The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-01
His Attempt to Conceal
 Forgery Led to Arrest
 for Killing His Wife
Chicago Tribune.)

After euading the police of the country for more than year. Wal ter E. Barnes, who shot and killed his mother-in-l Jaw, Mrs. Mary Servoss. and wounded his wife in the Wychmere Hotel in January, 1910. is under ar rest at Guthrie. Okla.
 Barnes, under the alias of Prank H. Gordon was arrested few weeks ago by the federal authorities of Okia- hona City on the charge Of having forged Post Office money order It was his anxiety to avoid indictment through the Bertillon system as the Chicago murderer that indirectly led to his Identification.
 Tn the hope of fixing the forgery case before it came to trial, Barnes wrote a letter to brother, J. w. Barnes, in Portland, Ore, appealing to him to hasten to his relief. This he inclosed in another letter which he sent to George Schultz, a saloon keeper. in which he asked Schultz to "see that Bill gets this at once"
 Knowing that all mail to and from prisoners was read by the jail au- thorities, Barnes asked a trusty with whom he had become friendiy: to mail the letter. The ''trusty" promised, but instead gave 1t to the warden, who after reading it, turned it over to Harry E. Siege, Superin- tendent of Identification at Oklahoma City.
 The letter said in part:
 ssYou know what is staring me in the face If you come here at once there will be no indictment by the grand jury, as I can show you now to fix it up. You know if am showed up what the consequences Will De. This case don't amount to much.
 saThis has to be done before the 2oth of the month. Say you are theatrical manager when you come here and wire me yes or no at once Of the other they will never know If this is stopped!'
 The letter was signed Frank Cor don, federal jail. Guthrie, Okla" to which Barnes as Gordon" had been sentenced in the interim between the writing of the latter and its inter- ception by the authorities
 Supt. Siege was struck by the name .Barnes'' on the envelope and con- cluded that Gordon was the Chi- cago murderer, about whom he had received so many circulars. He con- pared a Chicago picture of Barnes and the Oklahoma prison picture 0f esCordon.,, and was convinced that the two pictures were of the same man. Barnes had grown a rnoustache since leaving Chicago and had aged con siderably.
 He wired Capt. stephen F. wood and later sent a letter in which he in closed the Oklahoma prison picture of gordon The photograph was positively identified by Sergt John Quinn of the Lake Street station, a schoolmate of the murderer. and by Detective Daniel O'Hara of the Detec- tive Bureau
 The murder of which Barnes $ ac- cused took place on the evening of January 29 last year Barnes and his wife, who also was an actress, had been separated and the wife had filed a bill for divorce. Barnes had threatened her several times. and the night of the murder detectives were searching for him with warrant for these threats. He entered the apartments of his wife and her mother. and, without word of warning he~s1 firing his revolver. Both women were struck with bullets. The mother f1- law died a week later, but Mrs. Barnes recovered. She is now said to be with a travelling theatrical company. Barnes is said to have escaped through ths assistance of butler and a taxica chauffeur The butler was held to the grand jury by the corCner's jury. Barnes while here was known to the police as a forger and confidence man. Fur Scarfs fur Nuffs and Fur Sets
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