The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-22
That Is Mystery Police
Now Are Trying
to Solve.
ANOTHER ARREST
is EXPECTED SOON
Second Woman Enters Case, She
Being Said to Have Furnished
Poison to Mrs. Eaton, With
knowledge Of Purpose
for Which 1t Was
to Be Used.
Especial to The Times pispatch ,

tppecIdl 10 j ne Times Dispatch.
bingham. Mass, March 2l-Mrs.
Ralph Keys ana Miss Dorothy Aims
/ worth. the two stepdaughtcrs of Rear
Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton, were put
through long examination this after
noon by state Detective John r. Scott
ana Deputy Sheriff John T. Condor. in
AN effort TO learn the Identity Of the
person who purchased the arsenic with
which II Is alleged the admiral was
murdered Officer Scott admitted that
another woman might be arrested
shortly In addition to Mrs Jennie Nav
Harrison Eaton, who was yesterday y
charged with her husbands death The
detectives are very anxious 10 learn
from Miss Ainsworth all she knows
, IN connection with the presence of
poison in the Eaton home
While tse police were making every
ehort to strengthen their case against
hei. Mrs. Eaton planned her defense
with her two attorneys in her cell A,
the plymouth jail. Earlier in the day
she had sent note to her daughters.
bidding them to he cheerful and 10
take care Of her mother. Mrs Har-
! rison' VINO is dangerously Ill at the
Eaton home.
III was learned to-day that letter
written by the dead naval officer few
DAYS before he died To q cousin in
hoston was the principal cause OF the
arrest of Mrs. Eaton. The district at
,orhey learned OF the contents of the
lcttcr only few hours before Mrs
Eaton was hurriedly taken from her
nome. While the contents OF this lct
Ter are being carefully guarded. IL is
known that through il the police be-
iieve they have found q motive for
the alleged murder
Another Arrest Expected.
With the renewal to-day NJ ,ho
search Tor the drugstore where the
poison was sold and the intimatIon
'nat second woman would be arrest
go soon. II was made plain that the
hSpothesis the police are working on
VIII be the charge that Mrs Eaton
gent a woman. close In her cuntirrnce
10 purchase the poison. and that the
purchaser OF the death cotton was
tuily aware Of the use TO which II vas
To be put.
chief Justice Aiken. OF The Supreme
Nourl. To-day ordered that n specia,
grand jury convene next week m ba,,r
me evidence against Mrs Eaton. This
actloh WAS taken at the request of
District Attorney Barker. who isfonx
'ous 10 nave an indictment returned IL
oeiofe March 2S. the date get
!o' the continued hearing of Mrs
Ea.oh case in the bingham court
was strongly intimated to-day tina,
d 'uhac! commission would be- asked
Ior before Mrs. Eaton could be broueh,
10 'riaL Much credence is given thjs
epo.t; owing to the statements made
''nirai Eaton some tiine before
MS death that his wife was crazv 80.
me subject OF poison. and the latcr
s.aIemeni .iIe of Mrs. Harrison, when she
sanity" "'ei
6rs, wi =. EATON remained calm during her
nrst day in Jail She arose al : o.e,nct.
ana ASKED for light breakfss, ,,L
men requested tho jailer 10 allow her
taNe exercise and to keen busy
s'H ms or at household duties
hcr quiet demeanor Throughout rho
.nes.'Gation and at the time of her
All connected with the case Soldo,, -,
eNer, mas woman held herself under
son.rol SO well under similar circu,n.