The Rendering Of The Verdict

"Guilty of murder in the first degree" was the verdict the jury brought in against Dr. T. Thatcher Graves for the murder of Mrs. Josephine A. Barnaby. The verdict was brought in at 9:40 o'clock Saturday evening. The twelve men had been out an hour and a half. The jury was practical!}- unanimous on this verdict from the start. Most of the hour and thirty minutes they spent in the jury room was consumed in reading the court's instructionH, and comparing the writing in the letters of Dr. Graves wlth the inseription on the bottle that contained the poison, which brought death to Mrs. Barnaby. Tlie Wife aiul Mother Crushei). At the Vallejo, the boarding place of Dr. Graves, where the veife of the corMemned man and his rnother were waitiug for the verdict, an affecting scène was witnessed. The wife was waiting at the door for the message, and she h;d hoped tlmt har husband might bring it to her. When she ■iaw another coming a preinonition seized ber, and tears came in her eyes. Ai rluannouncement shecould not contain hergrief. She wept bitterly, and begged that she might be taken to her husband. The aged mother heard the wailijigs of her daughter-in-law, and came to hear the verdict. When she beard it she swooned away. After she reived she. too, aaked permission to see hér son. They were driven to the jail, and lüEter ten minutes Bpent in weeping they said good oight, and left. The attorneys for the defense iiled motion for a new trial. The Crime Charge! Against Uiiu. Mrs. Barnaby was the wife of J. H. Baruaby. a wealthy merehant oï Provi dence, who secured t divorce froni Iris wife, leaving hei with a fortune. Dr. Graves was her intímate íriend and flnancial adviser on a salary of $5,000 a year. Mrs. Barnaby was a great traveler, and Bhe spent a portion of each sunimer at the residence of Edward Benuett at Blue Mouutain Lake, N. Y. Ijast spring while there she and Dr. Gravee had a misunderstandiug. Mis. Barnaby immediately started west and eventually arrived in this city, where she visited the Worrells. The Fatal líottle Arrivés. April 8, tsix days before she urrived here, a package carne to her addrcss v.iiirli contained a bottle labeled "Fine oíd whisky from your friend in the woofls." The night of the liJth after a drive she cid Mrs. Worrell drank the contenta of thft bottle and both wete taken ill, and Mrs. Barnaby after suffering terrible agony died. Mrs. Worrell recovered at the end of a few days. Physicians declared ttiat the woman died froni arsenical poisoning, and the detectives were set to work. The Worrells were beneficiaries in Mrs. Barnaby's will to the extent of $10,000 and Dr. Graves for &5.000.