The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-07-24
MRS. GEORGES HUSBAND
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vorce, after which Mrs George claimed
Saxton promised to make her his wife.
TELL-TALE LETTERS.
Mrs. Georges friends in Canton who
knew of the relations of the pair wrote
letters to her in the far west telling
her that during her absence the man
who had won her affections from the
husband and father of her children
had taken up with another woman
whom it was alleged he had also mar
ried. This woman was one Mrs. Alt
house. With jealousy tearing at her
heart strings Anna George returned
to Canton and did quiet but effectual
detective work long enough to satisfy
her that she was not the only woman
with whom this man of affairs here
was trifiing.
On the night of October II, 1898,
out on LincolH avenue, when Saxton
was about to enter the home where
Mrs. Althouse had suite of rooms
he was shot and instantly killed No
one saw the fatal shot fired save the
one who aimed the weapon, but sus-
picion at once rested on Anna George.
because of the relations which were
known to have existed between them.
On account of the fact that Saxton
was the brother of Mrs. Mckinley,
whose husband was at that time oc-
cupying the presidential chair, the
tragedy caused sensation through
out the country and Saxton's friends
determined to have the murderer pun
ished.
The trial commenced in April of the
following year and occupied several
weeks, during which the relation of
Saxton and the accused was gone into
in its every detail from the day the
couple first met until the dead body
of Saxton was picked up in front OF
Mrs. Althouse's rooms on Lincoln
avenue
ATTORNEYS IN THE CASE.
At that time Atlee Pomerene was
prosecuting attorney of Stark county
and in the trial Of the case, which
was contested inch by inch, Attorney
James Grant assisted him. Opposed
to them on the opposite side of the
trial table were John C. Welty and
James Sterling, attorneys for Mrs.
George, and for weeks the battle was
on before Judge Taylor in common
pleas court room No. 2.
Considerable time was required, in
selecting a jury that was satisfactory
to all parties concerned, but at
length one was secured, the foreman
of which was julius A. Zang, of Al
lance,
Public sympathy was with the ao-
cused by reason of the fact as she
claimed, that Saxton had deceived the
woman who had left her husband be-
cause OF the rosy future which the
murdered man had pictured, and. prom
ised her life Of luxury and ease.
When the trial started newspapers
from all over the country sent repre-
sentatives to Canton to report the
case and every crumb of sensational
evidence that fell from the lips of
witnesses was grabbed up and wired
from coast to coast. Mrs. George
took the stand in her own behalf, but
III spite of every strategic move that
could POSSIBLY be made on the part or
the state she could not be made to
say that she either know how SaxtoD
met his death or at whose hands.
True, the state made out a fairly good
case on circumstantial evidence, but
it was not strong enough for the jury.
to see Its way clear to convict and
therefore they rendered a verdict ac-
quitting her. II was a popular ver
dict and for short time thereafter
Mrs. George. whose husband had long
before secured a divorce, was a hero
inc In the public eye.
AFTER HER ACQUITTAL.
She then returned to her former
home near East Rochester. columbi