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Show Why George Barry Felt Embarrassed GUICAGO. When Ann Marie Williamson was born on April 16, at the home of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George II. Williamson, at 1C34 Green-leaf Green-leaf avenue, there was great rejoicing. But the birth was inopportune for George Barry, twenty-eight, of Avon-dale, Avon-dale, Wis. lie found out that fate had brought the baby Into his life, and aa the result the police are holding hold-ing bim on a robbery charge. It seems that when little Ann Marie Ma-rie was born, her parents seut out cards announcing the event. Mrs. Ralph Johansen of Glencoe received one of the cards. What she did with It forms part of the story. Anyway, no more was heard of It for three whole months, until Sunday, Sun-day, when Sergts. William J. Byrnes and Thomas Kelllher arrested Burry as be wag entering the Northwestern hotel, 610 West Madison street. He carried a bulging suitcase which aroused the detectives' suspicion. There were a fur coat, five suits of tnen's clothing, six silk shirts, one Lueger pistol, one Smith & Wesson revolver, six watches, one diamond pendant, one pearl necklace, one signet sig-net ring, one locket, one gold brooch, four watch chains, one pearl breast pin, three children's rings and some other articles In the suitcase. In the fur coat was a card announcing announc-ing Ann Marie's bow to the world. Barry explained everything to detectives detec-tives but the card. He wns plulnly embarrassed. He had bought the other things for a friend. He had brought the guns from France, but the card-he card-he was stumped. There was something else the police po-lice wanted Barry to explain, too. It was in connection with a card whloh bore the name "George Barry," said to have been found on the body of Miss Jessie Doyle, a young woman who had committed suicide the preceding pre-ceding Friday on a rtad near Granville, Gran-ville, Wis. On the body of the Doyle gfrl, clad In knickerbockers, was also found a note, the Milwaukee police say, which told that she had discontinued all association as-sociation with George Barry, but admitted ad-mitted she had been his accomplice In numerous robberies. The Waukesha police sny Miss Doyle was wanted there In connection with the theft of $3,000 worth of Jewels. Are they those found in Barry's suitcase? It developed that Burry left Milwaukee Saturday night at nine o'clock. Meantime, the sergeants called up Mrs. Williamson and she came down nnd identified . little Ann Marie's announcement an-nouncement card, which has caused Barry so much trouble. The fur coat has also been Identified as belonging to Mrs. Johansen |