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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|5|18|1872|2|1}}
| death_place = [[Bath Township, Michigan]], U.S.
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| cause = [[Suicide attack]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Ellen Agnes "Nellie" Price|1912|1927|reason=murdered}}
| date = {{date|1927-5-18|MDY}}
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| motive = Inconclusive{{efn|Potential motives include:
*[[Suicidal ideation]]<ref name="CC Republican-News">{{cite news |title=Board Votes Aid for Bath |url=https://www.clinton-county.org/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/2206 |publisher=Official Clinton County website |newspaper=Clinton County Republican-News |access-date=April 1, 2023 |date=May 26, 1927}}</ref>
*[[Revenge]] for perceived social and political slights<ref name="ellsworth ch 1">{{cite book |date=1991 |last=Ellsworth |first=Monty J. |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003118919 |chapter= Chapter One – The Bath Consolidated School |title=The Bath School Disaster |orig-date=
*Financial difficulties combined with
*Possible personality disorders such as [[antisocial personality disorder]]<ref name="bernstein pp">{{cite book|last=Bernstein|first=Arnie|title=Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing|date=2009|publisher=[[The University of Michigan Press]] |location=Ann Arbor, Michigan |isbn=978-0-472-03346-1}}</ref>{{rp|143}}<ref name="Pseudocommando">{{cite journal |last1=Knoll |first1=James L. |title=The 'Pseudocommando' Mass Murderer: Part I, The Psychology of Revenge and Obliteration |url=http://jaapl.org/content/38/1/87 |journal=The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law |publisher=Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law |access-date=June 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610191449/http://jaapl.org/content/38/1/87 |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |pages=87–94 |date=March 2010 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pmid=20305080 |quote=As an example that such mass murderers [pseudocommandoes] have existed long before Whitman [Texas Tower shooter], consider a notorious case, the Bath School disaster of 1927, now long forgotten by most. Andrew Kehoe{{nbsp}}... |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Schechter Page 37">{{cite book |last1=Schechter |first1=Harold |title=Maniac – The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer |date=2021 |publisher=[[Amazon Publishing]] – Little A |page=37 |quote=...{{nbsp}}seems an early sign of his future psychopathology}}</ref>}}
| targets = Bath Consolidated School, his house and farm
| locations = [[Bath Township, Michigan]]
| fatalities =
| injuries = 58
| weapons = [[Explosive]]s:
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* [[Pyrotol]]
* [[Incendiary device|firebombs]]
[[Bolt action|Bolt-action rifle]]:
* [[Winchester Model 54]] ([[.30-06 Springfield|.30-06]])
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'''Andrew Philip Kehoe''' (February 1, 1872 – May 18, 1927) was an American [[mass
== Early life and education==
Kehoe was born in [[Tecumseh, Michigan]], among the younger of a family of 13 children. His parents were Philip Kehoe (1833–1915) and Mary (McGovern) Kehoe (1835–1890).<ref name="Kehoe page">{{cite web |last1 = Daggy |first1 = J. L. |title = The Bath School Disaster: Andrew Philip Kehoe—Farmer, School Board Treasurer, Bomber |url = http://daggy.name/tbsd/bsdlrp13.htm |website = Daggy Space |access-date = May 14, 2016 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160321222224/http://daggy.name/tbsd/bsdlrp13.htm |archive-date = March 21, 2016 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> He attended [[Tecumseh High School (Michigan)|Tecumseh High School]] and Michigan State College (later [[Michigan State University]]), where he studied [[electrical engineering]]. There, he first met his future wife, Ellen "Nellie" Price, the daughter of a wealthy [[Lansing, Michigan|Lansing]] family.<ref name="mayday p 27"/>{{rp|27}}
After college, Kehoe went southwest, apparently working for several years as an electrician in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. During this period, in 1911, he suffered a severe head injury in a fall<ref name="Mayo2008">{{cite book |first = Mike |last = Mayo |title = American Murder: Criminals, Crime, and the Media |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=L1uj6s-d44UC&pg=PA175 |page = 175 |access-date = May 3, 2020 |date = 2008 |publisher = Visible Ink Press |location=Detroit, Michigan|isbn = 978-1-57859-191-6 }}</ref>
Kehoe
==Marriage and family==
After his return to Michigan, in 1912 he married Nellie Price. In 1919 the couple bought a {{convert|185|acre|ha|adj=on}} farm outside the village of [[Bath Township, Michigan|Bath]]<ref name="ellsworth ch 1"/><ref name="mayday p 27">{{cite book |last = Parker |first = Grant |date = 1992 |chapter=Chapter VI: Challenge |title = Mayday, History of a Village Holocaust |pages = 23–31 |publisher = Liberty Press |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/B-001-002-145/page/n35/mode/2up |location=Springville, Utah|isbn = 0-9604958-0-0 }}</ref>{{rp|27}} from Nellie's aunt for $12,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|12000|1912|r=-3}}}} in {{inflation-year|US}}{{inflation-fn|US}}). He paid $6,000 in cash and took out a $6,000 [[Mortgage loan|mortgage]].<ref name="mayday p 27"/>{{rp|[https://archive.org/details/B-
== Personality ==
Kehoe was regarded by his neighbors as a highly intelligent man who grew impatient and angry with those who disagreed with him. Neighbors recalled that Kehoe was always neat, dressed meticulously, and was known to change his shirt at midday or whenever it became even slightly dirty. Neighbors also recounted how Kehoe was cruel to his farm animals, having once beaten a horse to death.<ref name="Ellsworth1927_3"/> The Kehoes initially attended services at the [[Catholic]] church in Bath, but he refused to pay the church's parish assessment of members and later prevented his wife from attending.<ref name="Ellsworth1927_3"/>
Kehoe's neighbors thought he preferred mechanical tinkering to farming. His neighbor M. J. "Monty" Ellsworth wrote in his account of the disaster,
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== Bath Consolidated School administration ==
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While on the school board, Kehoe was appointed as the Bath Township Clerk in 1925 for a short period. In the spring 1926 election, he was defeated for the position, and was angered by his public defeat. His neighbor Ellsworth thought Kehoe started planning his "murderous revenge" against the community at that time. Another neighbor, A. McMullen, noticed that Kehoe stopped working altogether on his farm in his last year, and thought he might be planning [[suicide]].<ref name="Ellsworth1927_3"/>
During these years, Nellie Kehoe was chronically ill with [[tuberculosis]], and had frequent hospital stays—at the time there was no effective treatment or cure for the disease. By the time of the Bath School disaster, Kehoe had ceased making mortgage and [[homeowner's insurance]] payments. The mortgage lender had begun [[foreclosure]] proceedings against the farm.<ref name="Ellsworth1927_3"/><ref name="dynamiter">{{cite web |title = School Dynamiter First Slew Wife |url =
== Bath School disaster ==
{{Main|Bath School disaster}}
The Bath School disaster is the name given to a series of explosions perpetrated by Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, which killed 45 people including Kehoe himself, and injured at least 58. Of the 44 directly
Kehoe killed his wife between May 16, when she returned home from a hospital stay, and the morning of May 18. He moved her body to a farm building before setting off incendiary explosions in their house and farm buildings.<ref name="Inquest">{{citation |others=Before C. E. Lamb, Clinton County Coroner and jury; Inquest conducted by William C. Searl, Clinton County Prosecuting Attorney |chapter=Testimony taken upon the hearing, held at the Village of Bath, Clinton County, Michigan |title=Michigan Coroner's Inquest: In the Matter of the Cause of Death of Emery E. Huyck, Deceased |pages=349, 218–222 |publisher=State of Michigan |date=1927 |author=State of Michigan|author-mask=0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302192126/http://daggy.name/tbsd/cinquest.htm |archive-date=March 2, 2018 |chapter-url=http://daggy.name/tbsd/cinquest.htm |url-status=usurped |id=Transcript of the hearing of May 23–25, 1927 [Facsimile version]}}</ref> About the same time, he had arranged timed explosions in the new school building. The materials in the north wing exploded as planned, killing many students and some adults inside. Kehoe had set a timed detonator to ignite [[dynamite]] and hundreds of pounds of [[pyrotol]] at the school, which he had secretly bought and planted in the basement of both wings over the course of many months. The second {{convert|500|lb}} of explosives in the south wing did not detonate, so that part of the school was not destroyed.
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[[Category:Catholics from Michigan]]
[[Category:Criminals from Michigan]]
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