The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-29
APPEAL OF A MANIAC
Mark Day In Padded Cell Walls
PiteOu;ly,
HERE'S A STRANGE STORY
Fate Seems To Be Pursuing All
Those Who Gave Evidence
Against Or. Graves of Bar
naby Murder Notoriety.
HERE'S A STRANGE STORY
specIal Dispatch to the standard.

created a profound sensation by the pub
LEGATION of the following remarkable story.
1t transpires that the story is true in
almost every particular. The article is as
follows:
Mark Day of Providence, II. l., has been
pronounced hopelessly insane and COM
mitted to an asylum. At first, this state
ment seems uninteresting to the people OF
Denver, but when it is known that all day
long the lunatic PAGES his padded cell cry
ing out to DR.. Graves to forgive him and
raving about the evidence in tho most re-
markable murder trial ever carried on in
the courts of Colorado. his identity will be
recognized.
AS leading journalist of Rhode Island
and the city editor of one of the leading
papers of Providence, Mark Days testi-
money against the man charged with the
killing of Mrs. Barnaby has ESPECIAL
weight. WheL seen in tho Denver court
room, the man just adjudged insane was
most prepossessing in appearance and
apparently in perfect health. He gave
the idea of unusual mental power and i'm
pressed every one as especially clever.
His paper had made much of tho mystery
and he claimed TO have collected the de-
tails to which he swore with infinite pains
published a sensational and, il is said,
somewhat exaggerated account of the
case, which he called death in the Mail"
Since his return to the east, Mark Day
has been almost forgotten by all except
those especially interested in tho cele-
brated trial, which is familiar to every
newspaper reader in Colorado. 1t will be
remembered that Mrs. Baranby, a par
lott III IaIx e
erty, died suddenly in Denver at the
house of Mrs. Worrell, n woman who had
been her friend. DIR. Graves, we'll
known New England physician, happened
to have charge of her estate, amounting
TO about SlO5, 900, which had been secured
by contesting an unjust will made by her
husband. DR.. Graves was charged with
sending a bottle of poisoned whiskey
through the mails, and after ono of tho
most curously interesting trials, at which
a mass OF most conflicting evidence was
introduced, he was convicted and sem
fenced to death. He was sent to Canon
City and confined year in the death cell,
when the supreme court granted him a
new trial. While awaiting tho new trial,
the condemned man died suddenly in the
Arapahoe county jail, and no was sup
posed TO have committed suicide.
Three newspaper men were among the
principal witnesses for the prosecution,
which was rclcntlcssly helped along by j.
II. Conrad, n son-in-law of tho murdered
woman. OF these three, Day was most
prominent.
The terrible fate that has so recently
oveTtaken this one newspaper man leads
TO a retrospective glance at the characters
concerned in the great legal drama.
Strangely enough, when their subsequent
histories are scanned, some dreadful
Nemesis seems to have pursued many
who were engaged in helping TO prove DIR.
Graves guilty of murder.
A correspondent of the Boston Globe, a
man named Irickey, worked up a strong
case against DIR. Graves, and did much to
mold public opinion condemning him.
He came on to Denver and testified
against the man on trial for his life. This
correspondent, Trickey, seemed TO make
n specially of murder mysteries, and was
afterward in the Emma Borden case,
when he pursued the thread most popular
with the prosecution. But the Lmma
Borden case proved Trickcy's last oppor-
tunity 10 distinguish himself in assisting
TO convict suspected murderers, for bo
was indicted for subornation of nor
jury. He fled TO Canada and one day,
when IL IS said he discovered that officers
were about 10 arrest him, he threw him
self before passing railway train and
was ground 10 pieces. This happened At
Hamilton, Canada. Tho other ncwspapcr
man, whose name is Lincoln, is still lIv-
ing, but he is said TO be suffering from n
disease that is incuraDlo.
The Times article here refers TO the fact
that John II. Conrad's career since the
trial has been one of marked financial
misfortune.
Proceeding, il says: Coming nearer
home, II might be said that tho Graves
trial has brought misfortune TO those con-
nectcd with the states side of il. |. y.
Stevens, who made a record as the dis
trict attorney, has steadily lost prestige
until he has met political ruin in Joining
the populist party. LATE Pence, who was
one of the prosecuting attorneys, met his
waterloo at the polls when the people re-
tired him from congress.
Every ono who visits the house of repre-
scntatiycs has seen tho tall, comelv
woman that sits all day long in the gal
lery. She was appointed To the charge of
the women's reception room before Gov
ernor Waite and his party stepped out.
The republicans appointed her successor.
but under some technical tanglc she waits
every day for the proper adjustment of
her claim as the assistant 10 the assistant
1t is this woman, whose
name is Mrs. Larramore. that could have
thrown much light upon Mrs. Barnaby's
arrival in Denver at the time Of her fatal
visit.
After quarrel with Mrs. Worrcll, who
had been visiting with her in California
and who bad returned to Denver, Mrs.
Barnaby started Last. intending TO go
through TO New England without s,op-
ping. On the Pullman she met some
people TO whom she gossiped about her
plans. She wanted some ono 10 !
accompany her 10 Europe. Her new found !
friends spoke OF Mrs. Larramore. who had |
travelled great deal and who was a fine /
.inguist. Mrs. Barnaby thought she would |
Ike TO persuade Mrs. Larramorc TO be |
her companion. When she learned that |
tho lady mentioned 50 highly lived m |
Denver, Mrs. Durnaby Lcs.tlteI She