The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-23
Mrs. Eaton is Accused Of Poisoning
Her Husband But Police Can
not Find Single BIT
Of Proof.
VACATION IN PRISON
Home Has Been Ransacked, Land
PIowed up. Family GrIlled But
Nothing Damaging Has
Been Found.

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ] II
BOSTON, Mass, March 22.-Partial II
confirmation OF the rumored intention II
OF the prosecuting officials to have a II
lunacy commission examine Mrs. Jen-
ME May Eaton charged with the muir II
der of her husband, Rear Admiral
Joseph Giles Eaton, was seen today in
the trip here of District Attorney
Barker of Brockton. prosecuting at
torney in the case. to visit Chief JUS
tice Aiken of the state supreme court.
Attaches of the district attorneys Of
flee practically admitted that the con.
ference was for that purpose.
Plans have already been made by
Judge Kelley, counsel for Mrs. Eaton,
to fight any attempt of the govern t
/ ment to test Mrs Eaton's sanity. |
statements of Barker that he thought |
the accused woman mentally unsound |
have aroused Kelley and even before |
lit became known today that the dis |
trict attorney might be working for a |
lunacy commission, Kelley was laying
plans to block the action. Property
rights are involved In the sanity OF
Mrs Eaton, and these Judge Kelley,
as the personal counsel for Mrs
Eaton, is sworn to guard.
| Additional officers were searching
today for the place where the poison
which caused the death OF Admiral
Eaton was sold. While officers Scott
and Cohdon were continuing their
search of the Eaton home for EVIL
dence, the drug stores of Boston and
it's suburbs were again being thorough
: ly searched.
d Since the arrest Of Mrs. Eaton, the
lpolice have been engaged In a frantic
hunt for evidence against her. This
hunt, which has resulted in the ran.
:, sacking of the Eaton home, blowing
!, up of the Eaton land. and the grilling
Of members of the Eaton family, to-
. gether with the sphynx attitude main
: tanned by District Attorney Barker,
4 has caused the belief that the police
: have very little evidence in the case.
ip Color was lent this opinion today by
a. a man connected with the case
a "as II this is going to be hard case
C. to prove unless they get more evil
ne dence.
ie so far as we know there was NO
~ motive, as the prisoner stood to lose
ae an income of 1915 a month by the
~ admiral's death, and the way they are
y keeping up the investigation makes
y, me think they are shy on evidence.
~ Until they find out where that poison
" came from, and who bought it, Mrs
re Eaton is simply taking vacation al
~ the county jail
The deputy sheriffs of Plymouth
- county, who have been serving sum
T. monses on those who are to appear
~ before the special grand jury on Mon
= day, finished their work today Those
:. summoned include the members O
a., the Eaton family, medical examiner
~ undertaken, police officials and sever
~ al neighbors of the Eaton family.
Mrs. Eaton spent quiet and un
Nv eventful day in her room in the Ply
-. mouth county jail. She had confer
;-n enee with her counsel, Francis J
-, Geogan, and Judge Kelley. To then
Iis she burst out with the declaration
No Il am indignant that any sucl
~ crime should be attributed to me-"
nc. Judge Kelley bore note from ne
wo to her family, urging them to bear u
Tor. and predicting that she would gain he
ers freedom within few days. Partie,
,an lar anxiety was felt by her for Mr.,
,in George Harrison, her mother, who ha
her been seriously unneryed since he
and daughters arrest Mrs. Eaton ha
u,s. been plentifully supplied with book
uis- and magazines, and she also sper
Ley part Of the day in reading and writin
uis. letters. Newspapermen were not q
lowed to interview here Police :
-, day guarded the Eaton home in A
,ras sinnippi, where the admiraPs ste
~ daughters, Mrs. June Ainsworth Keyt
and Miss Dorothy Ainsworth, and Mr.
Harrison, Mrs. Eaton's mother, al
staying, and no visitors were a
, mitted.