Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-03-17
Witnesses All Examined and the
Attorneys Make Their Pleas AT
Closing
JURY Is CHARGED
BY JUDGE QUINLAN
Addresses by the Prosecution and
Defense Fill Courtroom to Ca
pacity

Jury returns with assault YER
dict in Barber case.
Judge gives sentence of six
months in jail.
Parole is then extended to the
defendant.
He is free to follow his voca-
tion as formerly.
Continued From Last Week.
Archie Barber, the accused in the
case of the State of Wisconsin against
the witness, testified in the cross ex-
animation that after he went down
stairs he heard some one screaming
down the road, went up stairs to see
If Miss Susie Patterson, the chief wit
ness n the case, was in her room,
came down stairs again, hitched up
his horse and started toward Bara-
boo to meet his wife who had gone
with Mr.. and Mrs. Titus for the pur-
pose of procuring groceries and to
attend the show. When Attorney John
F. Baker, from the office of the attOr-
ney general at Madison, asked the wit
ness what he thought had become of
Miss Patterson he said she might be
at the Miller home for there was a
light there. When Barber was asked
why he did not go there and see he
replied that it was not his business to
do So When asked why he did not
telephone he said the Millers we're
ON a different line and were hard to
reach through the BarabOO office. The
lines were not working we'll, he said.
The Miller home is about 40 or so rods
from the house occupied by the Bar
bers The witness said he did not
know the condition of Miss Patterson
did not care to find out. He said he
knew she was frightened and did not
care to scare her any more. He said
it would do no good to go to the Miller
home and therefore remained away.
He also stated he started for his
wife soon after the affair because it
was time to go and because she had
not come home in the Titus car which
had recently passed the house.
In order to meet his wife on her way
from Baraboo he went to within 40 or
so rods of the pavement, this was
about midnight, and after they got
home his wife went over to the Mil
Ter house to see Miss Patterson. He
went part way and when Mr.. Baker
asked him why he did not go all the
way he said his wife thought it best for
him not to go. He was not afraid to
let his wife go alone and both thought
best that he should not accompany
her.
Never Spoke to Miss Patterson Again
Barber stated that he did not speak
to Miss Patterson after the night in
question, April 13, 1919. While he
was at the shop she came to the house
of no agreement by which he was to
be away from the house at the time
He said she did not study at his house
any more; he did not know where
she boarded.
Ira York on the Stand
Ira York stated that he now resided
on a farm in the town of DeltOn but
that in 1918-19 he was resident Of
Fairfield, the nearest neighbors to the
BARRIERS not more than ten rods away
within speaking distance. On Mon
day afternoon, the affair having oc
Cured on Saturday night, he was ir
the southeast room, the one occupied
by Miss Patterson on the second
floor of the Barber home, in order tC
assist in taking Miss Patterson's trunl
down stairs. He said there was a stove
in the room and had noticed at various
times while passing the house tha
the lower part of the window ON tn
south side of the house was open. H
was not sure about whether the porcl
extended the full lengt'~3 3of the cas-
and south sides of the house.
Mr. York stated the BARRIERS wer
at his house on the night of April Il
that they sat in the dining room unit
about 10:30, that they then left an
he smoked until about II when h
went to bed The dining room is o
the northwest corner of the Yor
house, not on the side toward th
BARRIERS, and that the shade in the XII
chen was down that night. His SO
went to bed first, his wife and himse
followed soon after. He did not hea
any unusual noise during the nigh
His son desired to go on~a fishing tri
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