Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
DEATH BY CARBOLIC acid.
". 4. Barnard Committed Suicide in
Wichita Last Wednesday Night.

William A. Barnard, who mar
ried Miss Helen Miller Of this city
a month ago, ended his life in
Wichita last Wednesday night.
The following account of the trag-
edy is from the Wichita Beacon:
Four weeks ego William A.
Barnard married Helen Miller. He
was scarce 2I, she was I6. Today
he is a corpse, and she is a widow,
the result of an alleged suicide.
1t was the claim nf the widow
and the mother of the young wom-
an that no one observed Barnard
make the successful attempt on his
life. Death, as the result of drink
ing carbolic acid, was the informa-
ton given bv DR.. H. F. Darrin,
city physician, who attended Bar
nard.
Barnard ended his life last night
about 10 o'clock in a room in the
rear of a dwelling house at 247
North Market street. With him
at the time of his demise were his
Young wife, his mother in law and
L. NJ. Reeder.
Mr.. Reeder and DR.. Darrin were
at the police station when call
was made for help at the Barnard
room. The two men hurried to
the scene, DR.. Darrin first procur-
ing needed medicines. When Mr..
Reeder arrived at the scene Bar
nard was fast sinking and as Mr..
Reeder took the man in his arms
to lay him on a bed, Barnard
breathed his last.
DR. Darrin Immediately examin.
ed the corpse and said that life had
become, extinct as the result of the
man drinking carbolic acid.
The wife was in Mysteries and
the mother had given way to grief.
From what they could tell last
night and this morning, despond-
ency and disappointment were the
two causes for the young husband
to take his life.
Mrs. Miller stated that she and
her daughter had retired for the
night. The three lived in the one
room. Barnard did not. retire but
was engaged in writing at a table.
At 9 o'clock he hurriedly crossed
the room to his wife's couch and
threw himself at her side without
undressing. He muttered some
thing and she detected something
was wrong.
A scream aroused Mrs. Miller
and also persons attending sick
woman in room adjoining.
ooh God! Albert, what have you
done?" screamed the girl.
In reply the young man gently
and in husky tone, stated that he
had ended "this hi on EARTH"
1t was fully ten minutes after
wards that Mr.. Reeder reached the
room. An unusual amount of the
poison had been taken by the young
man and death followed soon.
1t was declared by persons nurs-
ing the sick woman in the room
adjoining that quarreling had been
heard in the Barnard room prior
to the time the girl screamed.
Barnard and Helen Miller were
married at Medicine Lodge four
weeks ago yesterday. They arriv-
ed in Wichita and took up their
abode at 247 North Market street
the day they were married. He
worked but part of the time and
recently had been employed in the
railroad yards of the city.
About two weeks ago Mrs. Miller
came to the city to live with her
daughter. When she arrived she
found the two in poor circum.
stances.
1t was claimed that Barnard had
been writing Immediately before
he took poison, but no letter or
note could be found by the cor oner.
From personal knowledge it was
stated by a friend of the bereaved