The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-17
PRICE-FIVE CENTS.
A DiabOlical Murder.
A Heartless Wretch Chokes and
Kicks his Wife to Death.
The Arrest of the Murderer.

Last evening about 3 O'Clock was enacted
one of the most heinOus and diabOncal muir
ders that has ever been chrOnicled upon the
pages of crime. and one that will make the
heart Of man stand still and chill ut the
thought Of such horrible deed Men
may in cold blood murder each other
from causes Of jealousy, money, or envy
but when human being, daring to
call himself man, through the devilish in
tiuence Of liquor beats to death the wife
who has for many years shared the ups and
downs of his life, then the soul of humanity
should cry aloud against such an ignOmi-
NOUS crime and the gallows should be his
Just retribntion.
The Murderer
now in question, by name Dick Barry, last
evening went to his home at No. Is Prieur
street, and finding his wife there asked her
if she had paid the rent Of the house, the
money for which he had given her Gas no
states) in the morning; the woman then re-
piled that she had not paid the money,
whereupon the villanous wretch, Dick Bar
ry. threw her upon the floor and with his
hands
Clutched In Her Throat,
strangled, and then kicked the poor creature
in the temples until she was a cold a. di an
innate corpse. The screams of the untortu-
nate victim aroused the people in the neigh3
borhood, who rushed to the scene of the
.rrible Tragedy.
Entering the lowly howell, which wis oc-
cnpied by Barry and his wife, they there
witnessed scene that would make the
blood curdle in the veins and cause the very
heart to cease pulsation. There in the midst
of civilization was Dick Barry, calling him
self a man, choking and kicking his wife,
Sarah Barry, to death. The cries of the poor
creature could be heard far and near, and
when assistance came the murderOus deed
had been enacted, and there, upon the cold,
damp floor, lay the corpse of Sarah Barry,
murdered by her own husband.
Deep in her neck were the points of his
cowardly fingers which he had sunk into her
flesh with the venom of beast; around her
temple and under her left eye, and on the
same side of her nose were marks that indi-
Gated the most atrocious brutality; and vets
strange to chronicle when the dastardly
murderer was confronted with the deed, he
added doubly to his sin and lied, by most
positively asserting that he did not commit
the murder; but, fortunately tor humanity,
Murder viii Out,
and William Lacy, from whom Barry rents
his house, was the chief witness to this most
pusillanimOus deed. He says that when he
went into the house Of Barry there was no
light, and he then asked Barry where his
wife was, but he Barry said he did
not know, whereupon Lacy called to
colored man named Ed. II. Washington,
and told him to strike q light and
look around the house. The candle
was lighted, and, as he Uacy) went
into the front room he saw Sarah
Barry lying upon the floor almost dead, and
that the said Richard went up TO her and
checked and kicked her again until he
Lacy told Barry he should be ashamed of
himself. Barry's answer was: "3y CT
would kick my mother to death if she did
not paying rent when gave her the money
for to do So" Lacy then again remon-
strated with the wretch about the cruel
but filed with desire of
Taking Life.
Richard Barry kicked his wife in the left
temple in such a manner as to cause her
death, and there she lay upon the
Flor Of the Hovel
which she occupied, cold and lifeless mass,
beaten to death by the wretch who dared to
call himself her husband. Added to the
above facts it is stated that
Excessive Drink
was failing of both Mr.. and Mrs. Barry,
and that the primary cause of the difficulty
originated in the vile influence of the glass.
and now Richard Barry lies in Jail charged
with the
Murder Of His Wife,
though he strenuously denies having ever
laid hands upon her save in the way Of
kindness; but this statement is contradicted
by the. three principal witnesses who are
now retained in the Station House to
Convict the Fiend
who has committed q deed 30 fraught with
barbarous and villainons sentiments +. III.
Washington, f.. s. Childs and William Lacey
are now held in custody at the First Pre-
cinct Station as witnesses for the State.
Richard Barry states that he is captain of
the sloop Caroline, now lying at the New
| Basin, and that he has been married for
thirteen years to the wife whom tonight
he mnrdered in cold blood
Officers George A. Harrison and George
Mcmahon arrested the cnlplit and conveyed
him to the First Precint Station, where he
now lies, with the death of his wife upon his
hands and heart.
| Richard Barry
is man about 40 years Of age with thick
inches in height and rather thick set his
right hand is dis6gured, having only three
fingers upon it, the others (as he says) were
shot off in the Late rebellion, he being
Confederate soldier.
| His wife Sarah, from her appearance,
| he %n bn nhnr% - "a Of ACE.