Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-01-04
P0lS0NER IS FREE YET.
New York Police Baffled by the Slayer
of Mrs. Adams.
WAS BARNETT KILLED TOO?
Likelihood Tint Body of Clup"""
VIII lie Exhumed For Toi'"
Reconsideration Rumor Hhi'
Has Recn Already Done'

New York. Jan. 4.-The police have
apparently exhausted. themselves III
seeking the murderer of Mrs. Adams. "A
week has elapsed since the death OF tne
woman, and the police appear TO nave
accomplished almost nothing 1t Is true
that they think they have found out III
Newark where the silver holder was
purchased, but there is one thing that
has been overlooked in this matter
and that casts a little doubt on the
story that the holder was sold on Dec.
"a. That Is that the holder is brown IN
appearance, as if 1t had been IN use ror
some time. 1t Is not shopWorn, out
looks as If 1t had been knocked AROUND
for some time.
The police are working, however, on
the theory that the holder was really
bought on Dec. %. That is the pest or
the almost barren clews in their possess
sion. and they are determined to run II
down. They are now endeavoring also
TO find out where the bromo seltzer was
purchased.
CAPTAIN McClusky has asked Profess
or Witthaus, who is making chemical
examination of the organs of the dead
woman as we'll as of the contents OF
the bromo saltzer bottle, to empty out
enough of the white drug for examlna-
ton so that the detectives might take
the bottle and some of the contents
around and show 1t to various drug
eists The detectives hope to find some
druggist who remembers having sold
the bottle.
A new report that was circulated was
that the body Of Henry c. Barnett, the
knickerbocker clubman who died sud-
denly, had been exhumed and that
traces Of cyanide of mercury had been
found in 1t.
Chief Clerk Goldeman of the board of
health said concerning this that there
was no record of any permit having
been issued by the board in the past
two weeks for the disinterment of the
body of Barnett. No such disnterment
could take place except on an order is
sued by the board of health, according
to section III of the sanitary code.
Buried In Greenwood.
The body of Barnett was buried in
Greenwood cemetery, in the borough ut
Brooklyn, and any application for ex-
humation must have gone to the Brook
Ign department. Chief Clerk Goldeman
communicated with the Brooklyn office
and received the information that no
application for such elimination had
been made there within the past fort
night.
Barnett died at the Knickerbocker
Athletic club house on Nov. 10. and the
cause of death was given as fauciel
diphtheria.
1.-THE story that the body of Barnett
has been exhumed," said Captain Nc
Clusky, lis false. 1t would require an
order from the supreme court, The dis
trict attorney would have to give his
reason for the exhuming of the body in
open court, and the order would then
be entered. If such an action had been
taken, we would all have heard of 1t,
and as we have not, why, it is morally
certain that the body has not been dis
turbed."
1t is believed though that the body
will be exhumed at some time in the
future. DR.. Henry B. Douglass of 121
East Thirty-sixth street. who attended
Barnett during his illness, refused to
talk for publication on the subject. 1t
was learned, however, that Captain
McClusky had been to see him, and
that the captain had said that the only
thing to be done in the matter was to
exhume the body of Barnett and find
out whether it showed any traces Of
cyanide of potassium or mercury. Tha,
would be the only way to end the dis
cussion concerning the death of the
young man.