Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-09
WORK AMONG INDIANS,
PROMINENT IoRDseuRo RESI- DENT BOUND OVER FOR AL
 LEcED POISONING.

The people of oorosourg were great ly surprised and shocked last Friday afternoon to learn that James T. Bar Der had been arrested charged with attempting to poison the Rev. N. ID. Wood, says the Lordsburg Tribune.
 Barber was examined before Judge McGrath saturday afternoon, and com mitted to jail in default of 5000 to await the action of the grand jury.
 The facts of the case are as follows: Mir. Wood spent Sunday, May 6. at Hachita, returning Monday. His fam fly was at Portales, New Mexico, wis iting Mrs. Woods father. MT. Wood found that someone had been in his house while he was gone, but an ex- animation of the house showed noth- ing missing. He cooked a beefsteak for his supper, but when he went to eat it he found it was so bitter he could not swallow it. He tried two or three times, thinking he was bilious, and tried some bread and jam. This he also found bitter Finally he cooked some bacon he had in the house, and opened a box of sealed crackers he had just bought, which tasted all right. He suspected nothing, thinking the taste of the food was caused by his physical condition.
 In time he felt the effects of the poison, and then suspected something was the matter, and hurried to Dr. Crocker. who found him in bad con dition, but was able to pull him through An examination of the house showed there was a large amount of strychnine in the salt, in the jam and in some breakfast food.
 The question then was: Who had committed this crime? The Sherlock | Holmes system of deduction was used and it was found that there were but two persons who had any object in re- moving him. One was a woman, who was very bitter against him because of the work he had done as minister of the gospel, and expressed wishes that he would die and had talked very bitterly against him. This clew was
 run down, and it was found that it
 was impossible to have been the wom-
 an. The tracks that had been made
 by the person who had entered the
 house were those of a man, and the
 stride was that of a large man.
 | It was known that J. T. Barber was | greatly enamored of Mrs. Wood, and it was found out from her, after she returned to Lordsburg last week that
 he had wanted her to elope with him and had threatened to kill her and
 himself if she told her husband of his proposals, and had her well scared up This gave an object for him to commit 1 the deed, and the same object has | been the cause of thousands of deaths l during the worlds history. The lack l ing evidence was to connect him with i the poison. While he was at work Friday his house was searched on the | authority of a search warrant, and
 some full bottles of strychnine and
 one about one-third full were found in the house, and the bottles bore evi dence that they had been bought ir Douglas. On this evidence the arrest and commitment were made.
 I MT. Barber strenuously denies be ing guilty, and while under the cir
 cumstsnces the evidence was sufficient
 to jnstify Judge McGrath in holdins
 him to await the action of the granC
 jury. it is doubtful if a jury would convict him of the crime on the eyi
 dence at hand. .- -.
 The case is one of circurnstant:a
 evidence, and such a case has to b,
 very complete before a jury will con vict. Deputy Sheriff McGrath realiz es this, and telegraphed District At
 torney Turner, asking him to com,
 over and attend the hearing, wanting the experienced legal knowledge district attorney is supposed to havt !, to help in getting out the evidence. Mir. Turner, as is usual with him did not want to travel SC far. whel , there was no fund to pay expenses and refused to come, and so the hear l ing was held with no prosecuting at torney. W. B. Walton, one of tht . prominent attorneys of Silver City happened to be in town, and was re tained by Mir Barber to help him cut