Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-11
KILLED BY HIS NEICHBOR.
Edmund King, a Wealthy Farmer,
Shot Dead.
TREsPAsslNo CATTLE DID 1T.
Ran Away With n Young Woman
Murderer Hull Gets one Year
A Boy Shoots His Sis
y tcr's Head on.
Two Farmers, Fatal Feud.

BROKEN Bow, Ncb., Dec, t0.-lSpecial
Telegram to The BEE - This morning,
about 9 o'clock, Edmund King was killed by
Ed. Demcrritt, three and one-half miles
from this city. Demerritt was hunting
chickens, and his ff~teen.year-old nephew
was husking corn in Demerritt's field, when
some Of Kings cattle stralcd into the corn.
Dcmerritt started the cattle toward the
pound. King rode up and started them home.
Dcmerritt drove them back. The boy states
that King said, "Ill fix you calling Demer-
rift a vile name, and placing his hand be-
hind him. Dcmcrritt raised his gun and
fired. Horse and rider fell, instantly killed.
Thu murderer did not even approach bis
victim, but drove nine mead of the cattle
toward town, and was met by the sheriff.
The bodies were ound where they fell. Mr..
King had no weapon. Both men came from
Illinois nine years ago. Kings cattle have
made trouble before. Last spring a damage
suit was brought by Dcmerrltt, resulting in
Kings favor. King was a prominent citi.
zen, highly respected, and fine looking and
portly. Demerfitt is n four-foot dwarf,
weighing ninety pounds. Great indignation
prevails, and the jail is closely guarded,
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
BRoKEN Bow, Neb., Dec. l0.-[Special
Telegram to The BEE. Edmund King, a
wealthy and influential farmer living three
miles east of this city, was shot and instantly
killed this morning at about 10 O'Clock by Ed
Deinerritt. For several years there has
been growing up q bitter feud between these
parties, whose farms adjoin. Kings cattle
has trespassed repeatedly upon Demcrritt's
~cornhelds, and lawsuits for damages have
followed, and now comes the fatal termina-
ton of all this bad blood. This morning
while Demerritt was gathering corn in his
field, Kings cattle came into the field. De-
merritt started to drive them to town to be
l,a.,N F-. at. pY,,vA Irs,- a-,@ go
horseback and protested against their beng
taken TO town, as he was good for any lam
ages they had done. Demerritt persisted IN
taking them to this city, and King as stoutly
refused to let him. Demerritt,. who is Il
dwarf, after more hot words, fired at King
with a shotgun loaded with buckshot, and
killed him and his horse instantly. Demer-
rift Immediately came to town and gave him
self up. King has been prominently identi-
fled with the county and city since its organ.
~iLation, and has q wide acquaintance to
whom this said news will be a great shock.
Demerrltt will be held for trial in February.
Ran Away With Another Woman.
FREMONT, Neb., Dec, 10.-lSpecial to The
BEE. 1T just became known here to-day
that DR.. Barnes, a veterinary surgeon, who
has been in business in Fremont for three or
four months, has left the country, abandon
ing his wife and taking another woman with
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Schuyler to remain at his fathers house,
who is a physician, during her coming CON
tinement. He returned to this city on Mon |
day evening, bringing with him a young |
woman named Enos. He gave it out here on
his return that while on their way to Schuy- |
Ter his wife was taken sick at North Bend, |
and thai she was taken off the train there |
and driven to the home of Mr.. Enos, north
nf that ,1pnn IA eln pr,e En;,. .,...I r. |
by his father, who had been sent for from |
Schuyler. He further said he had come back
to Fremont after som supplies for his wife, |
and that the young woman had come along |
to help get them, as his wife had tod her |
where they would be found. Barnes and the |
Enos woman left the city the same night, |
supposedly to drive bacl. to the /
Enos place, about eighteen miles from
here. The sequel to the affair came to light
Barnes had taken his wife to his fathers at
Schuyler, as he said he was going to do |!
when they started. Then, on his return to /
Fremont, he stopped off at North Bend and
went to the Enos residence, whore he rep.
that his wife expected to be sick. |
and persuaded Effie Enos to come with him
to Fremont, ostensibly for the purpose of
assisting Mrs. Barnes during her Illness.
When Enos came to this city to-day looking
for his daughter, he found that she had not
been here since the Monday night she came
here with Barnes. The two drove away to-
that night, and they have not been
heard from since. The EnOs girl, though
only seventeen years old, has been married,
but is not living with her husband. She had
an eighteen-month-old babe, which she
with her to Fremont, and which she
took with her when she fled with Barnes.
Before leaving, the horse doctor mortgaged
his veterinary tools to a money lender for
$50, and the team which he ran away with, TO
another for $40. No steps have been taken
to apprehend the pair, or rather the trio, and
probably will not be.