The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-08
TYPEWRITER TRAGEDY
Shot the Girl He Loved Then
HI led Himself.
RGil IANIT NLnC OAnnEn
BRILLIANT CHAS. BARBER
A WASHINGTON PATENT ATTOR-
NEY OF FINE PROMISE.
DYING FOR LOVE OF DOROTHY
Miss Squi e, Had Been His Typewriter,
Since Which Time He Had Pur-
sued Her--The Statement
Left by Him.
Left by Him.

Washington, d. c., June 7.-Charles
Barber, patent attorney, who had gain
ed much notoriety of late by his eccentric
actions, shot Miss Dorothy e. Squires this
morning as she was ON her waq to the of
flee where she was employed as a stenO-
grapher and typewriter, and thinking he
had killed her, blew out his own brains
Mis- Squires formerly worked for Barber
as a stenographer and upon leaving his
employ, he annoyed her with his atten-
tiOns, threatening to injure her if she
would not permit him to call. Finally the
matter became so serious that she had to
appeal to the courts for protection and he
was pla ced 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 announced that he would do
something which they both would regret.
BARRIERS persistent attentions to the
young woman have caused several
scenes. A few weeks ago her brother at
tackled him on the streets agd administer
ed a sound thrashing.
Barber was hard drinkel and an in
yeterate gambler who made several futile
efforts to reform at the instance of friends
also his lack of steadiness and 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 said:
II 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 stenograpehr
and typewriter. l employed her. She fell
in love with me at once and l with her;
she is bright, accomplished and was de-
voted TO me, but very jealous
Barber then complains that friends of
Miss Squires had influenced her against
him
Il am simply insane and dying for love
OF her. / have not always done right, but
loved her better than 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 to this said: Il was born
in New York; was an orphan at the age
of three years; had a step-mother and
left there for Washington at the fifteen
studied law and was associated with
Gen. Benjamin +. Butler for rhe past
five years of his life. | have bright pros
poets to open up a law office with a
good man in New York. but l cannot
live to do it. | gave President Mckinley
St. Bernard dog, and stood well with
him. May God pity and forgive us all"
His reference to Mr.. Mckinley grew
out of the fact that he sent him an inn
mense St. Bernard several weeks ago.
Another statement left by Barber
reads:
Sadness and anxiety seem TO be in
creasing upon me. Like cattle in a burn
ing stable, cling to what c.aSunlcs me,
to the solitary life which does ME so
much 'Il"m. | let myself lie dcvourcl
by an inward sufferipg. My old
self, the d'eams which usel "a haIiht me,
passionate impulses. high aspirations, all
revived IN me at once with unexpected
force. he dread lest sh0ud have
missed my 1estinr lnl stiie,l any true
nature. lest | shnul3 have buried myself
alive, passed through me like a shudder.
The free beng wha alantors
the conll ct of himself yields to Satan
in the III, raj world there is no ground
without a master. and the waste lands
belong tu tlre evil on. } have carried
tLese { conflicting rXtrac+,s with me
trying ID grasp tn. ilt:'" anJ s,;itrol
myself, 1t im Sirlgsie IS to nnch.
Il cannot rally, | IN: FRY, snd an
not. / oa'i''a ] act the .iis - W."
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