The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-20
BARRY LEAVES TOWN
he Just Closed Very Successful Fl
nancial Engagement.
A SORRY LOT OF CREDITORS
The Way They All Piastered At
taohments Over q Deooy Trunk
Was Amusing II Not Profita-
ble-Clever Strategy.
Special Correspondence of the standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, Dec. 18.-G. w. Barry
has gone to "greener fields and pas
lures new" He made his exit from this
city between two days. and. in com
pany with his family and his brother,
is speeding away toward the rising sun
as fast as steam can take him, leaving
behind a legion Of creditors to mourn
his hasty and unceremonious depart
ure.
The engagement that Barry played
in this city was not very brief. but 1t
was a star performance, made note
worthy on account of the strategy en-
ployed by the cunning caitiff in the last
act, when he executed brilliant coup
d'etat by getting out of the state with
all his belongings while the sheriff was
engaged In wrestling with a decoy
trunk magnanimously left behind for
attaching creditors.
A few days before his departure Bar
ry disposed of his household furniture
and 80 head of horses which he owned.
He rightly guessed that this fact. as
soon as 1t became known. would cause
his creditors to become suspicious and
result in attachments being placed on
his trunks and other baggage, which he
had concluded to take with him. In or
der to guard against such a contingency
he resorted to a little strategy by Sc
curing the services Of Drayman Phil
brick in removing his trunks and 9TH
er baggage to a neighboring station
day in advance of his contemplated de-
parture.
Last Sunday night he called at the
drayman's house and made arrange
ments to have his belongings taken to
Springdale, the first station east of
this city. The drayman was made ac-
quainted with the reason for this
movement. but as II was not his flu
neral. he sawed wood and said moth
ing.
Long before daylight Monday morn
ing, Barry's brother, Fred, and the
drayman were en- route to Spingdale
with the baggage, and the station was
reached in time for the early morning
passenger going east. The trunks, etc.
were put on the train. Fred jumped
aboard, and "the stun was Off"
The next morning @. w. Barry and
his family boarded the east-bound
train in this city, and they, too, were
off-for New York. their former home.
The evening previous, however, Messrs.
Schlosse & Winslow, the grocers to
whom Barry owed a bill, ascertained
that Barry intended leaving in the
morning and attached a deooy trunk
The next morning william Hruza plac-
ed another attachment on the trunk,
but when IL was opened in the sheriff
Office, - hours after Barry'e departure.
1t was found to contain nothing but a
lot of rags, empty bottles, old shoes, tin
cans, etc. Barry had outwitted the
whole works
It was ascertained to-day that Barry
left unpaid bills all over the city. None
of them, however. are very large, but
in the aggregate they amount to quite
a sum. 1t also came to light that he
has given numerous worthless checks
on the banks of this and surrounding
cities. This fact has been known by a
number of people here for some time,
but for some reason or other the par
ties to whom the checks were given
have never called the turn on him by
setting in motion the machinery of the
courts.
Something over a year ago Barry
went over to Bozeman and made a
small deposit in the Commercial Ex-
change bank, telling Cashier Ramsey
that he had concluded to transact his
banking business with that institution.
The bank opened an account with its
new patron and Barry soon checked
out the amount of his deposit But he
did not stop here. He continued to
make overdrafts, Notwithstanding his
checks were returned protested to the
parties In whose favor they were dawn.
On Jan. %. 1894, Barry drew a check on
the Bozeman bank for $35 in favor of
Gall & Lembke, wholesale jewellers of
New York city, In payment for goods
purchased from the firm. The check
was returned protested. and the firm
wrote to the bank for an explanation.
This is the reply which they received
from Cashier George L. Ramsey:
I'VE are now placed in possession of
your valued favor of the 25th. and In
reply beg to advise that on jan 80
1894. Mr.. G. w. Barry had no account
with us. Mr.. Barry has drawn a good
many checks on us, probably 10 or IL
that we have been obliged to pro-
test"
This correspondence, together with
the check and notice OF protest, has
been in the hands of a Livingston at
torney for nearly year. but he has
never been able TO enforce collection OF
the amount. for the simple reason that
all of Barry's property was either in
his wife's or his brothers name The
firm might have commenced criminal
action against Barry, but thus far they
have refrained from doing so. for the
reason that they don't care to be put
10 the expense and Inconvenience thai
the prosecution of the case would en-
tail
Barry is a young man. probably
about IS years of age. and came to this
city from New York six or seven years
ago. He is well connected. has a cole
g1ate education. is possessed of more
than ordinary intelligence. and during
his residence i'm this city moved in the
best circles. His mother. who lives in
New York city. but is now in Europe
is a lady Of wealth ana refinement
His wife Is lady of splendid attain
ments and comes of an excellent fam
fly She has a yearly income Of $1,000
derived from an estate left by hel
mother at the time OF her death tive
years ago.
When Barry first came here he pur
chased a ranch up Shields river and en-
gagged in the stock business. He mad'
a failure OF this venture and then cam'
20 town and situated medicine with DR.
r. ID Alton for some little time. HI
= nd frarf III.