The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-05

The man shot and killed at Ararat
Summit Monday, March 27, and who
Is supposed to be the leader of the
gang who robbed the office of the Car
bondale Traction company at Mayfeld
early on the morning of the killing,
has been identified as William Barry,
alias Jack Brady, crook who has a
long record.
Chief Robling sent a description or
the man to the Pinkerton agency, in
New York city, few days ago and
yesterday he received a photograph of
man from Robert Pinkerton, VINO
said that the dead man was undoubt-
edly Barry, of which the photo was a
good likeness. A comparison OF the
photograph of the dead man with the
one sent from New York city proves
this beyond any doubt.
on the back of the photo received
from New York city is recorded the
following: Number 4,4l9: name, Will
nam Barry alias, Jack Brady; age 81;
color. white; trade, boiler maker:
build, slim; height, feet; hair (color)
dark brown; eyes (colo) blue; face,
long; complexion, fair; arrested March
| II. 1898. The description tallies with
| that published in The Tribune March
| 2S.
ARRESTED AT ELMIRA.
The date of arrest means that Barry
was arrested in Elmira on that day.
lhe day before six tramp burglars
were arrested for a burglary with
which they were supposed to have
been connected. Barry called at police
headquarters to see them and was
| locked up. Nothing could be proven
against them and they were given
sixty days for vagrancy. One year
| and nine days later Bill Leach's rifle
| put an end to a career which was
under police surveillance the better
| part of Barrys later life.
A letter received from a New York
interior town indicates that three of
the men in custody committed burg
larry there. Their photographs have
been identified and watchman they
bound and gagged during their opera
ions there is to come to the city to
positively identify them. Cummings is
known to have the alias "Binghamton
Jim," and to be with the possible ex-
ception of Barry. the most desperate
man in the party.
District Attorney Jones yesterday
| applied to the court for an order tC
have watchmen appointed to watch
| Kelly and Cummings night and day
The order was readily granted. Sher-
iff Pryor appointed II. F. Ferber, who
has been on duty since the shooting
and Michael Grimes as the watchmen
VERDICT OF CORONER's JURY.
The verdict of the coroners jury il
the matter of the death of Barry was
that an unknown man came to his
death on the 9th day of March, A. D
1899, at Ararat Summit, county of Sus
quehanna, state of Pennsylvania, uy
means of a gun shot wound inflicted
by an unknown hand; that band oi
six men, strangers in our county
opened fire with revolvers upon some
of the inhabitants of Ararat Summit
in Susquehanna county. They, in de
fense of their lives. fired back and il
the affray this unknown man wa:
killed, whether by the hand of one o
MS own party or by the hand of thOs'
in the defense of their lives, the evi
dence does not disclose. The jury dC
not censure any of the residents o
Ararat Summit who acted only il
evasion of the fire of this band of 81,
strangers.
The condition of the three wounde,
burglars at the Lackawanna hospita
remains unchanged, except that the
each continue to grow slightly better
That Kelly and Cummings are figurin
on the future seems to be a certainty
Yesterday morning Cummings wa
chatting with a patient lying next /
him and he announced to him that "h
Cummings) was getting up schem
to get out of this place" meaning tn
hospital.