Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-01
ANOTHER HEY WOOD CASE.
CASHIER MURDERED RATHER THAN
BETRAY HIS TRUST.
Handcuffed, Gagged and Bruised, and Then
Locked In the Vault Whose Treasure He
Died to Protect. ~
dexter (Maine) Cor. N. v SIM 94th !,

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Dexter (Maine) Cor. N. Y Sun 24th.
y. w. Barron, treasurer of the Dexter say
ings bank, was left alone in the Office Of Mr..
Parsons, an insurance agent, who has his
office in the same room with the bank, at
about o'clock on Friday evening. Barron
did not return home as usual, and search was
made for him. The doors of the savings
bank room were found locked as usual. As
no response was made to repeated calls, Mr..
Curtis, cashier of the national bank, which
has an Office in an adjoining room, sought
to enter the savings bank through the vaults,
which are connected, SO that when the doors
of the safe are closed person can pass from
one room to the other. It was at first sup
posed that Barron had fallen in st, as he
had been for some time troubled with heart
disease. On opening the vault doors in
the national bank Office the outer door
of the savings bank was found
open, and thrown back SO as to close the
passage. Some object was lying against the
door so that it could not be closed. Barron
could be heard grooming, but even then foul
play was not suspected. The door of the
savings bank was forced, it being expected
that the vault doors on that side would be
found open; but they were found closed and
locked. The intent of the burglars and, as
it proved, murderers. was then fully evident,
as healthy man would soon die there for
want of air.
There were no means at hand for opening
the vault, SO recourse was had to the entrance
by way of the vault Of the National bank.
There was small aperture between the door
of the safe and the roof of the vault, and
through this small person was passed with
some difficulty. He found the body of Mr..
Barron lying on the floor of the vault and
against the door of the safe. He succeeded
in moving the body so that the safe door
could be closed. When MIR. Barron was
taken through into the Office Of the national
bank, he was unconscious and breathing
heavily. He was gagged and handcutfed.
The gag was a short piece of
wood, such as might have been taken
from the bale of a water pail, and was
secured by a cord passed through
hole in the wood. The handouts were of
Norway iron of the latest patent, finely fin
ished, and nickel plated, SO constructed as to
secure the prisoner more tightly should he
struggle for freedom. piece of light rope
about six feet in length was around his neck
He had one wound behind the ear, another
serious cut on the forehead, and still another
on the cheek, and several severe bruises on
his body. He lived until half-past five this
morning.
After Mr.. Parsons left the Office Mr.. Bar
ron probably went through a back room to a
coal closet with the hod to replenish his fire
fo, IN, <,l,4
came up behind him and seized him while be
was in this closet, as the closet door was
found open, and there was the partly-flled
bod overturned on the floor, and the muir
dered mans false teeth and pen and keys
lying on the floor. The key of the handouts
were also found there. The robbers found
the vault doors and the outer door Of the
safe open, but the cash vault, which contain
ed everything of value, and in which was a
combination lock, was closed. They un-
doubleday murdered Mr.. Barron because he
would not disclose the combination, and hav-
ing committed this crime they laid him in
the vault which he died to protect, and then
locked the vault doors upon him, leaving his
friends, as they must have thought, little
chance of seeing him again alive.
ALI this must have occurred between five
and six o'clock last evening, Mr.. Curtis, the
cashier, was in the national bank at five
O'Clock, and when he left he tried Mr.. Bar
ron's door and found it locked Mr.. Curtis
went out, locking the outside door at the
foot of the stairway after him. The janitor
OF Masonic hall, which is in the third story
over the bank discovered unlocked the door
opening from the landing at the entrance to
the stairway to the hall, and then locked
this. This door was found open when the
robbery was discovered, thus making it evil
dent that the thieves had secreted them
selves inEthis part of the building in prepar-
alton for their work. They must have been
provided with keys to the doors of the hall
and banking rooms, to the outside door of
the building, as well as to the vault, So they
could not have used Mr.. Barron's keys for
locking these doors behind them when they
left the bank. They could not have locked
MIR. Barron in the vault without the aid of a
key of very peculiar construction.
citizen who passed the outer door lead
ing to the bank at about six o'clock last
night saw the door open and three men,
strangers to him, standing in the passage.
He, of course, thought nothing strange OF
this occurrence, although they were probably
the men who did the murderous deed. A
lady passing on the street shortly after this
saw two men step out from the bank en-
trance and pass down the street, walking
yerv fast