February 6, 2020 — On this day in 1901, 42-year-old Mary Ann Barry died in Jamestown in what was then called the Insane Asylum. Less than a month earlier, her brother, William Barry, drove into Milton, North Dakota, to give himself up for having killed Andrew Mellum in the barn that morning.
It’s a complicated story – one with more questions than answers. On January 3, when Barry came to town to co…