The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
MRS, EATON IS
SHOWN AS ODD
AND JEALOUS
Mother Testihes That De-
fendant Unjustly Accused
Husband of Using Drugs
and Being Insane.
PRISONER SUBJECT TO
OTHER DELUSIONS
Woman Held as Slayer of Ad.
miral Is Revealed in Queer
Light by Her
Relatives.

PLYMOUTH. Mass, Oct. 17.-Mrs Vir
ginia Harrison OF Alexandria, Va.
member of a prominent family OF tha
state, was called by tho prosecution TO
OF her daughter. Jennie May Eaton. wht
is being tried on the charge OF murder
Ing her husband. Rear Admiral Joseph
Giles Eaton. U. S. N, by giving hin
poison.
Mrs. Harrison said that her daughter
manifested ''hysterical tendencies
toward the admiral at times. In the
last four years the witness had spent
much OF her time at her daughters home
in Assinippi, and she testified that she
considered her son-in-law always very
much OF a gentleman"
Her daughter. she said. seemed ac-
tually to believe that the admiral dabbled
In drugs and was insane. Mrs Harrison
could see no signs Of these things.
She had seen the admiral intoxicated.
She testified. but she never detected any
signs Of drug habit. She frst noticed
the admiral's fatal illness on March s,
she said, before she had touched the
roast pork which Mrs. Eaton claimed was
tho cause OF that attack,
Mrs. Eaton's Mother Weeps.
II was the 1rst time she had seen her
daughter since Mrs. Eaton left home
March 20 to attend the inquest at Hing
ham, where she was arrested on the
charge Of murder. Often, as she an
swercd 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 encouragingly.
Mrs. Harrison took the stand after her
1s-year-od granddaughter. Dorothy. had
finished six hours Of testimony. She cor
roborated much Of what Dorothy had
said about friction In the household
Mysterious Paper Mentioned.
A hint at evidence not yet received
WAS given by the state.
THIS had TO do with z typewriter
document, alleged to have disappeared
from the Eaton home after the death of
Rear Admiral Eaton. Dorothy Aims
worth, the younger OF Mrs. Eaton's two
daughters by an earlier marriage. was
asked By District Attorney Barker what
she knew of such paper. The defense |
objected. whereupon the district attorney |
called on Mrs. Eaton's attorneys TO pro-
duce the documents. The matter was
not pressed, but Mr. Barker said he hoped |
to Introduce the paper later.
After the admirars death a search was
made for will alleged TO have been
made by the admiral after the date borne
by the Will filed for probate, which left
his property TO the widow and his step
daughters.
Called Him Insane.
The continued testimony OF the 10
yearold girl was story of house d.
vided against itself. Hor moth and
stepfather quarreled frequently. she said.
a particular bone OF contention being the
q attentions paid 10 the witnesses sister
June. by man 10 years Of age. Then
the girl told OF Mrs. Eaton's attempts TO
have her husband committed 10 an asy-
lum for the insane. Mrs. Eaton uues-
TONED the admiraPs sanity because he
dabbled in dangerous drugs The ad-
Tiifal, the witness said, always treated ]
his wife well. even when he was some
what intoxicated" She told OF visits
to the home by Daniel H. Ainsworth OF {
Chicago from whom her mother was di.
yorced few months before she married
the admiral and Of trips made by the de-
'endant 10 Chicago and Washington
According TO the witness, June sided
With hcr mother in the family uuarrels
and had much influence over Mrs. Eaton.
The defendant, she said, at times taunt-
ed The admiral with being a lunatic and
pc JokinGy referred 10 their home as the
lunatic asylum" He sometimes used |
lhis address in letters addressed to his
wife.