FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, June 20, 1912 LARKIN GIVES APPEAL BOND -- WOMAN GOES TO JAIL On Friday night, May 3, 1912, Roy Larkin shot and killed Henry Harris near the latter's own home at Leadwood, a culmination of the clandestine meetings and illicit love of Larkin and Harris' wife. Both Larkin and the unfaithful wife were jointly tried the latter part of last week in the Circuit Court of this county. The jury brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree and assessed the punishment of each at ten years in the penitentiary. A motion for a new trial being overruled by the court, an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, and Judge Huck fixed the appeal bond of Larkin at $4,000, and that of the Harris woman at $2,500. Larkin promptly furnished the necessary bond for himself, but the woman whose illicit love he shared and whose husband he shot down, was left to shift for herself. She was not able to furnish bond and had to go back to jail. What ever may have been the sins of the woman prior to the murder, and whatever the seductive temptations that led her astray, Larkin was equally if nor [sic] more to blame, and then he did the killing. If Larkin could obtain bond for himself it looks as if he might have done as much for his partner in crime, or failing to secure bond for both, manhood, if he has any, would have suggested that he first procure bond for her and if necessary go to jail himself. It is always the woman who suffers most in such cases, in reputation and otherwise, under the code of morals as interpreted by the world in general; but the apparent indifference of Larkin and his friends to the fate of the woman upon whom he had lavished his illicit affection, aroused the sympathy of some of our good people, and on Monday they interested themselves in procuring bond for her release from jail until the finding of the lower court is passed upon by the Supreme Court.