The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-07
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Jealousy and Drink Caused an Awfu
Homicid and Suicide.
A MAN KILLS HIMSELF AND WIFE

MAN KILLS HIMSELF AND WIFE
Were Separated but Were Recon.
ciled and Seemed Happy in
Each Others Company
just Before Shooting.
Barnard Barnes, a young white man
about 25 years Of age, in Augusta,
Ca, shot his wife to death Thursday
morning at the bone Of K. L. Horne,
on GWinnett street, near the exposi-
tion grounds. and then turned the
revolver to his temple and sent bull
let crashing through his own brain.
Turing married life of about five
years the couple have not lived hap
PLY together, and especially during
the past twelve months have they
quarreled frequently because Of the
husbands inebriety and Jealousy he
entertained toward bis wife.
JEALOUSY AND SEPARATION.
About a week ago Mr.. and Mrs.
Barnes parted, the wife going to board
with Mrs. Horne 1t seems that the
cause leading up to the separation was
the fact that Mrs. Barnes was Of a
lively disposition and enjoyed pleasant
association, which angered her hus-
band and created Jealousy in the ex-
treme. He would not remain for a
very long time in one position and
quite frequently came to his home in
a state Of intoxication. When Barnes
was married he was a lineman, but
shortly afterward was given position
with the electic lighting colanany as
trimmer. After remaining in that
position for time be went to work
in the cotton mills, but more recently
took a position with the car repairing
force Of the Central railroad. Satur-
day be secured a position again as a
lineman and, it seems, had affected a
reconciliation with his wife, and they
were to live together again.
DIFFERENCES PATCHED UP.
Wednesday be had an interview with
his wife at her boarding house and
their differences seemed to have been
patched up Wednesday night be went
back, per engagement, and the two
seemed in quite a pleasant mood.
They retired to their room about ~
o'clock and were heard talking and
laughing together for some time.
There was not the faintest suspicion
that what vas then dead past was
to be unearthed, rather the horizon Of
the future for the young folks ap-
peared to be resplendent with radi-
ent hue. In the new position which
Barnes was to have accepted Thurs
day morning be would make good
wage. He vas forgiven for all that
had gone before; for the time, any
way, the demon of jealousy had been
crushed and the love which they had
entertained for each other when they
made the vows to cleave unto each
other until death was fully renewed.
The members Of the household be-
lieved the couple we're wrapped in
peaceful slumber and the rising Of the
morning sun would open to them a
new life.
AWAKENED TO DIE.
Before seven o'clock Thursday
morning they arose and were heard
stirring about in their room. They
we're heard talking earnestly for some
little time, when suddenly, about 7:3O
O'Clock, a pistol shot rang through
the house and the woman screamed.
There were two other shots in quick
succession and the members Of the
household rushed TO the hallway just
in time TO see Mrs. Barnes run out Of
the bedroom in which she and her
husband had spent the night, slam
the door and start to turn out Of the
front door, when she groaned, put her
hand to her side and sank to the floor
almost over the front door-sill. The
bedroom door was thrown open by
Barnes, and, as be saw his wife's body
prone upon the floor, there were two
more shots in rapid succession, and he
had launched bis own spirit into
eternity as be had that of his wife.
WAS NERVOUS.
Barnes and his wife had been talk
ing some time and were both fully
dressed when the shooting began,
Mrs. Barnes having carefully arranged
her hair, while the husband was, to
all appearances. preparing to 20 out
to his work, having his hat on as
they sat talking.
He, at least, was extremely nervous
from the fact that the first shot fired
vent into the ceiling, but his nerve
came back TO him and the next shot
took effect in his wife's left side in the
vicinity of the heart. As Barnes
turned the deadly weapon upon him
self his shooting was again bad. The
first shot passed through his hat into
the ceiling, but the second fulfilled
the mission intended for it. Passing
through the right temple, just above
and back Of the eye, it crashed
through his brain and be sank to the
floor, less thap Is feet from his Wlfe's
body, and died.-Augusta Herald.
Found In Lake.
The body Of the woman found in
East lake Sunday with three bullet
holes in her head, was positively iden-
lifted today as Miss Nellie Shafield,