The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-04-27
Could Hardly Covered the Ground Conended By the State
in So Short Time,
NEWSPAPER MEN MAKE THE TRIP IN 20 MINUTES
But Same Route Walk as Fast and be Cool
Collected the Of Still There Room Left For
Argument BY the sate-The Defense r SITS Its Case.
From Saturday's daily.l

The defense in the case of Ohio against
Annie e. George has rested. An alleged
alibi was introduced. Sample o. George
took the stand and told Of his happy
home before George d. Saxton entered
1t, few papers bearing on the relation
of the deoeased and the accused were in
troduced and the case was made, The
state has some rebuttsl, and after that
is finished comes little sur-rebuttal,
md then arguments. These will oc-
cupy two days. Each side will occupy
day, and the charge Of Judge Taylor Will
be longer than Is usual in cases OF this
character 1t is indicated that 1t will
occup, three bours. All branches Of tie
,case will be touched in the courts con-
else and painstaking manner.
There is difference of opinion es to
the slibi produced yesterday by the de-
fense. 1t is clear and unshHken alibi,
but the time is not entirely conclusive as
TO admit Of no argument The unfortu-
nats feature of the alibi is that 1T locates
Mrs. George in the end of town the
state has been unsuccessfully trying to
cat her. She arrived, according to Mrs.
Florence Klingler at the Klingler home
at go or 6:25 o'clock. The Flingler
home is distant from the Althouse home
a mile or more. Newspaper representa-
tives went over the route last night, fol-
lowing the direction the state claims the
accused took. The gentlemen did not
walk slow, but cut off all the corners
they could and kept up a steady, rapid
gait faster than woman could walk
without attracting undue attention and
they arrived at the Klingler home twenty
minutes later. The witness Klirgler
said Mrs. George was at her home at
6:e5, giving the outside figure. The
shooting occurred at 6:10 or 6:15. Mrs
George could not have covered the dis
tance in the time given, but 1t Is close,
and 1t gets her in the neighborhood Of
the alleged finding of the revolver.
That Is what the state tried to do but
failed to accomplish 1t. But after all,
the element of danger in the introduc-
,tion Of the alleged alibi Is miuimized by
the fact that the slayer Of Saxton could
not have reached the Klingler residence
from the Althouse residence at the time
Mrs. Annie E. George arrived there.
The alibi WAS, besides, well supported by
Ira Howenstine, who saw Mrs. George
at,the Klingler home. He saw her but a
few moments after her arrival and she
was apparently in her normal condition.
There WAS no sign of nervousness or
trepidation in her manner. She GER
tainly did not act like woman who had
human blood on her hands. When she
arrived at the Klingler home she was
not excited. II she had made that trip
she could not have failed to show traces
of 1t. Besides the exciten ent of the
terrible incident ON Lincoln avenue,
there would have been the added exhaus-
tion o. hurried run of mors than q
mile. So the defense claims that its
alibi establishes not only the fact that
Mrs. George was somewhere else when
the shooting occurred, but was calm and
collected short time sfter 1t happened.
! Before the witness Klingler was placed
.on the stand Friday several others were
examined. Commissioner Summer was
called to testify whether Mont Hasler
had come to him to get reward offered
for revolver, but the testimony was
not permitted.
George Finefrook and wife of Waynes.
burg testified to visits Saxton had paid
to his farm In company with Mrs.
George. Henry Kettering, who lived on
another farm, related the same kind of a
oiroums stance. Mrs. Manderbaugh had
often seen Mrs. Althouse go into the
Saxton block.