Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-04

El4hIONs may Ou-NsoN ps l1uihCo lho
been brought to Elkton and lodged in
jail. He is still under the influence
Of liquor. When arrested he was
in bed and had left the gun with
which the shooting was done outside of the
bedroom. The report previously sent about
the shootings is true.
A special from Elkton, Nd, dated
Sunday, says. Deprived of all other
means of self-destruction, Q. p. Barnes
of Woodlawn, who was committed TO the
county jul here yesterday for the double
murder uf Thomas L. Brown, his nephew
and brother-in-law, and Arthur Barnes,
his 12-year-Old son, attempted suicide to-
night by butting his head against the
front wall of his cell. Through the
morning and afternoon he had been
/ quoted by ,opiates, after having raved all
| night. At about o'clock this evening u
prisoner in the common room of the Jail
heard noise in the murderer's cell. He
| called through the bars to Sheriff Smith,
and the latter, fastening to the spot,
| found the man rushing wildly up and
| down the floor OF his cell, which was
| covered with blood which had flowed
| from severe wound in his right temple.
| On the wall of the cell broad bar OF
| crimson showed where the attempt had
been made.
DIR. j. II. lamar, who has been in
| attendance ON the murderer, was sent for,
He found that, despite the profuse loss OF
blood, amounting to over pint, the
wound was not in itself serious. The
i doctor insisted, however, that the prisoner
should have special confinement, and, as
no one could be found in the village
to sit up through the night with the muir.
i derer, he will be strait waist-coated.
| His mind, which cleared little during
his drive over here i'll the custody of the
sheriff, is clouded again. Then he an
swered sneeringly to Ward Browns i'll
formation that he had killed his sol
Arthur, "Well, he's his mothers love-
He also sent for his lawyer, Il. O. Thack,
ara, of this place. This morning he said
he had six children, being apparently OBJ
livious to the fact of his own murderous
reduction of the number to five and
when told that his counsel had signitied
by letter his intention of visiting him to
morrow, answered that his bills We're III
| paid and that there was no reason why
lawyers should be coming after him
There is little doubt that Barnes actor
and present condition are, despite thu
opinion of Woodlawn people, who assign
the murders to devilish wickedness, tn,
result of whisky drinking. And yet tn,
man four years ago was pronounced
temperance advocate and was largely in
strumental in procuring the vote by which
the county took advantage of the STATE
local option law. He was n drunkard il
his youth, but reformed upon his mar
riage, in 1871, only to fall again few
years ago.
Excitement near the scene of the muir
der still runs high There was close
scrape to lynching him yesterday than
has yet been made public. When Shcrit
smith arrived there he found the maj
Just captured by the constable, in crow,
of 100 furious men about Cornelius Abra
hams store. Barnes, in his drunken
state was indiscreet enough to miswe
their threats with insults, and called biz
Sam Hassan id puppy. The latte
made rush at him, and had not til
sheriff interviewed, the first blow woul
have followed, which is always the sigma
for the establishment Of mob law.
In the pretty parlor of Barnes ne'
house ut WOODLANDS, with its Brussel
I
pretentious room than is found in mos
farmers houses, lies the body of the nIll
dered boy Arthur. His cousin an
brother-in-law's corpse awaits burial i
the fatherless and husbandless home {
Hopcwell, two miles away.
Barnes wife, who Ind fled to WHINING
ton to escape his violence, came back
her desolatc home and the. body of 1t
favorite son last night. The woman
mastered by terror of her husband MOI
than her grief and expressed the fear thu
he might escape from the Jail and fulfil
I his often avowed purpose of murderir
her. "Many a time l have hidden ava
/. his pistol when he wanted to murd'
people, she said to-day. The secon
son at whom Barnes shot received mel
scratch, although the rim of his hat WI
cut off by the charge MS neatly MS it coul
have been done with knife. As no SIN
from the barrel which murdered the be
Arthur have been found, it is surmist
! that the explosion of the powder caus'
his death. --.....