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Show 1 Sm Mrs. Laura Barker Under Arrest Ar-rest for APened Slaying Of Husband (SUSPECT IS WATCHED FOR SEVERAL WEEKS I'll Charge Arises from Death at n Local Hospital From Ar- , I seme Poisoning Jk .Mrs. Laur i Barkej 15 jya I ,1,,. mother of sevej children was ar- gHil rested this afterhoon ut her j-partment above 310 Twenty-fifth street by R M Wootion and Joseph Cliadwick, sheriffs deputies. BP The wonwn is charged with flrsl Hal degree murdei In conne .!: h th death of Charles Lee Barker, her bus-band, bus-band, who died at the Deo liOBpital luly. 9a last, from the effect, it al-K al-K logod, of arsenic poisoning. Mrs. Barker has been under siisplc-ion siisplc-ion since the chemical examinai: iu ol the dead man's stomach showed or-senic. or-senic. The examination was made at .., ; mi,. .,r r - r . death. UNDER I OSli WATCH. Police and Bhi riffs deputies kept her under surveillance in order to oo-tain oo-tain evidence, they declare Mrs. Barker Is said lo huvc purchas-iHfl purchas-iHfl ed arsenic poison in Idaho, some time BH3 prior to the ucutli of her Husband. Backer, who at the tinit 01 hii Hf ; death was living at 370J Huuson ave- H J nue, was a wheelman in the employ pjH ,,f iht. Southern I'acltlc company, anu worked in the local yards (Y He became ill several nays prior to HBk his death. Dr. R. B. Worrell atlend- fWJI ' jgd the man. Barker ateaddy grew mS worse, on July 0, Bri Woneil net. in e Ht suspicious, it is said, and orn.-.ecl the man to the Dee hospital H i sloi..-B:' sloi..-B:' ach contents were removed and wolv re sent to State Chemist Harms for an- KVSUAXD nil kwf on the afternoon of Julv Barker H. During the sickness of her husband. SP Mrs. Barker did not visit her husband during the time he was at the bospl- flK? tal. She appeared Indifferent regard - Hfc ing his death. It is alleged; B it was not until the discover) waa B made that she had purchased arsenic Hn in Idaho, that the finger of suspicion a was pointed In her direction HH Mrs. Barker, It Is claimed, was not HI the lawful wife of the dead man. Shir Rjf is alleged lo have deserted a husband Hu In Texas and was living with Darker (us his wife. There are seven chil- HKf dren by her first husband; whom Mrs. Bjfe -4 1 1. uk i brought witii her from Texas. B-WL claimed. Rumors are that she was receiving jH attention of a foreigner prior to her BH t husband's death, and that she was SKI I visited by a man three days following 1HF I the death of her husband. |