Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-10-08
LUCKLESS WIVES.
Three Of Them Fall Victims to
Their Husbands Anger.
A Murderer in Illinois Fooled in
an Attempt at Suicde-Tragedies
tin Wisconsin and California.
nARNErr's AWFUL DEED.

BARNETT's AWFUL DEED
MORRIS Ill, Oct. 7.-out in peaceful
Wauponsee Monday afternoon William
Barnett of Chicago, murdered his wife.
He set on fire the house where he COM
mitted the crime. He reeled away
from the flaming structure and hurled
himself in a little creek But its
waters refused to drown him. and with
the revolver his hand yet gripped he
fred two bullets into his breast
And he yet lives and talks
about his crime. The people of
Wauponsee are horror-stricken as
they have not been since Maxwell was
hanged here in Morris year ago. Mrs.
Barnett was a Wauponsee girl, and the
people there knew her when She was
pretty Miss Bishop, and when a Chi
cago business man came to court her
and took her home with him as
Mrs. Barnett That was only four
years ago But he drank liquor
and they quarreled and she came
home to her mother at Wauponsee.
Monday Mrs. Bishop went to Chicago.
There Barnett must have seen her
for when she stepped from the
train at Morris Monday afternoon he
left the coach with the crowd, but lit
tie way behind her. He was very drunk,
his face was flaming and he walked
with difficulty. From the train he
went to a livery stable He hired a
horse and buggy and dashed the ami
NAL down the drive of the barn and in
to the street. Then he ratified away to
Wauponsee As he tossed in the buggy
he tilted liquor out of bottle from
time to time into his mouth. When
the crazy horse was pulled up at Mrs
Bishops door at Wauponsee after an
Smile flashing, the man who jumped
from the seat was drunken lunatic
Inside the house Mrs. Barnett was
gossiping with her cousin, Mrs Henry
Gorham, who had dropped in to make
an afternoon call When the crazy
Barnett staggered into the room the
women screamed. Mrs. Barnett did
not arise very far out OF her chair.
Barnett, with an oath, shot her and
she fell to the floor dead.
Mrs. Gorham tainted Then the
drunken murderer rushed through the
house, striking matches on the furni-
ture and tossing them into the curtains
and among papers, leaving a shroud of
fire for his murdered wife He reeled
and ran down the hill behind the house
and across the fields. man who was
shocking corn saw him tumble over a
fence and hurl himself down into a
creek.
The whole town was quickly aroused.
Men ran to the burning house and only
glanced at the two little children whose
mother was killed and whose father
was wallowing in the run, as they
stood whimpering with fear near the
door. The men dragged the dead
woman and the unconscious one into
the dooryard, where the latter soon
revived. No more developments being
possible there, the excited crowd
ran toward the creek. Barnett
still struggled in the shallow waters
When he saw them coming he shook
his dripping revolver at them and
cursed. Then when they showed their
boats into the stream he pushed the
weapon into his breast and fired twice
The crowd seized him and dragged him
up on the grass. He was still con-
scious and gave little sign of suffering
They hauled him into Wauponsee and
the town marshal took charge of him
His wounds are not necessarily fatal.
the doctor at Wauponsee says. Bar
nett is willing to talk to any body of his
crime, but he gives no reasons and
makes no excuses.
BLEW OUT HIS BRAINS.
GREEN BAY, Wis, Oct Victor
Lambeau, contractor of this CITY.
shot his wife and then committed sui
eide Monday. The shooting happened
at the corner of Main street and Web
ster avenue. The couple met by acct
dent, and without saying anything
Lambeau shot her through the neck,
and then turning the weapon upon
himself blew out his brains. Mrs
Lambeau said he shot her because she
would not give him two checks for
500 each which she had. The woman
will live
CASE IN CALIFORNIA.
SACRAMENTO. Cal, Oct. IA black
smith named Richard van Olinda muir
dered his wife Monday and then killed
himself. His wife had instituted pro-
ceedings for divorce, alleging cruel
treatment. MonaHy he met her on the
street, when he asked her TO DIR the
proceedings and live with him again.
She refused and he shot her twice.
killing her instantly. He then fired
two shots at himself and died soon
after.
Fifteen Townships Swept Bare.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mimi, Oct. RE
ports are coming in Of the hurricane in
the northern pineries The best calcu
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