The Wilmington daily Republican., 1892-01-04
GRAVES CONFESSES.
BE Admits That He Sent the Poi
soc to Mrs. Barnaby.
LAWYER BALLoU IMPLICATED.

4bU DUttoEt BEth& SthNhStIA
ON Saturday, BIames Him for In
stigattng the Whole Plot When
Taken TO His Cell in the Prison He
Attempts to Commit Suiciee.
DENVER, Jan. 4.-Dr. Thatcher
Graves, whois charged with the murder
of Josephine B. Barnaby, at 10 o'clock
Saturday night, was declared guilty of
murder in the first degree Afterwards
en- route to the Jail he confessed having
sent the bottle Of poison to Mrs. Barn
ably, and at the same time accused
Lawyer Daniel R Ballou, of Providence,
r. l., with having been the instigator of
the crime. Ballou left Denver for
Chicago and will be arrested by the
time this appears in print. DIR. Graves
aged mother is at deaths door and his
wife is going mad.
Immediately after the jury rendered
verdict Deputy Sheriff James Wilson
and George W. Means removed the pris-
oner to the county jall. In telling the
story yesterday Wilson said: II sug-
to the Jail, but DIR. Graves objected.
Please let me walk he said, it may
make me feel better. / shall not live
much longer
Bailou Instigates the Plot.
''Noting the despairing condition o
the prisoner we began to ply him with
questions. We found an easy subject.
Graves yielded to the first inducement.
said to him:
CHOW, doctor, you have been con-
victed after fair trial. and your only
hope lies in making clean breast of it
and relying on the clemency of the gov
ernor'
''Dr. Graves at once exclaimed:
II am not to blame, gentlemen. /
am not to blame. Ballou was the author
of the entire plot. He came to me and
said that our finances were at a low ebb.
We were behind with Mrs. Barnaby's
account. There was only one way out
OF the difficulty, he said, and that was
the way we adopted. Ballou planned
the entire scheme
Reported Attempt at Suicide.
At the Jail DR.. Graves gave way
to the awful effects of the situation. He
sank down in the chair inside the iron
bars like one in faint. He cried softly
and pitifully. DIR. Graves is reported
to have made an attempt to commit sui
eide by taying to swallow the contents
OF small vial, but was prevented by
the timely interference of guard.
The crime for which DR.. Graves is
convicted took place in Denver last
April, but the history relating to it dates
back for number of years. Mrs. Bar
naby was the wife of j. H. Barnaby, a
wealthy merchant of Providence, r. l.,
who secured a divorce from his wife,
leaving her with a fortune of $100, 600
and an annual income of $500. DR..
Graves was her intimate friend and f.
nancial adviser on salary of ST, 900 a
year.
Mrs Barnaby spent portion of each
summer at the residence of Edward
Bennett, at Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y.
Last spring while there she and DR..
Graves had misunderstanding, Mrs.
Barnaby Immediately started west, and
eventually arrived in Denver, where she
visited the Worrells.
On April 3, six days before she ar
rived there, package came to her ad-
drese which contained u bottle of liquid
labeled Fine Old Whisky, from your
friend in the woods" On the night of
the 18th, after a drive, she and Mrs.
Worrell drank the contents of the bot
tie, and both were taken ill, and Mrs.
Barnaby after suffering terrible agony,
died, Mrs. Worrell recovered at the end
of few days.
Physicians declared that the women
suffered from arsenical poisoning and
the detectives were set to work. The
Worrells We're beneficiaries In Mrs.
Barnaby's will to the extent of $4,000
and DIR. Graves for $4,000. Suspicion
was cast upon the Worrells, but no ac-
tion was ever taken. The writing upon
ihn packapa resanb1ad that ~ t)r
Graves and he was indicted for murder
and Released ON S2h lnn bonds