Killer's Skull To Be Studied

Maniac Who Blew Up Bath School Is Believed "Throwback".

By Margrete Daney of the Blade Staff.

Bath, Mich., May 23 - What freak mental twist led Andrew Kehoe, farmer, 
to murder 44 children and adults?  What queer streak in his make-up made him 
plan with demonic cunning, the dynamiting of a school filled with small children?

What caused Kehoe to be a super-killer?  Was it a throwback to primitive ages,
when men killed their enemies as they chose, and the survival of the fittest 
was the law?

Scientists may soon know.  Application for the skull of Kehoe has been made 
by officials of a Michigan university to Bath authorities.  It is believed 
the skull will be turned over to the educational institution for analaysis.  

Kehoe Called "Throw Back".

Although Kehoe's body was blown to bits in the explosion, his skull is said 
to be intact.  People who knew him before the wholesale murder remarked of 
the strange ridges across his forehead and the back of his head.  Students of 
mankind declared that Kehoe was a strange throw-back to the primitive day, 
who may have been bewildered by being forced to live under civilization laws.

All of Kehoe's 43 victims have been buried.  All that is left to tell of the 
astounding tragedy that took place in this little village five days ago, 
is to describe the heart-broken faces of parents, the black gowns of mothers, 
and the thousands of curious who want to see the wrecked school and farmhouse.

One hundred and seventy-three cars passed a given corner in Bath in 10 minutes.
Motorists complained that it took them three hours to move four miles.

The tragic emptiness of Sunday school class rooms, the day's funerals 
with its 12 tiny white caskets taken out to the nearby cemeteries,
were all a part of the tragedy staged for the 85,000 who came to ace.

Most of the children on the streets of Bath Sunday were the children of visitors.

Before the influx of the curious, one was startled to hear the laugh 
or call of a child, so childless has the town of Bath become.

Children Kept Quiet.

Mothers whose little ones escaped, tell their tots to "hush", 
for the sake of the mothers whose hearts are breaking.

Hundreds of the curious collected relics to take home.  Amateur photographers 
took pictures of the wrecked school and Kehoe's destroyed farmhouse.

All day Sunday and Saturday funeral processions rolled slowly to the cemeteries about
Bath.  Curious as well as sympathetic stood by, as tiny caskets were carried to graves.
         
Joint Service Held.

The three childen of Eugene Hart, who lives across from the school, were buried 
at a joint service Sunday.  The children were: Lola, 12; Percy, 11, and Vivian, 9.
Another son is in a serious condition in a Lansing hospital.  

Sight of the three white caskets caused men and women to sob aloud.

The Rev. Scott McDonald whose little girl was buried Friday, officiated at the 
funeral of another victim Saturday.  The Rev. W.F. Leiford, pastor of a Lansing
church, who was to speak at three funerals, was caught in the traffic jam Sunday.
He rode on a motorcycle, behind a state trooper into the village.  
         
Crowds of Curious Visitors.
         
Bath fathers and mothers, who wanted only the solitude of the hills, lovely with
spring flowers, as they followed their dead, were pushed off the road to their 
burying ground by the endless line of curious who stared at their grief.

Bath hopes to be left with its memories after Monday.  But Monday, the inquest 
into the tragedy is scheduled and will again draw its quota of curious.

The village of tears was turned into the mecca of the curious Sunday.

The caravan of the curious started in at 7 A.M. and continued until midnight.
State police collected from all over Michigan, guided the line of cars.  
There were licenses from many other states in the procession.

Visitors Estimated at 85,000.

A check of traffic at one corner showed nearly 3,000 machines passing the point
in two hours.  It is estimated that 85,000 persons viewed the Bath desolation.