St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-09
Who Conceived a Sentimental Passion
for the Now Famous Henry
Barrett,
And Gave Rise to a Sensational Story
Which Reddy Quickly Il
Contradicted. 92Is3
The Espionage Under Which Reddy
Lives--.Shadowed Always blythe
Lord. 800 800


and gentle insinuations, was to the eff
feet that Henry Barrett, whose testl-
mony in the Tollefson murder case. has
caused his brothers, Tim and Pete, to
sentenced to be hanged, had bbeen
carrying on an intrigue III with
prominent married woman.
The article further declared
| that the love Barrett had shown for his
| wife during the trouble was all pre-
tended. and was put on simply to screen
himself by creating sympathy for them
| both.
Henry Barrett and his wife occupy at
| present the four rooms in the basement
| of the double tenement house at No.
| 74O Third street north, and there hey
| found last evening. After considerable
knocking at the front door the curtain OF
a window near the door was pushed
aside and Henry Barrett looked out.
On being told that the visitor was a re-
porter who wanted to see him he called
out:
'All right; but you will have to go
around to the back door, as German 1.-THE
officer who is keeping watch over Bar
rett) has locked this door and taken the
key"
The visitor went to the back basement
door as directed, and was uShered
through remarkably clean kitchen
into plain, but neatly furnished sitting
room. Here Mrs. Barrett sat, dressed
in a loose-ftting garment. Henry was
fully dressed, with the exception OF a
collar and coat.
"Yes," said he, when asked about the
story, IL have seen it, and must say 1t
is one of the worst gotten-up sensations
that | have ever seem"
SIS there any truth in it at all?'
well, yes: there is this much. There
is a woman who fancies she is III love
with me. or something Of that sort. But
| will tell you the whole thing. Soon
after we moved to this house this
woman began coming here and profess
ing great deal of friendship for my
wife. When Minnie my wife) was con-
fined this woman was very kind and did
us number of favors. At first l
did not think anything of her
coming, but finally she began
coming every little while, and
soon gave me to understand that it was
not entirely friendship for my wife that
brought her here. She brought num-
Der of her pictures, which she left here,
and in moving around our rooms Sc
cured one or two of mine. Occasion
ally she would sing sentimental songs.
The last time she was up here it was
about $3.50 o'clock when she came, and
not having any one to go home with her.
did not know what to do. l said |
would go home with her, and did
take her to her sisters house. This
sister lives a block or so from here.
While going home she acted as though
she were crazy, and even undertook to
do some desperate things. Then'l told
her that l thought she was fool to act
that way, and informed her time and
time again that even if she had no re-
spect for herself she ought to have some
for her two children. The woman is
perfectly respectable, so far as know,
but must be insane"
"Then there was nothing criminal be-
tween you""
''No, sir, there was not. may be-
pretty bad, but would never come be-
tween man and his wife in that sort of
way. | never said one word out of
the way to this woman, so help me God.
She is perfectly respectable, so far as
know. She is twenty-five years old
and has two children. [ do not know
her husband, but do hope that he nor
her children will ever know how fool
ishly she acted toward me. Why, when
she was here, she even asked my wife
for a lock of my hair, but she did not
get it. That's all there is to the whole
matter.
sit would have been simply impossi-
bic for me to have been at this woman's
house during her husbands absence, as
this paper picking up the paper con-
tanning the story states, for the reason
that l have been under guard all the
time. Why, [ have not been out of
the house but about ten hours in all,
except when at court, since coming
back to Minneapolis. and l do not be-
lieve there has been period of five
minutes duration in which my wife has
not known where | have been. Minnie
and have never yet had cross word
and we have never doubted each other.
nor will we ever. This woman in ques-
ton saw for the first time in my life
the day when the judge and the
jury were here to take my
wife's testimony. There have been
lots of cranks here to see me
since this trouble. One of them was a
woman who was apparently crazy on
religion. At first she read the Bible to
me, but in few days | saw, as did my
wife, that she was as daft as was Mrs.
-. Then we fired her and she has
what the newspapers say about Inc, for
nothing can hurt NE, for | am done for.
But had hoped this mess would not
get into the papers on account of the
woman, for it will ruin her and hurt her
relations"
"Will you 90 to see Tim and Pete
when their sentence is carried out?''
'My God, mol | shall never see them
again. 1 would go away from Mime
apoliS now, ii could, and Just as soon
as | can get permission from the author
tiles | will 90 in very short time. There
is no use in trying to go until they say |
can. German is here most of the time
that is, he sleeps here and takes
his meals here-sO even if [ wanted
to [ could not get very far away before
l would be missed. Then again, all the
officers know who am now, so it would
be useless to try to go unless had per-
mission"
elbow is your father now?"
81 do not know further than what /
see in the papers,"
That Henry Barrett is suffering terri
bly, is shown by the heavy drawn line
in his face. His eyes are sunken and
have that far-away look which is al
ways noticeable in person suffering
torture of mind. Once or twice last
night he attempted to smile, but each
time it terminated in stihed groan.
Tears filled his eyes when he spoke of
Peter, and his voice faltered
slightly. During the whole time
his visitor was there he sat with
arms folded across his chest, and his
hands tightly clenched. Most of the
time he looked at his wife, who sat near
him. She said but little, but listened
attentively to all that was said. i}The
woman in the case is the wife of we'll
known citizen and is well connected.
Her sister is the wife of a prominent
lawyer, living about a block and half
from Barrett's present residence.
-PENCILINGS ABOUT TOWN.
The union depot looked cold and