The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-07-20
Former Chickasha Woman Who
Killed Love Pirate is Held
Innocent by Public
Opinion
MANY ANXIOUS TO
SIGN Her BOND
Husband Declares Will Spend
Last Dollar to Save Her
Desperate Deed Climax
of a Shameful Tale

Cookeville, Tenn, July 2O.-The sec
ond wife has the right to kill the lore
pirate who stole from the first wife
a husbands lovel
SO says nearly every person ia Put
nam county, Tennessee.
These people have already acquit
ted unofficially- Mrs. Myrtle Barnes,
the young and pretty second wife oil
Jesse G. Barnes, wealthy retired dis
tiller and land owner, for staying Mrs
Della Pippin Judd, May 81
Jesse c. Barnes, now So Of an Old
southern family, owner of big dis
tining company at Double Springs.
where he lived with his wife. There
Young girl was growing into beauti-
ful young womanhood. She vas al
Pippin, also a well known southern
family Wood Judd wooed and won
Della Pippin, is years ago.
Soon afterward, village gossip has
it, Barnes began taking notice Of the
young Mrs. Judd
Stronger and stronger grew the
stories about the alleged infatuation
Of the wealthy distiller for the bsaati.
ul wife Of his poorer neighbog
When Jesse Barnes first began pay.
ing attention to Mrs. Jddd,' a Double
Springs woman explained I'VE all
thought 1t was innocent enough. But
1t wasn't long before they got too inu
mate Everybody seemed to know it.
Mrs. Barnes never let on as how
she knew what was going on. But
low as how she knew She died, some
folks say, of broken heart"
The present Mrs. Barnes was Mrs.
Myrtle Brashear, born at Newtoaville,
Ind, S5 years ago She formerly lived
it Lawton and Chickasha, Okla. They
nave one little daughter, Jessie, two
years old. Barnes had. by his first
wife and six children. all living.
The village folk say that after
Barnes second marriage, the bride
began getting letters telling her of tho
alleged intimacy between her hus-
band and Mrs. Judd
Strange as it may seem, Mrs. Judd
joined the letter writing brigade.
Some think she did it TO drive The
wife out Others believe that she was
then "a woman scorned and wrote the
letters from jealousy.
Barnes said that he hadn't had any
thing to do with the Judd woman since
he married the second time"
On the other hand, it was commoa
talk recently that after the second
wedding Mrs. Judd Went to Nashville
often to meet Barnes.
On May so Mrs. Barnes got this note
from Mrs. Judd: Better go down to
Nashville tomorrow"
Next morning she didn't go, but from
her window saw the other woman"
going by on the train.
That afternoon Mrs. Barnes waited
at the Buffalo Valley depot for the
Tennessee Central train. When it
came she walked through the cars 70
the rear platform. There stood Mrs.
Judd. Not word was spoken; not
cry was heard. Five shots rang out
and five bullets entered Mrs Judd's
breast; two pierced her heart.
Mrs. Barnes was a crack revolver
and rifle shot. Her husband himself
tells that she could hit half dollar
nine times out OF ten at % yards with
a revolver.
At her home, Mrs. Barnes met her
weeping step-children, who had heard
OF the shooting.
Don't cry she said. "All cur
trouble is ended now. Your dead
mother is avenged, and my burden IS
gone. The she gathered them in her
arms and waited the coming af the
father.
Next morning Mrs. Barnes and her
husband came to Cookeville. Wood
Judd came with bis two little boys and
daughter, made motherless by the
shooting. Not a lawyer at the county
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