Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-6175354-20161010033114/@comment-26411416-20161011225819

Everthevillain wrote: Barnaby is a character of unknown origin. He is mentioned in the eighth episode of the fifth season. He is currently deceased.

History: Some time after Captain Hook, aka Killian Jones, lost his hand to the crocodile, Barnaby insulted the pirate by calling him "one-handed Jones". Hook killed him in front of his wife, and took his ring as a trophy.

Hook stabbed Barnaby in front of Ruth and Ruth covered it up for whatever reason. I don't think this will work. Jones encountered Rumple before he became the Dark One, so is also around 300 years old at the time of Papa Charming's demise. I am sure that even if he did pop back from Neverland, he would have had enough time in the intervening years to get used to people mocking his one-handedness. If it WAS Hook who murdered Papa Charming, my guess is that he was acting as a mercenary and paid to kill.

Perhaps while at the market Papa Charming had bartered for or even found something that another person wanted badly enough to order his death to obtain - perhaps a magic bean that Cora wanted? We know Hook worked for her.....