The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-06
Mrs. Barnaby Was Completely Under
This Suspected Physicians
Control.
The Maid, Miss Hanley, Was With
out Doubt Creature of
His Choosing.
story OF the Second Will-The Queer Cir
cumstances OF the Robert Ray
Hamilton Case.

PROVIDENCE, II. L., May 5.-Prooeedings
IN the Barnaby case at this end of the line
came practically to a standstill last week,
awaiting the arrival of John H. Conrad. Of
Billings, Mont, husband of Mabel Barna-
by, the eldest surviving member of the
Barnaby family. He is now on his way
from the west. He is spoken of as a man
OF great determination and energy, and it
is expected that he will at once take some
steps looking to solution of the mystery.
The statement by Mrs. Worrall of Ches-
ter, Pa, and the Bennetts of Blue Mount
ain Lake, N. Y, are of such nature as to
greatly increase public interest in the case
While DIR. Graves last utterance pointed to
the Bennetts as the probable senders of the
poisoned liquid, the latest statements
seem to agree in regard to the
rigid, almost autocratic control over Mrs.
Barnaby and her affairs welded by DR..
Graves and intimate that an attendant to
her, Miss Hanley, recommended by the
doctor, was repugnant to Mrs. Barnaby.
DIR. Graves. if Mrs. Worrall's story is to be
credited, doed out Mrs. Barnaby's money,
scaling down her requisitions to ope-half
their original proportions, and sending in
all cases his personal check.
1t is charged that he neglected to forward
money to California during Mrs. Barnaby's
recent travels there, leaving the ladies-for
Mrs. Worrall was there with her-upon sew
eral occasions in most embarrassing situa-.
tions, and that after he had been informed
OF Mrs. Barnaby's death he arrived in Den
yer fifty hours later than he could have
reached there and allowed all the expenses
attached to his patrons last illness and
death to be settled by Mrs. Conrad's cousin.
Mr.. Clark. Mrs. Worrall states that Mrs.
Barnaby chafed under the strictiOns i'm
posed by DR.. Graves, and resented his selec-
tion of the woman Hanley as her maid or
companion, as the young woman prefers to
call herself.
The story of the Chester will is brought
out by Mrs. Worralrs statement 1t was
intended as a rebuke to DIR. Graves for his
in DENYING her wishes. "In
the HOLIDAYS of 1890" says Mrs. Worrall,
Mrs. Barnaby spent some time at the
Chester. She was very nervous about her
affairs. Said DIR. Graves had tried to get
her to 20 to Cuba with the Harley woman,
which she said she would not do ander anv
She also told my husband
that she had cause to be dissatisfied with
DIR. Graves in a business way. and wanted
to make other arrangements, for the dispo-
wrote to Providence, requesting DR.. Graves
to send her at once by mail the will which
she had made and delivered into his Gus
todv.
II wrote that letter myself at her dicta-
tion. 1t WAS mailed, and few days after
ward replv came. l read the letter also.
which DR.. Graves wrote. He said he could
not possibly send it then, but would do so
At his earliest opportunity. This letter was
a source of great agitation to Mrs. Bar
1aby. Il must do something at once,' she |
said.'
Two days before the two ladies started
Tor the west Mrs. Batnaby said: II
I'M satisfied DR.. Graves does not mean to
give the will up. He has mighty object
II keeping it. as he read it when it was |
lrawn, and knows that it contains a legacy
If $5O,G0O for him. AS rebuke for his ac-
ion and in order to protect myself, want
mother will drawn that will invalidate the
worth the paper it Is written on. We must
leep the fact of the new will a perfect Sc
,ret from him, however"
Following out this desire, in the pres
snce of Mr.. Rose. a lawyer. and my hus-
oand," says Mrs. Worrall, ''the new will was
lrawn. 1t gave to DR.. Graves but half Of
MS. former legacy-S25.OOO. Her daugh-
1allv mentioned in the first will, came in
or $1,000 or $40, 600 each in this. am in
,l;ned to think this latter course was due to
ny attempts to secure a family reconcilia-
ion. Members of my own family were
.lso mentioned. Mrs. Barnaby said impul-
'ively that had she known we had lost our
ortune she would certainly have remem-
,ered us in her first testament.
Secretly the will was drawn, duly signed
md witnessed. 1t was, by Mrs. Barnaby's
equest, given into the possession of Law
'er Rose, and the following day we went
vest. DR.. Graves absolutely knew nothing
# this second will. He did know, however,
hat Mrs. Barnaby had distrusted him.
That she had asked for her will and had
lot got it, and response to more pressing
etter he knew that he had written prom
ses to send it to Los Angeles or some other
Western point, thing he did not intend to
10 and which he did not do.
II do not see how, under the circum-
tances, DR.. Graves could construe Mrs
return to Providence to mean less
han revision of her will unfavorable to
is interests or the loss of the Office of
gent that he held"
DIR. Graves still keeps silence, but Sallie
ianley, now an attendant in dentists
flee here, has made general denial of
ny understanding whatever between DIR.
raves and herself or that she played the
py on Mrs. Barnaby. Mrs. Conrad abso.
1tely refused to see callers to- day.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.