The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-13
Il WICHITA MAN KILLED.
B,rney Way. a Former Wichita B.rber, Bitrs
the Dust In Texas.

| At very late hour last night Sanford
| Franklin Van Wagner coolly entered
! Charles Bray's saloon, on North Travis
| street, stepped around the quarter partl-
| ton which screens for the west end OF the
bar. Barney Way. a young man whose
| occupation was like that OF Van Wagon
| err. barber, was standing at the bar, TO
| which he had just stepped from game OF
billiards. Van Waggoner. without a
| word. drew a pistol, small 52-caiIbre ana
| fred four times Way wheeled around,
| feeled and fell, but IN a moment got to his
| feet and ran, splitting out great moutnf
| of blood rs be went, to finally fall and ex-
| pire in the rear court of the saloon. Van
| Waggoner walked quietly out to the
street and when arrested by Policeman
| James Anderson still had the pistol
in his hand He had very little to
| say, bu. the few words he said to the
officers were enough to show that domestic
trouble was at the bottom OF 1t all.
The limp and blood-cOvered body of the
dead man was placed on an improvlsed
stretcher and taken to the undertaking
establishment of A. Harrington, North
Crockett street These are the unm-
belished facts of the murder, man
slaus liter, or whatever the courts may
finally determine it to be. There was an
idle throng ou The streets for while until
the undertaken locked his door, the saloon
in which it occurred closed ana then the
excitement died out.
Some mouths since the deceased was
first employed by Van Waggoner TO work
in his barber shop Oh the north side OF the
square. He WAS of rather dlsslpated
habits and his employment OF rather
intermittent nature. Two or three weeks
ago he was finally discharged from en-
pioyment at the snop. Since that time he
has been at work for j. b. Beaver, on
North Travis street.
That all has not been harmony and
peace at the Van Waggoner home, Oh
Pacific street, for some time has perhaps
become more generally known than "
usually the case. The eldest son this
morning said:
Mother and father were not on as good
terms as they ought to have been. and 1t
became so disagreeable to me that / left
home some weeks ago. | was ut work at
the Diamond mills last night when
policeman came to me and told me what
had happened, aud asked me to go and tell
my mother"
Charles Newton, whose wife is Mrs Van
Waggoner's sister, said to Democrat re-
porter this morning:
"WhiIe of course / am shocked, / am
not surprised. Van Waggoner took Way
in, virtually out of the gutter, and what
ever the facts in the Case really are, Van
has for some time considered Way TO
quite an extent the cause OF MIS- ZONES
tic troubles More than two weeks
ago be told Way never again to
come or be seen about his house
as long as he lived. He has asked friends
to try the chief OF police and see if he (the
chief could not stop Way. But That
method was considered out of order"
From several sources the reporter also
learns that Way had made remarks on the
streets, calculated to make Van Waggoner
justified in trying to keep him away from
mis- home.
The deceased was man o. perhaps 80
years of age. His home was originally IN
Michigan. From thence he went to
Wichita, Kan, where his wife died and
left him with two little children who are
now in the hands of some of his relatives,
whose whereabouts are to no one in Sher-
man known. Neither are the whereabouts
of his people in Michigan known. He was
buried in the Potter field today.
The above is taken from the Sherman
Democrat aud reprinted IN hopes that his
friends here may see it and learn of his
fate. The BARRIERS here do not know him.