Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-06
|OUT[|NE OF EVIDENCE
Prosecutions Opening Address
in Mrs. Simpsons Trial.
iSTORY OF TRAGEDY TOLD
Circumstances Indicates Prisoner
Slew Husband, Says Gilbert.
NONE SAW DEED COMMITTED
Mother Of Defendant Ill-Sisters
and Father in Court-First
Witness Is Called.

| ond day of the trial of Mrs. Georgia
| Sampson for the murder OF her hus-
band. the defendant entered the build
| ing dressed as she was yesterday. She had
/ walked down the street from the Jail. &C.
Icompanied by her aunt, Mrs. Kaye, Deputy
Sheriff Collins and Miss Theresa Collins.
| Her father preceded her into court. An
| other member of the defendants family,
present for the first time, was Mrs.
Cardie LeClear of Chicago. Mrs. Samp-
sons twin sister, and Mrs. LeClear sat
on one side Of the defendant and Miss
/ Collins on the other side.
Mrs. Allyn. mother of the defendant
| is i'll at her home in Macedon. Her hus-
band said this afternoon that she would
undoubtedly be in court tomorrow. Mrs.
Allyn has not been in good health for
a long time.
| District Attorney Gilbert started his
| opening address at 9:33 o'clock. He
called attention to the heavy responsible
| ity resting on the jury in deciding the
| fate of Georgia Sampson.
1T does not fall upon the district at
| torney to secure a verdict by hook or
crook or to secure a verdict at all haz-
| ards he continued, but to protect the
interest of the defendant as we'll as
! the people.
1T is my duty to set before you the
| fair and impartial trial. The state of
| New York desires no vengeance"
The district attorney called the atten-
ton of the jury to the question of cir
cumstantial evidence as compared with
direct evidence. He defined circunstan-
| tial evidence with great care. SO that
the jury might have a clear idea about 1t.
Sometimes he went on. "circunnstan-
tial evidence is better than direct evil
dence. This defendant stands before you
charged with murder in the first degree.
She. is SO charged in the Indictment OF
the grand jury.
| sation and is no proof whatever against
her. 1t Is the only way she could be
| brought into court, and you must re-
member that she Is presumed to be in
nocent until she is proved to be guilty
/ beyond q reasonable doubt.
i Prosecutions Story Of Tragedy.
THE defendant is charged with shoot
ing her husband November 1 last at
Macedon. We shall show you that on
i that date the defendant anu her husband
i lived and had lived for months at the
Sampson and his wife occupied one wins
of the house. while the Allyns occupied
I the other side.
1.-The front room on the Allyn side was
4 used as dining room. Back of 1t is a
i sitting room and In the rear wood shed
i A common sitting room connected the
two dining rooms and was used by both
i families"
i Mr. Gilbert described the arrangement
/ of the house in detail. He used so much
detail In his description that 1t was i'm.
possible to follow without diagram.
/ He said that the Sampson dining room
corner of that wing was a stairway lead
I ing to the upper part OF the house, the
only one in the house.
We expect to show you.'' continued
he 81 ntt hot &t1Av
ing of November 1 Frank Allyn. the de-
PENDANTS father, was preparing to go to
the New York Central station to arrange
for the shipment of some milk. Harry
Sampson had been working the farm on
shares.
Mr.: Allyn was eating breakfast that
morning when John Ebert. neighbor.
called. He asked Ebert to see II the
horse was hitched to the milk wagon.
Mr.. Allyn then went into the dining
ROOM
i LAS he entered Harry said: You may
take these things and do what you have
a mind to with Them
i Death Of Sampson Described.
"Harry's wife was present. The re-
mark referred to a quarrel between them.
Mrs. Sampson then left and passed
through the rooms as If to go upstairs.
Some few minutes after Ebert left for
home. Mrs. Frank Allyn and Frank
Allyn. her SON. were in the Allyn kitchen.
The boy was helping his mother with the
dishes. Mrs. Allyn Is quite deaf.
While they were so engaged they
heard a scream from the common sitting
the sound.
"As Mrs. Allyn reached the door be-
tween the dining room and sitting room
Harry Sampson appeared with his hands
clasped to his heart. He fell to his
knees; rolled over. sasped few times and
i was dead.
Mrs: Allyn asked Sampson: What
Mr.. Gilbert then told how Frank Allyn
went to the telephone to call a physi-
clan. Under the telephone. he said, was
a rife standing against the wall. and On
the wainscoting a box OF cartridges. Mr.
Gilbert said the rifle had been borrowed
from Ebert by young Allyn to practice
marksmanship
When Mrs Allyn ran in. in response
to the screams. she encountered Mrs
Sampson a few feet from her husband
I'VE shall show YOU" he continued
that Mrs. Sampson said she was In the
clothes press upstairs hanging clothes
when she heard a shot and ran down tc
see what was wrong.
1--WE shall show you that breakfast
was spread on the table at the time OF
the shooting. We shall show you that
the collars Of his outer and his inner
shirts were unbuttoned."
Could Not Have Shot Himself.
Mr.. Gilbert described the wound. The
bullet from the rife. he said. passed
through the breast and took a downward
course. lodging In the back There were
no powder burns or marks on the cloth.
ing. said Mr.. Gilbert.
I'VE expect to show you that 1t was
impossible for Mr. Sampson to have shot
himself under the circumstances. We
shall show you that Carl Allyn had been
practicing with the rifle a few minutes
before the shooting. firing at a mark. and
after he finished with 1t he replaced It In
the woodshed on the Allyn side.
After the shooting 1t was found In the
Sampson room on the opposite side Of the
house. Whoever did the shooting must
have carried 1t over there"