The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-18
GRIP HAS JUDGE MACON.
There was No Hearing in the Graves
Case To-Day.
OTHERS LAID UP IN DENVER
Reporter Trickey Tells of an Interview
He Had with the Accused I'm This City.
The Docoy Telegraph Message to Mrs.
Graves.
ESPECIAL TO THE NFws.l


DENVER, Dec 1S.-There was no session
of the court where DIR. Il. Thatcher Graves
is being tried for the murder of Mrs. Bar
naby to-day. A postponement has been
taken until tomorrow, and il is possible
that the trial will not be continued until
Monday The cause of the delay is the
sickness of ex- Judge Macon, who is con-
Quoting the cross examination of the wit
nesses for the government. Judge Macon
has a severe attack of the grip, which sew
rral others connected with the trial are
suffering.
AIter e recess of the court yesterday
Henry G.. Trickey of the Boston Globe,
testified az TO his interview with DR.
Graves at his residence on Benefit street,
in Providence, in company with Charles
+. Lincoln. On April % he and Mr. Lin
coin called at DIR. Graves in the morning
~ 7|', e." day of the arrival of Mrs.
Barnaby's body.
,.ue.oi oegan the interview by say
ing that he was surprised at the insinua-
ton that he had murdered Mrs. Barnaby.
lie stated TO witness that he had two
theories which he was ready to advance
as solution for the mystery. He coli.
sented, howeve~, TO give but one of these
TO the public. It was that Mrs. Barnaby's
character was not above reproach; that
black kmail had repeatedly been tested
on her to his own knowledge. He be-
lieved that some person possessed dam
aging information, and had demanded
hush money from deceased; that she re-
fused TO pay il, and that in revenge the
blackmailer had resorted to the poison
which took her life.
Dr. Graves told Mr.. Trickey that he
knew that Mrs. Barnaby had made will,
but he had never seen IL; that he was in
troduced to Mrs. Barnaby by friends who
knew that the treatment of paralysis was
one of his specialties that the events that
transpired at the Adirondacks convinced
him that Mrs. Barnaby WAS woman of
dissolute character, and he did not desire
her TO enter his house that he took
barge of Mrs. Barnaby's property at her
earnest and repeated solicitation, that
Mr.. Bennett and Mrs. Barnaby were
both drunk together in an ice
house on the Bennett premises
that their actions raised terrible row,
and that Mrs. Bennett forbade Mrs. Bar
naby to come TO her cottage again; that
DIR. Graves went TO Denver To protect Mrs.
Barnaby's interests and property and To
prevent the remains from being turned
over to the municipal authorities of
Denver.
When Graves was asked what time he
reached Chicago on his way TO Denver, he
was nervous and excited, and said that it
wasn't material. AS to- the decoy tel
egraph message to Mrs. Graves in Provi-
dence, Mr.. 1rickey explained that its
purpose was to ascertain whether
Mrs. Graves was at home or not. IL was
written by Isaac Kirby, Providence cor
respondent of the Boston Globe, in Private
Detective McIIenry's Office. The latter
sent his office boy TO the house, with in
structions that if Mrs. Graves was at
home, to report to them. but not to sur
render the message if she was absent; to
Il q ha bat aHH
that they could communicate with
her. Mr.. Trickey did not see the
message and didn't know what it
contained. The maid took the mes
sage from the boy, and the plan failed to
work. lie denied that he knew it directed
Mrs. Graves To go To Danielsonville To
meet Thatcher; that it was part of
plan for her TO fall into the hands of detec-
tives, for the purpose of securing infor
nation as to DR.. Graves guilt.
In the interview with DR.. Graves, Mr..
Trickey did the talking and Mr.. Lincoln
took the notes They subsequently wrote
the report jointly, so as to guard against
inaccuracy and misrepresentation.
Mr.. Trickey denied that he had sent
pretended interview with Dr. Graves to
the New York World during the trial IL
was obtained by J. :. Hirsch, Denver cor
respondent of the Boston Globe Witness
wrote the account and, Mr.. Hirsch pro-
nounced it all right. DIR. Graves did not
decline to he interviewed and dismiss
them in three minutes.
Mr.. Trickey stated that Private Detec-
tive Mcilenry expressed the hope that he
would not get into any trouble rs the re-
suit of the decoy message, as he expected
to get Job from DIR. Graves.
CHARLES Rogers, son of Undertaken
Rogers, testified that the body of Mrs.
Barnaby was not ell balmed until after the
autopsy; that he took charge of the lar of
viscera and placed them in the safe after
the lar was sealed When he gave il TO
DIR. Headden the seals and the jar were in-
tact.
Prices of 5000 Pounds Candy.