Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-20
YOUNG GIRL SHOT.
Mother Formerly Lived at Cen
tralia and Fulton and Was
Divorced from Willis Johnson.

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daughter of Mrs. Sallie Barnes
who formerly kept boarding
house and restaurant in the Blue
Front building on Fourth street in
Fulton, was shot and killed Sun.
day afternoon at her home in st.
Louis by Mrs. Mary Carder. The wo.
man is under arrest and at a late
hour Sunday night was strapped to
a cot in the city hospital raving
over the tragedy with her three
small children playing about her.
The bullet that killed Miss Barnes
was fred from a 81 caliber revOl-
yer and passed thru her breast,
striking between the third aud
fourth ribs on the left side, pene.
trating the lobe of the left lung
and aOrta. The ball struck the
spinal column and dropped into
the cavity. Death was due to in
ternal hemorrhage.
Among those who witnessed the
killing were Morris Roth of 302l
Lawton avenue, sweetheart of the
dead girl; Mrs. Barnes, her moth
err, aud Jesse Carder, husband of
the woman who fired the shot.
Carder is secretary of teamsters
union No. 7jj.
The shooting occurred at about
4:30 p. IN. 1t resulted from an
attempt on the part of COrder to
remove a desk from the house and
marked the elimination of hard
feelings that have existed for some
time between the Barnes and Car
der families. Mrs. Barnes runs
three boarding houses at 27OO.02-
OF Lucas avenue. The CarderS
have been rooming there for the
past two months, and are alleged
to have fallen behind with their
board to the extent of 500. This is
the statement of Mrs. Barnes.
Carder refuses to discuss the af-
fair, but told the police that the
Barnes girl had grNppled with his
wife. Mrs. Ola Orchard, a sister
of the dead girl also says that Bes-
sic grabbed Mrs. Carder. These
statements are seemingly confirmed
by the fact that the index
and second fingers and the inside
of the thumb of the girl were badly
blackened with powder. indicating
that she grabbed the end of the
revolver.
Mrs. Barnes and daughter are
well known at Fulton and turnout
Galloway county. Mrs. Barnes, it
will be remembered married Willis
Johnson during her residence at
Fulton, but was divorced from him
when she moved to Centralia,
where she conducted the Planters
hotel.
The yOnng lady who was killed
is we'll remembered by many per-
sons on account of her great beau
ty and brightness as a child. Mrs.
Barnes is the mother of FIVE chill
dren.
Sunday afternoon a wagon drove
up to the house and Carter started
to remove a desk, which lie says
belongs to the transfers union and
that he is under $500 bond for the
safekeeping of all the unions
property. He had carried the
desk from his room in the third
story to the hall on the ground
floor when Bessie Barnes sweet.
heart, young Roth, grabbed him
stating that no property could bt
removed until Carder settled hi:
account with Mrs. Barnes. ROtl
claims that at this point Mrs
Carder came down the steps point
ing a revolver at him, which
caused him to break loose from
Carder, who thereupon started
back mp the stairs and seeing Bes
sic Barnes standing about six steps
above her, pointed the pistol a
the girl and pulled the trigger.
Mrs. Carder claims that two OF
three young men jumped on he
husband and she got the revolver
to scare them away, not intending
to hurt anyone. The Barnes girl
however, she says, EVIDENT!
thought her sweetheart would b.
killed, and jumping on her back
seized the revolver, pulling it owe