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- [S1993] Newspapers.com: Potter Journal Leader Enterprise-, 02 Jan 1947, Thu • p.1 Murder-Suicide in roulette orphans 4-year old Nancy Kellogg, as father kills mother, then himself. 20230122GHLn-.
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Murder-Suicide in roulette orphans 4-year old Nancy Kellogg, as father kills mother, then himself.
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02 Jan 1947, Thu • p.1
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Wounds Estranged Wife, Midnight Quarrel Bodies Found in Home of Brother-in-Law -- Tragedy Orphans 4-Year-Old Daughter Asleep in Upstairs Room -- Wife Lives Seven Minutes After Being Shot in Abdomen -- Murderer Dies Instantly From Shotgun Wound in Head.
A Roulette murder and suicide Saturday night left pretty little four-year-old Nancy Kellogg with out a mother or father.
Harry Kellogg, 25, shot his estranged wife, Isabella, 24, in the abdomen with a 12-gauge shotgun and then, as his sister-in-law knelt at the side of the dying woman, shot himself in the head. He died in stantly.
Mrs. Kellogg lived scarcely long enough to cry out, "Harry, you shouldn t have done it!"
The tragic drama for little Nancy was enacted shortly before midnight in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Chandler, Railroad and Fourth Streets, as the child slept in an upstairs room.
The shooting occurred in a down stairs hall and front room used for storage. Police fixed time of Mrs. Keilogg's death as about 11:40 o'clock, that of her husband about five minutes later.
Mrs. Keilogg's body lay face down In a hall leading from the front door to the living room. The body of Kellogg was still In a sitting position on a child's overturned sled in a room on the left of the hall and at the front of the dwelling. The gun was balanced on the toe of his left boot. It contained one empty cartridge.
Mrs. Kellogg and her husband had not been living together. She and her daughter roomed In the Chandler home. Mrs. Chandler, a sister of the slain woman, and her husband were asleep in a nearby room when the argument which preceded the shooting began.
The sequence of events leading up to the fatal shooting, as narrated to Corp. George Auten and Pvt. Robert D. Baughman by Mr. and Mrs. Chandler and substantiated by others, follows:
Kellogg, an edger at the Clair Elliott Lumber Co. near Bradford, stayed away from work Saturday to "spend his Christmas bonus," he told friends. He was in the Roulette House, a barroom and dance hall at 7:00 p. m. when Mrs. Kellogg who was employed in Hilde's Diner left work for the day.
As she passed the tavern, Kellogg stepped out and accompanied her. Although estranged, they were on more or less friendly terms. He visited her at Chandler's at intervals.
They began a violent argument which continued after they reached her home. Kellogg left for the home of his brother Clayton, where he and a friend and fellow-worker, John Palmatier, had a room, about 7:30 o'clock. Clayton's home is lo cated on Main Street, about seven blocks away by the street. Harry often waded the river and went home across lots, saving four or five blocks' walking.
About 9:00 p. m., Mrs. Kellogg went to the home of Pauline Back us, a close friend who was at one time married to a brother of Harry Kellogg. She suggested going 'downtown to see whats going on. Mrs. Kellogg told the friend that she was frightened and feared something would happen.
On the way, she confided that in the argument earlier in the evening "Harry said he would get even if he had to kill me.
The two women went Into Roulette House and sat down at a table in the pavilion. Soon after Harry came to the table and renewed the argument with his wife. When he went back to the bar, the women fled. On the way to the diner, they met a sister of Miss Backus and warned her not to tell Mr. Kellogg where they had gone.
A man friend of Miss Backus join ed the two women at the diner. About 11:30 the three left the diner to make a delivery in a friend's car. Mrs. Kellogg left the car, stating that she had to get home to her daughter. She left for home walking.
In the meantime, Harry had left the barroom. Seeing Miss Backus' sister, he inquired after his wife. The girl replied that she hadn't seen her.
Kellogg then went back into the tavern only to emerge a few minutes later at 11:30 with Palmatier. The former insisted on going to their room. When Palmatier protested that it was too early to go home, Kellogg shouted that he had "something important to attend to and it can't wait!"
Irvin Chandler was awakened sometime before 11:40 by an argu-ment in the hall. He remembered hearing Mrs. Kellogg beg to be permitted to go to "my baby." As he was rising to dress, Mrs. Kellogg walked through the hall to the living room and apologized to Mr. Chandler for the commotion. She then went back through the hall, closing the door.
An Instant later, Mrs. Kellogg screamed, "Harry has a gun!" Before Mr. Chandler could reach the hall door he heard a shot. Opening the door, he saw the woman lying on the floor. He left by a side door to summon a physician.
Mrs. Chandler, also formerly married to one of the four Kellogg brothers, rushed to the side of her sister. Mr. Kellogg stood in the dimly lighted room opening onto the hall, "just looking." He then reloaded one barrel of the double-barrelled Folsom gun said to have been issued to the slain woman's father when he was a member of the Royal Northwest Canadian . Mounted Police and ended his own life.
Evidence indicated that Kellogg had fired one shot at his wife and missed. The shot blasted a hole in the wall along the stair. Two empty shell cases were found on the floor near the body.
About three feet of stair railing and stair post had been broken off, apparently in a scuffle.
Police are inclined to the belief that Kellogg went directly to his room from the tavern, got the gun, then proceeded to the Chandler place by the short route across the river. He was wearing hip-length boots. The fact that Mrs. Kellogg had not removed her coat or galoshes lends credence to the belief that she hadn't been home long when her husband arrived. If he didn't precede her, it was also conjectured that he might have been waiting inside the house for her to return. He was believed to have had the key Mrs. Kellogg had reported missing. A key is still In : the lock on the outside.
Police expressed the belief that Kellogg, who had been drinking, and who was extremely jealous of his wife, went beserk when she spurned his entreaties to go back to him. A neighbor of the couple told Pvt. Baughman that Kellogg had told her following a previous reconciliation with his wife that "I am lucky to have her back." He said at that time he was going to quit drinking.
Friends of the couple were quick to point out that Kellogg had no reason to be jealous of his wife. Her behavior was said to be exemplary.
Mrs. Chandler, grief-stricken, told officers that Mrs. Kellogg had been her only attendant at her marriage Christmas Eve in Port Allegany to Mr. Chandler.
Previous to her marriage, Mrs. Chandler and her sister and Nancy had occupied an upstairs room. Another family lived downstairs.
The dead couple's daughter was still asleep when Mr. Chandler went to her room. Shielding her eyes he carried her downstairs past the bodies of her parents and outside to his car. On the way to the home of neighbors, where she spent the rest of the night, Nancy asked where she was being taken. When told, she again fell asleep.
News of the tragedy spread rapidly. One of the first to arrive on the scene after the officers was the dead man's father Albert Kellogg, a driver for Susquehanna Chemical Corporation.
Friends of Mrs. Kellogg revealed that she had planned to institute divorce proceedings against her husband Monday. His arrest on Oct. 8 charging non-support was nullified when Mrs. Kellogg withdrew the warrant.
A well-known Coudersport family is seeking to adopt Nancy. In the meantime, she is staying with the Chandlers.
Scott Sterner Being Treated At Hospital
Scott Sterner, who has been In ill health for some' time, was taken to , the Potter County Memorial Hospital for medical attention Thursday. Sunday he was removed to the Warren State Hospital for further treatment.
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Private Wayne “Red” Knowlton Jr. (Roulette) served in the US Marines during World War II. He was wounded during the 36-day Battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. In 2008, Wayne said that in one fight the Marines and Japanese were throwing grenades at each other like baseballs. He had taken cover in a shell crater when a Japanese grenade landed in his crater. He scrambled out of that crater and took cover in another. There was a live grenade already in the second crater. Wayne desperately tried to get out, but the grenade exploded before he could get away. Wayne was seriously wounded, but he survived. (Wayne died Dec. 26, 2013.)
The photo shows Wayne (left) and my father Jake Hamilton on Maui before the Battle of Iwo Jima. A base on Maui, Territory of Hawaii, was used by the 4th Marine Division between battles. Jake suffered a minor wound and returned to the battle after 10 days of recovery and rehab. Melvin Setzer and Dick Foley served with Wayne and Jake and they were wounded, too. Melvin was seriously wounded. Almost half of the men in the division were killed or wounded during the battle.
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Jane Ernst better known to us as Jane Haskins??. Jacqueline Haskins Austin Debbie Haskins Ayers
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My grandma Doris and her friend Beverly.
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Beverly June Hoak (1926-2023) and her sister Betty Jean (1926-1987). Bev married my Uncle Lloyd Earl Mitchell (1919-2004). Photo attached (colorized). They had one child Mona Lee, who graduated from Port Allegany High School in 1964.
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The boy in the front row, unidentified, looks like Charles 'Keith' Marvin, born 05 May 1922 in Farmer's Valley, my 2nd cousin 2x removed. Here he is, cropped in the 1931 Weimer reunion.
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· Beverly June Hoak (1926-2023) and her sister Betty Jean (1926-1987). Bev married my Uncle Lloyd Earl Mitchell (1919-2004). Photo attached (colorized). They had one child Mona Lee, who graduated from Port Allegany High School in 1964. |
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