The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-12-20
DEN DNVWN y DUDI
Is Lying Cold and Stark, and
Well.Flled With Bird
Shot.
Josiah Barnhart DID the Work
With His Old Army
Musket,
After Which he Flees to
Dresden and Gives Himself
up TO a Constable.
Sad Ending OF & Neigh borhood
Quarrel About Il Boundary
Line

=
lar n..rs. living on adjoining IA -Eas, abuU,
four mics west al lhis city. cUin,iDa;,'i
late yes,-es!d, Aiteruu"u ~ lie violent
death al Den Brown a w.ii-I"dn col"rr''
farther. Al the hand. al Josiah Earnh:ri, u
white nsm. Aboul halt-pas; sia ocl'scl
last evening a colorc.; Man uamyi Curry
Ira''a., came ;n town, and, hunting up l'r-
Willis L. King, Ihc coroner. r-p"r;.'!
Ia that official Ia, fact 90 iho killing. IL
sncw none IL iiie detail. al the homici!,
iur.h-r than that Bar,il.srt ha,i killed h;~
rulor.Si n-ighbur and that the .i,.id man
/ II ,n The doorstep ni his slayer. TrSLnc.
A. ,u,n - hr bad heard al the comm l~NI"n
III the s..-d. mounted horse sn,. y=iIopc-i
toward, sCdalis loT the p,.rIs1.c 81 REPORT
ing the matter
DR.. Ming listened L. ia. mans story aud
todd min. h.. hic better 20 t.sIor.. y Justice
al the I.s.,- and NE Az affidavit. and have
u ~ .,rran, issu.d Tor IN. arrest "i BarG-
mart.
Accordingly. Irahnr, Accompanied bH
the coroner. s-G, t--i"rr Squire Logan
Liark AMI ss"rc nut the warrant. whicb
va pla,,-i Tor >cTNic. in iisr hands al Dep
utv Sh.riiis Al Ioun.r and J sncb. ami me
two officials a: cuce proceeded to the >~-.r.-
oi the deed al blood pi mans rag, IE'! %,
death.
Muddy creek was the locality u: th' Kill
ing. In thi, u-ighhorhoo-i a little SnYi ~
color-d peopio. i'rna.- n"t"n isniii'ts.
have clcsroI AWAY III. timber aud made
homes ior Themselves. The mos; inhuen-
;;al AMI inIport.aR; man ir ;hI- !i;;ic c"i-
onv vas Zen EroHn, Nh" owned = hIE,lr,d
acres. Tn. farm 81 JOSIAH BsTnhSr;. III,
.nl, phiic lnsn IN tie n.'ishtOrh"ud, ina
IDesiiat.ly iuincc IN. i..rgU ~ Ku Brosn
ola the NORTH.
4; III. Br,.i farm. Nhich l. 'bi- Id
al Itr Blrnhari place, i"uud qIIi.
iBli delegation ~ r'ipr'd people, r-l'r''-
seulins tie en;ire population al the i"-
caliiy. ~hn wry. !ai",niinE over the un-
timely taking uii ui kruvr. Inc corps:
sss presumed - - s,iii ly-n- =; Ear::-
harris lu"T. Rat in hrs >urmi~e the "fii',.g>
s.r. mistaken. /; Vs. living 49, Z cooling
bcar.l =, BroHu> npu--. aTi ~as sUT-
rounded hy : greg, crowd - hi- friends
and nei.hbsrS II, body ~ Neatly
dressed tri -, ',in@ III oIic "md - tine
-aonl. Tn-r- = ~ Z. gaping w'uI..i !. ia.
l,i' syiliarv region. and tiIe blood 49,
-iiii onyirc iro,u th' ri.c- scr. jha charge
al Dira shoi hal -!i.r'd the tvcH u Ben.
Erowu. Those surrounding the ccrp-e
were merely those nci.h;"rs Who hai
gathered after the sympathetic and excited
maun-r ri the ,"!or,i r.c.. bu,
rore oi ,IivIn sne. ANYTHING sr.,u; the
circUTn ,anc'-- of tie n"nicidc.
The nii,. al th. ,ie ...,sed y - found, over
wh.lrurd with grief. ana surrounded by
SoIn, hsiI-,ioz,n negro w"il.n who were
"ndravarins 4" rpiso:e hcr. Alter COOS.
deal vi p-.rs,isSi"u. si" vas induce! 10
ccaSe her lamentations i".i: enough /" give
a sist.men, OF lhc details ~ the tragedy ~
She .aw them. Tn. i"l!"Hir. = th- -,:1-
stance ~