Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-01-29
\ MYSTERIOUS SENSATION
GEORGE 6ARR's STRANGE METHOD
OF PUTTING AWAY HIS WIFE,

The Citizens of Deimar Aroused Over
the Unexplained Disappearance of an
Estimabie LadyA Handsome Young
Doctor IN tho Case.
The Philadelphia Record Of this morn
ing contains the following sensational
story:
"DzzNAR, Del. Jan. os.-Thts COM
munity is excited over what started out
as an ordinary scandal, but which has
now phase which looks pretty dark to
the people here. About five years ago
George M. Barr, = locomotive engineer,
moved here from Lewisburg. Pa, bring
ing with him his wife. comedy and in
teliigent woman about % years OF age.
hts position AS engineer allowed him to
keep his family In comfortable circum-
stances, and Mrs. Bars accomplishments
and ladyike demeanor soon intrenched
her In the best social circles Of the town.
Everything moved smoothly with the
Bars until about two weeks ago. when
the husband came home one night while
off duty, considerably under the influence
OF liquor, and accused his wife OF undue
intimacy with DR.. Robert Eliegood, the
family physician. ~
He forced her to confess that DR..
Ellegood had criminal relations with her
On the same night he visited Dr. Ellie
good at the latter's office and told tho
doctor that his wife had made these ad-
missions. DIR. Ellegood plainly told the
husband that Mrs. Barr as far as he
knew. was virtuous woman.
Leaving DR.. Ellegood's office the bus
band returned to his home, locked his
wife IN the parlor, and then stood guard
aNTlF h4a all trrItf H..
forced her 10 leave on the first train,
would not allow her even to see her two
little ones, and he and her half-brother
took her north. In two days he returned,
and says that he left her at her mother
home In Lewisburg, Union county, Pa In
the meantime the people Of the com.
munity became aroused Mrs. Barr had
stood high in their estimation. The
ladies are unit that the whole scheme
Of the husband is plot between HIM and
his mother to get rid of the wife. aud
every effort has been made to trace her
whereabouts without success.
''She was a member In good standing of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and the
entire congregation vouches for her vir-
tue. He claims to have taken her home,
but he took her away from here without
even wrap around her, and next day
after he came home he expressed her
trunk to Philadelphia, while her home Is
in Lewisburg. Union county, Pc.
CDR. Robert Ellegood, whose name the
husband mixed up in this affair, is a
young man connected with the very best
families in the county. His reputation
here is Of the best, and no one for a
moment believes that there is any guilt
on his part or on the wife's either. He is
a son Of Robert l.. Ellegood OF Concord,
Del, who is prominently spoken Of as
the Democratic candidate for governor
in the coming campaign. What the
people of Delmar would like to know is
what has become of the wife, Mrs. Barr.
"When seen to night Barr denied the
report that he had used pistol to extort
! a confession from his wife OF had drawn
one on Dr. Ellegood he says that mis-
wife told the story in the presence of his
half-brother William Furey. He stated
that she said DR.. Ellegood had taken
Q advantage Of her while performing the
. services Of a physician, and that their
intimacy continued afterward. Barr
called on DR.. Ellegood tonight, In an
interview later the physician said Barr
! has threatened to kin me unless left
; this place in forty-eight hours. He has
} employed counsel, and told me that II
won the case l would lose my life l am
innocent, and shall stay here.
Barr subsequently refused to admit or
deny that he had made any such threat
1 against Ellegood.
The statement in the above story thpt
residents Of Deimar do not believe the
! charges Of inidelity made by Barr against
2 his wife, are correct. 1t Is the opinion OF
many of the people Of the town, that the
whole affair is a plot; that Barr may be.
{ lieve that his wife is wrong but that he
o has been inspired to the belief by false
statements that have been made to him
by some interested persons. The people
. who hold this view, state that there was
: another conspiracy against Mrs. Barr,
! some years ago, and charges Of a serious
nature were made against her character,
: which afterwards proved to be false In
I every particular
: Squire Tyre of Delmar, expressed the
!. opinion of the entire community yester-
a day when he said: The woman is limo
cent. She must be, for every woman in
. town will swear by her.
! Barr and his wife ON their way north
!, from Delmar stopped of at Dover anc
went to a hotel, where a room was secured
for Mrs. Barr. Barr himself then went
!
I said, who drew up a bill OF separation
2 He then returned to the hotel for hi:
i. wife, and she was found in bed In her
2 room lying in a stupor, from which She
e was aroused with much difficulty. Tn,
/. woman. It is said, acted as II she wa
Z. drugged.
J. The couple proceeded to Mr.. Massey
Office, who when he saw the young
woman, aud the semi-stupid condition
she was IN, refused TO have anything
Il more to do with the affair
Z. man who is in Delmar every day an,
4 knows all about the case said this morn
I, ing that he had no doubt that it was
# deep plot to separate Barr and his wife
The gentleman stated, that Bars mothe
wanted to live with him and his wife, an,
the younger Mrs Barr objected. Thi
fact, said the gentlemen, In the opinion
of nearly all Of Delmars citizens. is tn
cause Of this plot to ruin the younI
{ woman.
Colored Men to Debate.