Murder Location
This file appears in: A Murdered Mother
At the time of the murder, a well-developed downtown Jeffersonville featured many buildings that time and frequent flooding have destroyed. The O’Neill Tavern stood somewhere near the intersection of Pearl Street and East Court Avenue, shown here. City directories do not record the tavern’s brief existence.
This file appears in: A Murdered Mother
A Murdered Mother
In May of 1927, at the height of the Prohibition Era, twenty-six year-old Mary Catherine Kamer wed thirty-eight year-old Joseph O’Neill in Jeffersonville. O’Neill had immigrated to Jeffersonville from Ireland where he became the business partner of…