The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-04-05
Mrs. Georgia A. Sampson Put
on Trial To-day
COUPLE HAD QUARRELLED
Parents and Brothers Are the Chief
Witnesses Against Her--Husband
Was q Nephew Of the
Admiral.

Lyons, N. Y, April 5.--Mrs. Georgia
E. Sampson, held for the murder in
November last Of her husband, Harry
Sampson, a nephew of the late Admiral
Sampson, was placed on trial this morn
ing before Justice AdeIberg Prich. The
trial promises to be very sensational, as
most Of the evidence is oircumstantial.
The young woman maintains her inno-
cence and the community is divided as
to her guilt The prosecution in its
opening address said 1t would prove the
woman shot her husband after a violent
quarrel lasting through the night. Mrs.
Sampson viii claim her husband commit
ted suicide after the quarrel
District Attorney Joseph Gilbert has
summoned about fifteen witnesses but
he expects to prove his case against the
young woman through the testimony Of
her family. The jury win be chosen
from a panel OF 1876 talesmen and the
selection win probably take three days.
The prosecutor believes the trial will be
EOItIluuCQ III AbOub Two NGtAt.
Harry Sampson and his wife lived at
the Allyn homestead where Frank p
Allyn, father of Mrs. Sampson, and his
two sons, Carl Allyn and Frank Allyn,
with Harry Sampson, were engaged in
farming.
The father and mother will be called
10 testify concerning the quarrels be-
tween husband and wife and the various
incidents on the morning Of the tragedy
and John Ebert. a visitor to the house
that morning, to tall Of leaving Samp-
son few minutes before the latter
was shot and of having seen Mrs. Samp-
son looking out Of a second story win
dow as Ebert was leaving the house.
Important testimony is anticipated from
Mrs. Frank Allyn, the mother. She saw
the letter which caused the quarrel and
which was subsequently destroyed and
remembers some Of its contents. An ex
clamation by Harry Sampson during the
quarrel on The morning Of the tragedy
eI can't live with her another day; I
will Taxa my life first --is also expected
to he brought out in the examination,
as well as what he il said to have de-
,clared the same morning I'm through
lwith her and won't continue here an
sether day
The prosecution will also introduce
Testimony to show that half an hour be-
fore the shooting the rife was seen
in the woodshed Of the Allyn house.
District Attorney Gilbert will inform
the jury that all the persons who were
at the Sampson home about the time
of the shooting, can be accounted for at
the moment the shot was fired except
Harry Sampson and his wife and that
by this process Of elimination and the
testimony of a gun expert that the rife
must have been fired at some distance
from Sampson's body he expects to es-
tablish the guilt Of the wife.
While Attorney George Tinklepaugh
and Assemblyman Edison w. Hamn of
Wayne county, counsel for Mrs. Samp-
son, have made no statements, it has
been clearly Indicated that they will
endeavor to show that Mrs. Sampson
was upstairs when the killing was com
mittAd. leaving it to be inferred by the
jury that Sampson killed himself or was
killed by some one unknown. Mrs.
Sampson will probably not be called to-
The witness stand unless the present
plans of the defence are changed Mrs,
Sampson has been incarcerated III
Wayne county jail and has made no
statements Of the affair to anyone ex-
cept her counsel. Mrs. Sampson Is said
to have told her mother Immediately
after the shooting that she was in the
clothes press when she heard shot
fred.