Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1909-02-24
FORMURDEROFH HUSBAND
Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson Will 81
Placed on Trial April First-A
Sensational Case.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Rochester, n Y, Feb. 24.-In the
Wayne county Jail at Lyons, passing
the tedious hours in sewing and read,
ing, Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson,
daughter of Frank P. Allyn. a wealthy
Wayne county farmer is silently
awaiting the first of April, when she
will be placed on trial for her life.
Mrs Sampson has now been an in
mate of the little Jail for more than
three months and apparently has be-
come reconciled to her surroundings.
Since the day of her arrest she has
declined to talk about her case and re-
fuses to receive any visitors except
her lawyers. who consult with her al
most daily.
The crime alleged to have been
committed by Mrs. Sampson is the
murder of her husband, Harry Samp-
son, nephew of the late Admiral
Sampson Sampson was shot on No
vember at the Allyn farm, three
miles from the village of Macedon
He was found dead with bullet in
his heart. The theory of suicide, adj
vanced 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 his father-in-laws house.
He had been shot with his own rifle,
but the rifle was standing in its ac-
customed corner about four feet from
the dead man. These circumstances
were regarded as sufficient to war
rant the belief that Sampson could
not have held.+he rifle himself pulled
the trigger with his right hand and
then placed the weapon in the COR
iner, because death had been almost
instantaneous.
The house on the Allyn farm was
arranged for two families, and Samp-
son and his wife occupied one wing
and the family of his father-in-law the
other. Early on the morning of the
tragedy there was quarrel between
Sampson and his wife over letter
which. Mrs. Sampson had received
from Fairport man. Mr.. Allyn, the
girls father, tried to adjust matters,
but Sampson declared that he would
leave his wife.
Shortly after the quarrel he ran in
to the Allyn apartments with blood
streaming from bullet wound in his
chest and fell dead at the feet of his
mother-in-law. There we're no smoke
stains or powder marks on his breast
or on either his inner or outer shirt
Mrs. Sampson ran into the room a
moment after he fell She declared
that she was in an upper room when
she heard the shot.
George A. Sampson, father, of the
young man, insisted from the first
that his son had been murdered. At
the coroner's inquest the experts
found that the bullet had DETECTED
downward from the point of entrance
at the heart, and that the weapon
must have been held at least three
feet from the body. The coroner's
/ jury returned a verdict that Sampson
had come to his death from gunshot
wound inflicted by his wife. The lat
ter. pretty, vivacious, and the belle
t.. y p
of the community, was at once placed
under arrest and lodged in jail.
Owing to the wealth and social
prominence of both the Sampson and
Allyn families the case has attracted
the greatest attention and the indica-
tons are that the trial will be one of
the most notable in the records of
Wayne county. Two weeks ago oc-
CURED the death of George Sampson,
father of the young man alleged tol
have been murdered. The elder
Sampson was regarded as one of the
states principal witnesses and there
is considerable speculation as to the
effect that his death may have on
the trial The defense will maintain
that Harry Sampson committed sui
eide in fit of jealousy and the pa
rents of the accused wife are expected
to appear as her principal witnesses.
The prosecution probably will rely
upon Albert H Hamilton, noted gun
expert of Auburn, as the most damag-
ing witness against Mrs. Sampson.
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