New-York tribune., 1891-05-01
DIR. GRAVESS STORY DISCREDITED.
DENIALs THAT HE SENT MRS. BARNaBY's
DENVER ADDRESS TO PEOPLE IN
THIS CTTy

THIS CITY.
dispatch from Providence about the murder Oh
Mrs Barnaby published In yesterdays Tribune Dr.
Graves reported TO have asserted that he had gwen
Mrs. Barnabys Denver address to Lord Taylor OF
this city, and to Mrs. J. d. Warning, Of NO 2l9 west
FOurteenthst The dispatch also said that Dr. Graves
had given 1t as his opinion that Mrs Edward Bennett
OF Blue Mountain Lake. might have sent the bottle OF
poison to Mrs. BaFnaby she was her bitter enemy
Lord Taylor denied yesterday having received MFs'
Bamaby's Denver address from DIR. Graves. Ihe
Tribune reporter then called Mrs. Warning, who
keeps clearinghouse at No. 210 West Fourteenthst'
She said that Mrs. Barnaby % her to board IN
the spring Of 1890. She again Just before sbe
went TO the Adirondachs, and stayed for some time
Dr. Graves came from Providence with his wife, ana
brought Miss saie S. Handlcy 10 act maid for Mrs
Bamaby. DR.. Graves stayed two days and then ro
turned to Providence with his wife, leaving Miss Hand
ley with Mrs BaTnaby. IL was observed by some Oh
the people in the house that Miss Handley was in
lover with DR.. Graves. she was not treated as a
maid one Of the other boarders told Mrs Warning
that she had seen Dr. Graves put his arm around MISS
Handeys waist in the paror, behind his wifes back
IL also noticed that Mrs. Banaby dlsliked MISS
Handley
Mrs. Barnaby wished at one time to take the whole
OF Mrs. Warnings third floor. DIR. Graves. who was
present, objected, and said TO Mrs. Warning before
Mrs. Barnaby, that she had better not make any
places ahead. lie wanted it so that Mrs. Barnaby
could come and go she pleased. When Mrs
Banaby first TO Mrs Warnings house, she seemed
extremely fond Of Dr. Graves but at the time OF her
last visits she complained continually OF his manage
ment OF her affairs, and often expressed the wish
that they might be taken out Of his hands
Mrs. Barnaby, accompanied by Miss lIandley, came
To Mrs Warnings in December last on the saturday
evening her husbands store burned She returned
to Providence the following day and spent the rest OF
the week in travelling between the two cities When
she finally left Mrs. Warnings she left her account
unsettled and Mrs. Warning sent the bill to Dr.
Graves He would not pay all OF it, and when Mrs.
Warning wrote and demanded the rest he wrote back
that he had forwarded letter to Mrs Barnaby and
that Mrs. Warning had better walt until she returned
in April This was in January. Mrs Warning denies
emphaticaly that she ever received Mrs. Barnaby's
Denver address from DR.. Graves.
Mrs. Warning says letter came to the house in the
early part of April directed to Mrs. Barnaby in DR..
velope also in his HANDWRITING, it said that Mrs.
Barnaby would probably be home On April 20. Ihis
letter is still at Mrs. Warnings.
Mrs Warning thought that DIR. Graves's talk about
Mrs Barnaby was outrageous His accusing her OF
immortality was the most ridiculous thing In the world
Mrs Barnaby was one of the most retiring and modest
women she had ever known. As for Dr. Graves say
Ing that Mrs Barnaby was incorporate Mrs. Warning
was sure that was untrue she had never seen her
drink anything than glass OF wine occasionally
and she was positive that Mrs. Barnaby did DOT nave
any whiskey in the house. The dead woman mao
always spoken of the BeDnetts IN the mghest leHs anu
i'm the Uarme.t manner. DR.. Graves claims that Mrs.
Bennett was Mrs. Barnaby's bltterest enemy MIS-
Wafrng ended by saying that Mrs. Barnaoy was d
most lovely woman, and that she could not undersEina
how Dr. Graves could speak of her in the way in which
he had.