The times., 1899-04-19
THE CAREER OF MRS. GEORGE.
Her Sojourn In south Dakota While
Being Divorced.


Canton. April 1s.-The attorney for Mrs
George devoted half of today to reading
depositions taken in South Dakota and
Iowa. covering Mr.. Georges career during
the winter of 1891 and 1892. This was the
time spent In South Dakota getting a di-
vorce from her former husband Sample C.
George. The depositions told Of her be-
ing well supplied with money and spending
il freely and OF Saxton visiting her sew
eral times and being very affectionate to-
ward her They also told Of his sending
her money and OF once registering her as
his wife although the court barred evil
dence on the signature. the original having
been cut from the register, but not before
an attorney had traced IL. The remainder
of the day was devoted entirely to in
cidents connected with the homicide. wit
nesses being called to meet and deny the
evidence given on behalf Of the State. There
was nothing in the days events to indicate
line of defence other than has been sug
gested
Local Observer C. F. Strokey, for the
/ Weather Bureau, was called to testify as
| to the weather the day of the murder.
He had no record OF the hour of the shoot
| ing. and his testimony was restricted to
the fact that it had rained morning and
| half hundredths of an inch
| Russell Hogan, the missing boy wit
ness, has not been found, and according to
agreement at the beginning to avoid a
| delay, statement was admitted by the
| State of what he would say IL present,
based on his evidence before the coroner.
| The part of this the defence wanted was
that he had seen form in woman's cloth
| ing walking from where Saxton's body
| haf ha M trbaf fbar
it was Mrs. George or Mrs. Althouse
| and, in fact, whether 1t was a man or
| woman.
Mrs Cora Grippe. living near the Alt
house home, testified TO the darkness of
| the night and fixed the time of hearing the
shots at $40. All other evidence on this
! point has been that it was about 6:1O
| ross-examination showed that she fixed
the hour only by the fact that she was
| preparing supper.
| Joseph Eckroat, husband of the woman
| who claims to have looked out of her
bedroom window and recognized Mrs.
| George in the act of firing two of the shots.
was called. He said that owing TO the
| weight of leaves. then thick on the trees,
the limbs hung lower then than now He
| stood at the window looking toward the
| Althouse steps. and a cherry tree was in
the line of vision, cbstructing the view OF
| a portion OF the street. He said the night
was very dark and that he could not rec
| ognize anyone across the street. He made
an experiment with the coroner the night
after the shooting. fixing the single lamp,
he said. in the grocery store as It had
| been the night before and then sending a
boy across the street. He said that they
could not see much. But cross examined
on this point. he said they could recognize
| the boy because they knew who he was.
| The witness was called TO Offset the testi-
mony OF his wife whom the defence at
| tackled in cross-examination on the ground
| that she used morphine.
| Joseph Schmidt, a boy John Berger. and
Jacob Deposish, all residing in the i'm
| mediate vicinity. testified to the darkness
of the night. and that Saxton's body was
not recognized until after matches had
| been struck. In s-examination they
said the face was almost wholly concealed
by the position in which the body lay.
Berger said there was no mud in the
| vicinity.
Augustus Boran, clerk in the grocery
| store, was called to show obstructions to
the view OF the steps from his mother-in-
| laws window and also to it being impos-
sible on account Of the darkness to identify
| anyone across the street
| Charles Huth and his wife Ellen
| testified to being at the Valley dep5t tie
night OF the tragedy. Huth is an express
| man, and had gone TO meet the train.
| which 1t developed in former testimony
had delayed the car on which Mrs George
| went to Hazlett Avenue. They pos lively
| fixed the time at which the car got across
| the track at three or four minutes after 6
| o'clock. Witnesses who were in the car
previously testified that the car reached
| Hazlett Avenue at $3.50.
The State claims that even IL these W.T.
nesses are now mistaken as to the time,
Mrs. George could have reached the Alt
house place in ample time to do the shoot
ing under the testimony introduced. At
| torneys for the defence said this afternoon
that they would probably not cxamin, all
| Of the hundred or more witnesses they
have called. and that they hoped TO finish
their case by Friday evening.