New-York tribune., 1907-11-14
RICH WOMAN STARVES.
Mrs. Caroline Barry Found Dead
an Kitchen of Her Home.

Too miserly to buy food. though believed to
be possessed Of property valued at between
SoO0OGO and $1OO0OOO. Mrs Caroline Barry
died some time within the last two weeks from
starvation. Her body was found yesterday IN
her handsome home. at No. Al Greene avenue.
Brooklyn For years she had been the bane OF
the rne neighborhoOds in which she 6welt.
When she disappeared her friends were so few
that she lay dead eight days on he- kitchen
floor before fellow being could be found who
would take the trouble 20 inquire into her
whereab bouts.
This friend was Mrs Isabella RamsdeiI of No.
127 Fort Greene Place. who says that the dead
woman had promised to will the Greene avenue
house to her She Iad not been to see the old
woman for a couple of months. Last Wednes-
DAY she determined to CALL but could not set
in Tuesday evening she met with the same
experience, and it worried her Yesterday morn
ing she went back to the Barry house at 8
o'clock. Getting response to her rings and
knocks she called upon Patrolman McInerney
to force entrance. The policeman broke
open the back door Of the Barry home and
found the aged recluse lying on the kitchen
floor. An ambulance from the Bushwick Hos
pital called. and Ambulance Surgeon PIN
Gus said that the woman had apparently died
of old age and lack of nourishment He thought
that she mad been dead about eight days. The
body was removed TO an undertaking establish
rlent in Court Square.
Mr.. Smith, an appraiser. who was sent TO take
charge of the house on behalf Of Public Ad-
ministratOr Teale. found the household goods
piled about just as they were left by the van
men when Mrs Barry moved in recently. Pack
ing boxes and barrels were everywhere. The
upholstery had been eaten from the fine mahog-
any and rosewood Of the massive old-fashioned
r1Fo&
thousands of dollars were hung about care
lessly or stacked against the walls of the
rooms.
The strangest collections of all were the old
vegetable and condensed milk cans and the
boxes of assorted peach pits that the old woman
had preserved with every evidence OF attention
Less care had been devoted by her to her valua-
bic papers. Although eight bankbooks were
found, showing deposits OF $4,000 in each OF the
eight savings banks with which she did busi-
ness. her papers were in confusion. Two tax
receipts showed that the woman was the owner
of the house in which she lived which was rated
at $500. and No. fl West 10th street. Man.
haitian. rated at $4,000. No will had been
found last night, and her single friend declares
that she never made one. On the mantle Is
cents were found. There was no food in the
place.
The recluse was eighty-six years old. She
was the widow OF Alexander c. Barry. a Scotch
man. who manufactured hair tonic and made
several hundred thousand dollars at il. He
died many years ago. leaving his property TO
his wife. Up TO eight years ago Mrs. Barry
lived in a large, dilapidated house on Clinton
avenue. near Greene avenue. in the heart OF the
finest residential section Of Brooklyn. II was
within a stones throw OF the homes OF the
Schierens. the Pratts and other wealthy fam
lilies. Neishbors formed fund and bought out
the place for $4,000. Mrs. Barry moved into
a big brownstone house in Greene avenue.