New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-04
MISS BARROWCLIFF BETTER.
SHE TELLS THE DOCTOR HER FIRST NAME
AND WITH WHOM SHE LIVED.
THEORY THAT SHE WAS KEPT IN HOUSE ALL
FRIDAY NIGHT AND BORNE TO THE PLACE
WHERE SHE WAS FOUND.

r.ra we're few new developments yesterday IN
.,o case of Miss May Barrowclin. who was so
mysteriously assaulted in Jersey city last r'iuas
night Miss Barrowclif was little or 10 pe''er
mentally but physically there was marked I'M
o,.o,nent DR. Varick dressed her wound at y
o'clock and In the afternoon maze several he"
tests as 70 the condition OF her mind When he
osLed her what her name was. she replied. May.
hut when he asked her other name she made no
answer Next he asked her where she lived ana
she replied with Gcrty." She referred 10 her
cousin Miss Gertrude Dexter. who lived with her
at Mr. Vernon's. No 70 Grand-st., but who mas
gone since the assault. to live with family named
wannamaker at No. 30S Magnolia-ave. When
ela1 # she could recognize Miss Dexter, should
her cousin come to her. she said, mo Fearing 10
tax her powers too strongly. DR.. Narck decided 10
allow her 20 rest until to-day.
There were as many visitors usual at the City
Hospital yesterday and among them was Miss
Rarrowclinrs mother 1t reported that the
voung woman's mother died two years ago. but
this Il seems was mistake. The Mrs Barrow
cliff who died Miss Mays stepmother MT
Rarrowcliff was divorced from his wife In 1873 ana
since then she has lived In Brooklyn She was not al
lowed TO see her daughter lest 1t should retard her
recovery She directed Warden osborne 10 supply
her daughter with everything she required ana
went away.
George Laforge John Murphy and John Smith,
members of the Stuyvesant-ave. gang. were ar
rested Yesterday by Detectives McNany ana fioitic
but were able show where they spent frluh!
afternoon and were discharged. George Ennis. tIe
tanner who was arrested at Snake Hill on sls-
cjon is still in custody, but Superintendent smith
i now convinced that he knows nothing about the
assauI, on Miss IarrowClff lie told where he went
when ne left Snake Hill Friday and accounts
for his time until he went back to the almshouse.
(',eum who told Of the man running through .NtSI
Sie-ave on Friday evening cannot now be found
10 identify him. Clemm married on New Year
night a woman in this city. and came here to llVe'
SO as 10 save time in going to and from his WORK
lives on ne BOWerN,
The police are still working on the idea that
POSSIBLY Miss Rarrowclin may have been kept IN
Some house Friday night. though there seems
nothing TO support the theory but the opinion OF
the phV sicans that Miss BarrOwcf could not have
survived fourteen hours in the weather Of Friday
night They say there is unoccupied house IN
Sfnyyesant-ave where she might have been de-
famed but no evidence can be found that she was
taken there In the rear of this house. Whlch IS
only block from where she was found. is shed
which is made use of times by trans. VINO 90
Considerable cooking there. and sometime sleep IN
tha shed There is nothing 10 show that there were
has only a roof. and is almost as exposed 10 tne
weather as the vacant lot In which Miss Barrow
cliff found. ~ 20 wa, o,a
John Foukes who lives az No. GO Wales ave,
came forward with a statement YESTERDAY 10 tne
effect that on Friday night AT $50 he saw a man
aud woman talking earnestly at West side ana
Logan ayes This is one block north of Mrs. smith
house where Miss Barrowclin was last seen anu
where she was found, but two blocks west OF the
latter point Mr. Foulkes did not know MISS Bar,,
rowcliff but his wife had described her 10 him. ana
Re is convinced that Miss BarrowciN is the woman
he possible TO secure any further eNdehCe on inc
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