The San Francisco call., 1898-10-09
STATIONS SLAYER NOW INDIFFERENT Mrs. George Admits Her Deadly Threats. NOT AFRAID OF THE GALLONS HAD OBJECTED TO HIS VISITS TO
 MRS. ALTHOUSE. Canton, Ohio, Deeply Moved by the Sensational Assassination of
 the Presidents Brother
 in-Law.
NOT AFRAID OF THE GALLONS
HAD OBJECTED TO HIS VISITS TO
 MRS. ALTHOUSE.

CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 8.-The city Is intensely moved by the shocking trag- edy that so deeply affects the home oi it's most highly esteemed citizen, the President of the United States. It turns out that Mrs. George had been around the residence of Mrs. Althouse ire quently, and when Saxton was about to enter there last evening he was shot dead on the doorstep.
 Mrs. George had frequently threat ened to kill him if he persisted in call ing on Mrs. Althouse.
 An interviewer at the City Prison told Mrs. George he was not surprised to find her locked up after what she had threatened, and added:
 You remember you said you would kill Saxton if he did not keep away from the Althouse place.?
 Yes, I remember that l told you that" said Mrs. George.
 And you remember that l told you that if you did you would be hanged? ?''
 "Yes" said Mrs. George, and l re- member saying that I did not care if was"
 Marshall Barber, President McKin- ley's brother -in-law, whose residence is at the old Saxton homestead, re- ceived a telegram from the President to-day saying that MT. and Mrs. Me- Kinley and Mrs. Barber and her son, John Barber, a Cuban and Porto Rican soldier, who has been very ill at Wash ington, will leave for Canton tonight at ' o'clock on the Pennsylvania road. The funeral of MT. SaXton will be held Monday afternoon.
 The pOst-mortem examination shows two superficial shot wounds; also that a third bullet entered the left breast and fourth the left side, five inches below the third, passing through the lower abdomen and supposedly causing death. The body was removed to the Barber residence to-day.
 Several persons allege that Mrs. George had threatened to shoot Saxton She engaged Mayor Rice and Attorney James Sterling for counsel to-day. An degree has been filed against her by Prosecuting Attorney PomerenA in Justice Reigner's court. It is signed by Lawyer J. J. Grant, who was the per sonal friend, as well as legal counsel of SaXton.
 Mrs. George was taken into the Jus tices court for arraignment, but her at torneys, after reading the affidavit, an- nOunced that they were not ready for arraignment, and the proceedings were postponed until Monday. The priso1er was thereupon remanded to the County Jail.
 M c. Barber, the brother-in-law of President Mckinley, received tele- gram from Washington tonight stat ing that o'clock would best suit the President and Mrs. Mckinley as the hour for holding the funeral services. Accordingly that hour on Monday af- ternoon has been selected. The ser vices are to be private for the family and immediate friends, and will occur at the Barber home. The Washington message also announced that the Presi- dent and party would reach Canton at 10: 25 Sunday morning.
 Mrs. Annie E. George is closely con- fined so far as communication with her friends is concerned, although she is not restricted in her consultations with her attorneys. She seems to be com fortabIy established, and the officers say that neither her appetite nor her rest is disturbed by the conditions in which she is placed. She is cool and collected, and still maintains silence on every feature connected with the tragedy.
 Officers have been making special ef- forts to find the weapon with which the crime was committed by searching all round the scene of the shooting, the field through which she Is said to have walked last night, and other places she is thought to have been, but to no avail.
 There is some gossip that Saxton may have been enticed to the Althouse resi- dence by a decoy letter. This is based on the statement of Mrs. Althouse that Saxton knew she was not at home that evening and that she did not expect to be, and that, therefore, he had no req son to call.
 The Coroner began taking testimony this afternoon and examined half dozen or more neighbors who heard the shooting or saw the dead man. The only development of the inquest so far is a statement by Henry Bederman that he saw a woman in black in front of the Althouse home fire several shots at a man. After the first shot she walked away, and then there came from the man a faint call for help. She turned abruptly walked back and fired several more shots, and then ran away. He could not tell who the woman was.