Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-10
SAD JOURNEY
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley
Back to Canton.
Little Doubt that Mrs. George Shot and
Killed Mr.. Saxton.
She is Charged With Murder will Have
Hearing, Today.

Canton, Ohio, Oct 9.-The hone-
| coming of President and Mrs. McKin-
| ley, today, for the funeral of MIR.
George d. Saxton was attended with a
most touching and pathetic scene at
the Pennsylvania station. Many peo-
pie were at the depot when the train
arrived and extended the party a silent
but sympathetic and reverential well
| come. The party arrived at 1925, tray-
| cling in the special car "Campania. y
Mr.. M. c. Barber. the Presidents
| brother-in-law was at the station with
several friends of the family and DR..
Framfeulter who was called to take
charge of Private John Barber. the
sick soldier.
The President and Mrs. MCKINLEY
were the first out Of the car and we're
assisted by Mr.. George D, Frease
through the station to the carriage in
waiting. AS they approached the
crowd, with heads uncovered, bowed
| silently and opened a passage way.
Mrs. Mckinley was supported by the
arm of the President with the care and
close attention that he always devotes
to her personal comfort. He walked
slowly to the carriage, his head bowed
and his face little paler than usual.
Mrs. Barber, Mrs. McKinley's sister.
was next off the train and was Joined
by her husband. Mr.. Webb C. HAYES
followed. John Barber was carried
from the train by his brother, George
3. Barber, who had gone from New
York to Washington to join the party.
ana by George c. Clark. The sick man
was an orderly on Gen. Henry's Staff
| IN Porto Rico and has for some weeks
been i'll with typhoid fever in Wash
| ington, where his mother Mrs Barber.
and Mrs. Mckinley have been nursing
him. first at the White House and later
at Garfield hospital. Miss Helen Nc
Kinley, the Presidents sister, and MIR.
and Mrs S. A. Bowman OF Lorain. the
| latter the Presidents niece, who start
ed with the party from Washington,
left the train at Pittsburg to take
| another road.
The President and party went IL
rectly to the Barber home, which Is
the old Saxton homestead and was he
Canton home of the McKinleys during
his life in Congress. Mrs. Mckinley
showed evidence OF suffering from the
shock and fatigue from the Journey.
49, CViC UP hdUly well ana A:lS
able to be about the house. Mrs, Bar
Der showed evidence of her care and
| concern for the son she had been nurs-
ing and also of the shock of the news.
but she bore up well.
Except when the President, accom-
panied by Mrs. Barber, took a short
walk, the party remained at the Bar
Der house all day. Many flowers are
being received from sympathetic
friends of the President and family,
Washington friends having placed
many on the train before it started.
The funeral arrangements were COM
GUIDED after the arrival Of the party,
They are to be held from the Barber
home. at o'clock Monday afternoon,
and will be private. The Rev. o. G.
Milligan, pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church, will off1ciate and the
remains will be attended by Judge
George Baldwin, Hon. VIM. A. Lynch,
Postmaster George B. Frease, J. H.
Kenny and Attorneys David B. Smith
and James ]. Grant, as pail bearers.
Interment will be in Lawn cemetery
in the Saxton family lot.
The train bearing the cabinet and
other officials from Washington to the
Omaha exposition will arrive in Cam
ton, Monday evening, and about
O'Clock the private car of the Presi-
dent will be attached thereto and he
Will join the party. Mrs. Mckinley,
it is not thought, tonight, will not
undertake the trip to Omaha but will
be with the President in Chicago.
She will remain in Canton for several
days and more than likely go to Chi
cago with Mrs. Lafayette McWilliams
and Mrs. w. A. Goodman, her cousins,
who are expected to be here for the
funeral service.
The day has brought no new devel-
opments in the tragedy. Mrs. George
remains in jail and has seen no one
but Mayor Rice during the day. He
was with her for five minutes. She is
to be arraigned at 10 o'clock Monday
morning. The coroner will resume the
taking of testimony, Monday.
The post mortem examination on the
body OF the late Mr.. Saxton showed
two superficial shot wounds, a third
bullet entering the left breast and q
fourth entering the left side Ave inches
below the third rib, passing through
the lower abdomen and supposedly
causing death.
The body was removed to the Barber
residence. Several persons allege that
Mrs. George had threatened to shoot
Saxton. She has engaged Mayor Rice
and Attorney James Sterling for coun-
sci.
An affidavit charging murder in the
first degree has been filed against Mrs.
George by Prosecuting Attorney POM
creme in Justice Reigner's court. It is
signed by Lawyer ]. J. Grant. who was
a personal friend of Saxton as well rs
legal counsel for the deceased.
The city is intensely moved by the
tragedy. which SO deeply affects the
home of President Mckinley. It now
turns out that Mrs. George has been
around the residence of Mrs. Althouse
frequently and when Saxton was about
to enter there, Friday evening. he was
shot dead on the doorstep. Mrs. George
had frequently threatened to kill him
If he persisted in calling on Mrs Att
house.