The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-14
THREATENED TO KILL HIM.
MRS. GEORGE FREQUENTLY TALK
ED OF SHOOTING sAXFON.

..4oruex Werntz Said She Had Ask
ed About Several Ways of Putting
an End to His Life-she Also Told
Him of saxtOn's Many Promises
and How He Had Betrayed Her.
Asked Him What the Penalty
would Be.
Canton. O., April 13.-The feature of to-
davis proceedings in the trial of Mrs.
George was the testimony of Attorney w
O Werntz, who had represented her in
q number of civil actions, prior to the
killing of Saxton.
He sought to evade testimony on the
ground that what he knew had been told
him by Mrs George and was a privileged
communication between counsel and
client.
However, the court decided to admit the
testimony and Werntz told of a series OF
threats and plans for their execution on
the part of Mrs. George against the life
of Saxton, and the defense brought the
remainder of the conversation out, which
proved to be three recitals of Mrs
Georges version of her relations with
Saxtonand the wrongs she claims to have
suffered at his hands.
Mr.. Wertz told of conversation which
he had with Mrs. George, in which she
said she was going to the Althouse House
10 raise h with Saxton.
II told her not to go, and she said
she would not go. She said she had a
3S-caliber revolver in her trunk, but did
not say what she was going to do with it,
Funeral or Wedding.
'I had another conversation with her
in my Office that day, when she said:
When the suit for damages for alienation
of affections brought against Saxton by
Sample C. George is settled there will be
a funeral or a wedding
She asked what effect 1t would have
on the suit if she killed Saxton. 1 told
her the result might be the same, but if
she was going to kill him she had better
wait until the case was settled She said
If she shot she would make a good job of
1t; would give him all the baIls she had"
What she did she say she would do
with the revolver?' was asked.
''She asked If 1t would be a good plan
to have two revolvers, throw one at his
feet and shoot him with the other. I told
her in view of the threats she had made
against Saxton, no one would believe she
had killed him in self defense She asked
me how 1t would do to shoot him in the
back and throw the revolver away"
saxtOn's Many Promises.
In cross examination witness said Mrs
George had told him in the course of the
conversation that Saxton had promised to
marry her as soon as she got a divorce
from her husband. and that he had per-
suaded her to get a divorce, furnishing
money with which she went to Dakota
to get the divorce; after this he aban-
doned her, prosecuted her and had her
arrested; that she was left without a
home; that she had separated from a hus-
band whom she loved until Saxton alien
ated her affections
She also said that after these occur
rences Saxton had her meet him in Pitts
burg where they settled their differences
and each agreed to withdraw all actions
pending; she kept her agreement but that
he had not, falling to dismiss an iniunc-
ton against her visiting his block; that
he agreed to give her boys property In the
city worth $1,000 and to support her untEl
he settled with her former husband on a
pending suit and then marry her She
also said that Saxton had pursued her for
several years, before she yielded to his
advances; that he had given her presents
which she at first refused, but that he had
finally accomplished her ruin and left her
without means of support to herself and
children.
During these conversations Mrs George
was excited and some time in tears, the
witness said:
Wanted to Know the Penalty.
In redirect examination he told of a
conversation in which Mrs. George asked
what the penalty would be If she killed
SaXton, and said she would do it If there
was nothing worse than ten years in the
penitentiary. She said she had suffered
everything but death at SaXton's hands.
Mrs. Finlay, with whom Mrs. George
roomed for over two years, was on the
stand when court adjourned. She had
testified on behalf of the state to Mrs.
Georges having on three or four occasions
threatened to kill Saxton, and also to the
writing OF the letter to Saxton, which was
followed by proceedings in the United
states Court for improper use of mails.