Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1908 — TWO WIFE MURDERS [ARTICLE]

TWO WIFE MURDERS

Each Is Followed by the Suicide of the Husband Who Did the Deed. LIGHTNING DOES A NEAT JOB Seta Off a Row of Blasts for a Stone Company—“ Kangaroo Court** Has Been Abolished.

Indianapolis, July 7. —When two revolver shots were fired In an alley in the rear of Louisiana street, near East street, the neighbors thought persons were celebrating July 4, and paid no attention to the shots. An hour later the dead bodies of Cloyde H. Barber and of his wife were found in the alley. The husband, in a fit of jealous anger, bad thrown the woman down and sitting astride of her body fired * bullet into her brain. He then turned the weapon against his own head. The couple lived with their four-year daughter at 511 Smith lane. Jealousy the Cause, as Usual. Before murdering his wife Barbes attempted to kill his mother-in-law. Mrs. Lulu Browning, who runs a rootn ing bouse at 423 East Louisiana street, where Mrs. Barber had spent the day Barber was jealous of bis wife because she was in the habit of going away from her home and refusing to tell him where she went. -He was also angry with Mrs. Browning because sh>» shielded her daughter. Formerly ther.had been a roomer at the Browninsi home whom Barber suspected of pay Ing attention to his wife. The man bad been at the bouse during Barber’s ab sence, and when Barber heard of tb<» matter he returned with murder Ln Ws heart. Takaa Two Shots at Wife's Mother. Barber found his mother-in-law under the bed. where she said she bad crawled to watch certain roomers, fl" lit a match. :u?d when be saw the w» man on the floor he fired twice nt her. Mrs. Barber was just entering th" house from the rear yard, and when she saw her husband with a revolver she turned and ran into the alley In the rear, with Barber following ••loss behind.

Another Case at Huntington Huntington. Ind., July 7. Th® bloodiest tragedy in this city for sever al years occurred when J. A. Wells, of Peru, fired four shots, at his divorced wife at the homo of her mother, Mrs Agnes Price, this city, three shots taking effect and causing her death, after whch he tired a bullet into his own brain. This failing of immediate effect bo slashed his throat with a knife, dy Ing in a few minutes. They bad been divorced more than a year ago at Logansport. and Wells lost his position as a railway engineer on the Wabash road LIGHTNING SETH OFF A RLAST Seventeen Charged Holes Are Tnrnetl Looee by Electricity from the Clouds. Portland. Ind.. July 7.—The employes at tlie A. & C. Stone and Lime company’s quarry, near Ridgeville, drilled seventeen holes in the stone during the morning hours, which were charged with dynamite and connected with a battery, after which the men went to dinner While the.. absent a storm came up and ing struck one of the wires and exp.oded the entire seventeen charges blasting out fifty car loads of stone and doing it more thoroughly than could have been done bv the battery. Luckily no person was near at the time of the discharge, and there was no damage; in fact, a d® cided gain for the company. “Kangaroo Court'* Is No More. Sullivan. Ind., July 7.—Sheriff Marlon F. Walters, of this county, bas issuer strict orders to prisoners tn the Jail that the “kangaroo court’’ work most atop. The slightest infraction of the rule, be says, will be severely pun tsbed. Sheriff Walters’ action was taken after stories told by the prisoners of tbelr treatment at the hands of the “court” got abroad. Public Indignation was high over the treatment accorded to John M. Alsman and other prisoners, and Sheriff Walters came in for criticism. Coal Oil Stove Explodes. Elwood, Ind., July 7.—The explosion of a coal oil stove in the home of C. E. Aibaugi), agent of the Adams Express company, burned off nearly all the clothing of Mrs. Albaugh, but she was saved from serious injury by Mr. Albaugh, who rolled her in a bath robe which had Just been discarded In the bathroom. The house was saved by pitching the flaming stove into the dooryard. While throwing the stove out Mr. Albaugh’s hand wa%so badly burned that-he may be crippled for life.