The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-09
FOUND DEAD.
First a MurderouS As
Sault, Then Suicide.
DARK CRIME At NIGHT
Oscar Barneyback's LifslsSS Form Dis
covered Lying in Third Street.
A BULLET IN HIS BRAIN

He Made a Deadly Assault on a
Woman Under the Cover of the
Darkness and Then Hurried
Away to Commit a Suicides
Crime Shots That Startled the
Residents on Locust Street and
Then on bird street Excitod
Crowds Quickly Gathered at the
Scene of the Tragedy-A Man
With Murder in His Heart Who
Is Believed to Have Been Insane.
About 1920 o'clock last night the
| people residing near the corner Of Lo-
Gust and Fifth streets were startled
by the successive shots of a revolver.
At the same time, several people in the
neighborhood heard the shouts of a
woman who, apparently. was scream
ing for help. The neighbors rushed
from their homes. There they met peo-
pie who in company, were passing
down Locust street; and the first act in
what proved to be a tragedy was
pomptly cleared up.
At the hour in question. Mrs. f. r.
Catlin, who had been a caller at the
house of a friend, was on her way
home. She was in company with three
people, one OF them a gentleman who
furnished safe escort for the party
! When this little company approached
the corner of Locust and Fifth. a man
suddenly stepped up and, addressing
himself to Mrs. Catlin. without heed
ing the others, said: Here, / want
you"
Instantly. Mrs. Caflin ran forward
shouting as she ran. The man. who
proved to be Oscar Barneyback, start
cd in fun pursuit, firing his revolver
toward the fleeing woman as he chased
her.
Those who were in the vicinity say
| that three shots or more were fired.
| One OF them took effect in Mrs. Catlin's
! hand. She had tripped. apparently.
| and fallen. Following her. with bru-
| tai purpose and steady aim, Barney
| back emptied one chamber of his re-
volver in the PROSTATE woman's back.
The ball entered her back between the
shoulder blades
1t all happened I'm an instant Bar
| neyback disappeared rapidly down Lo-
Gust street. but there was no error as
ITO his Identity. Meanwhile several
men, who had hastily thrown on wraps
enough TO permit them 10 face the
keen air of the cold night, were on
the scene. Mrs. Catlin was able, after
a time. to be assisted to her home in
Oak street. three blocks away, and
Drs Spelman and Mckenzie were
summoned.
Meanwhile. with all possible speed,
the news of the shooting was brought
down town by persons who were look
ing for the police. on short notice sew
eral men fastened to the scene of the
shooting in order TO get their bearings
for the pursuit Of Barneyback. In less
than 10 minutes the news of the affair
! had gone the length of Main street,
and scores of people were out, ready
and anxious TO join in the pursuit.
! The would-be murderer was loudly de-
| nounced for his cowardly act. and his
/ recent boasts and threats OF what he
| proposed to do were vividly recalled-it
would have gone hard with the man
! had he fallen alive into the hands of
1.-THE crowd last night.
While hundreds OF people were hast
fly casting about trying to decide on
the best course to pursue in the effort
to run Barneyback down, the residents
near the corner OF Walnut and Third
streets were startled with the report
/ of two pistol shots. This was about
4 1910 O'Clock; the scene was about five
/ blocks from the place where the first
shooting occurred. Several people liv-
ing on Third street yentured out in the
4 darkness. and after a time, the word
spread that the body OF a man lay in
the road and between the street car
/ tracks.
This information sped on its way 10
the center Of town. Those who heard
| IT guessed what had happened. and n
| stampede through Third street started
| instantly. The fleet ones, who outran
| the others. were the first to discover
Barneyhack stretched on the ground.
with blood flowing from a wound i'm
. the head. lie had sent a bullet through
+ one temple; il came out Of the opposite
temple. making a clean-cut wound
/ Barneyback must have been prostrated
/ J. minutes or longer before anyone ap-
preached him.
/ The crowd that gathered about the
place where the man lay soon nun bar-
| el hundreds Finally his body was
placed in the urH-rtak-r's wagon and
| removed. II IS said that his heart
| seemed 10 be beating when b" was
| picked up. but he was pronounced dead
when the undertaking rooms were
! reached. Acting Coroner J. VI. Kenne-
dy took ca-rg. If the suicides effects.
Earney1acE has lived In Auacou IA
since 1880. He was a printer. lie hal
/ constant work in tho standard Office
/ until last spring. when Improvements
! IN the mechanical department of the
/ office made several changes necessary.
/ with the result that i- was retired lie
had been = M. y teMpeIate hab!ts