The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-09
Particulars of An Affair Involving
the Presidents Relatives.
SHOT ON THE DOORSTEP
REASONS A WOMAN GAVE TO
DEFEND HER HONOR.
Mr.. Saxton, a Relative of the Nc
Kinleys, Incurred the Resentment
of Mrs. George, and the Tragedy
of Friday Is the Sensation of the
Day-Mrs. George Held.

Canton, O., Oct. S.-The city is in
tensely moved by the shocking tragedy
that SO deeply affected the home of its
dent of the United States. 1t now
turns out that Mrs. George had been
around the residence of Mrs. Althouse
frequently. 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 placer
Eyes, l remember that 1 told you
that" said Mrs. George.
And you remember that 1 told you
that if you did you would be hanged?"
Yes said Mrs. George. And 1 re-
member that l said 1 did not care if 1
was"
Mr.. Marshall Barber, President Nc
Kinley's brother-in-law whose resi-
-
received a telegram from the president
today, saying that Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Kinley and Mrs. Barber and son, John
Barber, Cuban and Puerto Rican SOL
dier, who has been very i'll at Wash
ington, will leave for Canton tonight at
o'clock on the Pennsylvania road.
The funeral of Mr.. Saxton will be
held Monday afternoon.
The post mortem examination shows
so1 cI,A 1e tg,sx
bullet entering the left breast, and a
fourth entering the left side. five inches
below the third, passing through the
lower abdomen and supposedly causing
death.
The body was removed to the Bar
ber residence today.
Several persons allege that Mrs
George had threatened to shoot Sax
ton. She engaged Mayor Rice AMI At
torney James Sterling for counsel to-
day.
An affidavit charging murder in the
first degree has been filed against Mrs.
George by Prosecuting Attorney Pom
creme, in Justice Reigner's court. 1t is
signed by Lawyer J. ]. Grant, who
was a personal friend as we'll as legal
counsel of Saxton.
Mrs. George was taken into justice
court for arraignment. Her attorneys,
c-lLCI Tie IdllQdNll,
that they were not ready for arraign-
ment and the proceedings were post
poned until Monday. The prisoner was
remanded to the county jail
NJ. c. Barber, the brother-in-law of
President Mckinley, received a tele-
gram from Washington tonight that 2
o'clock would suit the president and
Mrs. Mckinley as the hour for holding
the funeral services. Accordingly that
hour on Monday afternoon has been Sc
lected. The services are to be private
for the family and immediate friends,
and will occur at the Barber home. The
Washington message also announced
that the president and party would
reach Canton at 1925 Sunday morning.
Mrs. Barber who has been in Washing
ton nursing her sick soldier son, John
Barger, and the latter will come to
Canton with the Mckinley family.
Mrs. Annie F. George, the woman
suspected of firing the fatal shots, is
in jail. the formal charge of first degree
murder made today not admitting of
liberty under bond. She 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
fortably 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