The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-30
P|NK-CHEEKED GIRL
Of q PROTESTS
INNOCENCE
PLANTATION AND OTHER FEA-
TuREs FIGURE IN STRANGE
DEATH OF SIMPSONS NEPHEW
THE FAlRPoRT ADJUSTMENTS.

checked country girl OF 23, Is the
strangest prisoner that the very
strange Jail OF this town ever held.
That Sampson affair"-the myster-
jous shooting OF her young husband,
the late admirals nephew--is turning
cut to be the strangest case that MIS-
tofc Wayne county ever knew.
A private living room In a private
residence Is the girls cell.
A cousin. Coroner Cyrus p. Jennings.
plsced her there.
Another cousin. District Attorney
Joseph Gilbert. will try to send her
the electric hair
The killing OF young Harry" for
which little George" Is being held,
Ia literally a family affair In dis
r. trict where family counts for mucr-
A grand jury can scarcely be drawn
In Wayne county for the purpose or
ihdicting the girl. unless there are
upon il some members who have
known her and her slain husband
since they were children.
And neither can a jury be drawn
10 try her for her life-if the indict-
ment Is found-upon which there VIII
lot be some man who has always call
ed both the youth and his widow by
their first names.
Then the Sampson family. although
not wealthy. Is the most prominent IN
the county, because OF the late al
miraIs fame and their own long ana
honorable residence. And the Allyn
family is the richest among the farm
er folk OF Wayne.
Add TO this complicated condition
shooting which nobody saw. reports
OF another man In love with the girl,
secret meetings. an intercepted letter
from the unknown admirer reproaches
from the husband and bitter quarrel
and all the elements OF trial OF won
derful interest are present.
/, Il am innocent" Is all that young
Mis-. Sampson will say. II am sure
| will be proved innocent
Story Of Case.
The story OF the shooting has been
told before Here, briefly, Is what
the district attorney and coroner have
learned about IL:
A shot was heard on Sunday morn.
ing, Nov. /, by some OF the Allyn
family, who shared with the Sampsors
O big, old.fashioned country house
three miles outside OF Macedon. ham.
y let ten miles from here. Mrs. Frank
Allyn, In her Kitchen ran TO see what
vas the matter. She met her son-in-
law Keeling through a door separating
the Allyn dining room from living
room which the two families shared in
Harry. What's happened? What
lave you done?" she exclaimed. He
made no reply. but fell al her feet.
with the front OF his shirt blood
stained. In his right hand. Mrs. Allyn
said he held bit OF biscuit and
cheese. Apparently he had been TAX
Ing a bit of lunch before breakfast; In
fact, few minutes before he had
been heard In the pantry on his side
OF the house.
Georgie. the wife. and Frank. her
brother, ran into the Allyn dining
room. Both knelt upon the floor be-
side the dying man The girl put her
arms about his neck after a few
moments and cried When doctor
arrived the boy was dead. This physi-
clan, Dr. Edwin Rodenberger. found
the right lung had been pierced and
the bullet had lodged in the spine,
reaching there In downward course.
"ie shot himself Doc" said Frank
Allyn. the head OF the family. The 9th
or Allyns made the same explanation.
!, The father had been out OF the house
at the time OF the shooting. but ac-
cepted the superstition of his wife
and son. George" Mrs. Sampson.
said nothing.
That was all the county officials
were told when. on the day following
the shooting, they went to Macedcn
to investigate. The weapon with
which the shot had been fired first en-
gagged their notice. II was a light. 81
y, caliber shotgun. Customarily II was
kept In the corner OF the woodshed
back OF the Allyn side OF the house.
Yet a few miutes after the death of
Its owner II was found standing in a
corner Of the Sampson dining room
Simpsons death wasn't suicide. The
investigators soon became convinced
of that. He couldn't-and wouldn't
have shot homself while holding food
In his right hand. the one he always
used. There were no powder marks
On his clothing, proving that the muz-
zle of the gun was at least three feet
away when the bullet left It.
Awakes to Pleasure.
County gossip has II that the Samr-
sons thought perhaps Harry was not
keeping quite on the social level of
the old Wayne family. whose admiral
has Just been buried with naval pomp.
Also that the Allyns fancied George
would have done better In financial
way than wed a young farmer.
But the young people had their way.
Their baby was born that year and
they were very happy and contented.
The charm Of married life appeared
TO satisfy the young wife for more
than five years, until last fall Their
she CHANGED to attend an old home
week ut Fairport. where there were
Rlittering amusements. music, lights,
tances--and young men from Roches
ter known as city fellows"
Macedon. the nearest settlement u
the Allyn household. is a mere clus-
ter Of houses extending three blocks
or 80 along the Inevitable Main.st..
which 10 a cloud OF dust In summer
and a streak of mud In winter. It's
che amusement is the Magnolia Two
Step club, an organization OF boys and
girls who met In 20x40-foot room once
a week and danced to a piano and a
fiddle. They'd all known each other
for years; there wasn't much fun dane.
ing. even, because Of that.
The Fairport festival awakened
rGeorgie" to the delights OF semi