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It was about 1245 o'clock when Robert Mayo Sr., Kenton County Constable, and his son Robert Mayo Jr., a farmer living a thousand feet away from the

Kiger home, were awakened by the blowing of an automobile horn in the front yard. The constable, who lives in Erlanger,

was visiting his son. Going out, the elder Mayo was confronted by Joan Keiger, 16-year-old daughter of Carl C.

who, quote, looked awfully scared, unquote. She had driven from her home. The girl told Mayo,

there's a man in our house and he's shooting everybody. She was almost hysterical, the constable recalled.

Mayo summoned his son. They both dressed and armed themselves, the father with a revolver and

the son with a shotgun. During the drive to the Kiger home, Joan kept saying, oh, he's shooting

everybody. There was a bright moonlight, but the trees that surrounded the Kiger home made it darker there.

There were no lights except those on the automobile.

Quote, I was so scared to go into that house that if I hadn't known Carl Kiger so well, I wouldn't have.

It was dark as pitch, and Joan

kept talking about somebody in there with a gun, unquote. The party entered the house by the

kitchen door, who was the only one open, the front door being locked from the inside. Posting his

son at the foot of the stairway with orders to shoot anybody

who tried to come out, Mayo ascended to the second floor with Joan. Entering the parents'

bedroom, Mayo reached around Joan and snapped on the light. Before that, it had been absolutely

dark.

Mrs. Kiger was lying on the bed beside her dead husband, and her right hand was the revolver

which Joan said she had handed her when she went for help.

Her other hand was holding her husband's.

Mayo said, if I hadn't arrived when I did, Mrs. Kyger might have blood to death.

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