This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Archer,Dyer,Overhoss,Davenport Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4759 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, September 5, 1912, Volume XXXV, Number 42, Page 1, Column 4-5, [Transcribed 1 Oct 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Shoots His Wife David Archer, of Atlas, Finds Wife in Company of Other Men and Begins Shooting, Killing Her. Charging that his wife was untrue to him, that he begged her to be a good mother and assist in taking care of her children, and to leave bad men and liquor alone, David Archer is in jail charged with killing his wife. The shooting occurred at the home of Milt Overhoss, at Atlas, about eight o’clock Sunday night, and the other were not killed is due to the fact that they made their get-away. Archer is a miner, fifty-three years of age and appears as harmless as one could be. When questioned by a representative of the press he gave the following story of the affair: “Some few weeks ago, I found my wife in company with other women and men over a saloon. I told her that it was not right, that she should help take care of the children, and she promised me that she would. About that time the man she had been running with came along with his brother, and I decided to have it out there. I did not have anything but a pocket knife and when I started after the men, one struck me over the head with a chair and finished me for that time. Since then everything has been all right until yesterday, when three other women came past our house and tried to get my wife to go with them. I induced her to stay home. Afterward the women returned and one stopped at our house, and when I told my wife for her to remain at home, she said that I was jealous of her and all that, so when she insisted on going to the home of the other women, I decided to let her go to keep peace in the family. “A short time afterwards, a man came to our home and told me that if I wanted to watch my wife, to go to the home of Milt Overhoss and I could do so. When I walked in I found my wife, Graham Davenport and another man and woman there. I opened fire with a revolver and I guess I fired every shot, but I did not kill Davenport and the other man, as they made their escape. I do not remember the shot that killed my wife, but I am sorry that I did not get the other two men. They have ruined my home and I have tried to keep my wife at home and away from such men. “I was married to my wife, whose maiden name was Daisy Dyer, about eight years ago. Her parents lived near Coal City and I used to live at Johnstown, a small town near there. We have three children, but only two were born to us. They are Goldie, age seven, and Dottie, age 5; Orville, a boy, is ten years old and was born to Mrs. Archer when she was married to another man. “ Archer does not appear to be worried over the outcome of his trial, and appears concerned in the welfare of his children more than anything else. It was reported that he was drinking heavily when he fired the shots, but it is not believed that such was the case