The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-03-13
ADM|RAL'S WIDOW
AND HER MOTHER
SERIOUSLY ILL
Further Action in Mystery of
Eaton's Death Awaits Result
of Chemical Analysis.
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT.
Continue to Throw Air of
Mystery Around Old Sea
Fighters Last Days.
OFFICIALS ARE SILENT.
isr~is, N Tn. Evening World,


NORwELL. Mass, March 13.-Deputy
Sheriff Condor and state Detective
Scott. who are investigating the death
OF Admiral Eaton. announced this noon
that Mrs. George Harrison. mother OF
Mrs. Eaton. Is In n serious physical con-
dition and the exact nature Of her Ill
ness is not known. Mrs. Eaton is also
seriously III to-day and is very weak.
Mrs Eaton, however. was not 80 III
but that she was able to confer with
her attorney. Judge @. W. Kelley OF
Brockton. whom she summoned 10 her
home this afternoon.
The Judge also conferred nj the
Eaton house with Deputy Sheriff Cong
don and State Officer Scott, who had
called to see Mrs. Eaton in connection
with the inquiry into her husbands
death. Later the three men said that
no statement regarding the conference
would be made to-day.
Upon the report OF Prof whitney Of
Harvard regarding his chemical analy-
sis OF the contents of the stomach OF
the late Rear-Admiral Joseph Giles
Eaton will depend the further action OF
the State police. The dead officers
widow continues to insist that he was
Ill more than year and that the
rumors he was poisoned are "inhuman
and cruel" The authorities. however.
say the retired officer was I'll only one
day and that many mysterious circum-
stances remain to be cleared up.
WIDOW MAY BE EXAMINED AS
TO HER SANITY.
That Mrs Eaton, the Admira"s w!d-
ow. may be examined as TO her sanity
developed whom Mrs. George Harrison.
her mother. admitted that her mental
condition had previously been brought
In question.
I'VE have been expecting that she
will be examined as TO her mental con-
diton as one outcome of the present
said Mrs. Harrison. I'VE
are prepared for that"
The investigation by the state and
county officials Is practically finished
and the odds and ends are now being
gathered up for the authorities. The
whole effalr Is In the hands OF District
Attorney Barker OF Brockton. and no
move will be made until he sanctions Il.
DR.. Gilman Osgood. the medical ex-
aminer whose attention was called to
the case by the attending physician. DR..
Frame, said to-day:
THE case In now out OF my hands. /
shall have to ask you to see the Dis
and " there Is anything
to give out he IL the one to attend to It."
DOCTORS DE C L A ALTON
KNOWN TO FIVE MEN.
Five men know what facts prompted
DR.. Joseph Frame to set In motion the
achinery OF judicial Investigation last
Saturday. Five men know what infer
ence from those facts Is being pursued.
and all Ave men have refused even to
hint at the nature of the facts or the d.
rection of the inquiry.
II would tell you as much as I
would tell anybody" said DIR. Osgood
to an Evening World correspondent, "and
here II II. Admiral Eaton died Satur-
day OF gastro-cnteritis. An autopsy
was performed. As to anything else
you may ask I must refer you to Dis
trict-Attorney Barker"
Castro enteritis IS more Il condition
than a disease. 1t Is frequently the
result of n disease. ar - MAJ be the
result of taking an iJritan. son into
the stomach.