Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-18
Doctor Testifies Against Rear
AdmiraPs Widow, Ac-
cuSed of Murder.
SHE FREQUENTLY SAID
HUSBAND WAS INSANE
Mrs. Virginia Harrison of Alexan-
dria Tells of Conditions in
Daughters Home.

PLYMOUTH. Mass, October 1S.-Dr
Joseph G. Frame, who attended Rear Ad-
miral Joseph G. Eaton in his last illness
cal examiner was called as witness by
the state when the trial of Mrs. Jennie
May Eaton for the murder of her hus-
band by poisoning was resumed today
The witness said that Mrs. Eaton had
frequently told him that her husband was
insane and addicted to drugs. He, how
ever, had never observed any symptoms
of insanity or the drug habit.
DR.. Frame said he was summoned to
the Eaton home March Z and found the
admiral suffering "excruciating pains,
supposedly from eating too freely of fresh
pork the night before.
Mrs. Eaton Uncertain.
At $50 o'clock the following morning
Mrs. Eaton telephoned him that her hus-
band was dead. She seemed uncertain
about the time of death, but finally plac-
ed it at ) am. The witness said: 81 at
once turned the case over to Medical
Examiner Osgood. because ! could not
understand why the admiral should die.
l did not think he would die when 1 saw
him the day before.
Later Mrs. Eaton told the witness that
she had been unable to give her husband
any medicine because his stomach would
not retain 1t. The witness described his
autopsy. When 1t was completed Mrs.
Eaton asked him whether the admiral
brain had been found "all right
Witness From Alexandria.
Mrs. Virginia Harrison of Alexandria,
Va. member of u prominent family of
that state. was called by the prosecution
yesterday to tell about conditions in the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Eaton. Mrs.
Harrison said her daughter manifested
"hysterical tendencies toward the adj
miral at times. During the last four
years the witness spent much time at her
daughters home in ASsinippi.
Her daughter, she said. seemed actually
to believe that the admiral dabbled in
drugs and was insane. Mrs. Harrison
saw no signs of these things She first
noticed the admirals final illness of
March 6, before he had eaten the roast
pork which Mrs. Eaton claimed was the
cause of that attack. Today was the first
time she had seen her daughter since
Mrs. Eaton left home March 20 to at
tend the inquest at bingham. where she
was arrested on the charge OF murder.
Moved to Tears.
Often. as she answered the questions
of District Attorney Barker, tears rolled
down her cheeks. Whenever she seemed
on the verge Of breaking down Mrs.
Eaton would lean forward and smile re-
assuringly. Mrs. Harrison took the stand
after her sixteen-year-old granddaughter,
Ainsworth, had finished six hours
of testimony. She corrobOrated much of
what Dorothy had said about friction in
the household
CrOss-examined, Dorothy said that for
some time previous to her stepfather' 8
death Mrs. Eaton had been in the habit
of placing medicine in her husbands cup
at every meal.
Miss Grace Byram Howard and Miss
Bessie r. Collamore testified today
that Mrs. Eaton had asked them to ac
cuse the admiral of having tried to flirt
with them Neither had been annoyed
by attentions from the admiral, they
said. Mrs. Eaton appeared much
amused at the testimony Of the young
women, and at times laughed aloud.
At 1870 o'clock an adjournment until
Monday was taken.