Obituary listing on April 14, 1938
Wilburn Horn, 57 year old farmer, died Monday night at the Pattie A. Clay Infirmary 30 hours after he was shot in an altercation at Ed Harris' store on Barnes Mtn about 1 pm Sunday. The bullett entered the left side and went through the body, penetrating the intestines and one kidney. Robert Williams who is said to have fired the fatal shot came in and gave up Monday and was released on $500 bond after waiving examing trial; he was rearrested Tuesday after Horn's death and lodged in jail without bond on a murder warrant. The examining trials have been set for 10am Saturday with Judge Henderson's court. Raymond, Herman and Lewis Williams and Harvel and Henry Gilbert were arrested Monday on a warrant charging this with aiding and assisting in the shooting. It is reported that one or more of the above named persons held Horn and the elder Williams fired the only shot, although some of theothers are said to have drawn guns and snapped them, whether they were loaded or just failed to go off is only conjecture. An eyewitness to the shooting stated that the part of the arguement he heard just before Horn was shot led to the belief that there had been previous trouble and that Williams and his sons as well as the Gilberts were prepared for trouble when they entered the store. One of the Williams boys pulled a gun first and snapped it two or more times and then Horn made a motion as though he was reaching for his hip pocket and was grabbed by another party before Robert Williams fired. The wounded man was brought to Irvine and later to Richmond. Survived by his estranged wife, Mrs. Miranda Angel Horn, a son, George an daughter, Pearl. burial at Cane Springs.
