In the spring of 1926 he ran for township clerk and was defeated.

     He tried to get them to cut the valuation down on his farm. He also tried to get the people who held the mortgage to take it off, telling them he had paid too much for the farm, but of course, he couldn't get this done.

     He was going to have his own way at any cost. He planned on destroying everything. He cut the wire fences on the farm and put dynamite in his tractor so that it blew all to pieces while the tool shed was burning. All the stock that he had at this time was two horses. They were tied in the barn and their feet were wired together so that rescuing them during the fire would be impossible.

     About a month before he did this, he gave the best one of these horses to a neighbor, A. McMullen, and delivered it himself. Mr. McMullen kept the horse for a few days, then he got to thinking that it might be Kehoe was going to commit suicide because he hadn't done any work on the farm for nearly a year, so he brought the horse back to Kehoe.

     Mr. Kehoe carried all the rails and lumber that there were around the buildings into the tool shed. I suppose that was to make sure that everything would be destroyed. He girdled all the small shade trees and sawed the grape vines off next to the ground and set them back on the stumps so that they would not be noticed.

     What Mr. Howell told me on May 19, 1927, the next day after the Bath Catastrophe.

     Mr. Sidney Howell, a farmer living about sixty rods west of the Kehoe farm and who was very friendly with Kehoe, came by my gas station and stopped. While he was here, he told me that at the time of the explosion at the school house, he was working with his two boys in his driveway. Mr. Melvin Armstrong, another neighbor, had just driven up with his machine and stopped. A few seconds later, Kehoe's buildings started to burn and Mr. Howell said that they got into Armstrong's car and as they were coming down the road they saw Kehoe come out of the house and run toward the tool shed. Mr. Howell got out of the machine in front of the house and Mr. Armstrong went to get a place to park. They went into the driveway and up by the back door. Kehoe came out of the smoke with his machine, a Ford pick-up, and drove up even with where they were. He had a funnel in the gas tank. He stopped and took it out, then looked in and picked up the cap and screwed it on. Kehoe walked over where the men were. They were about ready to walk in the back door when Kehoe said, "You are friends of mine, don't go in there, go down to the school." They turned and walked toward the road and Kehoe leisurely walked to the machine and drove toward Bath.