Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-24

breakfast She said to the admiral:
Don't you want some breakfast? and
he replied: Zee lost one breakfast al
ready; | don't want another.
He was i'll all day. and Mrs. Eaton
sale. 1 guess I'll call a doctor She
walked to the window and saw the doc
tor coming. DR.. Frame visited the ad-
miral. but couldn't find anything seri-
ousla wrong with him.
She administered to his wants like
an atfectlonate wife all day. running up
and dom stairs and waiting on him.
The movements of the accused Wild
ow during the week of the admirafs
death was described in detail by the
defenee's lawyer.
we will show you there was no
friction between Mrs. Eaton and her
hus oand right up to the time of his
Illness. she said. There was no misun-
derstanding.
Dir. J. Fremont Smith Of Washington.
D. .. the first witness called, testified
at considerable length regarding the
adnirals habits of intoxieation during
his first wife's Illness, and her death.
During the testimony of DR.. smith,
IT was brought out that naval records
show Admiral Eaton to have Been ar
fiicted with disease for which arsenic
and ether drugs are sometimes admin
istcred It was DIR. Smith who secured
the services of Mrs. .. II. Ainswofth
to nurse the admirals first wife and
he described her as faithful aud true
to her charge" She later became Mrs.
Eaton and is now the defendant in the
case.
Under q examination by DIS
trict Attorney Barker. DR.. Smith tes-
tilted that the admirals first wife died
of cerebral apopieXy, which might be
symptoms of the disease for which the
admiral had been treated. He also said
that ne had known many persons who
suffered from the admirals trouble and
who followed it with excessive use of
intoxicants.
Rear Admiral Charles Z. Clark,
| commander of the battleship Oregon
| on her famous voyage around the
Horn gave testimony as to the per-
| sonal habits of Rear Admiral Eaton.
As president of the naval examining
and retiring board, he declined a re-
quest from Rear Admiral Eaton for
an assignment It. position on some
naval board, because he had heard
| of habits of intemperance on the part
| of Admiral Eaton To this Admiral
Eaton replied that he had been forced
on account of Illness to take some-
thing which caused the condition re-
| ferred to,
Lieut.. Holden c. Richardson. now ON
duty as naval constructor at Ham
mondsport, n. Y, testified that while
| junior watch officer of the battleship
| Massachusetts, in 1903, he had seen
| Capt. Joseph G. Eaton. then master
of that vessel, in condition of APP
parent intoxication. He had never
noticed any odor of liquor from his
breath, but had seen him stagger and
act in other ways like an intoxicated
man.
Lieut. Richardson, told of one ocea-
sion when. on the way to the Azores,
| Capt Eaton appeared on the bridge
| dressed in paiamas. and gave orders
which if carried out, the witness said,
would have put the battleship in dan
ger of collision with other vessels OF
the squadron AT another time, the
witness saw Capt Eaton While seem
| inely intoxicated Hold mast or
| court on Tue DdltieSHlp, anu III tiid'
condition sentence two seamen for
| drunkenness.
In cross-exam nation. Lieut.. Rich
| ardson was asked why if the condi-
ton of Capt. Eaton was so serious
that the ship and the lives of those
aboard were endangered he did not
make a report of the situation to any
one except the ships surgeon and the
navigating officer. The witness de-
clined to answer on the ground that
he was not on trial
Rear Admiral Clark took the wit
ness stand again at the request of
District Attorney Barker and was
asked whether it was not the duty OF
an officer in such circumstances as