Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 506, 25 January 1902 — YOUNG BARRY BALDWIN DEAD [ARTICLE]

YOUNG BARRY BALDWIN DEAD

ASPHYXIATED IS HIS Of S PIBLOR WIFE DISCOVERS BODY IN THE MORNING AFTER SLEEPING ALL NIGHT. Sad Ending to Runaway Love Match. Marie Veronica Baird Baldwin Was Heiress of Estate of Late ohn H. Baird—Dead Man’s Pather is Now in Manila. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan 16—Harry Baldwin. Jr., a very well known young man. who was a son of Barry Baldwin. Sr. formerly of this city, and now of Manila, and was husband of Marie Veronica Baird Baldwin, an hpji-HPs of the estate of the late John H. Baird, was found dead early this morning in the front parlor of his residence. 2945 Washington street. The gas was flowing from one of the jets, and asphyxiation was the cause of death. The unfortunate young man had taken off his shoes and reclined on a sofa. He left no note, and his family believe that his death was not voluntary. There were three gas jets and only one was open, and that not fully. The window was open. Cnder the sofa was a book. Young Mrs. Baldwin, the widow, discovered the body about 7 o clock Fhe says that she and her husband rhatted together last evening until 10 o’clock, when she went upstairs to bed. He told her that he would follow presently. She went to bed and fell asleep, and did not awake until 7 o’clock. Immediately coming to 1 < onsclouanesa she detected the odor jof illuminating gas. The pillow ’ showed that her husband had not been in bed all night. She arose, ha.-tily. ard went through the house. In the parlor she came upon the body iof her hut’and. It was on a sofa, n a posture partly sitting and partly reclining on cushions. She ran to rouse him. but the body was -old. The odor of the gas was strong. F, arful of being overcome, the young widow cried for help and left the room. Mrs. Baldwin asserts that there had been no quarrel of late between herself and her husband, and that when they parted last evening they were as friendly as they had ever been. She says, further, that her husband had not be«n drinking. Yesterday he went out with her and the children — there are two children —and seemed contented ami cheerful. The circum•lance of his taking off his shoes, a common act of persons contemplat in.; mo' ide. who are generally loth to have it said that they died with lh-ir boots on. is regarded at the Morgue a-; not conclusive evidence that Baldwin purposely turned on the gas and lay down to die; but the :a*nily say that it was not unusual for him to take off his shoes downstairs before going to bed. The young couple, on account of the prominence of their relatives, the wealth of the Bairds and the incidents attending their marriage, have been once or twice brought into public notice. Barry Baldwin Sr., father of Ihe dead man. was formerly a broker and was United States Marshal in this district during the railroad strike. He is now in business in Manila. where he represents Ua & Co. The brides father was the late * John H Baird, who died in 1879. and ’•■ft a large estate to be divided among his widow and his four children. Marie Y. (now Mrs. Baldwin!. John R . David J. and Miles T. By the will each of the children received $50,000 in stocks and bonds and a share of eight blocks of land on Haight street from Central avenue to Clayton street. The land, which includes the Chutes property, was left in trust until the young son should come- of age. TLa: event hus ;em d a few nu'nih* r. t' AP the ihildren and the rao’a who is Mrs '. eronica C. Baird, ferm-vl t corporation. the Baird Estate Company The marriage of young Barry Bald- 1 win and Marie Veronica Baird, which took place seven years ago, was a runaway affair. The Bairds are Cath- , ollcs and the Ba’dwins Prat r slants. , and for that and other reasons, among vV h was the voufh of beth ycuag p pie. the g'rl’s mothc. opposed an aliii.’ce with voting Ballwin. One ( dav. however. Miss Ba’~' s 1 ft a-ine. went to the residence of Barry Baldwin Sr. and thence to Archbishop 1 Riordan. who married her to young : Baldwin. Two children were born of the match, a boy and a girl. The children atu nd St. Dominic’s school 1 " *