The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-22
Widow of Admiral Accused
of His Murder Comforts
Her Mother g.
MOTIVE FOR CRIME.
is NOT DISCOVERED
Mysterious Woman Witness
Proves to be Nurse Hired
by Mrs. Eaton AS
Insanity Expert

BOSTON, March 21.-~Distriet At
4orney Albert f. Barker. OF Plymouth
county, will present the evidence he
has against Mrs. Jennie Eaton,
charged with the murder of Rear Ad-
fniral Joseph G.. Eaton. TO the grand
jury. sitting in special session at Ply
4 mouth next Monday. In case an in
dlctment Is returned and If the usual
custom is followed. Mrs. Eaton will
not be brought before the District
court at bingham for hearing next
Friday. as planned In case of no in
dictment being returned, then the ad-
mirars widow will he formally dis
charged
MT. Barker said that the arsenic
which caused the death of the ad-
mirai was undoubtedly procured in
powdered form" and also that as yet
he did not know where 1t was pro-
cured or by whom He asserted that
no other arrest was contemplated at
this time, but said that the grand
Jury had been summoned for a spe-
cIal sitting for the purpose Of hear
ing the states evidence against Mrs
Eaton He refused TO say what mo-
tive. If any, th@ prosecution believes
Mrs Eaton had for desiring the death
OF her husband; whether or not
lunacy commission was to observe and
and when the poison Was admins
tered.
Praises DIR. Frame.
The district attorney said that he
wished the newspapers would say for
hin that the conduct of Dr. Joseph
Franc in the ease was worthy Of
great commentator rather than Of
criticism It was Or Frame who at
tended Admiral Eaton on the after
..S3 aIz
called the attention Of the medical
examiner 10 the suspicious cireum-
stance early the next morning after
ordering the undertaken not 10 en-
balm the body.
1t III evident that the government
In haslng its charge against Mrs. Ea-
ton upon something told by some
member Of the household, either ny
one OF the two daughters during the
inquest at bingham or by Mrs George
Harrison, Mrs Eaton's mother, when
SHE was questioned in the house by
Judge Pratt Monday afternoon Mrs.
Harrison said regarding this session:
when they asked me questions I
had Ia tell the whole truth, no mat
ter whom IL hurt or whom IT aided"
Accused Secs Counsel.
Mrs. Eaton was visited at the Ply
mouth iaii today by Francis G. Geo
gan and Judge George w. Kelley.
her counsel The accused widow
passed The night quietly and was in
n composed frame Of mind when the
lawyers called.
Mrs. Eaton wrote her daughter,
Dorothy. giving her instructions re-
gardIng the care of the stock In farm
and other duties she wished perform
cd about the house. She asked Dor
othy 10 tell Mrs Eaton's mother. Mrs.
E~x sF Nz1 az
would come right in a few days.
One Of the officers at work on the
case said today; Il think that we
will have to depend on publicity to
discover the place where the arsenic
was bought. The newspapers have
accomplished such things before. We
don't know where the poison was
bought. Perhaps If the fact is made
public something may be learned"
Trained Nurse Witness.
The mysterious woman witness"
at the Tuesday session of the inquest
was Miss Anna {. Rooney n trained
nurse of Brookline. The discovery
nj Miss Rooney has unearthed a new
And interesting fact in the case. This
nurse. o graduate OF an insane hospi-
tai as well as of 81 medical one. was
gmuggled into the Eaton home in
Assinippi last June by Mrs. Eaton, to
watch the admiral Mrs Eaton in
troduced Miss Rooney as a personal
friend and her husband never suspect
ed
Miss Rooney remained AT Assinippi
only n week. That was enough. 1t Is
inferred. to convince her that the
rear~admiral was no subject for a
mental surveillance
The American jack was today placed
over the grave OF Admiral Eaton in
the cemetery at Dracut. near Lowell.
The flag was presented by the kear-
sarge Association Of Naval Veterans.
OF Boston.