The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-01
IT LOOKS like MURDER
1 Butte Painter Charged With MURDER
Ing His Wife Yesterday Morning.
Bls Little Chbld Te.ttdea That Her Father
Did the -Barriere says THAT
His wtf~ Shot Herself-COs
ntctlng Testimony.
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BUTTE, Nov. a.-The little green paint
ed. one-story house on the south side of
Rast Galena street, ana numbered 80, was
the scene this morning OF what the evil
dence shows to have been q murder. Tho
house il divided into three small rooms.
The one room opening into the street Is "a
cigar store; this opens into q rear room.
used as a sitting room, and still further to
the rear Is n sleeping room. This room has
an entrance from the rear OF the house.
The rooms were occupied by Mrs. Julia
Barriere, who this morning was found
dead i'm the sleeping room. The only wit
nesses of her death were her husband,
Joseph Barriere and their little daughter
not quite four years old.
About 10 minutes past 0 O'Clock this
nafninH, ~neighbors in the vicinity OF
No. SO, Galena street, heard a shot, and u
heavy fall, coming from that house. A
moment later. the pretty little four-year-
old girl, whose name is Brazean Barriere,
crying and screaming, ran to the adjoin-
ing house of Lizzie Hall. n colored woman,
and cried.
'Oh, Miss Lizzie. papa has shot
mammal"
walking, westward on East Galcna street,
from the scene of death. met Officer
James about fifty feet from the corner of
Saiena and Main. ..,. u.;,.,,
I had - little dispute, and she, was shot
Did you shoot ier?' asked the oiilcer
The officer searched Barricre but there
was no gun on him. The officer walked
With narriGrs to the hon.e whsrs the dead
The woman was on the floor resting
against a chair. Blood covered the lower
evidently not lived three minutes. A bull
kt had entered her lower jaw on the left
side and is supposed To have penetrated
Meanwhile n crowd was rapidly gather
ing about the place and someone outside
was out there under the door step, A
bulldog revolver of A caiiber was found
H %bau the do snes sssp at the rear q the the house. @sn
s being fame. under sask Ba tns Is, s,r ,fe co oias,
thc room when his wife jumped ON him
with a revolver in her hand. He
her arm and in the scuific, he said. the re-
Mr.. and Mrs. Barricre are French Cana
dians. They were married about four
rierc had previously been married and
has three children. two of them by a for
% mere h"i hax. BEEN Mr; ana arre sssi Bar a
half dozen times for quarrel
ing, and fighting with each other,
~ agree. jealousy Is said to have caused
the trouble. Mr.. Barrierc was anxious To
q nave his wife return with him Ia Canada.
Others who seem to have taken the other
side in the long-existing quarrel between
the two, say the husband encouraged the
was n weli-forned woman and in her
younger days was handsome. In her
gold watch, and several IN
rings and earrings. She was 81 years old.
na%nds. has rs 80 BLACK black I hair ~ ana m a"Sa, ho
He is n painter and is engaged at building
u house in South Butte.
Several important matters tending to
throw light ON the matter were developed
at the one inquest this afternoon
while several other things trabspired
which tsst1 tn throw the matter into tlpelp-
er mystery than ever. AT first the testi-
mony seemed quite conclusive against
tlle prisoner, but other witnesses revealed
facts which showed that the prisoner
might be telling the truth. Officer James
Barriere said 70 him. He said he had
known the couple a long time. they had
had many quarrcis together and been ar
rested, hut he had never found u gun OH
The little rosy-cheeked daughter of the
Sho was eating candy and seemed abashed
"He sho. my .muddsr." said the four
"whal did he shoot her with ?" asked
Juryman Carroll.
"He shoot her wild a guu.'
"Did your have n gun p
The little girl shook her head: The fIir
ther information was elected from TN.
his pocket and shot il right in her mother's
face. She said, little by little, that hel
father put the gun out the door and alse
"Point your finger where the man i.
sitting who shot your mamma said thu
coroner.
The little one turned in her chair ano
amilingly, not conscious apparently OF tis
Importance of her testimony. pointed hel
wee finger ut her father. The latter was
weeping. and holding n maroon coloret
handkerchief to his eyes.
The testimony of Alice Short was takeI
~ was of little Importance. Edwars
- ,tsleeves testified that he was in a sa
-slx-sil at the corner of Galeua and Wyorn
ing streets. He heard "a pistol shot, an,
rushing out doors, saw u policeman goin:
into Nc. Sd Galena street. He followet
into the house and found Officer jaime
and the prisoner there. He asked wha
the matter was and was told that the wa
man had shot herself. The witness aslkes
where the gun was and the prisoner sal,
no supposed that IL was under her wher'
she fell. A coiorcd man found the gun
outside near the doorstep. Ii was a,bul
dog, 4tcalibre. One chamber had beer
discharged, the rest were empty. L
looked To the witness like "a gun he ha'
sold to Fred La Chapcllc some time age
but he couldn't be positive.
Blanche De Jlrdiu said: Last mig
Mrs. Barrierc came to- my house and toll
me she expected to- he killed. She wa
very nervous and couldn't mold still. Sh
took a glass of gin. She kept rcpeatin
that her husband was going to Kill her