Jackson-Clinton County IA Archives News.....Murder At Bellevue October 4, 1854
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Clinton Mirror October 4, 1854
Clinton Mirror, Lyons, Iowa, October 4, 1854

MURDER AT BELLEVUE- HORRIBLE TRAGEDY-
We learn of Mr. Thomas Nicholson of Bellevue that a most horrible tragedy was
enacted in that town on the morning of the 18th. A man named Barger killed his
wife under the following circumstances. She had applied for a bill of divorce
which coming up at the term of the District Court held there last week had on
application been changed for trial to Jones County. Without anything occurring
between them subsequently to occasion so diabolical an act Barger posted himself
so as to command the door of the house where his wife was staying and when on
Monday morning she came in he shot her dead in her tracks and immediately gave
himself up, boasting of the heinous deed. The parties formerly lived near
Canton.-Dubuque Herald


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