Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-07-21
A SHAM SUICIDE.


Farther Developments I'm Relation 20
Byrne's Tragic End in IOWa-What
His wife Says She Knows About
Him.
In our Sundays issue We published the
following communications which had been
received at this office Saturday:
cDOYER, Iowa, July ~, 1S74.-I send
You this as directed, hoping il may get Ia
his friends, he shot himself in the head,
found him in my pasture.
Yours truly, JOHN MUNsoN.
The envelope containing the above, also
contained the following:
DOVER, July IL, lSI4.-This Is whoever
may find me, my name is Byrnes, ] 1.-Two In
Nashville, Tenn, an tired of living, have
been unhappy for the past two years, there
is no one to blame for this, don't send my
body away from here, and Oblige.
p. 5. Send - direciel,T
As stat5d in sundays paper, Union
AND AMERICAN reporter made diligent in
quiry Saturday, in order to learn something
more with regard to the man ByTneS, but
without success. IL now appears that he
was generally known as Barnes, and is 80
published in the directOry--sieCIge harneS,
lie lee Nashville on the 2dd of June, en-
pectiRg to be gone but week or ten days,
or at least so represented TO his wife, 10
whom he had been married but a few
months. For something over a year he
had been employed as q freight conductor on
the Decatur road, but had heec suspended
about a week bessI.Ze he ieit the city, on ac-
count of temporary falling OFF Of business
on the road. About the Goth Of June, he
told his wife he had Just met q man rom
ST. Louis who haI seen his brother
Horace ByTnes there, and that as he hadn't
seen him for twelve years, this would be a
COOL time for him To run up 10 St. Louis
and see his brother, and on the sd started
or pretended to, 10 ST. Louis, bidding his
young wif:. - =; % good cheer, as he would
write to her in few days, and would be
gone but short time. He taok wish him
S4G0 in 4ioney, a large trunk and hand
yaliSe. lie wore a heavy gold watch and
chain, valuable gold ring and studs. From
the date of his departure, the anxious wife
has heard nothing from her husband, until
she read our publication If the letters san
day. She cane te on O;Ace yesterday, to
soc said letters, and Immediately necOg-
nized her husbands writing in the one pur-
porting to come from him, and upon COM
fdiil- IL Will lHt blit ol-ilcu -huit1uhi uC-
clarcd that he had written 10th. Tears
came to her eyes, and her voice sremblsd
with emotion rs tn pFOof of her husbands
wiCk5dneSS and intention TO desert her, was
thus forced upon ber.
Mrs. Byrnes stated TO our reporter that
she married ByTnes on the 10th Of January
last; That they had lived very happily, and
that if he had any cause for complaint, she
knew nothing Of il. She said that hs was
not diSSinated ;.;sn, That he saved his
,,iOney and was Industrious.
The letters Published above were dated
at Dover, while the envelope was post
marked Troy, Iowa. The former town is
in Lee county, and the latter in Davis,
with Van BIIren county intervening. To
make the matter even more complicated, it
is said that ByrneS has written IL AL ao-
qIafnlance in Nashville, TO the effect that
lie is living in Virginia with his wife and
child.