The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-07-26
Are the Hands of Emil Um.
frid. of Lincoln. This Fair
Sabbath Morn.
In a Moment Of Passion He
Fires the Shot That Sends
q Fellow Man to the
Dark Unknown,
And Himself Near the Hands of
an Angry Mob-Fun Par
ticulars of the A.
fair.

Hardly had the last gasping struggles q
for murder, Friday, ceased to culver OF
the summer air, than Lincoln steps for
ward with its little addition 10 the Ion,
bloOd-stained record of crime.
Yesterday morning about eight o'clocl
dispute arose between Emil Cmfrid, u
Berens 4 Co., and man named Bartlett
both Of Lincoln, small village abou,
twenty miles south Of this city, on the linz
OF the Sedalia, Warsaw and Southern rail
wav.
This little burg is usually considered a
quiet and moral sort of town, and when
the dispute waxed warm the two were sur.
rounded BY large crowd, all eager ia
know the WHY'S End whercfOres. The dis.
pute occurred in the store of Berens 4 Co..
and arose from a trouble about a we'll
which Bartlett had dug, he being we'll
digger by profession. The point at Issue
was the matter Of placing a windmill in
the we'll. Bartlett got hot; in fact he was
very, very mad. He raised a chair to
strike Umfrid, but the latter did not par
ticularly desire having his head used as .
block upon which chair was to he
broken, So he went into the back room and
got his revolver. He came back with i,
i'm his hand. Bartlett did not scare worth
a cent. In fact he got madden. He struck
at Umirid with the chair, and succeed in
knocking the revolver out of his hand.
This made Umfrid warmer, and grabbing
up the weapon hastily, he popped away.
His aim was a little too true, the bullet
entering Bartlett's head over the right eve
81 lofS d.
lett fell to the floor, the crimson food
squirting in thick stream, and dying the
boards where he fell with its crimson tide.
He died almost instantly. Umfrid stood
for a moment as ii paralyzed. Then Sec
ing demonstrations on the part Of the mob
to lynch him, he darted out the door.
leaped into buggy, and drove as fast as
the horses could 20 until he got to War
saw, where he gave himself up, and is now
in Jail at that place, strongly guarded BY
sheriff's posse, who evidently feared that
he would he lynched last night. As soon
As he was inside the Jail and felt secure, he
wrote a telegram to his partner, who is in
Philadelphia, to come home, rs he had got
into shooting scrape and needed him To
attend to the business. He said. i'm con-
versatiOn with the sheriff, that he would
give the world if he could undo the
deed.
Bartlett was a man about forty years of
age, and leaves wife and two children.
the Youngest being about two weeks old
Umfrid has wife and three children.
The little town Of Lincoln is greatly
worked up over the affair.
Umfrid is well known in this CITY, and
has always been considered q gentleman Of
quiet business habits. He. unfortunately
mas high and violent temper, easily ex-
.ited, and when under the control Of this
passion is virtually without reason, acting
IN the impulse of the moment.
Of Bartlett, not much is known, except
hat he also had violent temper. and
vhen angry, was not any too choice i'm the |
language he used. The affair was a trivial !
me, but both men became excited. Bartlett |
accusing Umfrid OF interfering with his !
and damaging him. One word /
brought on another until both men were |
'eyOnd control, and while one man leaned. |
into the presence OF his Maker, /
he other lies tremblingly beneath the
hadOw of the scaffold rising grim and
'are before his eyes, while to his distorted
the hangman's moose already
ncircles his neck. The angry act of a
nOment has already left one woman a
7idOw, while another is worse than Wild
wed. This but illustrates the fatal con-
eguences that are the inevitable attend
nts upon the possession and use Of fire
rms.