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OF the patient IN the hospital. They went there
but were refused admittance on the plea that
she was a private patient Deputy Coroner
Kelly was then called into the case ana MS
authority gained admittanCe to the detectives
To Kelly the girl said that she was Helen
Parker and insisted that her wound had been
caused by her own careless handling OF re-
volver on being oss-questionedr she admitted
knowing Henry g. Barbour and said she had
been out with him She denied, however, hav-
ing been in the St Charles Hotel. and professed
TO know nothing OF the young mans death
Later in the afternoon when the detectives
returned with her AUNT Miss Schell, the girl
broke down and told her story. She became
greatly concerned about the intimations as 70
her character. and. with tears, protested that
her relations with young Barbour had always
been most proper.
Miss Schcu. the girls aunt. when asked
by n Tribune reporter. said; The poor little
girl "a indeed my niece and the adopted daugh-
ter Of the late Bishop Southgate. She has really
had a hard time Of it, for after her mother. Mrs
Forbes. married again. she found her father not
the kind of q man she had been accustomed TO-
He was rrurr and unkind in his treatment OF
her. Her stepfather now lives in Denver, where
he is an orderly In a hospital"
RARBOUR,s FUNERAL. AT THE RECTORY
The Rev Dr. Barbour. rector of the Church Of
the Beloved Disciple, in East Eighty-ninth-st'
when seen yesterday said:
The more I think Of my sons action the more
I am inclined TO attribute 1t 10 temporary IN
sanity | cannot conceive of his doing such
thing while in his right mind. The funeral took
place here at the rectory this afternoon, and tne
burial was in KensCo Cemetery the Eiri $
name e Helen Forbes, and she is prepossesSlnS
In anDearanCe MY son must have become lnfat-
uated with her He had known her only week.
She came to Good Ground 10 visit Ihey We're
together there good deal OF the time ana 'IeIe
we're no other young people there for them 10
associate with. They were seen 10 shoot AT TAR
gets with the revolver with when ne douotIesS
killed himself We liked the Forbes girl well
enough at Good Ground, although pald very
littIe attention to her. She had been adopted py
Bishop Southgate. but there was Sonle u !ho
ence between her and MIS- South6dle thIte
wears ago that ended in the annuiment OF the
adoption papers The girl was well educateu
ard obtained a place in New-YoCk as goVerneSs
she went back to Mrs. Southgate for a while
understand but was told that she ought 10
work to help her people, VINO nNe IN DsHNTl
she arrived in Good Ground to visit the famly
OF John Rudd on Monday she went 10 MIS-
Southgate's and there met my son Tor the hrSl
time ! do not know that she is 70 blame Tor
mis- tragic ending. but l would have telt less
b,o,en hearted If my son had been murdered
she must have been hard-hearted CreatuIe,
though for she must have remained IN the room
after he was dead for fully an hour am
satisfied that II was she who burnt the things
in the wash basin. and l also feel certain ina
my boy had money in his pocket rom rom 80, al az .
counts. which she took from him after he was
dead" .,, A.,
what a bold creature she " as, broke In Mrs
RarhoUr who had entered the room. w ny
when she had a quarrel with the people who
adopted her and she left home she walked
tbrongh folIr miles of woods to the railroad sta
tiOn at . o'clock in the morning. No ordinary
woman would have the nerve to do such thing
as that l can very readily see how she could
have even remained in the room with my son
and have taken the money from his pockets
She was not real. There Is something hendlsh
about her