Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES.
Shocking Tragedy at Springfield

\ shocking tragedy took place at the Hotel
Warwick in Springfield last Monday night when
George r. Barr. the proprietor of the hotel shot
his wife and then committed suicide with the
one remaining bullet in his revolver. The shoot
Ing was probably done about % O'Clock Monday
night, but the tragedy was NOT discovered until
after % O'Clock Tuesday morning, when the
steward at the hotel went TO tine apartments of
MIR and Mrs Barr tu find uut why they had not
appeared. The sight which confronted huu was
"a ehaNtiy one. Mrs Barr dressed On fun street
costume. lay ia a reclining posture. ia an easy
chair. her face covered with Clotted blood
Stretched before her on the carpet lay the body
OF her husband. his head resting in a pool 0f
blood. aud near his right hand lay the revolver
Everything indicated that MIR. Barr had first shot
his wifi, and then shot himself over the right
There was no appearance of a struggle and every
thing would indlrate that teath came instantly.
The general blirt is that jealousy was the cause
OF the crime Barr was Il years old. and has
three children hy former wife living. H. had
led a wild, fast life, given to cards, women aud
wine His second wife was - ears old his mar
riage to her having taken place about year ago
| contrary tn the wish of her mother, Mrs \. +
Annabp. and her other friends. She had led
gay life. but promised to drop her irtatons ON
her marriage to Barr. Gossip had been busy
however of late, with her drives and companion
ships with other men, and far aS the secret can
be solved herein lay the motive for thu crime
The chances are thai there had been a quarrel, IN
course Of which Barr placed the revolver clnse Ia
his wtes cheek. firing four shots into her head.
and then, standing in front Of her dead body.
ending his own lie with the MIN. IL - Strbnge
that the shots were not heard. hut the fact that
no else slept on the second iour of the hotel.
where the rooms of the Bars were, accounts for
the fact.
The golden wedding Of Deacon aud Mrs. Ed
ward Graves of Charlrmont celebrated on
Thanksgiving day.
Charles Marshall, president Of the Pyncbon
national bank, and leading man in financial
circles in Springfield Diet last Friday.
Willie Dehpy, a Northampton hoy. leaned over
to stroke the head of a COW a few days ago. when
the animal suddenly threw up her head and one
Of her horns plowed through the boys right side
| uhctng wound six inches long. He will prob
/ ably recover.
The four-story brick building ON Worthington
street, Springfield, occupied by \. y. Mayo n Co.
paper stock and cotton waste dealers was dam
aged by fire Friday to the extent of Sll,OpO \
dozen women at work ON the second floor were
cut of from escape 10y the stairs, but were ear,
rird in safety down the ladders 10y the tircmen.
The business mems association Of Greenfield
has raised about SAU,O to secure the removal of
the shoe firm Of George c. Hail & Co. from Fish
Kill. y y, to that place, and the firm has signed
an agreement for five wears lease of the shop
/ formerly occupied by Wells Bros. & Co. 1t is
| expected that employ ment will be given to -
| hands.
Franklin county people interested in the
| will case Of Michael Kelher, a former Greenfield
| boy who became a prosperous real estate agent
and died a short time ago leaving an estate valued
/ at 100000. John Kelliher. foreman in the Wiley
] 4 Russell works at Greenfield. and a niece in
Boston, We're the bentticiaries named in the will
! The members of the family who propose to con
/ test the will brothers living in Turner's Falls
/ Greenfield and Chicago and a sister of Ltyden