Arizona republican., 1913-10-11
Wife Defendant Against Charge of Having Poison ed Retired Rear Admiral of the United States Navy Last Spring
THIS CASE WILL BE
 LONG DRAWN OUT
The Uncanny Skeleton in the Closet of a Family Which Had Ranked High in Washington SOcia l Life
Especial to The Republican,

1 Especial to The Republican, ! BOSTON. oct. 1O.-The case of
 Mrs Jennie May Eaton, charged with 1 the murder of her husband, Rear Ad-
 miral Joseph Giles Eaton at Assin- I ippi, their summer home, is to come up for trial next Tuesday at a special session of the superior court at which Chief Justice Aiken will preside. The trial will be held at Plymouth, Mass, where Mrs. Eaton has been in jail ever since her indictment and arrest, in March last Both sides are said
 to be ready for the trial. which is certain to attract d great deal of at tention A large number of witnesses will be called and it is quite probable that the trial will last for several weeks
 Rear Admiral Eaton had been on the retired list for many years and had lived a quiet life at Assinippi, in the town of NCrwell, raising chick ems. for more than five years pre- Ceding his death on March s, of this year. Formerly he had lived in Washington, D. C., where he occupied a respected position in navy and of ficiaI society, to which his high rank and position entitled him. His sud den death caused considerable sur prise among his numerous friends, who had received no jntimatiOn that the admiral was in poor health. If his friends were surprised by the news of his death, they were even more surprised and greatly shocked when they learned that two days after his death the admirals body
 vas quietly buried at Dracut, his former home. and that there were no religious or military services at the grave Only the undertaken. the wid ow and one of her daughters from . former marriage and several news | raper reporters were present at the funeral The reporters gave graphic ! descriptions of the funeral and point cd to the remarkable absence of every
 military and naval honor to which
 the deceased would have been entitled by reason of his high rank and brill iant record.
 1 There was so much mystery in the
 death of the admiral and in the
 manner in which his body was buried
 that it excited comment and suspi- Cion. An investigation was begun
 which brought to light such peculiar facts that an autopsy was ordered
 and the stomach and intestines of
 the admiral were turned over for chemical analysis to Medical Exam iner Osgood. Although no full re- pert of the result of this examination was ever given out for publica ton, 1 Professor Whitney of Harvard Med icaI school. who made the analysis. informed the authorities that Rear | Admiral Eaton had died from poison and on the strength of this informa- tiCn an inquest was begun. which
 continued for some time and led to | the indictment and arrest of Mrs. Jennie May Eaton, the widow of the admiral, on the charge of having poisoned her husband
 The testimony given at the in l quest was of a rather startling and sensational nature and brought to light the skeleton in the Eaton closet.
 l. was brought to light that at the time when Admiral EatOn's first wife was in her last illness, Mrs Aims worth. an intimate friend of hers. was visiting her Shortly before her death Mrs. Eaton, feling her end
 near. asked Mrs. Ainsworth to look after the admiral after her death. Admiral Eaton was under the i'm 1 pression that Mrs. Ainsworth was a l widow at the time and did not learn
 until after he had married her in accordance with the wish of his de- ceased wife. that she had d husband living and had obtained a divorce from him only a few days before her second marriage Mrs. Ainsworth had two daughters from her first marriage, Mrs. June Ainsworth Keyes. and Dorothy AnsWorth. After Mrs i AinswOrth's marriage to Admiral Eaton there was a great deal of friction between the admiral and his vife's elder daughter, who seems to
 have been the principal cause of
 trouble in the household Mr and
 Mrs. Eaton adopted a little boy, but
 the child died and at that time Mrs
 IGaton's daughter caused a sensation
 by accusing the admiral of having
 poisoned the child. This charge was
 found untrue. however.
 After the death of Admiral Eaton
 Mrs. June Ainsworth Reyes made
 bitter attacks upon the character oi
 the admiral. repeated the charge that
 he had poisoned his adopted child land tried to create the impression 1 Continued on Page Five)