Winfield Daily Free Press
Winfield, Kansas
Saturday, January 7, 1922
Page 5
Farmer Commits Suicide
Suffered Nervous Breakdown Last Year.
Ed Barner, 55 years old, farmer, Belle Plaine committed suicide by shooting himself at 10 o'clock Friday morning in the barn on his farm.
Barner, who suffered a nervous breakdown three months ago, told his wife he was going hunting when he left the house. Mrs. Barner heard the report of double barreled shotgun shortly afterwards. She thought nothing of it.
Mrs. Barner became worried when her husband failed to show up for dinner. She summoned a farm hand, who had been employed during the morning sawing wood on an adjoining farm, occupied by a son of Mr. and Mrs. Barner.
Half of Barner's face and the top of his head had been blown off by the charge, which entered below the chin. Death must have been instantaneous, Dr. L.H. Sarchet, coroner of Sumner county, believed.
Barner's illness which was said to have prompted him to kill himself, was a recurrence of a nervous disease suffered 12 years ago, leaving him bereft of full mental faculties and at times he wandered about aimlessly, it was said. He had been melancholy lately.
Barner was the owner of five 160-acre farms in Sumner county, two of which were tenanted by his sons. He was a brother of Link Barner, former county commissioner of Sumner county.
A verdict of "death by his own hands" was decided by a jury at an inquest conducted by Coroner Sarchet. - Eagle.
The deceased man is a brother of C.G. Barner of this city, and has visited here. He was well to do and must have been suffering from nervous breakdown when he took his life.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Winfield, Kansas
Saturday, January 7, 1922
Page 5
Farmer Commits Suicide
Suffered Nervous Breakdown Last Year.
Ed Barner, 55 years old, farmer, Belle Plaine committed suicide by shooting himself at 10 o'clock Friday morning in the barn on his farm.
Barner, who suffered a nervous breakdown three months ago, told his wife he was going hunting when he left the house. Mrs. Barner heard the report of double barreled shotgun shortly afterwards. She thought nothing of it.
Mrs. Barner became worried when her husband failed to show up for dinner. She summoned a farm hand, who had been employed during the morning sawing wood on an adjoining farm, occupied by a son of Mr. and Mrs. Barner.
Half of Barner's face and the top of his head had been blown off by the charge, which entered below the chin. Death must have been instantaneous, Dr. L.H. Sarchet, coroner of Sumner county, believed.
Barner's illness which was said to have prompted him to kill himself, was a recurrence of a nervous disease suffered 12 years ago, leaving him bereft of full mental faculties and at times he wandered about aimlessly, it was said. He had been melancholy lately.
Barner was the owner of five 160-acre farms in Sumner county, two of which were tenanted by his sons. He was a brother of Link Barner, former county commissioner of Sumner county.
A verdict of "death by his own hands" was decided by a jury at an inquest conducted by Coroner Sarchet. - Eagle.
The deceased man is a brother of C.G. Barner of this city, and has visited here. He was well to do and must have been suffering from nervous breakdown when he took his life.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Winfield Daily Free Press
Winfield, Kansas
Saturday, January 7, 1922
Page 5
Farmer Commits Suicide
Suffered Nervous Breakdown Last Year.
Ed Barner, 55 years old, farmer, Belle Plaine committed suicide by shooting himself at 10 o'clock Friday morning in the barn on his farm.
Barner, who suffered a nervous breakdown three months ago, told his wife he was going hunting when he left the house. Mrs. Barner heard the report of double barreled shotgun shortly afterwards. She thought nothing of it.
Mrs. Barner became worried when her husband failed to show up for dinner. She summoned a farm hand, who had been employed during the morning sawing wood on an adjoining farm, occupied by a son of Mr. and Mrs. Barner.
Half of Barner's face and the top of his head had been blown off by the charge, which entered below the chin. Death must have been instantaneous, Dr. L.H. Sarchet, coroner of Sumner county, believed.
Barner's illness which was said to have prompted him to kill himself, was a recurrence of a nervous disease suffered 12 years ago, leaving him bereft of full mental faculties and at times he wandered about aimlessly, it was said. He had been melancholy lately.
Barner was the owner of five 160-acre farms in Sumner county, two of which were tenanted by his sons. He was a brother of Link Barner, former county commissioner of Sumner county.
A verdict of "death by his own hands" was decided by a jury at an inquest conducted by Coroner Sarchet. - Eagle.
The deceased man is a brother of C.G. Barner of this city, and has visited here. He was well to do and must have been suffering from nervous breakdown when he took his life.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
Winfield, Kansas
Saturday, January 7, 1922
Page 5
Farmer Commits Suicide
Suffered Nervous Breakdown Last Year.
Ed Barner, 55 years old, farmer, Belle Plaine committed suicide by shooting himself at 10 o'clock Friday morning in the barn on his farm.
Barner, who suffered a nervous breakdown three months ago, told his wife he was going hunting when he left the house. Mrs. Barner heard the report of double barreled shotgun shortly afterwards. She thought nothing of it.
Mrs. Barner became worried when her husband failed to show up for dinner. She summoned a farm hand, who had been employed during the morning sawing wood on an adjoining farm, occupied by a son of Mr. and Mrs. Barner.
Half of Barner's face and the top of his head had been blown off by the charge, which entered below the chin. Death must have been instantaneous, Dr. L.H. Sarchet, coroner of Sumner county, believed.
Barner's illness which was said to have prompted him to kill himself, was a recurrence of a nervous disease suffered 12 years ago, leaving him bereft of full mental faculties and at times he wandered about aimlessly, it was said. He had been melancholy lately.
Barner was the owner of five 160-acre farms in Sumner county, two of which were tenanted by his sons. He was a brother of Link Barner, former county commissioner of Sumner county.
A verdict of "death by his own hands" was decided by a jury at an inquest conducted by Coroner Sarchet. - Eagle.
The deceased man is a brother of C.G. Barner of this city, and has visited here. He was well to do and must have been suffering from nervous breakdown when he took his life.
(transcribed by Judy Mayfield)
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