The herald., 1897-08-15
A LIFE OF DECEPTION
The Death of Alice Barrett
Is Fully Explained
Deceived Her Mother With Stories of Lady Bounti-
ful--Wild Speculation

ously so, but yet, perhaps, balanced Pc
culiarly, for while she loved the good
things of life, there appears no man in
her case, and the one woman was one
she had brought in to play a necessary
part.
She spent money for her own pleasure
No one seemed to share it with her. She
was lone seeker for the good things
in life.
She invented the widest sort of imag-
ming. No doubt her romances were but
the result of much novel reading. She
had her cue to begin on, and she devel-
oped her fiction from grain of fact.
She lived and moved in world of her
own imagining.
HER MOTHER DUMBFOUNDED
The dead girl was apparently an adept
at the art of deception. Investigation
proves that not single story that she
advanced in explanation Of acts which
if explained might give rise to suspicious
has been true. So clever has she been
hide that even her own mother is now
dumbfounded by the developments.
The dead girl wanted to stay in Boston
over night; she had a generous Miss
Wheelwright who desired her to keep
her company at the Thorndike or she
was entertained with other young wo-
men by Miss Wheelwright at her own
home until too late to return to Wal
than, and she put up with her friends
at the Thorndike.
All this has been proved to be ntrue
When her mothers attention was at
tracted to new bonnet or a newwaist
or some new piece of jewelry. all more
expensive than girl earning but So a
week could afford, 1t was always Misb
Wheelwright who had made her the
presents, because she had taken fancy
TO her, and, being wealthy, delighted in
making gifts.
Not a word of truth in this.
She drew $500 out of the Waltham
bank. where 1t was earning per cent,
to loan it to Mr.. John Goldman, who
promised her per cent and this she did.
with the permission of her mother.
This story was invented to obtain the
permission Of her mother to the with
drawing of her money. There is no
doubt but what Alice Barrett spent the
$500 on herself
MYTHICAL MISS WHEELRIGHT
In her daily commerce she strove to
impress those with whom she came in
contact that she was "a young woman Of
means" She ate a meager lunch and
tipped the waiter more than her lunch
cost. The street cars were not to her
liking. and cabmen very often found a
fee for themselves wher, the bill was
settled.
Miss Wheelright was a relativ Of her
employers and John Goldman visited
their office. 1t was in this way their
names became familiar to her. These
| names came readily to mind as story
after story was invented.
No one suspected her.
She was bright, pretty and could be
winning when she desired to be. Cod :
man & Goldman gave her IS week and
their confidence. Her mother could not
be brought to believe that the stories
told her by her daughter were untrue
until confronted by the positive deniahs
of John Goldman, to whom she supposed
the $500 had beer loaned and by Miss
Wheelright, whom she had grown to
believe to be wealthy philanthropist
Then, and not till then, did the poor,
sorrowing mother realize that she had
been deluded. She now believes thai
her daughter was insane, and did kill
herself.
HER Discomfort
Alice Barrett committed suicide be-
cause she could not stand the strain any
longer. There was the fictitious inter-
est on the fictitious loan to be met liz
order that the deception practiced on her
mother might not be unveiled. She had
had, some differences with the your e
man with whom she was supposed to
be engaged. 1t was high summer, lots
of her acquaintances were erjoying the
mountains or the seaehore, while she
was kept to her desk in a stuffy office.
They had money; she had none, and
her longings were for a million and a