The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-09
Why DR.. Graves Committed Suicide.

Why DR.. Graves Committed Suicide.
If what the Providence Journal says is
true, Dr. T. Thatcher Graves, who com
mitted suicide in the Denver jail, and
who was soon to be tried second time
on the charge of having murdered Mrs.
Barnaby wrote what he knew TO be false
in the letters he left in his cell announc-
lug his purpose to kill himself because he
had no hope of having fair trial. The
whole country is familiar with the Graves
case. It was a remarkable one. DIR.
Graves was a prominent physician of
Providence, r. l., and Mrs. Barnaby was
a rich widow of that city. DIR. Graves
was her physician, and he succeeded in
getting such an influence over her that
she made a viii in which she bequeathed
to him a large sum of money He ad-
vised her to travel for her health, and one
summer at his suggestion she
spent several weeks in a woodsman's
cabin in the Adirondacks Soon after
wards he advised her to visit Denver.
While in that city she received by express
a bottle Of whisky, on which was in
scribed from your friends in the woods"
Thinking the whisky came from the
wOOdsman in the Adirondacks she drank
some of it. 1t contained a deadly poison
and soon after drinking it she died.
DR.. Graves was accused Of having sent
her the whisky. He went to Denver to
meet the accusation, and was there ar
rested, tried and convicted. The only
weak point in the case against him was
Ion ~,
did not write the inscription on the bottle
of whisky. He secured a new trial, and
was in Jail awaiting the calling Of his case
when he took his life.
The story printed by the Providence
Journal is that the inscription on the bot
tie was written by Dr. Joseph NJ. BresIyn.
of Canton, Mass, who wrote it at the re-
quest of DIR. Graves. DR.. Breslyn did not
| testify at tie first trial 1t was not
known that he possessed information so
valuable TO the prosecution, and he main
tanned silence. After that trial was over
he communicated with the Denver author
tiles. 1t is believed that DR.. Graves in
some way learned of DR. Breslyns inten-
! tion to testify against him, and knowing
/ that with such testimony conviction was
certain, decided to end his life. But why
he should have proclaimed his innocence
| whilo aboub to commit an act that was
| almost conclusive of his guilt is some
thing for which no explanation is offered
| OF all denominations in the eyes of the
silverites and populists, what they are
! pleased to call the subsidized press" is
| the chiefest. Yet wei hear that the silver
! ties are endeayoring to purchase the servi-
/ ces ola New York newspaper. The report is
/ to the effect that Congressman Newlands.
| of Nevada. as the agent of the silyerites.
/ is negotiating for partial editorial control
/ of a well-known republican afternoon
/ newspaper that has heretofore been
/ among the most persistent advocates of a
| gold-basis monetary system. The editorial
| control sought extends only to the qucs-
/ ton of money; on other matters, accord
| ing to the plan of the silverites, the
paper is to continue as strongly republican
as ever. The negotiations were to be
/ closed during this week, and day before
/ yesterday, according to a New York cor
/ respondent, the chances were in favor of
/ a consummation of the deal. The silver
| ties have now one organ, republican
morning daily, in New York, but what it
/ has heretofore said IN favor of the white
/ metal does not seem to have had much eff
/ feet upon New Yorks way of thinking
/ about money.
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