The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1905-12-15

a few months. He said he had worked
on various railroad extensions and If.
rigation works in the west and south
west. For the most part he had re-
NAMED on such jobs a few weeks or a
few days. He said he had made a busi.
ness or gambling in a number of these
places and that he had done no work
since coming to this state in August
OF this year and had depended on his
winnings at cards for his living.
wHAT,ABoUT FORSYTH, MISSOURI
On cross examination Mr.. TAYLOR
asked Barker if he was not in a certain
locality in Missouri in the fall Of 1909.
ana he admitted that he had been.
ana when asked if,::he knew Henry
barchment or Clyde Elliott he said he
dld not but admitted having met Yves
hudson and a man named King,
Where were you on December Is.
1922 asked Mr.. Taylor.
Barker paled at this, the ONLY SIGN
or show Of feeling that any one had
oeen able to detect up to then. After
d moment he answered that he was in
Omaha, Arkansas, on that date. In
asmuch as the questions had no bear
Ing on this case much speculation was
aroused by them. The truth is that
Barker is suspected of a murder At.
forsyth on that date and had he been
acquitted here would have been imme-
oiately arrested forthat alleged crime.
All.in all it.may..no seem strange if
he was somewhat relieved to get the
life sentence.
Following are the names of the Jury
IN the Barker case: Rufus Young, j.
3. Quiggle, G. A. Churchill, James
Schlick, Ed Meythaler, James Beecby.
August Sem, Robert J. Dixon, John
Morris, George Roundy, Edgar Conley
and George Barker.
THE OTHER MURDER TRIALS
The other murder trials that have
been held in this county were the
Evans case, the Darlington and the
Annie Horved cases. The first one
was quite a celebrated case seventeen
years ago. Evans was a doctor, quite
we'll known and possessed of consider
able means. He was accused of cans
ing the death of a young woman by a
criminal operation. e. T. Taubman
was states attorney at that time and
prosecuted him. Feeling ran high
and there was much talk Of lynching
him but he was acquitted. No n
seems to know where he is now O
what became of him. Darlington, an
old fellow and a bad man all around,
was accused Of having thrown a COM
panion down the stairs of a building
in Columbia some years ago. EIe, too,
was acquitted but he is now serving
a life sentence in the penitentiary at
Sioux Falls for ~manslaughter for an
offense committed shortly after his
trial in Brown nounty. The Annie
Harved case did not get to the jury as
the judge directed a verdict of not
guilty.
Barker vas ably defended by Taub-
man and Herried, and the states at
torney, f. E. Campbell, was assisted
by Campbell s. Taylor Of this city.
Mr.. Taylor's closing argument to the
jury was generally held to be a very
able presentation of the case.
1t has been learned since the Barker
jury was discharged that the first
informal ballot stood nine for convic-
ton, two for not guilty and one blank.
The first formal ballot, however. was
twelve for guilty. The question of
penalty was decided on without a
second ballot as was all agreed from
the first. The two votes for not guilty
were cast in order to secure a discus
sion of the case.