The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-30

Plymouth, Mass. Oct. 3O-"Not
guilty was the verdict returned by
the jury, today, in the case of Mrs.
Jennie May Eaton, charged with the
murder of her husband, Rear Ad-
rniral Joseph Giles Eaton at their
home at Assinippi, last March. The
jury reported at $40 a. m. after
considering the evidence for eight
hours and three-quarters.
Mrs. Eaton smiled joyfully as she
heard the verdict. She had sat up
in a private room at the courthouse
until 2 o'clock, this morning. Then
she was permitted to go to the judges
lobby where she slept on a couch I'M
til awakened at 4:3e and summoned
to the courtroom.
After the foreman had announced
the verdict, Chief Justice Aiken warn
ed the jurors to keep secret the pro-
ceedings in the juryroom.
Nearly zoo persons, some of whom
had remained all night, were present
to- hear the verdict. Among them
were a, few women.
After Mrs. Eaton had left the
courtroom, the jurors, through their
foreman, asked that they might be
allowed to meet her. The permission
was granted and they formed a semi
circle in the corridor. Mrs. Eaton
came out from the Judges lobby and
thanked them individually. AS she
did so she, burst into tears for the
first time since her trial started.
A little later, Mrs. Eaton gave out
the following statement:
ST am so glad; glad most of all be-
cause of my aged mother and my
lame child, both of whom need me.
1t means so much to them. I shall
go home probably late today and I
hope that a new life will be opened
to me and that. the trials and tribula-
lions which have been mine in the
past are ended"
Her chief counsel, Mr.. Morse, said:
t.It was Mrs. Eaton's.- appearance
on the stand, an unusual event in any
capital case and a remarkable one
where a woman was on trial for her
life, which decided the defendants
innocence in the minds of the jurors.
The verdict was what we expected.
1t frees an innocent woman but leaves
as a mystery the end of the Admiral,
her husband. For six months have
tried to find out what was behind the
poison which caused his death, but
my Investigations have developed no
satisfactory explanation. Tt must
probably remain mystery"
Because of the prominence of the
Admiral, the trial of Mrs. Eaton, who
was his second wife, has attracted
countrywide interest. The Admiral
took a. prominent part in the battle
of Santiago After his retirement he
SeCI1SQ- AOWn d 11IIlS chicken IdT1n
at Assinippi, where he died on
March 8, last. On request of the ply
sician who had attended him the day
before, Medical Examiner Osgood,
held an inquest. The internal organs
of the Admiral We're sent to Prof.
William F. Whitney, of Harvard,
where they were found to contain
large quantity of white arsenic. The
grand jury reported an Indictment
against Mrs. Eaton charging murder.
She was arrested March TO- Her
trial commenced Octt. IA. The gov
eminent sought to show that Mrs.
Eaton poisoned her husband by plac-
ing arsenic in his beverages and his
medicine and that she was jealous of
his attentions to other women.
Mrs. Eaton's counsel contended that
the AdmiraPs death was due to self
administered drugs but did not at
tempt to show whether the alleged
overdose was taken Intentionally or
by accident.