The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-12-27
ATTORNEY BARNHARI
SH|Q BY HIS WIFE.
BULLET TOOK EFFECT IN BARN.
HARRIS LEFT LEG.
A CHRISTMAS NIGHT TRAGEDY
MRS. BARNHART WANTED HUs-
BAND TO GO HOME.
A CHRISTMAS NIGHT TRAGEDY
FOLLOWED HIM DURING EVENING
Leg May Have to be Amputated to
Save Attorneys Life-She Did Not
Intend to XIII Him, Just Wanted to
Show That She Meant Business.

oHoW iHdt ONO mcdnt buSIneSS'
Attorney II. F. Barnhart is iy his
room in the Pacific hotel witt q let
wound in his left leg, the res o.
"neartragedy" Christmas nigL 2;
which he and his wife were the !
cipals. Mrs. Barnhart shot her hu
band during the evening trying to
make him go home. About IL o'clock
she saw him in the Walton saloon.
Barnhart left by the back door but his
wife met him at the corner of the
Nebraska National bank They
crossed to the Bishop block. Then
she fired two or three shots from a
32-calibre revolver. Barnhart started
to mount the steps toward the second
floor of the Bishop block. He was on
about the fifth step when his wife shot
him in the calf of the left leg.
May Have to Amputate.
The bullet ranged upward and was
thought Wednesday evening to be
lodged in the knee bone. DR.. Salter,
who dressed the wound, said that the
injury might have serious results if
infection set in, and that the limb
might have to be amputated, always
a dangerous operation under the cir.
cumstances.
Barnhart was taken to a room in
the Pacific hotel. Mrs. Barnhart with
one load still in her revolver held the
stairs in the Bishop block for some
minutes but was finally captured by a
ruse and locked in the city Jail.
Thursday morning she was still in
the city jail although Barnhart himself
had desired to give bail for her few
minutes after the shooting.
County Attorney Jack Koenigstein
announced that Mrs. Barnhart would
be prosecuted for shooting her hus-
band. He said that the complaint
would be drawn up Thursday and
might charge assault with intent to
kill.
Domestic Troubles.
The domestic infelicites of the Barn.
hart family have been generally known
in Norfolk and have been brewing for
a number of years. The outbreaks
have usually been dramatic. 1t was
so Wednesday evening.
Early Wednesday evening Mrs
Barnhart called on her husband at the
Pacific hotel to insist on his accompa.
nying her home. Barnhart got away
tn
1920 p. m Barnhart left the hotel
His wife followed ten minutes later
When Mrs. Barnhart was seen look.
ing through the open front of the Wal
ton saloon, Barnhart was given a tip
and left the saloon by the back way
passing down the alley. He and his
wife met at the Nebraska National
toward the Bishop block.
Shot in the Air.
Mrs. Barnhart threatened the attor.
ney with her gun. She says she fired
twice, once down the street and once
in the air. The first shot went through
the plate glass in the Office building
of DR.. H. S. Overocker.
Then Barnhart made for the stairs
That was where his wife winged him.
II shot to show him l was in ear.
nest" said Mrs Barnhart Thursday
morning. 81 shot to hit and of course
l got him. l did not want to kill him
or would simply have shot higher.
wanted him to go home and wanted
to show him that l meant it,"
The shots Immediately attracted at
tention. Mrs. Barnhart mounted the
steps beyond her husband, whom she
permitted to be taken from the stair.
way.
Stood Officers OFF.
Mrs. Barnhart had her own way on
the stairs.
An officer started to arrest her
Get out she said, and she leveled
her gun at him. The officer got.
A Norfolk councilman tried his
hand. Get under" she said. The
councilman got.
AS a ruse Dennis Crum impersonat
ed cab driver. 81 want cab to get
home" Mrs. Barnhart said. She was
told that a cab would be ordered
When the carriage for Barnhart ap
peared, Mrs. Barnhart opened the door
to leave the building and was grabbed
by an officer She was taken to the
city Jail, where she spent the night.
Barnhart was taken to the Pacific
hotel where his wound was dressed
about midnight. The bullet seemed
TO be lodged in the knee joint. 1t was
said that the knee would be placed
under an X-ray machine Thursday
Well Known Attorney.
II. F. Barnhart has been a well
known attorney in north Nebraska. He
was county attorney of Pierce county