Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-09
MRS. SAMPSON HELD
Indicted for Murder of Her
Husband.
FATHER-lN-LAW is DEAD
Grief Over Son Believed to Have
fastened His End.
ACCUSED PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Date for Trial to Be Fixed by Court
at Hearing neutrality-suspicious.
Is Calm.

ROCHESTER, n Y, February 81
George Sampson. father of Harry Samp-
son. whose wife, George f Simpson, was
arraigned at Lyons. n. Y. late yesterday
charged with the murder of her husband.
was found dead in bed at his home at
Palmyra this morning.
He was a brother of the late Rear Ad-
mral Sampson. and was an important wit
ness for the prosecution of his daughter
n-Iaw. The coroner has been notified.
Death is believed to have resulted from
natural causes, possibly fastened by Mr.
SIMPSONS grief over his sons supposed
murder.
Mrs. Sampson Indicted.
LYONS, n. Y, February 9-The Wayne
county grand jury handed up an indict-
ment yesterday charging Mrs. Georgia T.,
Sampson with murder in the first degree
in shooting and killing her husband, Harry
Sampson, at their home in Macedon on the
evening of November 1.
Mrs Sampson was arraigned last even
ing. She was dressed in deepest mourn
ing and was accompanied by her counsel
George S Tinklepaugll and Miss Theresa
Collins, daughter of Sheriff Collins.
Few were in the courtroom at the time.
while District Attorney Gilbert was read
ing the indictment and answered Not
guilty. in clear, strong voice she diu
not speak, even to her counsel. ana did
not notice anybody in the courtroom.
Justice SAWYER gave notice that he
would on Saturday, entertain such mo-
ton as the defense might make upon the
indictment and for the designation of d
date for the trial.
This term of court will be adjourned
= Jafo u-,o mill before
the middle or latter part Of March. be-
fore some justice other than Justice Saw
yer, to be assigned by Gov. Hughes
Oblivious to Surroundings.
On the way to and from Jail Mrs.
Sampson looked straight ahead. saying
nothing and noticing nothing. She
seemed to be dead to the world except to
be able to walk. At the Jail she refused
to see anybody except the sheriff and
family and her counsel.
Harry Sampson was nephew of the
late Rear Admiral Sampson. He was
found dead with a bullet in his heart in
the home of his father-in-law. The the
DRY of suicide. advanced Immediately,
found supporters until the discovery was
made that the young mans right hand
clasped a sandwich when his body was
found in the pantry of the house.
He had been shot with his own rife.
but the rife was standing in its accuS-
toned corner about four feet from the
dead man. These circumstances We're re-
garded a sufficient to warrant the belief
that Sampson could not have held the
rife himself. pulled the trigger with his
right hand and then placed the weapon
in the corner. because death had been al
most instantaneous.
Expert Testimony.
Albert Ii. Hamilton the gun expert of
Auburn. made exhaustive examina-
ton and found that the bullet had de-
f1ected downward from the point of en-
trance at the heart. and that The weapon
must have been held at least three feet
from the body. because there were no
powder marks on the clothing.
George a. Sampson. father of the young
man. insisted from the first that his son
had been murdered. Suspicion pointed to
the wife. who had quarreled with her
husband on the morning of the shoot
ing.
Mrs. Sampson declared she went up
stairs after the controversy closing the
door at the foot of the stairway. and
that when she heard the shot she ran
downstairs.
In this she partly corrobOrated by
her young brother. who said he found
the stair door open when he ran to the
telephone. This, it was maintained,
proved that Mrs. Sampson had run down
stairs when she heard the crack of the
rifle.
Theory of Jealousy.
The lawyer retained to defend the
young wife held the theory of suicide
on the grounds that she had received a
letter from a man which aroused the
anger and jealousy of her husband and
that he had threatened to kill himself
rather than live with her again.
The grand jury began an immediate
inquiry into the tragedy. but pending
the result of the deliberations cor
oner's inquest was held and November
- the verdict was returned that Harry
Sampson had come to his death from
q gunshot wound inflicted by his wife,
Georgia Il. Sampson.
Mrs. Sampson. pretty, vivaciouS and the
belle of the community, was taken to the
residence of the sheriff. where she dined
with the family and remained chatting
with them until the coroner had pre-
pared the verdict and had issued a war
rant She was taken by her host to the
county Jail and placed in cell to await
the action which the grand jury took
yesterday.
Both the Allyns, the parents of Mrs.
Sampson, and the Simpsons are wealthy
and prominent. Indication are that the
trial will be one of the most sensational
in the history of Wayne county.
CoNFESSES IN POISON CASE.