New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-04-08
FAVOR MRS. SAMPSON
HER FAMILY ON STAND.
Called by State, Their Testimony
Strengthens the Defence.

LYONS y Y. April The father and mother
md two brothers OF Mrs Georgia Sampson
charged with the killing of her husband Harry
Sampson. were called 10 the witness stand to-day
b. District Attorney Gilbert 10 give evidence on
which the state depends to convict Mrs. Sampson
The testimony Of the four members of the Samp-
family was heard by a throng that packed the
courtroom all day sad figure in the courtroom
vas the widowed mother OF Harry Sampson Mrs
George Sampson. who viii probably be called as a
witness tomorrow
The defence scored several material points
through the testimony of the members OF the
Allyn family 1t established that Just before
Harry Sampson staggered into the Allyn dining
room and fell dead Mrs Sampson was seen on
the second floor of her home. Through Mrs Allyn
the states attorneys brought out the fact that
Robert Manson. Of Niagara Falls. had written to
Mrs Sampson inviting her and a friend. Miss Mil
dred Cervoss, to spend few days in Niagara
Falls. Sampson quarreled with his wife the
letter. Mrs SIMPSONS lawyers state that Man.
eon had asked Mrs Sampson to act as q chaperon.
John Ebert, neighbor, declared that Harry
Sampson had smokeless powder cartridges on the
day OF the shooting. The defence contends that
this explains why no powder marks visible on
SIMPSONS shirt Carl Allyn testified that he had
burned the outer shirt that Sampson had worn
when he shot.
Mrs. Mary E Allyn, mother Of the defendant
rss Unexpectedly called TO the stand when court
opened She has been i'll. and spoke in weak A
voice that her answers had to be repeated by the
prosecutor. She said the shooting took place soon
after her husband had gone 10 the railroad station
She heard Harry SIMPSONS cry of oh, oh! oh.'
End ran into the dining room. AS Harry came IN
the dining ROOM" she said, he had his
folded across his heart ] asked him what he had
dore but he did answer
Mrs. Allyn broke down while telling Of the death
scene. and wept. Continuing. she said her daugh-
ter Georgia came in the room and after looking
- her husband said: II can't he 50. Il can I
Re So.
she sa7 no powder marks the body the
shirt Georgia and Harry had had words the night
before the shooting. and on the day Of SIMPSONS
desth Guarreiled about the Manson letter. Mrs.
alzr weeping. told how she tried 70 reconcile the
,ouae- She had burned the letter, which was
pos,rarked Niagara Falls" and was signed Rob
ct Manson To the best OF her recollection the
writer Of the letter asked Mrs. Sampson and q
friend named Mildred TO go 10 Niagara Falls. spend
2 few days and have good time
Mrs Alyu understood that Sampson and her
daughter quarreIled frequently over the latter's
absence from home
Referring again TO the shooting. Mrs. Allyn said
she had ar impression that when Sampson stag
gsred into the room he had piece OF cheese
wrapped in q paper in his hand It is tho conten-
ton Of the state that Sampson was shot down
while eating piece of cheese
On cross-e-a I.linetion. Mrs. Allyn said that her
daughter threw herself across Harry's body and
cried for some time Robert Manson the witness
taid was IN poor health and had been visiting
relatives Of tie AIlyns. named Ceryice. near
Nace6on. Miss Mildred teTYiCe ana MI Manson
had visited Georgia Sampson
Frank Allyr brother of the defendant. next testi-
fed that his sister had told him she upstairs
when the shooting took place.
She told me that she heard shot he said
hut heard screaming. and came downstairs
Frank z. Allyn. father of Mrs. Sampson, testi-
Hed that OF the morning Of the shooting he to
Harry Sampson At Cieorgia's request, and that
Harry said: There IS no use talking, I won't live
with her. VIII take ny Iife first
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ins he saw his daughter n the window Of the sec
ond story OF their home He ordered SIMPSONS
clothes burned
Counsel for the defence showed that the dark
cute- shirt Of Harry Sampson had no bullet hole
n the left hand side correspond with the bullet
hole on the left Of the undershirt. and sought
further TO establish that the outer shirt was not
the one Harry Mrs. SIMPSONS lawyers as
serr that the outer shirt undoubtedly contained
powder marks but this shirt was burned, none Of
me members Of the Allyn family thinking il i'm
pcrtaur.
The prosecutor will endeavor TO prove that samp-
sons outside shirt open, and that therefore
the bullet did moi pass through II
John Ebert p neighbor. testified that he had seen
the rife in the Allyn woodshed just before the
shooting When he Simpsons body the
shirts we're open AZ the throat. Sampson before
the shooting had ehoHn MIN sTokeless cartridge
OF a cslfbre that would III the rifle MI Ebert said
that the exploded shell which he gave the under
1aker vas the which he took from the
rife after the shooting EDerl IuIiler declared
that at the funeral Of Sampson he told M Tinkle-
baugh Of counsel for the defence, that when he
gave Frank Sampson the rife he also gave him a
box Of sulokeless powder cartridges.
The witness stated that he had seen yard
stick standing near the rife. The defence will try
70 show that Sampson probably snapped the trig-
ger by pushing it with the yardstick-
carl z Allyn. a brother Of Mrs. Sampson, told
Of burning Sampson's cutter shirt
Buffalo. april A special To The News" from
Niagara Falls says that the Robert Manson men
TONED in the Sampson murder is apparently
rot known there. His name is IN the city d.
rectorv and the police and postofhce authorities
know nothing of him.