South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-23
DEFENSE SCORES
STRIKING POINT
FOR MRS. EATON
Detective On Stand Admits He
Found No Place Where Pur-
chase of Poison Was Re-
corded.

ELKHART, Ind, Oct. %. - The
evidence with which the prosecution
expects TO convict Mrs. Jennie May
Eaton of the murder of her husband,
Rear Admiral Joseph c. Eaton, was
practically concluded Wednesday
when the government rested its case.
AS some witnesses desired by the
defense will not be ready in the morn
| ing. court adjourned until tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock when the de-
| Tense will begin.
Attorneys for Mrs. May Eaton,
on trial for the murder of her hus-
| band, Rear Admiral JOS e. Eaton,
brought out striking point Wednes-
day for their client. On cross-exam-
ming State Detective John II. Scott
| a witness for the prosecution, they
forced him TO admit that, although he
had made a thorough search Of Bos-
ton. he had failed to discover any
place where a purchase OF poison by
Mrs. Eaton had been recorded
On direct examination Scott gave
the first testimony that had been
heard in reference to Mrs. Eaton's
| own story of the illness and death of
| her husband.
widow had told him the admiral, then
on his death bed, and a few hours be-
fore the end came, had entreated her
with this plea:
"Oh, send for doctor Oh, am
so sick"
The state detective testified further
that Mrs. Eaton told him she had sent
for a physician after she had awaken
ed and found the admiral dead, his
arm clasped about her shoulder and
her arm embracing him.
Waited On Him Alone.
Detective Scott said Mrs. Eaton had
declared:
Nobody gave him anything but
myself. Dorothy did not give him
him the first dose of medicine left
by the doctor in hot water. He threw
IL up. / gave him another dose later
in water not quite so hot He threw
that up. Then 1 took some milk, he
could not stand that. The next dose
with water | mixed a small pinch of
soda. He did not leave his bed from
Thursday, he was too weak"
Il asked her where she got the box
which contained the soda she gave the
admiral. She answered that she got
it from the shelf in the pantry and
pointed out the box. She said she
gave him a pinch of soda, she indi-
Gated on the end Of a case knife how
much soda she gave him.
Il am sure from which box I took
the soda" she said He threw il up
as soon as taken. The doctor gave
him a dose of soda about noon and
gave him one about o'clock"
Mysterious Note Appears.
A mysterious typewriter note again
figured in the trial Wednesday. De-
tective Scott declared this note was
Mrs Eaton's will bequeathing all
her property TO her daughter June"
Detective Scott testified that the
paper was in a typewriter in the
Eaton home at Assinippi March II.
the third day after the admiral died.
He could not tell whether 1t bore a
date.
Chief Justice Aiken ordered the
statement OF Scott stricken out.
Scott said Mrs. Eaton told him the
admiral was the kind of man that
would come TO her with a necklace in
one hand and poison in the other.
Scott said the widow accused her
husband of smoking opium in pipe.
He said Mrs. Eaton has said TO him
when he told her ne was beginning an
inquiry into her husbands death:
Il don't see the need OF anything
of this kind. The doctors have al
ready said that the admiral died
natural death"
Scott testified that on the day be-
fore the admirars funeral Mrs Scott
became so excited that she almost
pushed the coffin over twice. Scott
said Mrs. Eaton told him she had
searched the admiral's .deathbed for
traces Of poison but in vain and she
wanted 20 hire some sherlock
Holmes or a noted DETECTIVE