New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-29
A CONNECTS FUNERAL.


The funeral Of John Barrett who was shot at sing
Sing on Friday while in revolt against the prison
authorities and threatening Keeper Goods life, yes
terday attracted a crowd Of friends and morbidly
curious sight-seors 20 his mothers dwelling at NO.
$50 East Thirty-third-st In the small room on the
third floor where the body lay, friends of the dead
man were gathered. Some had brought flowers and
LAID them on the coffin, but the gref-strcken
mother brushed them aside and refused TO let any
one decorate the corpse Of her The father two
Younger brothers and sister cndeavOrcd TO sOOthe
the mothers grief At 2 p. IN. the undertaken ar
rived, and all were invited to take last look at
John Barretfs face which in death gave no evil
dence of fierce disposition or evil habits. When an
attempt was made TO remove Mrs. Barrett from the
corpse of her frst-born. she sank back into neigh
rsbors arms with wall and was carried from the
room and to the coach IN an unconscious state.
Barrett was inferred at Calvary Cemetery, where
tie service Of the Roman Catholic Church was read
by Father joyce, the celebrant at the cemetery.
William A. Barrett, the father of the dead man,
said TO TRIBUNE reporter that the reports OF his
SOP having been desperate convict are untrue, and
tLat be was III PRISON serving out a term Tor
burglary he never committed. lie said the attack
Barrett made on his keepers was the natural result
OF tile harsh and degrading treatment he had under
gone. johnny" SAID his father, inherited a not
and violent temper from his mother and personal
pride from me- SO when they logged and dlsgraced
BIN 1t made hIm desperate" Barrett was sent to Sing
Sing IN OctObTe, 1877, on sentence by Recorder
Iackett for a burglary of a dry goods shop Third
ave- He arrested while wearing one oil the SHIRTS
stolen from the shop. This he claimed had been
given him by a friend who had asked HIM TO 60 on
a picnic, which he declined doing on the ground Of
having no clean linen to His father said that
John pleaded guilty by his own and cOunsePs ad-
vice. as all the circumstances were against him, and
he hoped for a tighter sentence. He would have
been twenty years old last Saturday, the day his
body was brought from Sing Sing 10 his nU1.eT's
home.
FUNERAL OF POLICE CAPTAIN KENNEDY.
The funeral Of Captain Thomas j. Kennedy, late
of the ThIrty-f fifth Precinct took place yesterday
morning The body was taken from his late resi-
dence No. oil East Eighty-sxth-st., TO ST. JOsephs
Roman Catholic Church. at ighty-seventh-st. and
First-ave where the Rev. Father Busen con-
Quoted sae services, assisted by the Rev. Father
Dusthaller aud the Rev. Father Hackspiel. The
remains Law I'm coffin covered with black cloth
and velvet and bearing plate in the shape of a
shield having engraved on IL the following:
ThOmas J. Kennedy. Died July "A, 1879. aged
Al years months" An arch OF flowers, hHv-
ing the name and Official title Of the dead man
worked In flowers, was placed at The chancel near
the coffin. This was sent by members Of the Ninth
Precinct police force. Another offering IA the
eurmounted by white dove bearing in its beak a
spray Of green Morgan Jones, John Pine, ex-
Warden John StacOm, e1Captan Ullman John
Williams Sergeant Joseph Douglass and ROundsmaB
W. Dean acted as pallbea A procession was
formed as soon as the services were finished headed
by Sergeant Tuch, Of the Twenty-SecOnd Precinct,
as MARSHAL, with section from the Twenty-secOnd
and Twenty-tbrd Precincts acting as an escort and
platoon of the Twenty-hith and the mounted