The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-19
HIS WIFE NEVER KNEW IT.
Lived in Luxury from the Proceeds of
Burglars Booty.

| Boston. Mass, Nov. 1S.-A rennarka
| BILE story of wholesale burglary, where
by two men stole $3.50, 900 worth of prop
.srrty tn seven years and still lived in ap
parent responsibility has been disclos
ed by the arrest and admissions OF
James S. Chaffey.
The other man Implicated is William
Barrett, who has been in state prison q
year for the sensational killing oil
James FlaTurar at Tower HILL in May
| 1894. The most astonishing feature Of
the case is tl1at an this time Mrs. Bar
rett was living in luxury in New York
! apparently bIlssftliy ignorant that he1
/ husband supported her by means OF
criminal deeds of THE darkest sort.
! A peculiar sea>las of accidents is re-
! sponsfble for the unl1Ofng Of the two
J Ro1Jberies had become alarmfngly fire.
| quenF in tine towns near Boston in the
F., spring of 1894. Local vigilance bands
/ were established in many places, and
I HOUSES wleae connected by a system OF
! burglar alarms.
Intio such a l1ouse, i'm Weston, Mass,
one nfglht in May, went Barrett The
ow1er, James s. Farrar, heard him,
and alarmed the nlsighbor7s. Barrett
! fed and was oveEItaken- He drew his
revolver and shot Farrar through the
heart. For that crime Barrett is now
Serving "a life sentence in prison.
That WAS the beginning and the end
of BarTett's life STORY, as far as any
one could find out then Barrett him
seclf was uncommlinicaltive, and Chat
fey, WHO had engaged the lawyers, said
only tlIat he was friend of the pris-
oner.
Barnett was sent to prison and was
=;
would have remained unheerd of but
for a strange incident. Trifet, the post
age stamp dealer, mine years ago lost
a profitable customer, Naithniel Q. Kid
der, son of the senior member of Kid
der. Peabody & Co., bankers. Burglars
had entered Mr.. Kidders residence and
carried off considerable valuable prep
elfty, INCLUDING a postage stamp collec-
tfon valued at 5000.
Last Friday Mr.. Trifat received a
caller who offered TO sell some stamps
of great value. The moment the dealer
saw the stamps he recognized them as
some he had mounted for Mr.. Kidder S
collection. He made an appointment
for Monday, when the man. who prov
ed ITO be Chaffey, was arrested.
He maintained a dignified reserve ait
first, but was ait hast induced to say
that THE man from whom he had OBJ
TANNED the stamps was a convict in pyfs-
on 10 whom he had advanced 81. 500
when on trial. The convict was WILL
tam Barrett
Chaffey says he was acquainted with
Barrett when the latter posed as
hoTSe dealer at % Eliot street. He
meyer suspected Barrett, although he
was away from home often. His arrest,
however revealed everything
Chaffey, under instructions from the
prisoner, went TO New York and told all
no Mrs. Barrett. VINO was living with
her son i'm the Durham, 353 West Fifty
eighth street 1t was "a fearful awak-
enLng for the Nttle woman, If her STORY
Is to be believed. She learned for the
first tnme that her husband was a
thief and a murderer, and THAT for years
she had lived on his spoiEs In a day
she disappeared from among those who
Nad known and respected her.
Barrett told him there was valuable
property stored in New York He OBJ
lbadned the storage receipts from Mrs.
Barrett and had the three trunks and
two boxes found there sent to his own
home in West Roxbury. Mass. He
opened one of them. ne says. and find
ing the postage stamps, decided to sell
EElem.
The police lost no time in taking pos
session of the trunks and boxes. In
them were found rich slverware and
gems and jewclry and costly fllrs. The
value of the whole collection was esti-
MATED ait s25. 600
Through Chaffey's agency. Mrs. Fred
elTsck l.. AmeS Of North Eas.on. recov-
erred paintings valued at sl7 ,000 includ-
ing examples of Jean Francois Millet
and Rousseau. Mrs. Ames had spent
hundreds of dollars searching for these
treasures Of art.
He told where a large amount Of
stocks and bonds was concealed in his
house. These, he said, had been given
To him by Mrs. Barrett after the arrest
of her husband.
In all We're recovered stocks and
bonds OF a. fare value OF about 5000. 900.
What their real value is has not vet
been learned. ArCit1er batch which
C-nffey burned on rhe morning of his
arrest Rad a par value of $4,000.
Chaffey protests that this accounts
for every particle OF property received
by hEm from Barrett The police do
not believe, howver, that this repre-
seElts half the laitter's steaEngs. They
are confident that besides what Barrett
spent and what he lavished on his wife
and child in this city he buried treasure
worth at Ieglgst $4,000.
When Chaffey was arrested there was
found in his pocket a Sip of paper. on
WCFlch was drawn a diagram which he
supposed WAS a guide TO the location of
these buried rsceHas He claimed that -.
had been able TO get wit1lin 500 wards of
ehe spot. but no nearer. The treasure
is sad 10 he buried in srle woods be-
tween Chestnut Hi and Newton Gem
tire
Despite Chaffey's protests Of snno-
cerlce the police think he knew az
aa'out Bar7ett's crimes. ard he has been
held unds- So. coo ban.
WINE Barrett was pushing the ;laz-
erdous vocation Of a burglar MIS-. Bar
ret was living IN luxury IN New yc-s-
Her apartment was ore the most lux
C1fbus n the csty. She and her ss,n
we0e clad in the extreme OF fash;an.
Sae W73S a Co-Sewornan - the hieheS-
cioaSs-So web seated on her thorough
cg'ad V,cs; eI1TSous neiSbbo-s Whispered
she mus, have been a circus r'de-''
She WIS that n fact before her mar
rage.
She became intimate with ladies of
che test Known families n the civ. To
SINE S1e gave presents. always uncut
diamonds Hey supply - diamonds
sesneG 20 be uae1dlaS- she had all The
-t>a teEvei Gases % New England 10
draw upon-
THE fruItion OF what is unlawful must b.
followed by rea2Crse. The core sticks in
m throat fter the apple Is eaten. aud The
sated appetite loathcS the inierIiicted p.eas-
IRE Tor which innocence was hzrtered.-
Jsne Porter
Eexs,,,sfyfs r,ressn-, ~, rn,i - -.,gt-,v, !
o. ourselves ought 70 make Us apprehen- |
size that we afford ltt.e 10 our auditors -
-RochefoEcaula.