The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-07
No SOLUTION OF TRAGEDY
UNTIMELY DEATH OF HENRY G
BARBOUR STILL sHRoUDED
IN EIYSTERY
TRAGEDY OF LOVE AND DEATH
Who Shot Miss Helen southgate
PuzxIinE observation-disclosures
BILE Story Behind the Deed
OF Violence.
The wages Of sin is death!

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and stations in life are worrying over
/ the case of Helen Southgate, VINO lies
wounded in a New York hospital but
/ who is not seriously injured 1t is not
because she is shot they worry, nor be-
cause the dead body of Henry Grosvenor
Barbour was found in a New York hotel
where she had left it, though that is
grewsome enough; but because they do
not know whether She shot Barbour. or
he her; or he himself and she herself;
or she him and herself, observes the
Philadelphia Times.
| 1t was a remarkable tragedy-a tragedy
seemingly without beginning, for no one
that knew the pair supposed them to
have been lovers. In fact, they Were
scarcely known as aequaintances Miss
Southgate was the adopted daughter of
the late Bishop Southgate, Of the Prot
estant Episcopal church; Barbour was
the son of a living minister of the church
He died in a small hotel in Brooklyn, TO
which it seems she had accompanied him.
She left his dead body there in the bed
they had Jointly occupied, and, although
| wounded herself, she dressed, left the
hotel, went to her aunts house in an
other part of town, and not until the
wound became too painful for further
endurance did she consent that a physi-
clan be called. He promptly ordered her
taken to hospital and there she has
been ever since, delirfous and moaning
that she has not told the truth
But the story she told, and to which
she may refer as not having been the
truth f9 81 tIou fnffO
SO it may be true. 1t was story@of two
hopeless lives, jofneds in misery beth
seeking the end. It~was that her lover
saw no way to make her his wife, and so
they decided to die by his hand. He shot
her and then himself. He died; she
still lives.
The wound in the young woinan's,
breast. though severe. is not dangerous
and ought easily to heal. The fact that
It Is not more severe, while the young
mans was instantly fatal, sheds a side
light on the tragedy. II he meant to kill
hef and then himself. why did he not
make sure that he had killed her before
he killed himself?
To the police the young woman asserted
that Barbour had shot her as she lay i'll
ped; TO her aunt she said she was sta nd
ing Ing up when the wound was inflicted.
This seeming discrepancy may be ac-
counted for by the fact that she would
nave concealed the. fact that she had oe-
telling OF the affair to her aunt Yet,
why they should have tried to kill them
selves remains none the less study
Harbour was typical Young American
OF the Weli-dreSsed, well-educated but
und1rected type-the man who had
studied law and abandoned it. had tried
BUSINESS ana tailed III 1t. Who felt his
weakness in fife. but who was neverthe-
less intense in his devotion to the Young
woman, whom he could not see his way
clear TO marry for lack of means to sup
Fl a h.17
! philadelphia to try life anew, and feolx.
dress suit case belonging to his father
apparently with a view to using 1t on
i his travels. He pawned II INSTEAD : IN
| the money thus realized as well 40 sorna
i OBTAINED upon other artieies-a baI4rv
total OF. .$7-the couple went to- the sh11f..ii
| Lney mad been there before, though the
young woman strenuousIy denies mia +
there was ever any wFongdoing
At the hotef Barbour registered under
an assumed name, as If the young woman
We're MS wife. He was. not drunk INT
looked like a man who had been drink
Ing. He seemed merry she was moody
! This was on Sept IS
/ On the following morning his eornse
woman was gone
Pawn tickets found on the BODY oDick-
iy revealed the dead young mans identi.
~, and almost as quickly revealed his
! association with the young woman
search Tor her disclosed the fact that
/ 0-AN ''eNSS CAiCA III IOSIGb3f SQ1IGfiIg from
! pistol shot In the breast Her story
was told, but seemed hardly satizfafto,Is
| she and Barbour had agreed to die Has
shot her and then himself TIE died b,,t
she found herself still living and aris-
ing, she resumed the apparel She had dis
earded when they had lain down. few
from the house and went to her aunfs
! home
/ In turn the story of the young won-
Y a n Re- + - rs
self to be the child of the late Btshon
.Southgate. But when the bshon die6
She learned, to her ehagrin, that she
was merely an adopted child. AMI thai
her parents had been poor people. long
since removed from. New York Mattersr
We're aggravated by the fact that Bishan
| Southgate, who had lived in splendor
! left depicted estate Between the NAT
ufal children and the adopted daughte.
! came the black hate Of poverty allied To
PRIDE for they deemed qan of their faith
er estate not enough for them, and any
/ OF it. they thought too much for her :,
In this pitiful situation the young girl
! lett the home she had considered hers
from childhood. She found her mother
| IN Colorado, poor, remarked and In a So
| ciai stratum which the delicateIv reared
daughter could not endure She return.
ed to Long Island, where the great fam.
! lily mansion stood, full of gaunt horroN
within, yet grand without Then again
she fled, this time to the house of an
aunt.
/ OF the passages Of her love affairs with
! young Barbour nothing is known Thav
| met, but only formally, so far as by-stand-
ers saw. He was being supplied with
+ clothes and money by his father the pas
/ tor or fashionable congregation Such
sums as ne gave the young man were in
adequate for the qualification of the LAT
ter's tastes. Affairs grew constantly
| more desperate with him, and at last he
declared he would go to Philadelphia 10
begin life anew.
Here arises the question whether the
! young man really meant to go to Phils-
| sdeiphia Or was it that he meant TO
| nave a last meeting with his sweetheart
| ana die with herr Or was it that he did
mean to leave New York at all. bur m
| live a life of=pleasure, untrammeled by
| the suspicious presence of his kindred?
Any of these theories is possible. but
none is final
Nor does 1T seem clear why he should
have wanted to die or to kill her Youth
lives to love and loves to live True, the
morbid, the hopeless, die of mere disao-
pointment and sadness, of which suicide
| is fatal symptom Yet the young man
arrived at the hotel seemingly merry. the
young woman seemingly sad. Under these
circumstances one would imagine that
he would have lived and she might have
died. As it was he died and she lives
She tells, too, that he had told her Of
having spoken to his father about mar
rying her. His father denies that he
ever mentioned the matter to him. Here
may be the kernel Of the difficulty. She