Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-06-07
A SAD AFFAIR.
DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AT rLOU1sviLLE

"A DOmESTlC THAGEDY AT LOUISVILLE
clarence Boyd, . Young Artist, Desperately
wounded BY - Physician VINO rs sepa-
rated From His wife.
The shooting of Clarence Boyd by his
brother-in-l law, DIR. W. W. Barnes, shortly
after ten O'Clock Wednesday morning, a,
Louisville, KY, caused intense excitement.
Boyd is a quiet hammered, womanly sort
OF man and the last person one would
expect to be engaged in deadly quarrel.
de has been regarded as one Of the rising
young artists of the country. Many of
his pictures have attracted attention and
been sold at high figures. For some time
he has conducted an art class in his studio
in the Courier.J Journal building, and his
pupils were much devoted to him, owing
in large part, to his quiet, genteel manner
Hence the surprise when it was told that
he had gone to Barnes Office and announ-
ced that he had come there to kill him.
Dr. Willis w. Barnes is a we'll known and
popular Fourth avenue dentist. About
six years ago he married Miss Jessie Boyd.
Two children, boy and girl, were born
to them.
About two months ago unfortunate
dlferences caused a separation. Whether
there were causes or not is not known, but
it is stated that DR.. Barnes grow jealous.
His wife went to her fathers and he to a
boarding house. Out of this separation
grew tho event Of Wednesday. Clarence
Boyd, devoted to his sister, warmly es-
Poused her cause and was indignant at
Barnes treatment of her. This indIgna.
tlon, it is said, led him to denonnce Barnes
in front of his Office some time since in
c,s1 <.r
says Boyd meeting Barnes on the street
had several times addressed very strong
terms to him.
Wednesday morning Boyd went to
Barnes Office while tho latter was en-
gagged professionally with a lady patient.
Boyd called for Barnes. who went out into
the hallway. Mr.. r. I. Fairman, brother
OF the lady patient referred to, says that
Boyd took Barnes by the lapels of the
coat, using very severe terms towards him.
Mr.. Fairman, who did not know Boyd.
asked him to go away and havo no dis
turbance, adding that there was lady in
tho adjoining room.
Boyd responded a. have come to kill
him and am not going away until I do"
A scnffie ensued and it is said by Fairman
that Boyd made motion as if to draw a
weapon. Barnes drew revolver and
fired twice, one ball taking effect in Boyd's
left shoulder, the other striking him near
tho spinal column, passing entirely through
his body and emerging from the lower
portion Of the ablomsn The mon were
but a few feet apart when the firing be.
gan. Boyd rushed towards Barnes,
making an effort to throw up his pistol
hand, which caused the first bullet to
lodge in his shoulder, from which it was
extracted. lIe was assisted from the
house into 4 millinery store near by,
where he received prompt medical aid DO
fore being removed to his fathers resi-.
dence.
1t is singular circumstance that Boyd
should have used the murderOus throat
imputed to him aud yet have about him
no weapons for its execution, none being
found on his person after the affair. He
was entirely sober and was a gentleman
who barely took even glass of wine.
Only high state of mental excitement can
explain the language he is said to have
used. DIR. Barnes Immediately after the
shooting left the house, and, meeting a
police officer on the street, said to him that
be had shot man and was going to Jail
tie proceeded to the city hall with the
officer and finding tho city court in scs
sion, requested tho chief of police to send
for Major Kinney and, rc presented by
that gentleman, application was made for
bail before City Judge Thompson. Mr..
Fairman detailed in substance the above
statements and Barnes was released,
giving bonds in the sum of $1,000. Mr..
Boyd, OF course, cannot talk of the affair
in his desperate condition.
His father stated in the evening that
DR.. Barnes had Of late been talking
about bis vito and her brother, and had
kept this up until the latter, going to
demonstrate and growing excited at sight
of Barnes, had doubtless said things no
would otherwise not have said. lie in
sists that his sou had no weapons about
him. 1t is probable that Boyd will die.
The actors are yonng men. each with =
large circle of friends. Dr. Barnes in the
afternoon, it is said. expressed an earnest
hope that Boyd would recover from his
injuries.