Multnomah County OR Archives News.....A Dramatic Inquest February 14, 1893
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Oregonian February 14, 1893
Mrs. Gus Barry Faints Twice In The Coronoers Office Yesterday
Cornoer Holman began an inquest yesterday afternoon ove rthemains oof Gus 
Barry,who wason the 15th of last month by George Morey,and who died at his 
home,231 Clay Street,bear Second,Sunday night at 10:30 o'clock.
Owing to the enforced absence of Dr.C.H.Wheeler,whop attended Barry,the case 
was continued until this morning at 11 o'clock after hearing the testimony of 
a few witnesses. Morey,who was brought to the morgue,in irons, by Jailer 
James,was placed on the stand,but stated that,acting upon instructions from 
his counse,he would refuse to testify.Deputy District Attorney Laffertey,who 
was present,informed him that he had a right to make sucha  refusal,and he was 
excused. The witnesses examined were Annie Wright,Mrs. Barry and Officers 
Keith and Dougherty. Ttestimony was in effect the same as has been published. 
Morey entered the house at 1 o'clock in th emorning,and going to Barry's room 
fired a shot at the latter while he was lying in bed asleep. Barry jumped up 
and ran to a hall door,when Morey fired again,inflicting a wound that caused 
his victim's death.Officer Keith,being infoermed of the affair,went ot the 
house ,and entering Barry's room found the bed on fire,and he extinguished the 
flames. Annie Wright,sister of Mrs. Barry,and with whom Morey was living,was 
standing in the room calmly smoking a cigarette.She went up to Morey after he 
had been placed under arrest,and taking his hand said:"I will stand by 
yo,George"
The inquest was not without dramatic features,and Mrs. Barry was the principal 
actor.Notwithstanding she had made,so it is alleged,several attempts to kill 
her husband by shooting at him with a pistol,and had caused his confinement in 
jail many times,in fact,made every manifestation of her hatred for hi,she made 
a display of grief yesterday that under most circumstances would be 
patheti.Once she demanded to see her husband's face,and upon being led into 
the morgue,dropped to the floor in a faint.Restoratives were applied and she 
soon recovered.On the witness stand she fainted againh,and the coroner and 
prosecuting attorney frefrained from asking her any questions.A carriage was 
then called and in the company of her sister,she was driven to her home.
Teh jury will render a verdict in the case this morning

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