Grave marker of C.L. Baruth

ID: 5530 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Find-a-Grave.
This file appears in: Self-defense or murder?

Baruth lies peacefully in Medical Lake Cemetery, not far from the resting place of the wife who killed him in 1906.

This file appears in: Self-defense or murder?

By Natalie Brinson
In Medical Lake Washington on March 26, 1906, Josephine Baruth shot her husband C.L. Baruth. The two were at home with their twelve-year-old daughter when according to Josephine, her husband advanced upon her with a poker in his hand, as if to…