Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1905 — Barney’s Body Bobs Up. [ARTICLE]

Barney’s Body Bobs Up.

Tnu sday afternoow, while Ct arh y Merica, of Delphi, was fi hjng in the Wabesh river, near Delp i. the b dy cf ‘a man came ririttii g past. He pulled it to st o>e, and thea uo ified the auth-orri-s They soon identified the flo ter Es 1h j body cf Baraey Hofktns, the painter, gambler and allaround bun, who formerly lived at Remit gon for a whi e. He went to Mouticello with another man’s wife, and was jailed fra while. When h« git out he went to Del phi, and jumped into the Whb sh river. He committed the aot on March Ist, and bis body hBS thus been ia the water just 30 days Charley Merioa who disooi ered the body is the father of Billy Merioa. c i our city.