The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-17
CLEARS Up IHE MYSTERY
TRAGIC DEATH OF YOUNG HENRY
BARBOUR IL new YORK
EXPLAINED
IT WAS A DOUBLE SUICIDE
infatuated With Beautiful Helen
Forbes--The Compile Repaired to
Hotel, Where the Trag-
cdY Occurred

NEW YORK, Sept, 16.-The mystery
surrounding the suicide of Henry
Gfosvenor Barb0ur!E son of the Rev.
Henry M. Barbour. rector of the Church
of the Beloved Disciple, this CITY. has
been cleared up, and the whole story
makes the suicide one of peculiar tragi
cal interest
Young Barbour shot himself Thursday
evening at a Bfo3kiyn hotel Situated in
the shady part of the city, his BODY be-
ing found Friday morning. He had c, me
10 the place with a young woman, who
was described as being beautiful to q
degree She disappeared and the events
leading up to the affair might have re-
manned hidden had she not been found in
Seney hospital Brooklyn with bullet
wound in her breast, This wound, she
says, was inflicted by Barbour
Inc young woman in the case is Miss
Helen SouthSate Forbes, nineteen wears
OF age. When child she was adopted bv
Bishop Horatio Southgate, distinguish
ed Protestant Episcopal missionary and
Orlentalist, who died some years ago
The girl was given a most thorough
school1ng, and at the convent in George
town. d. c., she was perfected in music
and languages. While at the convent she
became converted to Catholicism, which
led to an estrangelnent with Mrs South
gate, her foster mother, and the girl as
suned the name of Forbes This was
two years ago. She went West and
the family heard nothing of her until this
summer, when Mrs Southgate, visiting,
the Rev. DR. Edward Southgate, an
adopted son of the bishop, an Episcopal
clergyman in Baltimore, found the girl
visiting at his home. She invited her to
visit her at Good Ground, L. l., where
the Southgates and Barbours had adioin-
ing summer homes for many years.
though at the time of the separation the
older woman was exceedingly angry
and had gone into court to have the legal
adoption by the bishop dissolved.
YOUTH FELL IN LOVE.
The girl, according to the Rev. Henry
NJ. Barbour, was so charming in manner
that he expressed no wonder that his son
Henry became fascinated with her. They
were together frequently, and among
other recreations practiced revolver
shooting, and it was with the revolver
thus used that the shooting was done.
1t is said she was one of the five daugh-
tiers of New York druggist now dead.
Wednesday the girl left the Southgate
home at Good Ground, saying she was
going to visit friends in Brooklyn. Young
Barbour followed her, and the tragedy
came. According to her story, he was
drinking heavily at the hotel where they
went and proposed a double suicide, she
accepting the proposal They first burn
ed off all the laundry marks on their
clothing, then lay down on the bed, and
Barbour shot her in the right breast.
He then killed himself by sending a
bullet into his mouth. She was only
wounded, and quickly left the room and
hotel, going to Seney hospital. The ply
sicians there are in doubt as to her re-
covery. In trying to destroy all marks
Of Identification the couple forgot to
burn a number of pawn tickets which
Barbour had in his pockets, and these
led to the Identification and unraveIing
of the mystery.
Helen Southgate was operated upon
in Seney hospital, Brooklyn, today by
surgeons, who successfully removed
from her breast the bullet. The young
woman is resting well tonight She is
not yet out of danger, but unless COM
plications arise, her recovery is practi-
cally assured. While she is not even
nominally under arrest, it would seem to
be the intention of the Brooklyn police
to have Miss Southgate detained at least
until the story she has told has been
thoroughly investigated. The hospital
authorities have been requested to notify
the police as soon as she has passed the
danger point