The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-24

WHOSE PARAS0L :?
Messrs. Hamblen Hand Over
Possible Clues to Barnet
Poisoning Case.
COL. GARDINER HAS THEM
"News'" Exclusive Story
Gives New York Police
Something To Do.

The story printed exclusively in last
nights Jersey City News about para
sol in the Hotel Washington, which IS
possible clue to the Barnet-Cornish pois-
oning mystery, has reused the New York
police out of it's lethargy and they are
now putting this and that together to
find what District Attorney Asa Bird
Gardner has vainly sought-a motive.
BY this time the parasof and the hotel
register are in the District Attorneys
hands and experts of handwriting are
busy with the signature, comparing
it with those of Henry Crossman
Barnet in their possession and more
particularly examining the parasol for the
makers mark, with the object of ascer-
tanning if possible its ownership. That
once done the District Attorneys path Is
open and the Adams poisoning case, with
its many complications, remains no longer
a mysterious crime.
Chief Murphy this morning telephoned
to Captain McClusky of the Detective
Department in New York City, that
Messrs. j. P. Hamble & Son, proprietors
of the Hotel Washington, were willing to
send to New York the parasol and the
hotel register. Captain McClusky at once
This afternoon a detective arrived at the
hotel and Messrs. Hamblen handed
parcel containing the parasol and the
hotel register to Chief Murphy, who gave
a written receipt for it. The parcel was
then turned over to Captain McCluSkyS S
man, who in turn gave receipt TO ChleI
Murphy The detective started right away
for New York.
York City last night an army of reporters
at once started for Jersey city and made
Messrs. Hambens lives miserable for the
remainder of the evening. yelloW Jour
nal of that city sent a representative VINO
posed as a bona fide traveller and his IN
StructiOnS Were:-
'tGet a look at that parasol and that
register if il costs thousand dollars
How particular that man was. He
wanted the very room occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Barnet on the eventful occasion
when the parasol was left behind. Then
he was inquisitive, too. Where was the
hotel register for last summer? Did Mr..
]. P. Hamblen, Jr., ever have Mrs Laf-
ferty a guest there during June, for in
ting him see the register? But Mr.. Ham
blen was not to be hoodwinked in that
way and had when The News story
was on the street, placed the register in
the safe and substituted another. Beaten
at that game the man tried to pump Mr..
Handlers employees, but that little game
wouldn't work. The servants in the Hotel
Washington were polite but very uncom-
municative.
This morning one who has always
stopped at the Hotel washington When
that he. was at the hotel at the time
when Mr.. and Mrs. Barnet registered.
He remembered Mrs. Barnet perfectly
and this is what he said
'She was an attractive looking young
woman and took a great interest in Mr..
HANDLERS pretty little grandchild. = She
would romp with him in the corridors up
stairs, and while she made no attempt to
herself 10 1y a,
peared in the public hallway below.
Barnet / saw and recognized some re-
semblance to portraits printed in the New
York papers concerning one of the prin-
eipal figures in that Cornish CASE
Chief Murphy. who has given much ats
tention TO the case and has carefully
is, as he always is, very careful in giving
out any information. He admitted, how
ever, that The News" was accurate and
register of the Hotel Washington five
weeks ago. The couple signing them
selves #. G. Barnet and wife began
visiting the hotel two years ago. They
came at. intervals of two months and
generally stayed only day at time
The last time they were there was in
August of last year.
Il did not report the circumstances to
the New York officials at first, for the
reason that I was not satisfied that the
similarity In names was sufficient to
coHcluuo tHdt llllS Barnet ana the late
II. G. Barnet. of New York, were one and
the same person. This was because at
times the name on the register is signed
with double t, and at others with only
single st. 1t seems to me if Barnet
wished to conceal his identity he would
have used some other name than his own
In reporting the, case asked that
pare the handwriting, and also that I
have photographs of Mrs. Molineux to
show the hotel clerk
TIL,
praised Chief Murphy for his valuable
work. and Chief Devery himself said that
Jersey City was to be congratulated on
possessing so able, capable and astute a
chief