The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-30
aOTHER WOMAN
 IS SlJBPOENAED
 IN BARRING CASE
Amateur Chemist Hoped to Make Wife Need
 Trip

WHITE PLAINS, N. T., April %. -(By Associated Press. )-A sub poena was issued today by DisN ct Attorney Rowland calling for the ap- pearance before him of Miss Mildred Beam, who, the prosecutor believes, may have information to aid him in < his case against Clarence o Barring, in- 2 ventor, and amateur chemist, accused of giving poison and disease germs to his wife.
 A search is being conducted for q young woman bearing that name who : has been teaching in Elizabeth, N. J., High schooi She failed to report for duty with her classes today and no word has been received by school au- thorities to explain her absence. a The district attorney indicated Miss { Beam would be an important witness both before the grand jury and at the trial and he could make little more progress in the case until he had heard her story.
 New Jersey state troopers who vis- ited the home of Miss Beam and her : mother found no one at home but re- porters discovered note left with a neighbor which read: "We are leaving 2 town. If anybody calls, tell them we are not here"
 Admits Triangle
 In his testimony before the grand jury yesterday Barring admitted there was another woman"
 The description of a physical cul- ture instructor employed two years ago by Dr. Eugene. Leyman, head of a Tarrytown, N. Y., girls school cor responds to the description given of Miss Beam, authorities said.
 "She came about February" Dr. Leyman said, "and two months later I had to discharge her because she was lax in her duty"
 Dr. Leyman said he met man called Barring on several occasions, that he drove to the school almost every after noon, called for Miss Beam and took her riding.
 Charles D. Long, counsel for Barring, asserted he knew where Miss Beam had gone and that he intended to see her shortly. He denied he intended to ask for a sanity commission for Barring, saying that he was convinced of his clients innocence and would ''prove it in due time"
 Still In Jail Tonight Barring still was in the coun- ty Jail with his counsel unsuccessfully seeking his release on bail
 Mrs Barring had visited District At torney Rowland for the purpose of re- hearsing in detail the history of the alleged poisonings, and was reported to have collapsed in the midst of the re- eital. She will be taken to her home, and placed in charge of her physician and nurse. Newspapermen for whom Mrs. Barring had promised to clear up setveral puzzling phases of the case, weredenied permission to see her.
 The nature of Earrings story of the poisonings was disclosed today by Row. land in a partial transcription of tes- timony alleged to have been taken when the chemist was arrested. He told of having gone to Atlantaic City with Mrs. Barring and of their return to the Hotel Biltmore in New York.
 Was she ill when you returned?" Barring was asked.
 "VioIently Ill''
 "Yes, terribly, violently i'll. I was worried to death about it. I tried to get doctor for three hours. Then I gave her some matted milk. When she got worse l gave her some bicarbonate of soda"
 Did you put arsenic in the matted inilk?" asked the examiner.
 "I realize I put it in there. I don't know why," was the reported answeh. Asked if he put arsenic in the soda. he replied, Tt was there, guess, l didn't put there."
 He said that was the first time he gave Mrs. Barring arsenic; that on about the same date he first put arsenic in sugar and dates for his wife to eat that he put germs in milk for her that same night.
 In reply to the question : Did you mean to kill herr" Barring was reported to have said:
 "I didn't mean to give it her for just that. I didn't mean to hurt her. didn't give her anything I wouldn't take myself. don't know why I did it. I did it to keep her out of pain. "I wanted to break off with the other woman; l wanted to make my wife very sick so that she'd go to California.