Arizona republican., 1899-01-01
FOUND IN pOTTER'S FIELD
4 New York Tragedy Revealed Affer
 Many Months.

William L. Barrett and his wife. -Har- riet came to this city from their home in HclbOken on August 28 to select a flat, as they intended tO move here, says the New York Sun. They had been married for a year. Barrett is a telegraph operator employed by the Delaware, LackawanEa & Western rail- road.
 They remained that night at the house of a friend in Third avenue, ard the next day the husband told the wife he w:asg oing out to visit an old ac- quaintance. She said she had some shopping to dc and would meet him early in the afternoon. When she did not return at 6 o'clock he became un- easy and visited the shopping districts, but could not find her. She had not returned at midnight, so he gave the police a description of her. An alarm was sent out, but she was not found.
 Next day he visited Bellevue Hcspi- tai to see if any unknown woman had been received there Permission was given to him to walk through all the female wards of the institution, and he anxicusly peered into the face of every patient but his wife was not there The police still had no clue. He went to his home in Hobcken, but the miss
 
 He came back on the following day and again visited Bellevue Hospital. He was also permitted to go through the women's wards in Roosevelt and several other hospitals, where he made inquiries and left a description of the woman. The heat at that time was oppressive, and he thought she might have been overcome by it and taken to some hospital unconscious
 
 His fruitless search had caused him to fear that his wife was dead. He stated his case to the morgue keeper and was allowed to look upon the faces of tha unknown dead who had been taken from the river or had died Of ths heat i Her body was not there. On the fol- lowing day he visited the hospitals on BlackelPs Island, and that night again went to the mCTgue. Next he obtained pass to tha insane pavilion at Belle | vue Hospital, but in neither place did he find the object of his search.
 For week he walked about the city [ with the light chance of finding some clue to his wife, and spent several hours each night at the morgue watch i ing for the dead wagon to come in. The ! attendants got to lock upon him as regular visitor.
 "She ain't dead yet" they assured him. That ought to be some comfort to you. Shls's bound to come here when : she's dead, for all the unknown dead : dc" i
 In time he was obliged to give up the active search. He returned home and read the newspapers for all informa- | tion of dead bodies found in the waters about the city. On November 20 he read about the dead body of a woman being found in the East river and wrcte to the morgue keeper, repeating a de- ! scription of his wife's clothing, and added that she wore her wedding ring, in which was inscribed: "W. B. to H. | B., '97." The morgue keeper wrote back that the drowned woman did nc,5 have. such a ring, but ring bearing thaE inscription had been received from the Flower Hospital on August 30.
 MT. Barrett came to this city, saw the ring and identified it as belonging to his wife. At the Flower Hospital ha, was told that an unidentified woman had died there of a fractured skull on