The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-03-29
Two Brothers Butcher Each Other.

On the 10th inst, two brothers, Jacob
and johnson Barnock, of Sarcoxie, Mo-,
said to be persons of high standing and fine
education, had an encounter with pistols,
by which one was killed and the other
wounded beyond hope of recovery. The
Cairo Democrat, of the 18th inst, gives the
following particulars of the sad affair:
A gentleman just from Sarcoxle, Mo-,
brings US the full particulars of one OF the
most unnatural and most terrible rencoun-
tiers that it has ever been our duty to re-
cord, which occurred on Tuesday, the 9TH
inst, at the little town of Sarcoxie, Mo.
1t appears that about three months ago,
James b. Barnack, one of the oldest,
wealthiest, and most respectable men Of
that section died, leaving as his sole and
exclusive heirs bis two sons, Jacob and
johnson. These two men were aged re-
spectively about "A and 26 years of age,
and, so far as known, they were the only
living survivors of any branch Of the family.
The family was surrounded with every
comfort, if not luxury, and the two young
men had been literally educated having at
tended school together at Elders Ridge
academy, Pennsylvania, and afterwards
pletion Of their education they returned to
their home, and had there lived up to the
time of their father death, under the pa
ternal roof-tree.
The oldest one, Jacob, married about
one year ago, and was the father OF one
child.
The two boys, having grown up together,
and being sent of among strangers TO 60 to
school at a young age, had become remark
able for their love and devotion 70 each
other, which existed up to the time OF Ja-
cob's marriage, when all at once the elder
seemed to entirely change in his feelings
toward his younger brother But little is
klown to the world of the slow, but sure
kindlng Of the fatal fame of deadly passion
from its first to its final and fatal termina-
ton; but it is known that the death of the
father seemed to give a new and powerful
incentive to the gathering passions, and 1t
appears that from this time on the younger
brother seemed TO resent with interest and
intensity his brothers animosity, until fl
nally it resulted in an attack upon the
younger brother by the elder about the lst
inst, on the occasion of his visiting the
residence of the elder brother 1t appears
the younger brother was terribly matreated
being cut and badly bruised.
The younger brother, 1t seems, then sent
the elder word to arm himself; that he in
tended to kill him on sight. The neighbor
and friends Of the two men then interfered,
and used every possible effort to step the
:eud and reconcile them, but it vas to no
purpose.
The two men went heavily armed on all
occasions, and finally they met on the
highway near the residence Of the elder, on
the day named above, and Immediately
commenced firing al each other, aud at the
same time approaching. They emptied
two revorers each. and then clinched and
beat each other in 4 horrible manner with
the butts of their pistols, and continued in
this horrible work until they fell apart from
sheer exhaustion.
When found BY some men who happen
Cd along the road, the elder brother was
stiff and dead, and tie younger horribly
wounded aud trying to drag himself away
from the bloody and fatal spot where his
brother lay. The survivor was at once at
eended to, and wien our informant left be
was still alive, with no hopes of his recov-
cry, as he was terribly wounded in five
places, and continued to rave like maniac