The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-08
LAWYER USES LEAD FOR LOVE.
SUICIDE FOLLOWS AN ATTEMPT TO
KILL A GIRL HE ADORED.

The Bullets He Fires at Her Wound
Her in the Back of the Head and
Hnnd-ThinkinG He Had Killed
Her He Blows Out His Brains-The
Shooting Occurs ns She Is on Her
Way to an Ofnce Where She Was
a StenOgrapher.
washington, June 7.-Charles Barbour, a
patent attorney, who had gained much no
toriety of late by his eccentric actions,
shot Miss Dorothy T. Squires this morn
ing as she was on her way to the office
where she is employed as a stenographer
and typewriter and, thinking he had kill
ed her, blew out his own brains.
Miss Squires was shot in the back of the
head and the hand. She will recover.
Miss Squires formerly worked for Bar
bour as a stenographer, and, upon leaving
his employ, he annoyed her with his at
tentions, threatening to injure her if she
would not permit him to CALI
Finally the matter became so serious
that she had to appeal to the courts for
protection, and he was placed under bonds
to keep the peace. He seems not to have
desisted, however, for since then the girl
had received several threatening letters
from him, in the last of which he announc-
ed that he would do something which they
would both regret.
Barbours persistent attentions to the
young woman have caused several scenes.
A few weeks ago her brother attacked
him on the street and administered a
sound thrashing.
Barbour was hard drinker and an in
| veterate gambler who made several futile
| efforts to reform at the instance of friends
| who recognized his brilliant talents, bat
| also his lack of steadiness of purpose in
| life.
He left several letters showing that he
| had premeditated to-day's tragedy. He
| loved notoriety. In a statement to the
public he says: Il shall kill Miss Dorothy
! Squires and myself tomorrow if she will
not consent to marry me. over five years
| ago she came to me for work as a stenog-
| rapher and typewriter; 1 employed her.
! She fell in love with me at once and with
| her; she is bright, accomplished and was
devoted to me, but very jealous"
Barbour then complains that friends of
Miss Squires had influenced her against
him.
Il am simply insane and dying for love
of her. l have not always done right
| but l loved her better than 1 knew, and
| always came back to her. We are both
| sensitive and high strung. She is my very
! life and will be my death"
| A postscript, added to this said II was
| born in New York; was an orphan at the
| age of 3 years; had a step-mother and
| left there for Washington at the age Of
1 10; studied law, and was associated with
! Gen. Benjamin +. Butler for the laaA bve
years of his life. / have bright prospects
| to open UP an office with good man in
/ New York, but I cannot live. to do 1t.
| gave President Mckinley a Saint Bernard
! dog, and stood well with him. May God
| pity and forgive US all"
His reference to President Mckinley
| grew out of the fact that he sent him an
| immense st. Bernard several weeks ago.
Another statement left by Barbour
| reads: Sadness and anxiety seem to be
! increasing upon me- Like cattle In a
! burning stable I cling to what consumes
/ me, to the solitary life which does me 50
! much harm. l let myself be devoured by
! inward suffering. My old self. the dreams
which used 70 haunt me, passionate i'm
/ pulses, high aspirations, all revived In me
/ at once with unexpected force. The dread
/ lest ] should have missed my destiny and
stifed my true nature lest 1 should have
/ buried myself alive, passed through me
| like a shudder. The free being, who
! abandOns the conduct of himself, yields
| himself to satan; in the moral world
| there is no ground without a master and
! the waste lands belong to the evil one. l
/ have carried two conflicting extracts
with me trying to grasp the latter and
control myself, but the struggle is too
| much.
! 81 cannot rally, am sorry and 1 am
not. believe I act the divine will"