New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-06
Miss Olivia Stone Brings
Pistol From Cincinnati
and Kills E. G.. Kinkead
i'm Street Near Home
Fires Six Bullets:
Five Take Effect
Woman Says She Was
Common Law Wife Until
He Married 2 Years Ago

Ai lue presence OIL nal1-do2en Wit
nesses. including police lieutenant,
Ellis Guy Kinkead, ffty-four years old,
of As South Elliott Place 3 'ooklyn,
said to have been formerly a prominent
corporation lawyer of Cincinnati, was
shot and killed last night by a woman
who gave her name as Olivia M. Stone,
OF Cincinnati. She later told the po-
lice that she was Kinkead's common
law wife and had come to New York
to kill him. Kinkead was married in
1919 to Marie Louise Gormley, Of Gin
cinnati. and since that time has lived
in New York.
The shooting took place in front of
rs South Elliott Place, only few
yards from Kinkead's home, at 5:45
o'clock, as he was returning from
business. According to Police Lieu
tenant Frank Farrell, who was standing
at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and
South Elliott Place at that time. he
observed the woman apparently wait
ing for some one. A few minutes later
he saw middle aged man pass the
woman. At the same moment Farrell
turned his back.
Fires Four Bullets in Prone Body
Almost instantly he heard two shots,
and turned to see the man lying prone
on the sidewalk, while the woman
stood above him with revolver in
her hand. As the policeman and three
detectives, who were in the vicinity,
ran up the woman fired four more
shots at her victim.
The woman offered no resistance rs
the empty revolver was taken from her,
and she was placed under arrest Kin
kesd was found to be dead from three
bullet wounds in the back and two in
the chest.
At the home of Kinkead his wife told
the police, they say, the identity of the
woman who shot Kinkead and said the
two had been friendly in Covington,
KY, where both formerly lived.
AT the Classon Avenue police station.
where the prisoner was taken, she was
aroused from a coma into which she
had fallen Immediately following the
shooting, and made q statement to De-
tective j. E. Flynn. For a time her
only words were: "The dirty dog!''
directed at the slain man.
Finally she told the detective her
name and said that she was a nurse in
the Cincinnati General Hospital, where
she met Kinkead in 1918, after he had
overwork
Says She Agreed to Marry Him
Kinkead, according to the woman's
story, took her with him to Atlantic
City, where he went to convalesce.
They registered at hotel as "E. G..
Kinkead and Nurse" Shortly after
ward Kinkead proposed marriage, she
said, and she agreed.
Kinkead then told her, she said
that he was acquainted with a certain
woman of the underworld of Cincin-
natl, who would hound him if she
knew that he was married, and pro-
posed common-law union
The nurse says she gave her consent
to this, and the couple moved to an
"E. G. Kinkead and wife" After re-
naming for time in the New JERSEY
resort the couple went to other cities
the woman relates, and finally returned
to Cincinnati
In 1919 Kinkead married Marie
Louise Gormley, of that city, and re-
moved to Brooklyn.
Bought Pistol to Kill Him
In May of this year Miss Stone came
to New York to see him, but was un-
successful. Three weeks ago she re-
turned to kill Kinkead, and with this
purpose in mind purchased a revolver
before leaving Cincinnati.
When questioned by the detective
Miss Stone was laboring under the
belief that Kinkead was in the hos
pital, suffering only from wounds in
the leg, and said, according to her
questioner, that she would visit him
and laugh at him.
When the detective asked if she in
tended killing Kinkead the nurse is
quoted as replying: ~ certainly did.
know all the vital spots in the BODY
and | meant to start at the head and
shoot down."
The woman resided at the Navarro
Apartments. Gilbert Avenue, Walnut
Hill, Cincinnati. She registered as
MRS. E. G. Kinkead" yesterday after
noon at the Annex Hotel, Thirty
second Street and Broadway, Manhat-
tan, where she remained only a few
moments before going out. She had
been in the city for three weeks, and
according to the policeman stationed
in the South Elliott Place district, had
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