The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-28
BARRIERE ON THE STAND


Ex0m9009t0Ds
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
BUTTE. Dec. 27.-This was the eighth
AZ 10 O'Clock this morning Joseph Bar
riere. the defendant, was put ON the stand
In q owd court room. He was ON the
stand all the The substance OF
his testimony was as follows: ~ was I'D
years old December IS. ! was married to
Julia Barriere by Judge Mediation three
years ago last June. ] had no children ny
her. About three months before this
down In South Butte, bat used to come up
town to sleep, not every night but three or
four nights q week. i was working at the
Montana Central depot in South
Butte: Ms wife at that time
street. For three or four days preceding
the shooting I was there In Galena street
every lay. I was painting some of the
time, painting the shelving In the store.
hanging curtains, putting in new carpets,
and fixing up the store generally. The
night before the shooting ] had got the
carpets at Sands & Boyce's store. We
were putting a new carpet in the middl,,
last saw my wife about IL o'clock. 1t wac
when Officer Leland and I came out ot
hccr and 1 went into the saloon and shook
dice for a drink and when 1 came out
with him I went through to the kitchen
ukkSA VI "a DthS Atio Stht ~ hstNsH
The door of the kitchen H. about 60 feet
hack of the house my wife lived in. L.
Children shf Ge@'n sle wsri in 'w "ne "f bed there anG j
slept i'm the other. As l WAS e Iming dowi,
Park street that evening. Officer Leland
about me, and I said, no. l had none
Then he asked to search and 1 let him Il.
SO . Ard he si dI%n 4 s ssns ! IN h sSe n cabin back q.
the house. My wife had asked me i'm til,
evening when / quit work to call her early
About z o'clock 1 got up and went to th'
house and raped on the window, the
S back s sn% pa locked an som sh po.s ssla % fsr break sD I.
fast and she would be up. l built a fir,
The two larger children were up and TIN
dress. Ith n started for the house to see
n,, M,s: b ,siers sa T !; drR p The sss SS1 so wa.
body go on of the front door, but my at
tention W.. attracted to my wife, who
She hmrr; d toward me with her hand
down besia her. She ran up and said
something o me, but / didn't understand
attack me. As she ~appro.ched me STA.
lifted her hand from her side and showed
that i grabbed her by the wrists. crossed
her arms, twisted them around. showed
her back and pushed her. As l did SO !
heard the crack OF n revolver. She fell
against the partition by the bed. i.nm.-
diately ran out of the front door and wen
I'd NpDlcer James htlu gave UlySstlI up.
awe were married three years ago and
lived together a few mouths; Then ieft
her and went to Canada. She followed
me and induced me to live with her again
We went to Chicago and lived there eight
months. Then 1 left her for California
I was there a few months and came Il
Butte. She was i'm Helena and came oycl
to Butte and coaxed me tai live with Incl
again. ! had 500 and invested il i'm prop
erty i'm Galena street and built the shacks
money. Afterward when we quarrelct
would stay by the $50 1 had invested
1 told her il she would give IN,
500 for my interest, l would go and SIN
to give me n cent, and said she would ge
rid OF me any way. 1 never asked he
for money after that. Last June l decide.
TO her all my right to her mining propert.
i'm Jefferson county. Once went out an'
talked ~inDocently with n woman living il
jected. She said she would paralyze mn,
II 1 ever talked to her again. But one
tns T for a pla ne. Ny wife seu Saw S" rs. picke'
up AN axe and chased me. i lodged be
hind q door and she shivered the doc
Every time she asked me to leave l did SC
l once rented u house on Arizona stree
and went to nv,m. there ena she came me. a ute
dow. She got me To live with her agait
~ never saw the revolver before.
never owned il and never knew where
came from. never saw one behind l.
Chapclle's bar and was not i'm La Char
elle'S that night except wnen La SnaleIl
was i'm. I had u revolver hut never ca
ried it. I kept it i'm my trunk at Sout
Butte. never threatened Juiia's life q
carried any weapon never paid any "a
tention to her threats. I the time of tn
shooting, Little Zuni was not i'm the hous'
No one was there but US two."
This afternoon u plan of the houss
yard and cabin with measurements wa
submitted to the court. The attorney
then sunned up, speeches being UNITE
to a half hour each. Attorney O'Donne
spoke first, followed by Attorney Haldor
for the defendant, and then County A
torney Baldwin closed. Judge Newkir
reserved his decision until Tomorrow u
ternoon at 4 o'clock.
TrIei tn Burn Her Out.