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here and visit me, for then this terrible affair
would never have happened. She was my
face anq QHSse %rSe 30
my Invitation that she hardly dared 10 come
a. her plspts and her chickens would M miss =
things like that, things that only a girl Of pure
mind would ever be Interested In. She finally
came and while hero heard from Mrs. South
number Of people there and did visit one or two
before she went to the home Of her foster
mother. Now that accounts for al of Helen =
une from the time she lott the Southgate home
up 70 the time that she returned to II.
When Helen came up from Good GROUND
on Monday she told me Of having met Mr BAR par,
bopr again. asked her II she was very fond
81 him and she said that she was, but that she
Old not love him She had never really loyed
any man. she. said and did not expect that
she would some day. and she said that 1t would
OF course be IA beautiful thing TO make some
man ne happy. but that she did not thnk in
From time TO time she told me more OF Mr.
Barbour She told me that he was an atheist
and that he was constantly talking 81 suicide
was hrm believer In God and a hereafter
She said that he told her that he had not been
She rebuked him for this and told him that I
he wanted to XII himself he ought to think
first OF his people and the disgrace that would
follow .s1oh a thing He said that when he
decided 20 kill himself he would see to it that his
body was never Identified. Helen told me
that he was very sullen and morose man
aud that she was afraid OF him az times.
The young ma man came hsTs S9 on on Tedne1hdIay dw hIm
but when he asked for Miss southgate and gave
bis name as Mr.. Barbour | knew who he was
BE sat In the parlor and Helen joined him there
They talked for time and then Helen told me
that they were going for walk, She came
back without him, but the next day he came
again, and Helen. before going away Win hlm,
said that he had asked her TO 90 out WIN nun
for some time, and that she had decided to 90
with him then. What they did that day you
know / do not hold Helen blamelcTs by any
means. but have every c2nfdence In her so0d, SHy
improper relations with MT Baroour Inc
statement that she made to the detective has
ward that have not been told / asked her what
ever induced her 10 go TO hotel with MI;
Barbour and she said that she did
out haf S ne4 4e head Rs fhs msn Rnd
talked suicide TO her 50 much that she wa,
fascinated BY him, and when he proposed that
they 20 out OF tho world together she agreed -
why she could not tell. A. soon as they got
In the room where the shooting was done, she
told me. Barbour took of his collar aug Or
dered her to do the, same. lie empued his
pockets and directed her u empty hers. she
did both without moments hesitation. IL
was not until he began burning al OF tle things
alton Then. she tod me. she asked him what
he was burning things for. His reply was
We are going TO die together Ia tins room.
Surely We do not want any one 10 know VINO We
ii wa, at thu juncture, Helen told me- that
a desire not to die came oyer her; She was
too frightened TO utter a word, though. although
she told me she watched the door, thinking
that II she got good chance she would run for
i. She was afraid 10 walk right out for Bh,
Of his hand and she thought he would XIII her
II she tried to leave him then. Barbour picked
W the revolver and told her TO bare her breast.
Ialap that lln obey ed mechanically. III
then ordered her to loosen her cQTyets lhls
she did, despite the fact that she did not want
Kill himself. she did 50. Yet all the while,
she told me her one thought was oi me ana ana
and vet she could not escape. The man 5
influence over her was too great Tor her 10
resist. Does this scene III the hotel suggest
Hrlen's dark eyes mring Barbour on 70 his
destruction? IL does not to me Helen eS-
cape from the hotel has all been told in her
statement. | let her In myself that evening
aud noticed nothing wrong with her. We sent
her to the hospital because the doctor said
that she ought To have trained nurse. and
could not AFFORD y get one Tor her. When she
went 20 the hospital knew nothing about the
way In which she got her wound. She had only
told me that II was the result OF an accident.
| want to say one more thing, and that is that
! have known my niece inumatey ior. year :
and know she was sweet loyable anectonate
girl with a mind that was free from vicious
thoughts, Ter whole life was pure as young
might be her death bed, that despite the terrible
circumstanceS she was guiltlnss OF any wrong
doing | believe her. When she leaves the hos
pita She will come straight here and here she
will stay until she is rendy Ia 90 back to her
mother or 70 Father Southente,"
There were a number of Inquiries ~ the
Seney Hospital Yesterday about Miss South
gotr and some people claiming acquaintance
With her wanted TO soc her. Admission to her
room was refused 10 all Mrs Gilman 81
Coumbi1. 5. e., got her first news of the arair
iu the NOR ming uapers NJ her home, apparently
for llte Yesterday afternoon telegram was
received from her at the Seney Hospital in
which she asked II the girl in the case was really
Helen Parker Forbes Southgate, and II SO,
would she recover Word was sent back that
the patient WINS Miss SouthRlte, md that she
was rrogres Ing satisfactorily. The Barbours
declined 10 have anything 70 sHy ohout the
case Yesterday, and several q their friends
who wcye seen said that they had hceen asked
not 10 give out any more statements about the
cnse Mr. Barbour did not rreRch at the
Church Of the Beloved Disclrle Yesterday, his
plaCp being taken NJ both the morning and
eynninr, services bv the Rev John Achworth,
the assistant pastor Of the church.