The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-30
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MYSTERY OF THESUIOIDROFA ALICE
 BARRETT DEEPENS.


 BARRETT DEEPBNS. Witness Testihes That She Dined With
 Him the Evening Before Her Death,
 Asked Him for Heavy Loan to Meet q
 Pressing Need-william c. Goldman
 Makes a Statement.
 Boston. July 29.-At a late hour this afternoon the second days hearing by Fire Marshal Whitcomb as to the cause of the fire last Saturday in the office of Goldman & Goldman, 40 Kilby street, at which Miss Alice M. Barrett was found dead, was concluded. Some of the wit nesses previously heard were recalled and the list to-day included the mother of the dead girl, her brother Charles. W. H. Foss, Medical Examiner Stead- man, P. J. Collins and young woman who was an intimate friend of Miss Barrett
 The most sensational feature of tha day was the testimony of P. J. Collins. who says he is the proprietor of the London Shrub" with an office on Wa-. ter street. Collins states that he was with Miss Barrett on parts of Thurs day and Friday nights, preceding tho Saturday on which she died; that he took her around to several hotels for suppers, and that at one place their refreshments included a bottle o6 champagne.
 Thursday night, he declared, Miss Barrett asked him for the loan of $1, 200: to meet a pressing need. He could not furnish this amount, and then she ask ed him for a small amount, about $40. which he gave to her. He told the fra marshal that the girl was very despon- dent. On Friday night Collins says he dined again with Miss Barrett, but he would not say where. Neither would he state where they suppered on Thurs day night.
 This was the substance of his testi- mony before the fire marshal, but hd made other and more startling state- ments after the hearing, in which he alluded to certain speculations in su- gar which had not been profitable. He also talked about a shortage In the accounts of the firm of Goldman & Cod man, but the members of the firm de- ny that there is any truth in this state- ment.
 In every point MT. Collins testimony is met by counter-testimony on the part of hn o1of <,f- young woman's mother stated under oath that Alice was at home on both the Thursday and the Friday to which Collins refers. She states that her daughter never asked Collins fora loan of $1, 200.
 MT. Foss in his testimony swore that the much -talked-of $500 mentioned in the will of the dead girl was not paid to him, and the fire marshal has no doubt of the truth of this.
 MT. Whitcomb declined to tell what Mrs. Barrett had said to him further than has already been set forth, but the interview lasted over an hour, and at its conclusion Mrs. Barrett hurried from the building.
 Medical Examiner Steadman has no bCliC1 III cAAy StO1lSo WuAC1A ACAASSJ OlA the character of the dead girl. It ist believed that there are several import ant points in connection with the death Of Miss Barrett which have not been made public. The hearing will be con- tinued tomorrow behind closed doors.
 Boston, July 29.-William C.. Goldman, the employer of Alice M. Barrett, broke silence tonight and to the Herald pledged his word for the correctness of the following statements:
 First-No money above $500 is mtss- ing. The cash book, check book and letter book are the only books burned. Mir. Goldman admits that $500 in bills is gone from the safe, but he believes 1t was paid out in the ordinary course of business on Friday. Not over $500 could be missing without MT. Codman's knowledge now.
 Second-The statement that the girl had speculated in sugar or any other stock to the extent of 5000, 5000 or S10, coo is an absolute untruth, emanat- ing from @ wholly irresponsible per- son.
 Third-No Miss Wheelwright or any other female relative of Mr. Codman ever gave Miss Barrett cent of mon- ey or clothes, or had any dealings what soever with her. MT. Goldman says that he had heard that the girl told her in- inmates that Miss Wheelwright gave her dresses, but declares that the name is fictitious and pure fol de rol of Miss Barrett, if it was mentioned by her at all @ Fourth-Miss Barret did not go to the Hotel Thorndyke or any other hotel with lady about to depart on jour- ney.
 Fifth-She was murdered. Mr. Cod. man says that pr. Steadman says that the wound was not such as would be inflicted in the average case of suicide, GOULDS WILL COME TO NEW HAVEN To Attend the Funeral of Miss Theresa Martin of This City. The remains of Miss Theresa Martin, sister of Joseph J. Martin, of this city, who died recently in Russia while in the employ of George Gould as a maid