Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-04-09
JURY TO GET
THESAMPSON
CASE TONIGHT
Prosecution Ends Testimony
Today and Defense Will
Have Little to Offer.
BELIEF is NO CASE
HAS BEEN MADE OUT


Lyons, N. Y, April 9:-At the con-
clusion of Dr. Hamilton's testimony
this morning Attorney Hamm, for the
defense, moved that the court in
struct the jury to acQuit on the
grounds the state had failed to prove
the necessary corpus deficit and TO
connect the defendant as the agent
of death in the trial of Mrs. Georgia
Sampson for the murder of her hus-
band, Harry. Justice Rich ruled that
the jury must pass on the guilt or
innocence of the accused. He denied
the motion.
Attorney Finkelbaugh opened for
the defense. He reviewed the evil
dence and said the state had abso-
lutely failed to prove it's case.
Albert r. Hopkins, a photogra-
pher, was the first witness. He iden-
titled photographs of the interior of
the Allyn home. He was not cross
examined.
Frank Allyn, a brother of the de-
fendant, followed testifying to
changes in the home after the pic
lures were taken and before the
tragedy.
Dr. A. Lewis Hall, of Fulton, was
next called. He said there was g
nail in the pantry at the Allyn home
which, had the rife been hanging
| there It could have been exploded
by person pulling 1t towards them
He said no human agency could de-
| termine whether the holes in the
shirt were bullet holes or burned by
powder.
When District Attorney Gilbert
announced today that the case fol
the prosecution in the trial of Geor'
gia Allyn Sampson for the alleged
murder of her husband was all IL
young Mrs. Sampson and her eounse
looked relieved.
Il rely on the Jurors to do me jus
tice," said Mrs. Sampson. II expect to
be free tonight to go where / choose
Why, they haven't made out single
thing against me-"
The defenses testimony win be
brief, and It is the general expectation
that the case win so to the jury this
evening.
The climax of the prosecutions case
came during the testimony of Albert
H. Hamilton, an expert or shotguns
and rifles. He fatty testified that Har
ry Sampson was not suicide.
He had taken the two shirts, the
outer and under garment, offered IN
evidence as having been worn by
young Sampson at the time of his
tragic death and had made striking
experiments with them.
Under the eyes Of the Jurors Hamil.
ton put the two shirts upon an imag
mary body and showed that the tive
bullet holes, seemingly In opposite
sides Of the throat opening, lie exactly
over each other. One bullet could have
pierced them both.
He produced targets OF shirting and
flannel from the shirts taken from
Harry SIMPSONS dead body. Each tar
get held the record OF a shot from the
rife that figured in the tragedy of the
Allyn farmhouse. These bullets haC
been fired at different distances, from
close contact to the target up to q
range of sixty inches.
Each target of shirting had beer
placed upon a target OF flannel, and
| AAS WV NNENthNl DGGA h4E0 hBpA
background Of meat
At contact range, with the muzzle o1
the rife pressed against the target, tn,
discharge had set fire to the fabric
and burned a bullet hole with charred
edges and an encircling area of sur
face scorched and scared.
At range OF three inches the shot
had fred the fabric of the outer shirt
again at six inches, nine inches, twelve
inches, fifteen inches and at seventeen
| inches.
Not until range Of eighteen inches
had been reached did the character Oi
the bullet hole change from burn t.
a puncture, like the mark on Samp
sont outer shirt. But even then the
surrounding surface was scorched ant
marked with powder stains and i'm
bedded grains.
Expert Hamilton may have convinc
ed the jury that Harry Sampson die
not take his own life, but no evidence
was submitted to prove that Georgl;
Sampson fired the fatal shot.