The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-03
DIR. GRAVES GUILTY.
The Providence Physician Con-
victed of Murder.
HE POISONED MRS. sARNABY.
Sent Bottle OF whisky With Arsenic to
the Woman Who Had Befriended
and Enriched Him.

appreciate the anxiety of the court aad your
self to get through with the case, and will
oondense my remarks as closely a. possible.
am going TO refresh your memory. Conrad de-
MED positively that he said to Dr.. Graves that II
he could go back to his family and explain
everything would be ell right. HANSON ad-
Initted that be did say this. Conrad denied
that he and Graves quarreled. Hanscon nd-
mitted that he thought Graves had loud and
stormy words with Conrad on one of the nights.
Does this not sustain Mt Graves9 Dr.. Graves
did respond about the guardian letter. 1t was
not 20 hang any one, but 10 curb Mrs. Barnaby' 3
extravaganza They say DR.. Graves motive
was TO be made executor without bond. They
prove by John Conrad that DR.. Graves told him
that he said he thought Mrs. Barnaby remern-
bered Conrad's children In the will, but be did
not know what amount he was left himself
Yet they say he had a motive because he had
himself made sole executor. He did not know
he had been made sole executor until Jim Con-
rad told him.
The case went to the jury at 4 p. m. at
1915 p. m. the jury returned verdict Of
guilty of murder in the first degree.
DIR. Graves was sitting behind his attor-
ney, Judge Furman, when the verdict was
read. He gave violent start, almost
leaping from his chair. Precipitation in
stantly started, and great drops OF sweat
came from his forehead. He then covered
his face with his hands and was silent.
His attorney, Furman, took the YER
dict equally as hard, and actually
shed tears. The judge asked Furman if
he desired the jury polled, and the latter
savagely replied NO" but made motion
for new trial. When DR.. Graves was
asked what he thought of the YER
dict, he said repeatedly that it
was great shock and surprise to
L L. u
Graves to a carriage and he was driven to
Jail. Colonel Ballou and Judge Furman
accompanied him. Mrs. Graves and his
aged mother we're not present at the court
when the verdict was rendered, but after
ward went to the Jail to see him. They
were greatly affected by the news, and the
doctors mother tainted.
lin April, 1891, the country was startled by
the relation in the newspapers of a crime which
had evidently been carefully planned and de-
liberately executed 1t was the poisoning OF
the widow OF J. B. Barnaby, who had been
well-known merchant of Boston and Provi-
dence, and who, on his deccase left fortune,
aportion of which Mrs. Barnaby secured in the
settlement OF the affairs OF the estate.
The man charged with tho poisoning
OF Mrs. BGrnaby is DR.. T. Thatcher
Graves, a Harvard graduate, prominent
character of Providence and well known G. A.
lows:
Far away on the east coast in the staid New
England town of Providence the murder was
planned and its contamination arranged so far
even the purchase of tell-tale ID cent stamps,
which paid the postage on the novel missive of
death. Mailed in Boston and destined for Dem
yer. IL hit the mark with terrible accuracy.
On June % last, when Mrs Bsrnaby arrived at
the mountain home of Edward Bennett in the
Adirondscks, 1t seemed almost impossible for
such sequel to follow Perhaps her life had
not been all that the ideal wife and woman
might desire. Family discord Is admitted, and
of no trivial nature The dead millionaire-her
husbsnd-had cut her OFF in his will with a
paltry 800; but that had been settled without
pushing the matter TO trial in the courts. After
all she was still handsome and rich, able TO
satisfy all her fads and fancies and
travel Is much she desired. Her old-tiIne
friend, the handsome Providence physician, no
longer held the lofty place in her estimation
that he had done. Miss Handley, her maid, was
openly accused by her OF being spy, paid by
the doctor to keep a close watch he had mys-
teTious power over her, and she was coSequently
afraid OF him, DR.. Graves at all hazards must
retain his hold on Mrs. Baruaby, and so he kept
watch through the young girl, whom he
AID placed In the position che held. 1t was not
position of trust, for her mistress knew too
wei why companion was always at her side.
yet she was afraid to dismiss her. So the fall
Noiilc on anu pAsbsu, anu tue winter set With
CuE any open act of hostility between these COM
monty supposed close friends. and all through
the winter the peace was retained. As
spring drew near Mrs. Barnaby, packing
her trunk, started out for the Pacific
coast, leaving her medical adviser and her
companion behind. whilst jaunting over
the country she met Mrs Florence Worreu. OF
Chester, Pa, aud the pair went on to san Fran.
cisco, wheTe they arrived on March L. 1t is in
ean Francisco that the mysteries really begin
There Mrs. Barnsoy went to lady doctor, but
Mrs. Worrel thought she was being plaved upon
by quack ana strongly demonstrated with her
ans leo 10 al open quarrel Mrs.. Baruaby stopped
her visits and Mrs Worrel left for Denver. Mrs
bernRoy following her in a few days II is said
th&t sGe WAS forced 20 come 10 Denver; forced
by some Unknown power which Mrs WorreI
eyertad over her They point To the Chester
WI IS proof OF t,with the $4,000 legacy In favor
o. Mrs. W0rrel. On April Mrs Barnaby ar
rived iu Denver, to leave IL ia coffin
Ia the meantime the parties who had been
Tianning her death had not been ide. six DAYS
before she arrived in this city there came pack
age with the simple legend Merchandise only
upoa as outside wrapper aud the pos,msrk
"Eos'ou' on its various STAMPS IL
las Tor ten days IA the ofice oG scherrerhorp 4
WoFTel, real estate dealers, on Arspahe street
ZINE Old N2.Sky-From a Friend in the
Woods, was the inscription on tbs bottle On
Apru - both the ladies drank the WHISKY
NaAttA NAh NlAc strongest solution OF arsenic
watch as possib 10 compound, and terrible
Gsonics followed. For four DAYS alterwarl MS
bsrnsbys case was complicated by congestion
oi ths lungs, and on April - she died. Ms
Norrel, ST., IL is said, las never fully recovered
from that fearful dose.
4 soon as Mrs. Baruaby died the search for
the murderer commenced. Mr.. Worrcl IL the
Fays}ciaa who had attended the deceased lsly.
aud. In fact, everyone connected with the ca,s
started in tn help tho hunt private autopsy
was hc.d AZ all Unaertaksrs rooras April - The
remaining contents of the bottle had been a..
ready submitted 20 Or. Joseph A Scwcl II thu
leuver university "Ihe solution con rs
arsenic ia very large quantities. certainly sui.
rclant 70 cause death" was his BRET sur,.
maTy. u Vas not long before popular
suspicion tooG shape. P.!vaIo suspicion
has already taken rs course, even before the
victim was dead. ''Could Dr. Graves have done
this cha Said IN her dying moments. 81. Re
g, he mnst Be a tagr.h:e villain" Thsshowed
tie extent az her fear - pr. Graves TIE
though; tAai tie w.fc o; ). q BaraAby. the mill
ivaalfe merchant Of Boston and Providence
should meet her death IN such $ manner created
curry, The remains OF Mrs. BAynabv LEI;
Denver on the evening of April - Before tao
Ca94u arrived IA Providence Dr. Gr.vay va,
back IA lbs Cd home sui found himself eyed
ssGsnce. DR.. Graves had beea not. ae,j
Immediately. Waen he did start he de.
lsyed 80 vlSit hts uncle A. Ste-lfrr
J., and went oug OF Ifs way 20 Cedar Ksrses
When he = reach Denver he did not axe ,,r,a
lols a, tie face az TIE dead woman Heesus4
Hi sse NoVgels' residence, sud left wien the rs.
mains the next evening. Before Re lad even
crossed the plaus the wires were hot vim mes
sascs 81 inquiry, Win 8 view - the elseltsft1r,
g. .ac;s having = bearing on tie crir,e an,
Nhiea would tend TO listen the deed on Ir,
Graves