New-York tribune., 1891-04-30
MRS. BARNABY BURIED.
SOME OF THE DEAD wOMAN's " FRIENDS IN THE
WOODS, WHO LIVE IN PLAINFIELD.

WOODS WHO LIVE IN PLAINTELD.
Providence. April 90 (specaD.-Mrs Josephine
Barnaby's funeral was held to-day at her daughters
mansion on Broadway. The funeral was private
Dr. did not attend, and it IS said that he has
not looked on the face Of the dead woman. 1t mas
been ascertaned that DR.. Graves is a beneficiary
under the first will to the extent Of $5oooo but that
the second will, drawn by Mr.. Worrel at Chester,
Penn, last January reduced the beQuest to $4,000
There is additional evidence that Dr. Graves was here
in Providence on April 81, when he claims to have
been in Chicago. dispatch from Denver says;
Dr. Graves, on his arrival here, was suddenly asked
as to who knew Mrs. Barnabys Denver address In
trembling voice he said he had given the address to
Charles Robinson, of Glen Falls, ~ L: Mr Slas'
York CITY Mrs Warning of Fourteenthst., New York,
and Edward Bennett and wife, Blue Mountain Lake.
y. Y. When asked who he thought might have sent
Blue Mountain Lake. ~ Y,' who, he claims, was a
bitter enemy OF Mrs. Barnaby.
Dr. Graves has engaged counsel and talks OF in
stituting libel suits against the local newspapers which
have printed his record in DanielSOnve and elsewhere
Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y, April 30 (Speciap-Ed-
ward Bennett, the Adirondack guide, does not relish
the notoriey given him by DR.. Graves, of Providence
in connection with the Of Mrs. Barnaby, who died
OF poison at Denver. The wife Of Bennett Joins with
her husband in a general denial of DR.. Gravess ac
cusations. Mrs. Barnaby for nine summers has
boarded in the Bennett household, and Bennett has
acted as her guide. She had made arrangements to
return here, and was expected as early May 10
Mrs. Bennett says that DR.. Graves and MISS faille
sherman Handley the Boston girl sent here by Graves
last summer, 10 act maid for Mrs. Barnaby, mai-
tained close relations and carried on private cor
respO H1ce, much to the annoyance OF Mrs baFhaDy.
The story that Mrs. Barnaby had given the Belnetts
1000 house and lot here is denied by them
Plainfeld, n. j., April 30 (Speclal).-Mr. and MIS-
CarmOn Parse of Plainfeld friends in the WOODS,
with whom Mrs. J. 3. Barnaby, the Providence mil
uonaire's wife, spent five in the wild'
OF the Adirondacks. The bottle OF poison sent to Mrs
Barnaby was labeled From friends in the woods, and
the many unpleasant things said about these acquant-
anccs have led Mr. and Mrs Parse to keep secret their
ACQUAINTANCE with Mrs Barnaby. Mr. Parse IS
cashier of the Planfcd First National Bank ard he
and his wife have spent five at Racquet Lake,
in the Adirondacks with Mrs Barnaby, and again last
summer were wi the Providence woman at Blue
Mountain Lake. Cashier Parse is i'll with consump-
ton at his pretty Plainfed house, and his wife was
averse to talking about the Barnaby affair last night,
owing 10 this circumstance. She said she was Mrs
Barnabys only friend in the woods, and said that the
marty were at Benefits place. Mrs Parse was asked
II she knew DR.. Graves. She said that she did not.
AS 10 Dr. Graves's charges OF immortality and inemp
GRANGE made against Mrs. Barnaby, Mrs. Parse said
:" have known Mrs. Barnaby over five years, and in
everv vay she was a lady. Her daughters were not
rith her in the woods neither her husband, al
though he was living until two years ago. She never
took any liquor except well advertised tonic and
touy never gave any indication OF being anything but
an honorable, well bred woman. do not know who
cnrd have mailed the poisoned whiskey from Boston
neither do know anything for or agans Dr. Graves"