Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-09


woIrIn RE HANGED If SHE DID
SO. SHE DECLARED THAT SHE
DID NOT CARE-TAKEN BEFORE
A JI7sTICE AND RBMANDED TILL
MO. JDAY-THE PRESIDENT AND
MFRS. M'KINLEY WILL ATTEND
THE FUNERAL-ARRANG .
NOT YET COMPLETED.
Canton, O., October S.-Mr. Marshail
Barber. President McKinley's brother
in-Iaw, whose residence is at the Ola
Saxton homestead, received telegram
from the President this morning, say
ing that Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley and
Mrs. Barber and son, John Barber,
Cuban and Porto Rican soldier, VINO
had been very i'll at Washington, VIII
leave for Canton tonight at 81
O'Clock on the Pennsylvania railroad.
Mr.. Barber said to the Associated
Press this morning that the hour lor
the funeral Monday afternoon had not
been determined upon and would not
until he could further consult Win us
President by wire.
The post-mortem examination Oh Inc
body of the late Mr.. SaXton occupleu
the night. There were two superhcial
shot wounds. a. third bullet entering
the left breast and a fourth entering
the left side five inches below the tnlld,
passing through the lower abdomen
and supposedly causing death.
The body was removed to the Barber
residence this morning. Several per-
sons allege this morning that Mrs.
George had threatened to shoot sax
ton. She engaged Mayor Rice and At
torney James Sterling for counsel this
morning. She being held on suspicion
in Mayors Court, Mayor Rice an
nounced that Justice Reigner would
assume his prerogatives as police Judse
while the mayor acts as counsel during
the arraignment, if made in his court.
An affidavit charging murder in the
first degree has been filed against Mrs.
George by Prosecuting Attorney Pome-
rene in Justice Reigner's court. 1t is
signed by Lawyer j. j. Grant, who was
a personal friend of SaxtCp as well as
legal counsel for the deceased.
Mrs. George was takan into Justices
court for arraignmeut. Her attorneys,
after reading the alTldavit, announced
that they were not ready for arraign-
ment and the proceedings was post
poned to 10 o'clock Monday morning
The prisoner was remanded to the
county jail.
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 threatened
to kill him if he persisted in calling
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 re-
member you said you would kill Sax
ton if he did not keep away from the
Althouse place."
eyes, | rem cmber that l told yo
that" said Mrs. George.
and you remember that | told you
that if you did you would be hung?"
Eyes" said Mrs George, "and I re-
member that l said I did not care if
I was"
NJ. 0. Barber, the brother-in-law of
President Mckinley, received a tele-
gram from Washington Tonight stating
that o'clock would best suit Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley as the hour
for holding funeral services. Accord
ingly that hour Monday afternoon has
been selected. The services are to be
private for the femily and immediate
friends and will occur at the Barber
home where the body was taken to-
day.
This is the old Saxton homestead
and was the Canton home Of the Nc
Kinleys during the Presidents career
In congress.
The Washington message also an
nounced that the President and party
will reach Canton over the Pennsyl-
vaia lines at 1926 Sunday morning.
Mrs. Barber who has been in Washing
ton nursing her sick soldier son, John
Barber, and the latter, will come to
Canton with the McKinleys. It is
thought by the friends here that the
President will after the services con-
tinue the Western trip and fill the en-
gagements made for next week.
Mrs. Annie e. George, the woman
suspected of firing the fatal shots, Is
in Jail, the formal charge of first de-
gree murder made to-day not admitting
of liberty under bond. She is closely
confined, so far as communication with
friends is concerned, although she is
not restricted in her consultation with
her attorneys. She seems to be com
fortably established. and the officers
say that neither her appetite nor her
rest has been disturbed by the condi-
ton in which she is held. She is cool
and collected and still maintains
silence on every feature connected
with the tragedy or with herself while
it was being enacted.
The fact that her attorneys objected
to arraignment when she was taken
into justices court to-day indicates
that they propose to attack the affida
Wit on technical grounds. They secured
al adjournment of the arraignment
until 10 o'clock Monday.
officers have been making special
efforts to find the weapon with which
the crime was committed, searching all
around the scena 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 nc
avail.
1t seems more than possible that she
hid consultation with her attorneys