New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-11-16


PAYNE whitney his nephew. Both OF these
went in the house and stayed some time. When
DR. Parkhurst left the house he said that the
funeral would be this afternoon at O'Clock at
the house. It viii be private.
Mrs. Barney is still suffering from nervous
shock
MR. BARNEYs INSURANCE.
Mr.. Barney's life insurance policy will bring
s136OO0 to his estate. He was not insured In
the Equitable in the New York Life. but
had a policy in the Mutual Life The form OF
policy was an unusual modification OF the
twenty-year endowment plan and the premium
was unusually large. Its face value was S1OO,-
600 but il was provided that If Mr.. Barney died
before the expiration of the twenty-year period
the amount of the premiums he had paid should
be paid 10 him in addition to the face Of the
policy Mr. Barney took the policy out in 1899
and had paid $4,000 in premiums up to date.
DR.. George A. Dixon, the Barney family physi-
clan, VINO reached the house about twenty min
utes after Mr.. Barney had shot himself and
was with him up TO the time of his death. ex-
planned last night several seeming discrepancies
In his story and that of Coroner Hamburger as
they appeared in the papers Yesterday. In the
first place DR.. Dixon said he did not mean to
give the impression i'm anything he said on
Thursday night that Mr. Barney had not been
able 10 talk or did not talk UP to the time the
ether given for the operation.
y was asked if he talked much about his
business affairs said DR.. Dixon, land I replied
that he did not. But he was perfectly rational
and able TO comprehend what was going
around him from the time of the accident, which
was about 10 O'Clock, up 70 the time he was
placed under the influence Of ether. which was
about 1890 O'Clock
"of course you will understand that Mr. Bar
ney suffering great agony, and we did all
we could TO keep him quiet. We did not want
him TO talk. because it would have weakened
him"
Dr.. Dixon said that so far as he knew no one
asked AIr. Barney how he was shot. and Mr..
Barney volunteered no information on that
point.
DENIES ACCIDENT STATEMENT.
AS 10 the statement of Coroner hamburger
that told him Mr.. Barney had said: Doctor
this was an accident thought the coroner was
asking my personal impression Of what hap
pened." added the doctor.
well, do you think it was ACCIDENT" DR..
Dixon was asked. Dr. Dixon hesitated mo-
rnent and then said: 'It does not look reason
able TO me that who was deliberately in
tending TO do away with himself would shoot
himself where Mr. Barney was shot. The nat
ural thing would be to shoot himself in the
heart the temple the mouth. When it comes
TO an accident theory you know bullet may hit
q man almost anywhere
DR.. Dixon would not discuss the signing of the
will by Mr.. Barney. He reiterated his state
ment that Mr.. Barney was perfectly rational
and able to understand what be was doing. but
from what the doctor said it Inferred that
Mr.. Barney had little to say about drawing UP
the will. It was prepared by the lawyers, then
read to Mr.. Barney, who sgniied his approval
of its contents and signed il. As soon this
ifz-, Mr. F2ar
for the operation
L has been said that while Mr.. Barney was
lying On the bed in agony he had said: Il did
II because could not stand the pressure any
longer" DR.. Dixon said he did not believe Mr..
Barney had said this II think he added,
that somebody might have misunderstood an
ejaculation of pain that Mr. Barney might have
made. OF course he was in great agony. and
might have said 4 can't stand the pressure re-
ferring TO his physical condition"
should a jury of twelve men render
dict from the evidence that Mr.. Barney's death
Mas tie result of accident, that verdict would
fall t5.conyince me that it is not a of sui
eide" This was the declaration made by Coro-
julius hamburger yesterday, in announcing
tina; he would hold inquest into the death
on November %
Both Coroner hamburger and DR.. O'Hanlon
agreed. however. that there was not the slight
est trace of powder marks about the wound.
Asked if the lack of powder marks might not
indicate that the flesh had been protected by
clothing of some kind when the shot was fired
Coroner Hamburger said: 81 am not at all sure
that this may not have been so. In fact, I am
not yet ready TO state whether Mr. Barney was
in bed when the shot was fired. He may have
been standing UP, fully dressed in his night
clothes. and at some distance from the bed
did not examine the clothes worn by Nj Bar
ney."
Late yesterday afternoon the coroner sen.
word to the East 35th street police STATION tbot
he wanted Mr.. Barney's clothes and ,,ndor
clothing brought to his Office immediately Tsau
tenant Green sent detective TO the houee nh
returned with the information. according n Al.
Coroner, that the family had burna5 oil ar
clothes up Coroner Hamburger decIin,d -
make any comment or to say what action he
would take. ~
While Coroner Hamburger chung to the s,,,c,6o
theory' Dr' o'Hanlon, when asked whether fhe
bhoI Gould nave been fired by soIse person other
IMAM Mr. Barney said that his long experience
and his examination OF the bod;- les hin, a.
believe that such an explanation ne .bo -. -
ing was possible. DR.. O'HanIon. In giving h.
reason for not calling the case one of 1,ain
suicide, explained that he had never seen 90
case in which 'the area of self-attack had 49,
within the space in which was inflicted tba
wound which caused Mr. Barney's death Tho,
IS, ne had never known of a riehthanded 49,
who meant TO kill himself placing the r,,zz1o
or revolver at the left side Of the abdomen
below the navel and holding the weapon poinIe5
upward in such way that the bullet took oI
most vertical course through the intestines
and lung before lodging IN the back lust below
the neck.