FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, May 9, 1912 MURDER AND WIFELY INFIDELITY AT BONNE TERRE ________ Roy Larkin and Mrs. Henry Harris Held for Murder of Latter's Husband ________ Last Friday night at Bonne Terre, between 10:15 and 10:30 o'clock, Roy Larkin, barkeeper at Romine's saloon, shot and killed Henry Harris, a miner, within one hundred yards of the Harris home. The ball struck Harris in the right breast just above the nipple, ranged backward and downward, passed through the left lung, cutting the main aorta of the heart and pulmonary vein. He lived only two or three minutes after the shot. At the inquest held by Coroner English the testimony developed a deplorable condition of illicit love on the part of Larkin and Harris' wife and strong circumstantial evidence of a conspiracy to get rid of Harris. The testimony of Cora Carow [sic - probably should be Carrow], a girl who had been working at the Harris home for several weeks, was most damaging to the Harris woman and revealed a condition of moral depravity that contaminated even the fourteen-year-old daughter, who knew of her mother's intamacy with Larkin, and according to the Carow girl's testimony the mother and daughter had both expressed a desire to get rid of the husband and father. Harris was working on a night shift, which went to work about eleven o'clock. On Friday night Harris, after preparing his own supper and filling his lunch bucket, (for it seems that his wife did not even design to do this for him), he left the house about 9 o'clock. In about twenty-five or thirty minutes he returned to the house. Some time after this he saw or heard his wife talking to some one at the gate and asked who it was. He went out and it was then that the shooting occurred. The verdict of the Coroner's jury was that Harris "came to his death by being shot with a pistol in the hands of Roy Larkin, said Roy Larkin being aided and abetted by Ida Harris, wife of deceased." The jury was composed of J. A. Wolper, G. M. Spain, Walter Scott, W. G. House, Thos. M. Bell and Adam Hopson. Larkin and Mrs. Harris were both held without bail and brought to Farmington and lodged in jail to await preliminary examination, which is set for to-morrow (Friday) before Squire Bonny at Bonne Terre.