Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-12-17
Tragedy at Ottumwa,
iowa.

Two Men wounded, one Mortally-.
Grim. Con. and It's Results.
From the ottumwa uowa) Courier. December 10.
Last night at about s o'clock, Ii.
mus s. BARKER, i'm this city armed
himself with revolver, and left his
store to 60 to his residence on Marion
street under the impression that he
would find Otto Fraunberg (gener-
ally known as Jack, who keeps the
bar in the Balington Hotel), i'm GRIM
inal connection with his wife, as he
had long been led to suspect her inf
deity with Jack, from certain suspi-
cious circumstances, and from reve-
lations made to him by their. hired
girl. Arriving at his house, he took
his position at the window, and from
IN aperture discovered the guilty
couple In each others arms. Owing
perhaps, to some slight noise which
Mr.. Barker ANONYMOUSLY made at
this moment, the lights were instant
Iy put out, when Jack rushed out
and received from Barker's pistol an
ugly wound in the. abdomen, near
the navel; the bullet CHANGING, came
out at the side, and without necessa-
rily infiicting dangerous wound.-
He ran down to the hotel and went
to bed, DIR. Il. j, Douglas dressing
his wound and cutting from his back
No. 2 Smith & Weston cartridge.
Ate o'clock in the evening, when
we last saw him, he was in tolera-
bly, comfortable condition.
simultaneously with the firing of
Barker's pistol, Jack plunged large
bowie-knife into Barker's bowels,
fearfuily ripping him up, and lacera-
ting his entestines i'm shocking
manner, Barker ran down the stairs
perhaps to find doctor-with his
intestines protuding, and which he
was holding in his hands, until he
arrived at the residence of Mr.. j. G..
Meek, when l.. Lively and VIM. III.
Fetzer met him and found him "a a
fainting condition, and carried him
down to the store of II. G., CRUDE.
corner Second and Court streets,
where he was teken i'm and laid on
the floor totally exhausted. .
Drs, hinsey, Lewis and Stewart
shortly after arrived, and sewed up
his intestines, and the rent made by
Jacks knife. DIR. Hinsey informed
Mr.. Barker that his wounds were me-
cessarily fatal, whereupon Heman p.
Graves, Justice of the Peace, took
the following ante m0rten statement,
4 which after being carefully read over
was sworn to be correct by the VIC
tim: -r..
II had been told that, i'm my abb
sence East, Otto Jack Fraunb berg
slept with my wife every night. !
did not believe IL. / did not want To
belive it. The girl who lived with
us told me if I would watch could
see for myself. j charged my wife
with what had been told. She de-
MED 1t so positively that partly be-
lieved her. l do not know what
made me go to the house tonight. j
felt SO uneasy / thought / must GO
and see. went up to the house and
looked in through hole IN the win.
dow curtain. / saw Jack hugging
and kissing my wife. / must have
made some noise. They stopped and
looked around. There was some.
body going by. 1 stepped one side
the window until all was quite
again. / heard a movement toward
the back door. I ran round, and he
then went toward the front door.
ran back. They turned down the
light. Jack opened the door and
rushed at me. / saw him as came
back from the back door take some.
thing out of his pocket. As he came
rushing at me 1 fired, and he stabb-
ed-all at the same instant. / think
he was almost on me. My physi-
clans have told me that / cannot pos
sibly live. / make this statement in
certain prospect Of death. / have no
hope Of living.
''1l. o'clock p. NJ. December 0
1885,"
/ Attorney VIM. FL. Fctzer also
drew up and Barker signed his will,
bequeathing all his property, after
paying his debts, to his two brothers
living at Chillieothe, Missouri, except
81 given to his wife, Mary s. Barker.
Mr.. Fred Arthur was named as his
executor.
At the request of Mr.. Barker, the
Rev, III. Bross was sent for, who
administered to the dying man the
consolation of religion. Subsequent
ly he was removed up stairs TO the
office of Holden Il Bradley, where
he now lies in great agony. 49,
LATER.-As we go to press, Mr..
Barker is lying quite easy, his symp-
toms being more favorable.