Bio: Chankin, Esther - Murder #2 (25 Mar 1931)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Barkdoll, Chankin, Goeddert, Shepard

----Source: The Sheboygan Press (Sheboygan, WI) 03/25/1931

Barkdoll Held At Medford In Murder Case

Medford, Wis. - David Barkdoll, 35, was held in the county jail without bond today on charges of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of his former housekeeper, Mrs. Esther Chankin, 30.

Barkdoll, said to have confessed shooting the woman as she lay asleep Tuesday in the farm home near here of her uncle, Ward Shepard, was bound over for a preliminary hearing next week, the date yet to be fixed.

According to Undersheriff Edward Goeddert, Barkdoll, formerly of North Milwaukee, came here Monday night from his home at West Bend, crawled through a kitchen window in the Shepard home and made his way to a bedroom where he shot Mrs. Chankin through the head and neck. Her two children, aged 5 and 2 years, slept at her side.

Shepard was shot in the leg as he attempted to prevent Barkdoll’s escape.