his wwuzk until the COW was dead. HeSnacke1 and slashed at three other cows unt4 they, too, were lifeless, and then h left the barn and entered the houss with tn blood from the killed anima1ba dripping from the blade. Entexinc the room where his wife Lay in bod he swung the axe above his head ana aimed it at his wife's head With n shriek of terror she rolled from thw bed just as the axe descended, bua got a glancing blow. She did nue realize that she was struck, however,. and, after jumping up from the fioox, she staggered from the room. Dash ing out into the bitter cold in kaw night-dress, she ran to the home jak a neighbor, where she fell, senseiesE- Doctors were called, and but gnraM hopes are held out for her recovery.
 Splits Nurses Head
 Lipponenn paid no more attention to her, but again bringing the aUu above his head, he brought it down with terrific force upon the head uE Mrs. Selmia Luoniala, wife of m neighbor, who had volunteered her services as nurse for Mrs. Lipponenn- Her head was split open and as shs dropped to the floor, dead, Baby Lipponenn was crushed to death be- heath her falling body, the nur-v having the infant in her arms whem murdered.
 Neighbor Killed Instantly
 Then Lipponenn went to his hxrp still carrying the axe, hitched n horse to a buggy, put the axe beside him on the seat and drove off, stop ping at the home of Christian G. Rit- ter, close friend, who came out of his front door to greet him. Instead of a neighborly chat which he expect ed, MT. Ritter was knocked dead in a few minutes, Lipponenn having swung the axe with such force that Ritter didn't know what struck him Letting the body lay where it had fallen, Lipponenn saw the two Ritter children, and he made for them with the axe, from the blade of which dripped the blood of their father.
 They succeeded in eluding him, however, so the murdered went back to his buggy, climbed in, and drove to the home of another neighhor. Charles Ray. MT. Ray was not ut home, his wife and her daughters Miss Kimble, being the only oceul. pants of the house. The insane mas went into the Ray home, and seeing Mrs. Ray, split her head open with the axe, and then made for her daughter. Miss Kimble attempted te