Lexington Intelligencer, January 09, 1920 [Lexington, Mo.] FOUNTAIN B. DUVAL KILLS WIFE AND STEPSON Well Known Former Citizen Believed He Was Losing Reason.
Fountain B. Duval, a former well-known citizen of Lexington, Monday shortly after luncheon killed his wife Mrs. Ada Duval, and his stepson, Charles Knaupp, at their home on Benton avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Duval then shot himself in the stomach and later cut his throat with a razor. He was taken to the general hospital and his condition is said to be very critical. The account of the tragedy as printed in the Kansas City Times Tuesday morning was as follows: "Shortly after luncheon Duval, his wife, Mrs. Ada Duval, and foster son, Charles Knaupp, went upstairs in their home on Benton avenue. Mrs. Mary H. Pace, 74 years old, mother of Mrs. Duval, believed the family was going to study their regular afternoon Christian Science lesson. Mrs. Pace was sitting in the kitchen warming her feet in the stove oven. 'I heard a noise upstairs,' Mrs. Pace said. 'It sounded like two or three shots. I started up the stairway, I heard Charley say, 'Please, daddy, don't do it again.' 'In Charley's room I found Duval standing over the boy, a revolver in his hand. Charley was lying on the floor. I asked him what he was doing to Charley. He told me I had better go in and look after Ada. I went into the sewing room and found Ada sitting in a chair with one of Duval's socks in her hand. She had been darning. I shook her but she didn't respond, so I sent back to Charley's room. 'Ada must have fainted,' I told him. 'No, she didn't faint,' Duval said. 'I killed her. I shot her through the heart and in the head. Then I killed Charley. He is dead now. I shot myself in the stomach and I am dying, too.' I'm going to shoot myself again.' 'I asked him why he didn't kill himself first and let Ada and Charley along, but he wouldn't answer me. He was bleeding so I took the gun away from him. I came back downstairs and Duval followed me. He repeatedly asked me for the revolver, but I refused to give it to him. I hid it. He then took a razor that was in the kitchen, went back upstairs to the sewing room, where he had left Ada, and cut his throat.'
Duval is 51 years old. Mrs. Duval was 43 years old. Her father, J.L. Pace, was formerly superintendent of the Confederate Home at Higginsville, but is now dead. For the past two years Duval has not been well, it is said. While in Washington with the duel administration, as representative from this district, he was ill with influenza. Following that he suffered a nervous breakdown." Mr. Duval's first wife was Miss Estelle McGrew, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.C. McGrew of this city. A daughter, Miss Estelle McGrew Duval, has been living with her aunt, Mrs. William Bard, of Sedalia, since her mother's death
Fountain B. Duval, a former well-known citizen of Lexington, Monday shortly after luncheon killed his wife Mrs. Ada Duval, and his stepson, Charles Knaupp, at their home on Benton avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Duval then shot himself in the stomach and later cut his throat with a razor. He was taken to the general hospital and his condition is said to be very critical. The account of the tragedy as printed in the Kansas City Times Tuesday morning was as follows: "Shortly after luncheon Duval, his wife, Mrs. Ada Duval, and foster son, Charles Knaupp, went upstairs in their home on Benton avenue. Mrs. Mary H. Pace, 74 years old, mother of Mrs. Duval, believed the family was going to study their regular afternoon Christian Science lesson. Mrs. Pace was sitting in the kitchen warming her feet in the stove oven. 'I heard a noise upstairs,' Mrs. Pace said. 'It sounded like two or three shots. I started up the stairway, I heard Charley say, 'Please, daddy, don't do it again.' 'In Charley's room I found Duval standing over the boy, a revolver in his hand. Charley was lying on the floor. I asked him what he was doing to Charley. He told me I had better go in and look after Ada. I went into the sewing room and found Ada sitting in a chair with one of Duval's socks in her hand. She had been darning. I shook her but she didn't respond, so I sent back to Charley's room. 'Ada must have fainted,' I told him. 'No, she didn't faint,' Duval said. 'I killed her. I shot her through the heart and in the head. Then I killed Charley. He is dead now. I shot myself in the stomach and I am dying, too.' I'm going to shoot myself again.' 'I asked him why he didn't kill himself first and let Ada and Charley along, but he wouldn't answer me. He was bleeding so I took the gun away from him. I came back downstairs and Duval followed me. He repeatedly asked me for the revolver, but I refused to give it to him. I hid it. He then took a razor that was in the kitchen, went back upstairs to the sewing room, where he had left Ada, and cut his throat.'
Duval is 51 years old. Mrs. Duval was 43 years old. Her father, J.L. Pace, was formerly superintendent of the Confederate Home at Higginsville, but is now dead. For the past two years Duval has not been well, it is said. While in Washington with the duel administration, as representative from this district, he was ill with influenza. Following that he suffered a nervous breakdown." Mr. Duval's first wife was Miss Estelle McGrew, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.C. McGrew of this city. A daughter, Miss Estelle McGrew Duval, has been living with her aunt, Mrs. William Bard, of Sedalia, since her mother's death
Lexington Intelligencer, January 09, 1920 [Lexington, Mo.] FOUNTAIN B. DUVAL KILLS WIFE AND STEPSON Well Known Former Citizen Believed He Was Losing Reason.
Fountain B. Duval, a former well-known citizen of Lexington, Monday shortly after luncheon killed his wife Mrs. Ada Duval, and his stepson, Charles Knaupp, at their home on Benton avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Duval then shot himself in the stomach and later cut his throat with a razor. He was taken to the general hospital and his condition is said to be very critical. The account of the tragedy as printed in the Kansas City Times Tuesday morning was as follows: "Shortly after luncheon Duval, his wife, Mrs. Ada Duval, and foster son, Charles Knaupp, went upstairs in their home on Benton avenue. Mrs. Mary H. Pace, 74 years old, mother of Mrs. Duval, believed the family was going to study their regular afternoon Christian Science lesson. Mrs. Pace was sitting in the kitchen warming her feet in the stove oven. 'I heard a noise upstairs,' Mrs. Pace said. 'It sounded like two or three shots. I started up the stairway, I heard Charley say, 'Please, daddy, don't do it again.' 'In Charley's room I found Duval standing over the boy, a revolver in his hand. Charley was lying on the floor. I asked him what he was doing to Charley. He told me I had better go in and look after Ada. I went into the sewing room and found Ada sitting in a chair with one of Duval's socks in her hand. She had been darning. I shook her but she didn't respond, so I sent back to Charley's room. 'Ada must have fainted,' I told him. 'No, she didn't faint,' Duval said. 'I killed her. I shot her through the heart and in the head. Then I killed Charley. He is dead now. I shot myself in the stomach and I am dying, too.' I'm going to shoot myself again.' 'I asked him why he didn't kill himself first and let Ada and Charley along, but he wouldn't answer me. He was bleeding so I took the gun away from him. I came back downstairs and Duval followed me. He repeatedly asked me for the revolver, but I refused to give it to him. I hid it. He then took a razor that was in the kitchen, went back upstairs to the sewing room, where he had left Ada, and cut his throat.'
Duval is 51 years old. Mrs. Duval was 43 years old. Her father, J.L. Pace, was formerly superintendent of the Confederate Home at Higginsville, but is now dead. For the past two years Duval has not been well, it is said. While in Washington with the duel administration, as representative from this district, he was ill with influenza. Following that he suffered a nervous breakdown." Mr. Duval's first wife was Miss Estelle McGrew, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.C. McGrew of this city. A daughter, Miss Estelle McGrew Duval, has been living with her aunt, Mrs. William Bard, of Sedalia, since her mother's death
Fountain B. Duval, a former well-known citizen of Lexington, Monday shortly after luncheon killed his wife Mrs. Ada Duval, and his stepson, Charles Knaupp, at their home on Benton avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Duval then shot himself in the stomach and later cut his throat with a razor. He was taken to the general hospital and his condition is said to be very critical. The account of the tragedy as printed in the Kansas City Times Tuesday morning was as follows: "Shortly after luncheon Duval, his wife, Mrs. Ada Duval, and foster son, Charles Knaupp, went upstairs in their home on Benton avenue. Mrs. Mary H. Pace, 74 years old, mother of Mrs. Duval, believed the family was going to study their regular afternoon Christian Science lesson. Mrs. Pace was sitting in the kitchen warming her feet in the stove oven. 'I heard a noise upstairs,' Mrs. Pace said. 'It sounded like two or three shots. I started up the stairway, I heard Charley say, 'Please, daddy, don't do it again.' 'In Charley's room I found Duval standing over the boy, a revolver in his hand. Charley was lying on the floor. I asked him what he was doing to Charley. He told me I had better go in and look after Ada. I went into the sewing room and found Ada sitting in a chair with one of Duval's socks in her hand. She had been darning. I shook her but she didn't respond, so I sent back to Charley's room. 'Ada must have fainted,' I told him. 'No, she didn't faint,' Duval said. 'I killed her. I shot her through the heart and in the head. Then I killed Charley. He is dead now. I shot myself in the stomach and I am dying, too.' I'm going to shoot myself again.' 'I asked him why he didn't kill himself first and let Ada and Charley along, but he wouldn't answer me. He was bleeding so I took the gun away from him. I came back downstairs and Duval followed me. He repeatedly asked me for the revolver, but I refused to give it to him. I hid it. He then took a razor that was in the kitchen, went back upstairs to the sewing room, where he had left Ada, and cut his throat.'
Duval is 51 years old. Mrs. Duval was 43 years old. Her father, J.L. Pace, was formerly superintendent of the Confederate Home at Higginsville, but is now dead. For the past two years Duval has not been well, it is said. While in Washington with the duel administration, as representative from this district, he was ill with influenza. Following that he suffered a nervous breakdown." Mr. Duval's first wife was Miss Estelle McGrew, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J.C. McGrew of this city. A daughter, Miss Estelle McGrew Duval, has been living with her aunt, Mrs. William Bard, of Sedalia, since her mother's death
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