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Death By Jlis Own Hand.Word was received in town Monday that J. Robertson Barr had committed ■ suicide, near Three Forks early that morning. Barr was in Sandon last week drinking freely, and becoming boisterous was taken to the police station on Friday night. He was liberated the following morningwith a reprimand and immediately left town. It is gener lly understood that Mr. Barr was subject to ,fits of insanity, and jiis actions seem to bear out the truth in the statement.Some months ago he started a small men’s furnishing store here on Reco .avenue, and after doing business for a short time, locked up the premises one morning and left for;parts unknown.About eight weeks later lie was iound to be in Argenta. and nothing more was heard of him until he appeared in the citv last week and was drinking heavilv.• # o •After his incarceration in the city jail, for his behaviour, he wer.t to Three Forks and was staying at one the mines near there. About-3 o'clock lie told the man who occupied the same bed with him, that he was going to get a cup of cold colTee, and left the room. A few minutes after he was heard sharpening a knife, but nothing was thought of this as it supposed he was do so to oblige the cook. On hearing an unusual noi6esome time later, some ot the miners hurried down to ascertain the cause and found Barr in the pantry. •The sight that meet their eves almost rooted them to'the spot with horror.The unfortunate man was sitting in a chair with his hands clasped at his neck, from which the blood was pouring, and suffering t hedreadful agonies of death. He expired in a few minutest On examination it was found he had almost severed his head form the body with a huge butcher, knile, which lay dripping with blood beside him.The news startled the people here when it came, but it is the opinion of manv that he committed the deed in a temporary fit of insanity. Mr. Barr was well and favorably known in the Rloean, and his untimely end under the circumstances attending it, are to be deplored.His remains were interred in the New Denver cemetery on Tuesday.
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Sandon Mining Review
Sandon, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Apr 13, 1901
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