Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-22
A Drunken Husbands Crime.

ELDoRADO, Kan, Aug. 12.-One of the
most brutal crimes which has ever stained
the records of this section was perpetrated
here early yesterday morning and its
origin is directly traceable to the non-en-
forcement of the Prohibitory law in this
city, the probable murderer being jointist
and under the influence of liquor at the
time he attempted to kill two unprotected
women.
About one O'Clock yesterday morning
Robert Snyder, whose wife bad left him
because of his maltreatment of her, wents
to the house of his mother law in q
dangerous state of Intoxication and de.
manded admission. This being refused he
broke the door open and entered, revolver
in hand.
The two women were found by the in
furiated brute. crouched in a corner of
their bedroom. An instant later q sharp
report rang out and Mrs. Snyder, givinga
piercing scream fell to the floor with a
bullet through the right breast-probably
fatally wounded.
The fiend then turned upon the mother
OF his wife and standing at close quarters
fired full upon her. The bullet struck the
poor old woman in the abdomen. and
ranged directly through the body. There
is not one chance in thousand that she
p can recover.
Snyder attempted to escape as soon as
he saw the terrible effect of his two shots
but the firing had attracted the attention
of officers and neighbors and he was cap.
tured and locked up. He did not express
the least contrition for his terrible crime,
but rather seemed to glory in it He had
served a term In the State penitentiary
for robbing bank at Wichita and his
general reputation was not of the best
Last evening all hope for either of the
women had been abandoned by the physi-
clans
Fatal Natural Gas.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 10.-By an ex.
plosion of a natural gas we'll on the South
Side last night two persons were killed,
two fatally injured and a dozen or more
badly wounded. Booth & Flynn, con-
tractors, had just completed laying q
thirty-inch gas main and were testing it
by means of compressed air. When a
pressure of It's pounds had been reached
the head cap on the end of the pipe blew
out carrying with it large amount of
timber and debris. hundred or more
workmen from adjacent iron mills re-
turning home had stopped to watch
the experiment The debris was
hurled into the crowd as though a bomb
exploded. The killed were John Miller.
twenty-three years, single; John O'Con.
nor, twenty-five years, single Injured,
John Grenin, internally, cut about the
head. will die; Henry Reich, skull frac.
tured, injured internally. can not recover:
William Greene, injurned internally and
cut about the head and body: James Hem
drick, St Louis, both legs fractured, head
cut; John b Raney, millwright severely
hurt about the head and hurt internally.
Among those sustaining painful cuts and
bruises were James Duffy. Thomas Welch,
Frank Doyle William Jones. Martin Gar
vey, John Schwalter and Severance Mu.
SIGH
An Old Man Robbed.
BELvIDERE, N. J., Aug. 14-William
Shurtz, a farmer. went to ton and
drew 81, 800 out of the bank. On his way
home he was asked to ride by a stranger
and accepted the invitation. Soon after.
ward Shurtz and his Commander. -. ,..x