The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-05
THAT SHOT DID 1T
MRS. GIBBONS DIES OF HER WOUNDS
ATTHE ST. FRANCIS.
Had Fever from Which She Might Have
Recovered il ii Had Not Been for Loss
of Vitality Occasioned by wounds
Barney Gibbons Goes to See His Dead
Vife-He Tell How He Walked and
Talked With Wife and Children In His
Dreams When the Clock Struck One--He
Can See it All Now When Too Late.

Dreams When the Clock Struck One--He
Can See it All Now When Too Late.
Mrs Barney Gibbons died at ST. Fran
els hospital Sunday night at p. m. of
the wounds inflicted by deadly revol-
yer in the hands Of her husband.
The announcement was unexpected
as the public had been given TO under
stand that she was in fair way TO re-
cover. Ten days ago when a reporter
pital the Sisters said that Mrs. Gibbons
was getting along nicely and unless
blood poison should take place she
would soon be up again.
1t is doubtful if Mrs. Gibbons was
more surprised when her husband drew
his deadly revolver and commenced to
fire at her than was Barney Gibbons
Sunday night when Tailor Charley
Horner told him that his wife was dead.
Barney desired to go and see the re-
mains of his wife and after getting
and Deputy Johnson and Under Sheriff
Simmons took Barney TO the st. Fran
els hospital where Mrs. Gibbons had
consent of Father Then Sheriff Royse
died
The officers say that Gibbons broke
down and wept like a child and declared
that no punishment was too severe 10
atone for the crime he had committed.
A reporter for the Eagle called at the
county Jail last evening and was shown
to Barney Gibbons cell in the rotary.
Gibbons sat at the door OF his cell talk
ing pleasantly with some Of his old
neighbors from the West Side.
When Gibbons was brought in the
morning of the fatal shooting there was
a maniacle look in his eyes that was
not apparent yesterday. His eyes were
clear and he looked like a man thor
oughly satisfied with his surroundings
He talked of the death of his wife
and said it was great surprise to him
Just as long as the people said moth
ing about it, he said, Il supposed she
was all right"
Where are your children, Barney?"
''They are with their grandmother
Mrs. Pat Mcdonald. they are all right
while they are with her"
Mrs. Mcdonald will feel like prosecu-
ting you for this, will she not?"
THAT is very likely, but they will
not do one any injustice. My wife would
never have prosecuted me if she had
lived
together again if she had recovered
and you have been cleared?'
II don't know as either Of US ever
thought of that
"Well it was a bad business was it
not?"
ooh, yes, I can Sc all that now when
it is too late. But you see j had lost
so much sleep thinking about my chill
dren and wondering what ON earth
/ should do that did not think of these
things then s.-
My wife or children are here nearly
every day with me. Now you do not
understand that do you? Well every
night last week up until Saturday night
l walked and talked with my wife.
too, for every time when the walks
were ended the clock here in the Jail
would strike one. But she did not
come Saturday night nor last night.
When Barney Gibbons told of walk
ing and talking with his children his
face lit up with a smile and his eyes
sparkled with pleasure but when he
said 'She did not come Saturday night
or last night" he looked sorrowful and
leaned forward and put his face in his
hands.
He was anxious to know when his
wife would be buried but said he would
not attend the funeral. To ind out
Just how Barney feels about this affair
is something that can never be found
refer to the death of his wife unfeeling-
ly then with sorrow.
The sisters at ST. Francis hospital
said that Mrs. Gibbons was taken SUD
denly worse on Sunday and that she
forgave her husband.
DR.. Cave who has attended Mrs. Glib
bons since she was shot on the 14th day
of last January, said last night that she
she had a fever which he would pro-
Ylounce typhoid malaria and he did not
consider that she died from her wounds
though she might have recovered II II
had not been for the wounds. he said
the wounds reduced her vitality and
made the fever more fatal
The post mortum was commenced
last evening and will probably be CON
tinued for several days as CoroneloMc-
CoIister has expressed determine
ton to find out all possible about the
case. 800
The funeral of Mrs. Gibbons VIII De
held from the cathedral today at 10
O'Clock