Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-14
STOLE AUNT'S JEWELS?.
MARY BARRY, CHICAGO GIRL I'm
DER ARREST IN HARTFORD
Father Declares Mistake Has Been Made
While Press Dispatches Say She
Has Confessed.

CHICAGO, H., Aug. 13.-NIiss Mary
Barry, daughter of Thomas Barry. 5NG
East Chicago avenue, of the Barry
Steamship company, was arrested yes
terday i'll Hartford, Conn, charged with
stealing diamond earrings valued at
$500 from her aunt, Miss Mary Ellen
Welsh, whose guest she had been for
TWO weeks. The Chicago girl, popular
III north side social circles. for eight
years III convent i'll Canada, was ar
rested while attempting to sell her
aunt ) Jewels III the Lux Bond jewelry
store III Hartford for SO. She was
Wen supplied with money. her nurst
containing bills of large denominations
ana railroad transportation When con
lfohted by the police Miss Barry broke
uoWh and declared she could not eX-
pIaln her strange action
Miss Barry was arraigncd in private
chambers before Judge Walter Clarke
of Hartford, who satisfied himself If
the fair young prisoners good family
connections and paroled her without
punishment TO an officer. who placed her
ON board Il train for Chicago. Friends
OF Miss Barry, who WAS in state of
collapse after her ordeal with the court
and police, accompanied her lis far rs
Springfield on her homeward journey.
the girl. protesting to them her iuuo-
cence of any wrong intent
Miss Barry has been devout Chris
tan ever since she has had an under
standing of higher things. and has spent
nlne Years i'll converts. She was a ulpul-
DER OF the Holy Name cathedral parish
ana her ambition was to become uun.
" hen II years old, at her own request.
she was taken from the parochial school
attached to the local church and sent 10
me NHie Marie convent at Montreal.
where she remained for eight wears.
Then she attended Notre Dame at King
stOn, when those in charge wrote the
parents that ut her age, then 20 years.
she was the youngest novice Mt the in
stitution, and advising that she 20 homn
for time ito become better acquainted
with things of the world" The mother
superorS advice was needed. and The
girl and her parents were looking for
ward to the day when she could again
enter Notre Dame and serve the other
year needed for her to don the habit.
The present is the young womanS
first trip away from home outside of her
Journeys to the convent. It's really the
first vacation the girl ever had She
left home two weeks ago to visit in New
York Adelaide Keim, the Bush Temple
actress, with whom she became ac-
qUainted last fall, and after n few days
there went to visit Miss Welsh, who is
her mothers aunt
Capt. Thomas Barry, father of Mary
Barry, is master of the steamer Kansas
of the Barry line, which arrived from
Chicago this morning Mr.. Barry de
clared that a mistake had been made by
someone, that his daughter could not be
guilty of the charge preferred against
her, and that the court proceedings
against his daughter had been dismissed
Immediately when the facts of the case
We're explained.
My daughter has been visiting Miss
Welsh who is my wife's cousin, for two
weeks, and 50 much is she enjoying her
trip that only Yesterday | received a lei
ter from her asking me to have her rail
road ticket extended" said Mr.. Barry.
''She wrote us that Miss Welsh was en-
tertaining her most delightfully."-, had sent
herself and a friend Of Mary to the the
alter paying 50 for the tickets, aud in
other ways had spent money and attpn-
tion upon my daughter aud also the 9th
er girl, who is friend of Mary. Ii is not
possible that my girl would have taken
the earrings as she has high priced Jew
elry of her own. She is greatly reserved.
She is barely 20 years old and has been
i'll Il Canadian convent since her twelfth
year. She is highly educated, speaks
two or three languages, has never had
Il sweetheart nor never made much of
the schoolmates of her younger years.
1T would stand to reason that Mary
would strive to gain in the favor Of her
relative as she is the only heir to
large estate, of which Miss Welsh now
is the exclusive possessor. Miss Welsh
is an elderly maiden lady, approaching
80 years and may he Il trifie peculiar or
eccentric.
Her sister, also unmarried died
short time ago and when she was buried
her diamonds and other valuable keep
sakes were placed III the coffin. In her
will she made Il peculiar provision pre-
venting any relative born in foreign
country from coming into possession of
any of the property of the two women.
My wife is the only heir in this country.
consequently. l expect letter from my
daughter when | reach home Friday
morning explaining the whole distressing
case