The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-04-26
THE MURDER.
The O0roner's Inquest and the
Facts Internationally
Assassination Of an On.
armed Mantle
Funeral.

Independent, oath Inst.
The evidence detailed before Coro.
ner Fisk on Tuesday throws some
additional light upon the assassina-
ton of Dr.. Barley.
It seems that Messrs. Da'gren,
Vaughan and a hired man by the
name of Pike had been at work Mon
day evening upon their ditch, which
taps Indian Greek above the ditch OF
DR.. Barley. Their ditch carries wa
ter around upon the bars of Indian
Creek, and while so at wark upon it
Mr.. Vaughan and the hired man
acknowledged that they saw DR..
Barley pass up the creek on the
line of his ditch, in his shirt sleeves
and with a shovel upon bis shoulder.
They are the last persons who are
known to have seen him alive. The
hired man ssys that shortly after
wards be heard a shot, but neither
Nj. Vaughan nor Mr. Dalgren claim
to have heard it (the latter claiming
to have started to Bedford before the
shooting occurred). Messrs. Vaughan
and Dalg1en are the ones with whom
DR.. Barley was in litigation at the
time Of his death. Their ditch and
dam were above his, and he claimed
diverted the water from his ditch be-
low, which was asserted to have the
older right.
Before he was shot, Dr.. Barley
had reached the dam at. the head of
his ditch, and had thrown one or two
shovels of dirt upon 1t. While in the
act Of throwing dirt upon his dam,
it seems that some one. who had prob
aoly followed him up the gulch shot
him in the back. DR.. Barley was
unarmed at the time and was evil
IDENTIFY expecting no trouble. At the
time of the shooting he was upon his
own dam, of which he had been in
undisputed possession for years. HI
was shot down by some cowa-dly as
sassin while exercising a lawful right
of repairing his own property. We
cannot conceive of q more dastardly
act than thus to murder an unarmed
man while engaged in work upon bis
own property, Lot even giving him
q chance for his life.
DR.. Barley, like every other citi-
zen, had his rights, and had the right
to maintain them in the courts. The
fact that others differed with him as
to those rights furnished no excuse
for his murder.
We understand that there are
strong grounds for suspicion against
certain parties. This cold blooded
and cowardly assassin casts a stain
upon the fair name of Jefferson
county, and her officials owe 1t to
their positions to ferret out the MUIR
derer and bring him to justice. If a
man can be assassinated with impu>
nifty because he has enemies, then no
man is secure who has a single foe
base and cowardly enough to shoot
him In the back. It was for such
cases as this that law was Instituted.
If such a crime is permitted to go
unpublished, then the assassin and
coward are safer than the law abid-
ing citizen who trusts to the protec-
ton of the law only to be deceived.
Every man in Jefferson county
should feel it incumbent upon him.
self to assist in bringing the murder
er to justice, and the officer who fails
to do his full duty should be held to a
strict accountability.
We learn that q feeling of horror
at the cold bIooded murder exists
among all the better classes of JEFF
ferson county. The funeral of Doctor
8arkl-y took place yesterday at Ra-
dersburg and was generally q tended
by the citizens.