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Hnb South Georgia progress, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. 1005 Well Known Engineer Attempts To Take tbe Life of His Wife But Fails. SLAYER SAVED BY HIS WATCH. Most Awful Tragedy Thomasville has Had for Many Months Occurred Yesterday. Barrow Says He Tried to Kill his Wife and Himself But Did not Intend Shooting Mrs. Parish. Sensational Affair. (From Thursday's Daily.) A thrill of horror no over the com. inanity when detail!of an awful tragedy became known. At a quarter put one o’olook in the afternoon J. B. Barrow an engineer on the Atlantlo Gout Llue throw np the window., called for help nod telephoned to the Time! Enterprise from the inurnment, in the baok hall, He.p Arrlvaa. In responso to Mra. Harrow’s call for ■hot fire time! at hi! wife, (lightly li ’lp and Barrow’s orles, J. W. Dutton wounding her in the left hand, hilled Ur. Ward, A. W. Kirkland and others his mother-in-law, Mrs William Paritli responded. They raised Mrs. Parrish's and then turned a Winchester rifle on body from where it had fallen, on the himself and inflioted two dangerous ‘ baok poroh and carried it to the room wounds from which he may die. I where the shooting commenced. Tbe incidents of^the tragedy ate most j eiamlnation made by Dr. T, M. Me dramatic and sedsatlonal. At twenty Intoeli showed that the ballet entered minutes after one o'clock tbo telephone of the Tlmat-Enterprise rang and an ex cited Toiee at the other end shouted an hi inkersnTmnissnn. in which the word*, "Parrish residence" "awful 'tragedy" "killed mother-in-law" conld be dis tinguished. Represen'atives of this paper immediately drore to Campbell Street near the railroad bridge, tlie scene of the shooting. The neat six room cottage looked as nsnal from the outside bat within a gory scene met the eye Mrs. Parrish lay dead, in a room at the rear of the house.' The bell-wey, por ches and rooms were spattered vrPh Mood. A pistol with fire empty shells, ay on tbe floor, and a.boitln of whh-key half emptied stood on the mantel piece. Booh were the surroundings of the dead. The Story. The tragedy from the stories of the excited witnesses terms to hare bun u follows. Immedietely after dinner. an inch below the collarbone, and two inches to the left of the ahoolder blade, censing death eithor from cutting the rob claTian artery orepterlng the heart. Barrow wuturued orer to Polioemsu Lambert who earned him to tbe oity hospital where he now is. Sfysd by His Watch Dr. b A. Daniels attended the wounded mm at tl.e hospital. Be fonnd tlut the stem of Barrow's watch was Ihs only thing that spared his life forereu a allott while. One of til. ballets, and the one that would here cost him his lito immediately, struck tlie chain ring of Ills walob, and al though it tore tilts liug loose und drove it an inch into his side it spent the force of tlie ballet and belli w.re extracted together with no serious results. Toe other ballet entered Ids chest and Just missing his heart lodged in its neighborhood. This wound ought not to prure fatal unless complications enana. Taken altogether Mr. Barrow's Hr. Barrow, Ms wife, and a cousin of I otuknce , for „ covor7 ^ thaohis ben, John V. Tlnley, a young man who came last Sunday from Waynesboro, On. to~rlslt the family, were seated be fore the.flre In s room used as a combi nation bed chamber and sitting room. Mrs. Hartwell Lambert, a lady about forty years of age', living iu Fitsgcruld, alio a eisttor to the family, was iu the baok yard. Mrs. Wm. Parish mother f Mrs Barrow, was in the dining room arranging Hie table after tlie midday steel. A colored vbmati, S.illu- Jones Waalnthe kitchen al work. Tim trio in tbe sitting room were speakiug of liquor drinking. A remark addressed by Mrs. Burrow to Tinier wsi constru ed by Barrow as an Insinuation that be had made Tinier drunk on last Mon day- Be palled a 32 calibre Smith and Wesson revolver from Ins pocket and shot at Ilia wife. At the first shot, Tic- ley, who is a one-armed boy, ran from the room and made Ins escape from the front part of the house. Mrs Lambert did not stir, thinking tlie shot was sport, but at the recced shot she run also, back ot tlie bouse. Mra. Brroaw rau out of tlie house, off the back porch and down the street. Barrow followed her firing ra; idly. Mra. Parrish, alarmed by ibe shots, ran from the dining room onto tbe baok porch, and received the ballet that earned her death. After Barrow realised what ha had done ha went to Mt ted room, took a Winchca- obancea for the death he so sincerely deal roe. Mrs. Barrow InUrvewecP All the pen lea to the tragedy wen in terviewed by representatives of the Timee-Enterprise. kin. Barrow who was hystericalSud excited said - "My name Is Mina Parrish Barrow, lam eighteen years old and I was married two years ago to J. B. Barrow. We were never what yen might call a loving couple.-I never saw any use in taking on over "Babby” ospeolally as lie is so inuoli older than I am. - We always got along fairly well but we quarrelled sometimes. He Itad been drinking for four or five days. I saw him take one drink tills morning. I Had not apokon to bimall day. Wo talked very little bat never came to blown 1 would do what hn told mo. Mother was not iu the room. John ritilsy said something about liav- iugheeu drauk Monday. 1 raid ‘well, I guess nobody made you drnnk.’ My husband said, ‘I suppose you mean me. It's a lie.' He pulled hit gun and began to shoot. I ran, and he only hit me once. [Here she showed a slight fiegb wound in her left hand ] I don't know what made him shoot. I would not care bat my mother is dead. I 'Pope they will put him under tbs ground." A Star Wtnsss- John V. Tinley said. "The three it ter rifle, plaotd the mosaic against his; us won talking. 1 don’t know just body, and palled the trigger. He then how it happened. Only one or two words were passed. Barrow oommenerd to'short and I ran. When [ got back I saw Mrs Parrish lying there dead, 1 dMu'tsee the shooting. Father n tsw Talks Mr. Wm. Parrish, who is a boiler maker at the Thomasville Iron Worts said "I don't know how tills nwfnt thing happened. Barrow aud 1 have bien friend* for 13 years. He boarded with ns before lie was married and we nil kept house together Mv dsnebter aud lie never got along very well but never iiad any eerions troub'e He h ui a 5 dsyslay off week before Christmas and lie had been drinking ever alutt' ady Ran Mra. Lambert said. “I have hern here visiting the Parrishes tineo Tues day. I didn't notice any trouble be tween Mr. and Mrs. Barrow. They did not have much to do with each other. He had been drinking right along, b it did not seem drunk. It must hare been whiskey though. I ran when 1 heard the aeoond aho*, and did not ice any of the shooting.” Sallie Jones, the negro cook said he was alone In tho kitchen, uni -no, "scared to death,” when she heard tl.e shots." Hard to Understand. Fnun tlie situation of the premises. i< is difficult to see how Mrs. Punish conld have been acoidently shot There are many unglea on the porch white her death occurred. The dining room and kltohen open onto It. There is a bullet mark on the floor and wall of the dining room where aho was. She fell near th i door of the kitchen. Barrow would have faced away from her while firing at his fleeing wife. He says the shooting was accidental,—that he re grets it and hopes to never recover. His complete story as glveu to the Timas Enterprise reporter Is as follows: Barrow's Statement "I was bom in Hsmeltoneonnty, Vis. May 18, 1886. I am an engineer and have lived here for several years ou Campbell street. I have been friend- with Will Parrish for years. About two years ago-I married his daughter. Wo lived together with the old foils. 1 wns never happy. All the time we were quarreling. Going back to the be ginning of tlie trouble I will say that she hat never been what a wife ought to be. She lias done wrong tunny times. Sue has played low down tiioks on ine. She aud her Mother „ would both give me down ,tlie country a' out nothing lu the world. For two yeais tbeao troubles have been piling up on I have had no one to ooufldo iu and my troubles have Just run me cresy. No oue knows wliati havegone through with Tliia morning young^arrlali, rnj brother-in-law, asked ms if I woold car ry dinner to his tether so he conld go hutting. To tense him I refused, but I intended to do it. I came down town with Tinley. I bad my goo in my pocket. On my way home wc aiet Mrs Lambert and my wife. Mrs. Ltmbert spoke but my wife didn't. They were tsklug dinner tu Parrish, und tlie boy had gone. When I gol home the old lady reared up aud ripped down on me aud called me names. 1 told tier I didn’t want any trouble and 1 didn't. I told her 1 Would leave the house on January first. I had a bottle of Saratoga whiskey and Tinley aud 1 had a driuk. It was 20 minutes of twelve bocauso I looked at my watch. After dinner we were talking again. I had had four or five drinks duriug the diy. I don’t know just what£liappen- ed. I just went crazy. I .started t-i •boot at my wifo. She rau and I tel loved her out ou thepoich shooting af ter her. The old lady come running O-it, on tbe porch. She got tier's then from a stray bullet. I am sorry I killed her. I didn't mesn to do it. I wssu'l after Iter, though site had been aesn tn ms and had entered me to leave often; an I had blacked, my 070 with n chair. Wueu I saw wliat I bad dona I got my Wrm-hester from my room, went oat in th> ball, and shot myself twloe." When as - l if he wus sorrjr he didn't -ill tils w fe he ev.tdad 1 lie question and add,-•[ ant a rrv I didn't kill myself, loertainl wan r-idie I dou't expect -ogotw.-li a,i-( I hope I won’t. If I live .1 tn-u.-a- d -ears t never want to -ee mv wif.* age n." C- n erld Verdet. A i-orou.-r's j iry met at the residence at half pa-r three and heard several witnesses, Tfiit.inq.-e-t was made nec essary, by tlie t 1- il*at no ODe saw the fatal she fired In- jury was com- (knedofj, F. Evans, toretuau, B. P. iloss, Oscar.Groovef,' L 11. Rogers, Jas per Miles and Jas. Dixon. Their ver dict was that Mrs. Parrish came to her !■ nth from a pistol iu the hands of J. d. Barrow, The Verdict did not state whether the jury considered the -hoot ing murder or an accident. Barrow is too weak to move, but is under surveillance by the officers, and t special deputy guardB him. He whl. answer to the charge of murder if he lives. The whole affair ia a chapter from life’s seamy side It is uulver- sally deplored and is one of the mom .hocking-affairs that has ever marred tho peace and good order of Thonias- ille. DIVERSIFIED CROPS PLANNED AT BARWICK. I'rof. MeWhorter of the Normal In- titnte. was here in the interest of his school n few days this week. Mr. Davis and aister Mias Clifford, of deiga, me the gnesta of their brother, dr. Ji D. Davis, here. Eld. B H. Jennings of Dawson, filled his regular appointment at Harmony Saturday and Sunday. MV. J. B, Hieks made a business trip to HiomaivUlo.Monday. Mr. J. B. Rountree and son Carl vis ited Thomasville last Friday. School opened here Monde) with an enrollment of nearly one hundred pnpUs Prot Parrish of Quitman, is principal and Miss Abble Barrett mstistant. Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Davis left for tiled home in Summit Tuesday, af 'er a delightful vi it with relttiysa hero dur ing tho holiday!. Mr. aud Mrs. John McCann enter tained quite a number of their friends at u pound party last Friday night. Mr. Wilkes has moved his family to Boston. ^Tliors has been no bonfire of cotton ht Berwick yot, but Judging from the way the farmers are talking there will have to be one of watermelons next summer and one of Sea Island ootton next fall. Several went over to Pavo Sunday to bear Mrs. Rutherford. Mrs. R. H. Berwick and son Luther, of Pavo, attended church at Harmony Sunday. New Series, Vol XV—ta 1$, ARTHUR PATTEN WINS THE PIANOS His Estimate of The Number of "Ands" in It% Weekly Times-Enterprise Was 1375. THE FIVE JUDGES FOUND 138$ After a Hard Day's Work the Decision of the Gonjt nrittee was Given (5ut Late Yesterday Af ternoon. Mrs. S. A. Miller Came' Second, Guessing 1397. Mr. Arthur Patten of Thomasville won the piano. Ho pot in five counts at ten thirty a. m on the third day. of Ootober, more than three weeks after the contest beg.n. One of Ids five coints was 1373, and it was worth jest $330 to idm. The Judges met at eleven o’olook yes- terdsy morning, and from then nntll six in the evening, exoept for tbe hour, they were working as hard as five men in Thomasville. Tlie job of ooonting tho “ante’ ed larger than anybody had and the Times Enterprise feels grateful lo them for their servioee The following verdict of si good men as grow in Thomas telle the tale. “After having carefully comited the number of times ! the word “and” appears in the Weekly Times-Enterprise : of December, .(oth., we find it to be 1383. We have care. ; fully gone over the records of the Contest and find them.; ccrrectly kept Mr. Arthur Patten having submitted the most neatly correct estimate, 1375, we declare him to be the winner of the Piano, Mitchrll, Jno. W. H. M J. J. Turner, M. A. Pilcher, Fred Feltham, W. Y. Brvan. . Com. Meirilville Personals. By J. N. Donaldson. On Wednesday January 11, oar maul- cipal eleetion will take plaoe for the pnrpoee or ohocslng a Mayor and Board of Aldermen to serve during tbe ensu ing year. Ms] (lie right men be chosen to those offices. Dr. D. C. Montgomery received a telepboue message calling him to the bedside of Ills brother-in-law Mr. G. W. Swift Tuesday evening. Mrs. Fannie Pollock and little daugh ter left Thursday for Cairo where they will reside. Mr. Lewis Bloehshear, of Roohelle, Ga , visited his uncle Mr. T. P, Black- shear last Friday. Mrs. W A. John ,011 left Sunday for Haoon, her home, after a several days' visit to her ion Mr. Y, T. Johnson. Miss Fannie Reran left for her home in Me g 1 Monday. Mrs. J. J. Turner returned Tuesday after n weeks visit to relatives in Mon* tktello. Mr. and Mrs. I*. E. Tomer spent Tncsda • in the city al op .ting. little Mias Irma Jarrett after n visit The next nearest estimate was 1887 and it was submitted by Mrs. 8. A. Miller of Thomasville. Mr. Patten, the fortunate contestant, is well known. He lias been a valneJ employee of the poet offioe bore tor many months and there le hardly in Thomaevitla more nnivei Ho la a sou of M re. Arthur his family is one it the mot In all the connty. He will ho lated fur and- wide on his good MR. REESE ASSUMES DRUG STORE MANAGEMENT Mr. W. M. Reese took charge of the Patterson Drug Go., last night. The drag business does not oome strangely to Mr. Reeeo. AU Thomas- vllltans except new oomers will remem ber when the drag firm of W. M. Reeeo was an Important factor In the business world of ThemaovlUe. He entered the field in 1878 In tbe old Mitchell House blook. He was horned out by the big lire, bat when tbe hotel was rebuilt he moved Immediately book to the very ■pot hs had occupied before. He con ducted bis drag store there With good •aoeese until shout 1880 when he sold ont to Dr. McRae. Doo” Is a good fellow and he will be gladly welcomed baok into the bus iness world. He is a good neighbor and the Times Enterprise extends to Mm the glad hand for itself and the Modi ion treot neighborhood. Prinur Preacher Here- Rev. Chester E. Johnston, formerly of Quitman, end Ills bride passed through tlje city yesterday ontbeir way to Bonl- tey, Fla, where Rev.* Johnson is pastor of the Metli dist church. * The youi’g minis-er was formerly a printer, oflee in the employ of the Times-Enterprise and Ids mum friends in Thomasville will read with ioterest of Me mar- riage and success in gospol fi -ids. to her grand mother relumed Tuesday accompanied by her uncle Mr. Joe Heath and Mrs. Mary Jarrett. Ur. 'Mile and Mira Vatsie Jewish Visited Kr. E O. Jarrett last Tue«d,y and were acoompeined bank by tilt« Annie May Jam tr. a lie —Hi smM i few d ltUs A -l aAll.c . ANOTHER SCHOLARSHIP TO YOUNG’S I Thin to bn' Awarded Some Thu County Girl by Examination* President Hunt of Yonng’a College, made anno that a scholarship to tlie col be given to some girl in tlio Tho soholarsMp will be open girl students of the oonnty those of Thomasville and places having separate and diatino* terns are excluded. It will be to tho girl who ettai general avenge in an held dating the Teachers' spring. County School Maidean, Snperintoodcut Berwick President Hont will be s judge tlie examination p A scholarship to Young’s lege ia not to bo lightly .this is a most excellent tlie many bright girls in car schoo's. - At the Plney Woods- Tlie early geesta aro, gathering Piney Woods and a nnt are already comfortably Tliomiisvillo'sfamoos hostelry, tlie nowbor nre Miss York, Jos S. McKell, Wot Sc-it McKell ( Mrs. F. 11 Hood and for of Now York, H. of Bred. Oregon, 1 Paul, MillU. Mr. Chas. U Yurt, is tho geest Uuuilnc. ilr.F TlvISin i'll! ls>f St estsmit at ■■■ ■ fit®?*'* uhiiiicotta*