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Show IrtsfIr "itent10n of i defendant "rienic in Stomach of SjAdmiral Eaton; In-fM In-fM to Belief It Was 5Self-administcred. NJjrVLE LETTER i95UT IN EVIDENCE iJm'' Witnesses Tell of BJ! Eaton's Accusation ltit Her Husband $ Was Insane. xjf DVTll, Mass., Oct 20. Tho ijjjjf m in the trial of Mr. Jonnio 'tijfj n or tho murder of her hua-jj1 hua-jj1 Mir Admiral Joseph Gllos Ur, itirod, mn doiilt a hard blow W I! tha testimony of Professor i:h and Profoaior Whitnoy. i both dcclnred It was thoir tho arsonic poison found in s stomach after his death robnbility administered by :ution hnn coutonded that vas administered by Mrs. i a few ho'ura of her hus :h, and intimated that indnoM v.-a the cause of t's alleged action, arsenia undissolved in tho ho extent of 11.2 groins of arsenic," testified Pro-ney. Pro-ney. "There wan about five hundredths (Trains in ;ected. ted on cross-examination n could easib dotcct the poison whon given a doso ilortra grains or more, nnd jlT best authorities prosumo, MR quantities of arsenic arc itho ntomach, that it has been ' listered. iir Bnlch, who followod Pro-.Aitncy, Pro-.Aitncy, eald ho bcllovod Ad-- Ad-- ton Lad tnkon arsenic from to thirty-cight hours bofore sonsatlon in tho day's pro-.ij pro-.ij was caused by tho introduc--j Jio prosecution of a lottor - iy Mrs. Eaton to Profcsnor ', in wliich the acouses the ad-FrtJ ad-FrtJ llottinc her death, and states Mtka crnctIon thnt ho was in-Jfij in-Jfij admission of this oplstlo ns jjj; is contiidcrod tho Ktrongcst on -a ikindo by the rtate. n ion's Letter. m was as follows: tislfl Sppl. Mass., Sept. 11, 1009. ttisj r Whituuy. , pt r Sir Will you kindly ln-h,ow ln-h,ow much Ioiikoi- It will r. tow you can atnl exactly whnt vth little, healthy. Hironj? child rtfe7 I nra horo alono In this mlacf with my husband. Ad- y0- teuton, whom I know to """fceroufl man. lll potiltlon In i to make It Impossible for trratcd like mcr clvlllnus ELB? treated and my hunrt and yBut to thlH man, who 1b no I (Bat he fools the world nt ' not m. He speaks at me In a rumbling sort of ' Inferred thnt the "haok ,TvouM contain tho poluon, I Now plcaaj search for for-wn, for-wn, as he hno talked frooly reign poisons and ha hits nil rnosH of a maniac nnd l enough to use one that ffl ) hard to dnteoL 1 H ' Ii Planning my death nil D U W and yot I am pow.tIoss ' m t that on tho rtndJnK of .mfk have him examined for ln-ymw ln-ymw id hnvc him tnkon care of. VII want his money (salary). hi lOBfi Woney, but 1 do want the fhlAi take clmrxu of that dear. lwh and him, for he In mud. j yf, let mn hear from you nt an early dnto and search for cholera nubtlo poison. Respectfully, (SiRnod) M HS. J. G. EATON. P. S. Alno havo thorough examination exam-ination mudo of Ula fool and medicine, medi-cine, uk he Is fn miliar with cholera and tins spoken about polaon used for It, and also the "back bowels," 11 ud as much ns said they could not find It. It in so much like tho cymp-loms cymp-loms of cholera. So watch on these lines. 1 know ho Is Insane Kindly write me. Yon should write to Mrs. Admiral J. G. Eaton. Rockland, Mum., ns I fcur a letter would not reach mo If It fame to AnslnJppl, Mhhs. Wrlto to bo held until called for on letter, ns 1 only jto up onco Or twice a week to Itocklnnd. Child Not Poisoned. Professor Whitney doclurod he found no trace of poison In the body of tho adopted child. Mrs. Anna Drlncoll of Dockland tentl-flod tentl-flod that Mrs. Eaton had cnlri she thought her husband Insane nnd wanted to see whnt Mrs. DrUcoll thought of him. Tho witness also told of a conversation conver-sation with the admiral. In which he said that he had a largo pension from tho navy, but he didn't know what became of It. Mrs. Eaton handled the money, he HHld. and he hnd no Idea whore It went to. Henry M. Ca-te of Rockland, a friend of the Eaton family, testified that Mrs. Eaton hnd expressed the wish nt vnrlous times that tho ndmlral wils dead. She asked Cnton. the witness continued, to corno to tho Elton home, and warned hi in "to be prepared to protocl himself." Following this advice ho cnrrlcd a pistol, pis-tol, which he said ho found no occasion to use. Ho testified that Mrs. Eaton hnd said, "Do not lot tho admiral get behind you." remarking that sho thought tho admiral "was not rlKht In his head." Charlos Hilt, a nolghbor of the Eatons In Asslnlppl, testified that ho wan told by Mrs. Eaton that she went to a doctor doc-tor In an attempt to have tho admiral doclurod Insane. "But," Mr. Hilt Pfild. "Mrs. Eaton told mo that If anybody wns crazv It was she." Mr. Hilt declared that he had never seen the ndmlral Intoxicated or under tho Influence of drugs. Tradesman's Testimony. From M. S. Shurtlcff of South Wry-mouth, Wry-mouth, a tradesman, came testimony that Mr. Eaton hnd said thni tho admiral placed poison In food which she ate at a theater party in 1910 In Boston. Mr. Shurtlcff added that Mrs. Eaton appeared to ba o nfnild that th ndmlral nd-mlral would poison tho family food that nho had .tm looks attached to tho pantry pan-try door nt their summer homo In wry-mouth. wry-mouth. .MIks Knthetine Griffin of Boston testified tes-tified that while omploycd as a bookkeeper book-keeper In May, 1012, in tho Eaton home, Mrs, Enton had aocusrd her of making the ndmlral sick, of taking advantage of hlin because ha was crazy and of taking all his money. ".Mrs. Eaton hns n bad temper," the wltne?.'! declared. AMlManl District Attorney Fred Q. Katsmann stated tonight that the government gov-ernment expected to rest ILs case Thursday. Thurs-day. The defense. It won learned, may finish Its presentation of evidence by Saturday night or Monday forenoon. |
