The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-12
Play a Prominent Part in the
Trial of Mrs. George.
Policeman Found Them on Her
Dress After Arrest.
THEY GREW LAVISHLY
In the Vicinity of the Scene of
the Murder.
Judge McCarty Supplies Some
New Evidence.

Canton. o.. April 12.-Only a half
days session of court was held in the
George trial today. Adjournment was
taken at noon on account of the fun
eraI of L. V. Bockius, father-in-law Of
Prosecuting Attorney Pomerene. and a
relative of Attorney Welty for the de-
fense.
Police Officer Rohn was again called
TO the witness box at the opening. His
crOSs-exaTninatiOn was in regard to bur
dock burrs being found in a number of
places except in the vacant lot in which
the assassin was seen to enter
To trace Mrs. George from the corner
of Tuscarawas street and HaZlet ave
nue. to the scene of the shooting of SaXtOn
was the task undertaken by the state
yesterday. 1t was proved that she rode
in a car to that corner.
Jesse C Taylor, street railway en-
pIOye saw Mrs George on the car at
5:45 or $50 the night of the muir
der She wore a dark dress. dark cape
and a light sailor hat. Taylor left the
car east OF the Valley railroad tracks
Mrs. George continued on toward Haz-
let avenue.
Samuel ROwenstein, motorman, said
he had known Mrs. George since he
moved to the OberIin House She lived
there at the time of the murder. He
saw her about p m October I, in a
car passing the street railway barn.
The night was not very dark Rain had
not been falling. He was sure of it
because he did not get wet while tramp
ing over the fields near the Ait House
property in search of the murderer The
defense has claimed that the night was
dark and misty.
Rowenstein does not believe it rained
that day. Other witnesses Will say it
did rain
Charles E. Rittenhouse, a motorman.
was on the car that carried Mrs. George
to Hazlet avenue. He said she left the
car at HaZlet avenue about 5:55 D. m
Another passenger also alighted at that
who was that?'' asked Attorney
Sterling.
I do not know answered Ritten-
CONSULTED A LAWYER.
Judge T. T. McCarty, who is on the
common pleas court bench, testified
that Mrs. George called at his home at
5:33 on the evening OF the murder and
said: I called to ask you whether l
may go to the SaXton block TO see Geo.
Saxton?''
McCarty answered: 1.-THE injunction
is in force, and it would not be proper.
He promised to have it dissolved she
said. Well, he has not done So, told
her.
e I want to see Saxton, and I do not
| know how I can arrange it, she said I
suggested that she write him a note, and
make an appointment for meeting
She doubted whether he would meet
her May I not visit SaXtOn at his
! hOrne2' she asked. I think you had bet
| ter leave Saxton alone 1 told her. I
| do not want to break any rules of the
| court she said
Mr. welty asked: Did. you see any
| thing unusual in her manner?"
| No did not. Her manner appeared
/ to be natural"
| The fact that Mrs George visited
/ Judge McCarty only a little more than
| half an hour before the shooting was
| not known publicly until the judge tes-
! titled. IT was well kept secret.
/ Harry F Noble is iaQitOr of the block
| in which Attorney Sterling has his Of
| fee. On the night of the murder he saw
Mrs George cave the elevator 1t was
about q m, three-Quarters OF an hour
| after the shooting. Ten minutes before
! that time he saw her on Fifth street,
| opposite the jail She was going west
Noble was sure about the time be-
cause he had seen the court house clock
Noble was not cross examined.
Councilman Martin ]. Hogan, who
lives on Lincoln avenue, dia agOnally
| across from Mrs. AlthOuse's home, said:
AT D. m. we heard two shots. They
| sounded as if fired from shotgun"
| Russell Hogan, the missing 12-year-
old witness, is the son OF Martin J. HO-
gan. Witness said he did not know the
Whereabouts of his son at present.
Neither did he know where Russell was
| at the time of the shooting.
Mrs. George has quarter carat dia-
mond set in an artificial upper tooth
Mrs. Virginia Noble testified to seeing
Mrs. George after the murder in the
Dannehauer block
Policeman Henry Piero told of his
search for the murderer. He said there
had been no rain. afternoon or evening
He said Mrs. George returned to the
OberIin residence while he was talking
there about S o'clock with Policeman
Smiley. He then described the arrest
of Mrs. George by Policeman McCloud.
who had come with Policeman Gay in
the meantime. Mrs. George said moth
ing in reply to the announcement that
she was under arrest.
Witness said Mrs. George was asked
why she had entered the side door The
defense objected and an argument at
once began as TO whether silence on the
part of the prisoner was evidence that
she is not wholly innocent
Except as to the movements in the
vacant lots and streets in the vicinity
of the tragedy, where they separated
the evidence of all the police officers
was substantially the same They said
Mrs. George on being taken to prison
was searched by a woman doctor The
were discolored and on smelling 1t they
pronounced the discolOration due to
burnt gun powder They also testified
to finding burdock burrS and Spanish
needles on her skirt and to finding sim
liar burrS and needles in the vacant
lots near the AlthOuse home In the
cross-examinatiOn they said these burrs
and needles were rather common along
and in the vacant lots about the time
they were more numerous on the right
side of the skirt than on the other He
also said that in walking to the police
headquarters he had walked on the
right side of her and had held her arm
He admitted that his clothing had