The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-04
NINE. BARRIOS IN POLICE CELL
MURDERED PRESIDENTS WIDOW
PICKED UP IN YENDERLOYN.
She'd Been Cruising About with a CaDman
who wanted His MOney--When Bailed
She Departed Tearful In Her Stock
Ing Feet--Wer History Recalled.

Sam Beattie, the clerical man at the
Tenderloin station, saw tall, blonde
haired woman walking by unsteadily at
dusk last night with a cabman on her trail.
Beattie sent policeman after the woman
to be- sure that no harm came to her. The
cop saw that the woman had been drink
ing a great deal and brought her and the
cabman back to the police station
John Kelly was the cabman, and lie said
he was following the woman to get money
from her that she owed him for fare. Kelly
said he had picked her up in a saloon at
Sixth avenue and Thrtieth street and had
driven her around for two hours. She
had told him she wanted fresh air. Once,
he said, she told him she wanted to go to
the Waldorf and then che changed her
mind and said she wanted to go to the Fifth
Avenue Hotel. When she was nearing the
Fifth avenue she changed her mind again.
In Twenty sixth street, between Sixth and
Seventh avenues, she ordered the driver
to stop She nlighted and walked into a
cellar bowling alley. She looked around
the place and walked out again without
speaking to any one.
While Kelly was telling his story the
woman stood in front OF the sergeant s
desk in dazed sort of way. When she was
asked what her name was she began to
weep She tried to walk away. but was
detained.
Finally she said she was Nine. Algeria
Barrios. widow of the assassinated Presi-
dent Of Guatemala. Her home. she said,
was in Paris. She said she was born in
this country, and in the light of the fact
that she had been arrested, she was sorry
this was her native land. Then she was
led back to cell on charge of intoxi-
cation.
The woman's age went on the blotter as
% years. She looks fifteen years older.
She is tall and shapely, with blonde hair
that looks as if it had been dyed. She
Wore heavy Princess gown of mixed ma
terial that had seen rough wear. Her white
straw hat was not very expensive one.
| She had no jewelry or money and her whole
| appearance was that of woman who had
been on long debauch.
She repeated her story of being the widow
| of the late President Barrios when she
was taken to a cell by the matron. She
| told the matron that she had come here
| from London two months ago and that
she was stopping at the Brevoort House.
| She had a daughter she said, in school
| in London Her husband had been as
sassinated five years ago. When she was
asked 10 write her name she wrote;
Algeria de Reyna Barrios"
A reporter who inquired at the Brevoort
House for Nine Barros was told by the
clerk that no such person lived there. Over
| the telephone some one at the hotel said
| Nine. Barrios did live there. Much sur
prise was expressed by the person at the
hotel end OF the wire when he was told
that Nine. Barrics was in cell at the Ten
| derloin station. He said that an effort
| would he made to have her released
At IL O'Clock Antoine Lablanch, pro-
prietor of the Brevoort drove to the police
! station in a cab with a young man who
said he was Nine. Barrios's Stepson La
| bInnch said he wanted to give bail for Nine
! BarriOs.
When she was brought up from cell
| her face was dirty and tear-stained She
embraced her stepson. She signed the
! bail bond: Mrs. de Reyna Barrios"
When she walked out OF the police station
| il was seen that she was in her stocking
feet. She had removed her slippers in a
cell and refused to take them away with
her She and her stepson went away in
the cab.
| While waiting for his stepmother to be
brought up from cell the young man
| said:
my mother is not in good health, and
we are soon going to Paris, where we live
We have been here a few days only from
Central America"
Then the young man suddenly remem'
bered that he did not want to talk any
more. To all other questions he replied
mo understand Americana
j. NJ. Revna Barrios, nephew Of the great
Barrios of Guatemala, was elected Pres
dent Of that republic in 1892, and was assas.
sinated in 1898. In the following year il
was announced in the newspapers that his
widow, Algeria, a New Orleans girl whose
maiden name was Bats, and who hac
been living in San Francisco since her hus
bands death, was going on the stage il