I am looking for information on the Emanuel Kirby family. He was supposedly an inn owner who committed murder and suicide sometime about 1 August 1901. He killed his wife and possibly a lover of hers. He had a son from his first wife who was away at college at the time. From the article in his former hometown in Ohio, it said that Emanuel "was the owner of 5,000 acres of land near Dodge City. The recent hot spell and drought had spoiled his crops and killed nearly all of his stock. Kirby had suffered a sun stroke a short time ago, and this together with his losses it is believed deranged his mind and caused him to commit the rash act." Any help locating info on this incident or the whereabouts of the son would be greatly appreciated.


KS Schumaker
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