BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1902 Washington, Ind., March 25. – Coroner McKitterick has been unable to reach a verdict in the killing of Liberty Kempf by his wife Sunday evening. Careful inquiry reveals some facts that make the case a most complicated one. The woman was taken in custody and was detained at the Sheriff's residence last night. She is a wreck physically and mentally and suffers great remorse. The wounds in the man's head, it is claimed, show that he was not in a fighting attitude when he was shot, and the evidence before the Coroner shows that Mrs. Kempf left the kitchen, in which the quarrel was had, to go to an adjoining room for the revolver she used. She returned, and according to her statement, pointed the revolver at Kempf, telling him she would brook no further abuse. Her husband, she says, reached for a chair and she fired five shots at him, when he fell to the floor she blew out the lamp and hurried by the rear way to an alley and from it to the police station, crying" "Oh, my God. I know I have killed him!" Mrs. Kempf had sought protection from her husband several times and purchased the revolver a few weeks ago to protect herself. Kempf had fraternal insurance, and there is a question as to the legality of the payment of the amount of the policy to his wife, the beneficiary, because it was by her hands that Kempf was killed.