Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-01-07
FIXING IDENTITY
OF mrs. BARRETT
California Woman Murdered by
Her Husband May Have
Been Involved in Colo
RADIO Murder.
CRIME SIXTEEN YEARS ~
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CRIME SIXTEEN YEARS ~
Aasp's
Los Angeles, Cal, Jan, O. q.
Irene Barrett, alleged to have been
murdered with her son, Raymond
Wright, by her husband, Benton Bar
rett, aged. San Monica rancher. was
said today BY DR.. L. L. Clock to be
a Mrs. Myrtle Wright, implicated in
mysterious death in Colorado, by
which she collected $4,000 insurance.
Dr.. Clock, held in the county jail,
charged with statutory crime, iden-
tihed photograph of Mrs, Barrett as
that Of Mrs. Wright. Bsrrett's attor-
neys contend that the woman and her
son are alive.
Clock Tells His Story.
DR.. Clock said he was called to a
hotel in Pagosa Springs, Colo, in
1901, where he found Mrs. Wright
and a man, Neff, beside the body OF
George Barber, who left Webster
City, Ia, to accompany the woman to
Colorado, Barber was dead. He said
the circumstances were such that he
reported the case to the authorities.
The body was exhumed and an
autopsy and examination Of the heart
in Denver showed the presence of
poison. Mrs. Wright and Neff we're
held for time, but released, when it
was shown that death would have
occurred without the poison, which
might have been used as stimulant.
Collected the Insurance.
The woman collected $4,000 insy-
ance, Or. Clock said, and left with
Neff. Six years later DR.. Clock re-
ceived an inquiry from a Pueblo
lodge asking for the address of Mrs.
Wright, to whom a lodge member
who had died, left his insurance.
Barrett. was arrested and charged
with murder, when he was taken to
the district attorneys office, October
81, 1916, by his attorney, and con-
fessed he killed his wife and step
son three days before and burned
their bodies in the. yard of his ranch
Bones were found, but experts dis
agree as to whether they were those
Of either or both of the victims.
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, Barrett in his confession said he
killed his wife and stepson when they
attacked him. Barrett carried some
insurance, payable to his wife, but
not enough, according to the police,
to have tempted his wife to kill him.
Barrett, it was found, had shown dis
approval Of other mems attentions to
his wife. ~
The defense advanced several
theories to reconcile Barrett's con-
fession with the theory his, two VIC
tins were alive. One Of these was
that Barrett was hypnotized.
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