The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-06
Parent of Accused Woman,
Principal Witness for State,
Critically Ill.
PRISONER ALSO
NEAR TO COLLAPSE
Prosecution Outlines Case, DecIar-
ing Evidence Points to
the Wife.

LYONS, n. Y, April s.-The trial OF
Mrs. Georgia Sampson for the alleged
murder of her husband. Harry Sampson.
may collapse within the next twenty
four hours.
Mrs. Frank P. Allyn, mother of the
young defendant. is so critically III that
her death may take place aJ any mo
ment, while her daughter. burdened By
the thought of her mothers condition.
as well as her own hard fate, is 50
highly nervous and excited that she has
not slept in forty-eight hours. and IL
was necessary for the attending
physician 10 give her strong sedatives
before she cou;1 be brought 70 the cours
house today.
Mrs. Allyn is the chief witness for dle
State An unwilling witness. but. ac-
cording to District Attorney Gilbert, she
is depended on by the State to prove its
contention that when Sampson was
killed he had in one hand a piece OF
cheese and in the other a slice Of bread.
thus upsstting the suicide theory She
had never been very strong. and since
the arrest of her daughter with the con
| seGuent disgrace, her heart has been
failing, and she today faced complete
| physical collapse. which the doctors say
lis probably fatal
Problem Not Solved.
The district attorney does not know
I yet how ne viii meet this situation. but
/ il is his intention. il he POSSIBLY can.
T.. have her carried into court to give
her testimony lying on cot
/ Georgia Sampson, stOical and seem
ingly unconcerned. held her outward
poise until she was told that her moth
er would probably die When she Was
Informed that Mrs Allyn was critically
III, she collapsed utterly
Lying on her cot in the jail, she
moaEed and wept, and her paroxFsms
Of grief were pitiful. She refuset 10
! be comforted.
/ "Oh, God, let my mother live. Let
her live" she pleaded, and not until
| physicians administered the strongest
/ Of sedatives did she quiet down. The
/ condition of the mother and daughter
has rallied all other friends TO them.
Mrs. Anna Kaye, of Chicago. the aunt
1 of the accused young woman. declared
/ today. that all of the family were con-
hdent Of quick acquittal-
Blames Idle Gossip.
/ She insisted that idle gossip had
been responsible fer the indictment. and
that Georgia could not have killed aer
/ husband. because she was upstairs when
the fatal shot was fired.
/ District Attorney Gilbert's opening
address was purely formal. he reciting
the events Of the morning. at the Allyn
home, and stating that the State ex-
poets to prove that il was a physical
| impossibility for Harry Sampson to
/ have fired the shot which ended his
/ life.
Watches Prosecutor.
Mrs. Sampson sat between her sister
and the daughter Of the sheriff and
watched intently every gesture of the
man who is working to send her to the
| electric chair. Her early nervousness
soon wore or and at times she leaned
well forward so that she could follow
every word of the argument
The finding of this Indictment by the
grand jury" said Gilbert. sis by no
means tS- - considered as any evidence
OF the guilt Of the attendant But that
+ twas found shows that the grand jury
believed a crime was committed, and II
viii be for you 10 determine what that
crime was, and who committed it -
He then reviewed the life Of young
3 Sampson, his wedding. and a quarrel
/ between the young couple. Proceeding
! to the morning OF the tragedy, he said.
1T will be argued that this defendant
was not in the room when the shots
were fired We expect to prove that she
was We expect to show that the only
stairway in the house was the one that
I led up from the room IN which Harry
/ Sampson was killed We also expect TO
show that with a wound OF the nature
that caused death, with weapon Of
the kind that admittedly was used, with
ammunition such as was in the rife,
/ il would have been an absolute impossi-
bility for Harry Sampson to have killed
himself
( Who Did XIII Him?
/ The question IS. then. who did kill
him2 There were eight persons in the
house that morning and six Of them
must be eliminated. reducing those who
could have fired the shot TO Harry
/ Sampson and this defendant If Harry
( could not have fired the shot then II
must have been fired by this woman.
| why did she XIII him? We expect to
/ show you from incidents In her life
/ We will show that Harry discovered A
I letter written to his wife, that he read
parts Of it, and that he then told her
/ that IT would be impossible for him 10
3 longer live with her
we hope TO produce before this Jury
/ this letter which formed the motive for
this homicide. We will also show that
/ Sampson made a win that left every
/ thing he possessed to his wife, whom
we allege murdered him in their home
on this Sunday morning"
This was the first time that such 4
! viii had been mentioned, but Mrs
I Sampson listened impasSivefy to the
statement and her face was totally de-
/ void Of expression
Architect Testifies
/ Charles w. Van Buren. an archilsct.
called as the first witness, idehtifiee lie
plans of the Allyn farmhouse and they
were admitted in evidence. Van Buren
was examined at great length as TO
his plans and they were finally passed
/ to ury and carefully examined.
/ George -hr,
the autopsy mas the next Witness