Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16
STATES RED LETTER DAY.

Attorneys for the Prosecution More
Than well Pleased.
WITH THE EVIDENCE PRODUCED
AGAINST MRE. GEORGE "A WIT
NESS WHO SAW TWO OF THE
FOUR SHOTS FIRED, AND WHO
SAYS THE PERSON WHO FIRED
THEM WAS MRS. GEORGE
IDENTIFIED HER BY HER GEN
ERAL APPARANyCE-A WITNESS
Qualified TO IDENTIFY A
LETTERS MRS. GEORGE IS AL
LEGGED TO HAVE WRITTEN.
Canton, O., April 15.-Attorneys for
the State regard this as their red let
ter day in the trial of Mrs. George.
They produced two eye witnesses to
the firing of two Of the shots which
took effect in Saxton's body. One OF
them claimed to have identified Mrs.
George positively as having fired the
shots, and the other testified positive
ly that the woman she saw do the
shooting closely resembled Mrs.
! George.
The State also qualified witness on
Mrs. Georges handwriting to identify
litter which they want to introduce
in evidence A third point which
pleased the State was the admission of
police officer who found revolver,
although he was not allowed to tell
! how he found it to the full extent of
the details asked of him.
The trial opened to-day with Miss
Matte Grimes on the stand for cross
examination. Witness said she espec-
tally observed Mrs. Georges flushed
face when she saw her an hour after
the murder, because witness had heard
Of Saxton's death and had been told of
some of the relations between Saxton
and Mrs. George.
Policeman e. E. Wills was called to
say that Mayor Rice was Mrs Georges
counsel the morning after her arrest,
but the evidence was excluded.
Mrs. Oberlin, with whom Mrs. George
| roomed, described Mrs Georges APP
pearance and dress when she left the
house the morning of Saxtons death.
Mrs. Christine Eckroat presented
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to her window on the night of the
murder, after hearing two shots, and
saw person bending forward, who
fired two shots toward tie ground and
then walked to a vacant lot through
which the person ran. She described
the person as Mrs. George. Witness had
previously often noticed a woman
walking up and down in front of the
Althouse residence. whom she later
learned was Mrs. George. Mrs. Eek
roat is the first witness claiming to
recognize the person who did the shoot
ing. In cross-examination the defense
sought to show that the witness did
not know Mrs. George well enough to
for any one to recognize person
across the street.
Mrs. Eckroat, in REORGANIZATION,
said she had been using morphine for
nine or ten years, but for the last six
months only took it every other day
She said she had always done her house
work and managed her household.
Mrs. Laura Huwig, of Cleveland, a
etc do, Of cd
| as an eye witness to the figbng of two
Shots She described the person who
fired them and said from what she
had seen of Mrs. George since. the
defendant resembled the one she saw
! general appearance.
Jay G. S,ast and his wife testified
| that Mrs. AlEouse was at her home be-
tween the hours of five and seven the
| night of the murder. Best is Mrs.
| Althouse's brother.
The docket on the injunction of Sax
ton, forbidding Mrs. George to enter
his block on the ground that she had
| violated that injunction, was excluded.
Police Sergean William J. Hasler
told Of a conversation he had with
Mrs. George, in which she talked Of
having Saxton and Mrs. Althouse ar
| rested. She told him they could get
into the house through the coal hole
He also testified to taking charge of
Saxton's body the night of his death,
| and said on Monday morning after
the murder he found a revolver at the
| corner of High and South streets. He
was not allowed to tell why he looked
there for it, but had previously said
in, interviews that Mayor Rice, who
was Mrs. Georges counsel. had told
him where it was, and had sent him
after it. Later he gave the weapon to
the prosecuting attorney.
He went to Mrs. George in Jail and
told her he had found the revolver
that she hid at the corner of South
| and High streets, the one Rice had
sent him after, and he asked her what
to do with it. She told him to see
Mr.. Welty, her attorney, and then
| come back. The revolver was offered
and identified and the bullets found
in Saxton's body shown to be of the
same calibre. The cross-examination
was under way when court adjourned
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