New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
Her $4,000 EnguIfed in
Worthless Mortgages, Mrs.
Eleanor Barry Shoots
Herself.
LIVED ALONE WITH MAID
Fourth Death Due to Losses
in Deals in Realty Pool
Head of Alleged Swindle
Sought Women for
Victims.


Victims.
Her fortune Of nearly $4,000 lost in
real estate investments with the Jack
son Brothers Realty Company, the
firm whose head was convicted Satur-
day of grand larceny and who will be
tried again to-day. Mrs. Eleanor Barry,
widow. killed herself in her apart
mcnts. in No. ~ Clermont avenue, early
yesterday morning.
T.. r. Dcnison. Of No 206 Broadway.
a lawyer who has aided the District At-
torney i'm the preparation of the case
against Edgar r. Jackson. head Of the
real estate company. said last night
that Mrs. Barry's suicide was the
fourth death directly due TO losses re-
sulting from dealings with the Jack
sons.
He said she had invested SS3. .3:3i with
the Jacksons. In December 1908. the
company obtained this money from her
by selling her "A worthless sixth mort
So-' WI 'lSDlN -s'F'I d'ifS u ldlil
near Garden City that had been con.
veycd TO a dummy corporation for n
consideration of 5000 an acre. or
Sf31 COO. subject TO mortgages aSgrc-
eating S233.9iG :
Others Who Lost in Pool.
According to Mr. Dennison, one OF the
other deaths due 10 losses in Jackson
investments was that of Charles Il.
Clark Yale graduate. Clark he said.
committed suicide in this city on the
Saturday preceding Thanksgiving Day,
in 1911, following the loss of several
thousand dollars.
Another victim OF the firm, a Bos-
ton schoolmistress he said, dropped
dead when told that $1,000 placed
with the Jacksons was lost ..
Although Mrs. Barry's maid and COM
panon, Miss Elizabeth Wilson, occu-
pied a room two doors down the hall
from Mrs. Barry, Miss Wilson was not
awakened by either of the two shots
that the woman fired into her head.
She had been dead for some hours when
Miss Wilson found the body lying
across the bed, clad only in a night
dress. There was one bullet wound in
the left temple and another in the roof
Of the mouth.
Coroner Says "ProbahIe Suicide
Miss Wilson called in Dr. Fiske, of
No. 40 Riverside Drive, and the physi-
clan, in turn, summoned Patrolman
Breitenstein. Coroner Fenberg and
Detective Connors made investiga tions,
but decided that there was nothing sus-
picious about the death. The entry on
the police blotter at the West Tooth
street station read. Probable suicidA'
4 will was found. which disposed of
the remainder of the property. after
debts were settled, 10 Miss Wilson, who
had been with Mrs. Barry a long time
and who was heartbroken over the af-
fair. She said Mrs. Barry had large
income until six months ago, when It.
was swallowed up in the Jackson pool.
Then Mrs Barry became melancholy
and was troubled with insomnia. She
and Miss Wilson had lived in the Clare
mont avenue house, known as the
Barieford apartments for seven years.
Miss Wilson said she thought Mrs.
Barrys relatives made their home in
California.
The jackson Brothers Realty Com
pany, at No. 5O7 Fifth avenue. first
came into notoriety last July, when
young woman and a Maine capitalist
made complaints that their money had
been filched from them. Then other
claims began 10 pour in TO the Distriot
Attorney. 1t is said that the company
made more than 81 10000 in three
years.
Women Jackson's Victims.
After the grand jury found two ii-
dictments against Edgar r. Jackson,
the head of the concern, he gave him.
self up and was indicted, later being
released on $4,000 bail. He was con.
victed last week Of grand larceny in
that he defrauded Miss Mary Griffith,
of Akron, Ohio, of 5000, inducing her
to invest by means of false statements
She said he told her he paid $1,000 an
acre for Long Island real estate whinh
cost only 81. 400
He will be tried again to-day. anc
there is still another indictment asains,
him. In addition, Oslin NJ. Jackson
his brother and the treasurer of the
company, and Charles +. L. Clark. saic
to have been treasurer of a dummy
company, have been indicted for grand
larceny. Yonkcrs men say they los
close 10 sl.000,000 under the lure o.
demonstration profits" The real es.
tate concern is said to have customer.
in all parts OF the country.
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