Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-10-16
DIVORCED HUSBAND
COMES TO RESCUE
Ainsworth Loves Mrs. Eaton
and Will Aid Her in Defense
Against Charge of
Murder.

Boston, Oct. l6.---Danicl Henry AIMS
wor'h. her FIRST husband. is coming ta
The aid of Mrs. Jennie May Harrison
Eaton, widow of Rear Admiral Joseph
Giles Eaton On trial at Plymouth
Mass on the charge of having poisoned
The admiral so AT least il is stated
by Mrs. Ralph i. Ncyes Older ,l;.,,gh
Ter of AinsWorth who has stoo,l l,v her
mother. Mi's. Eaton, from the first
Mrs. k"N"S also said that as soon
as her mothers trial is over SHE will
2cgln suit for divorce from kcycs
from whom she separated last .Npril
AinsMorih. according 10 Mrs i<eyrs
has been i'm arizona, He WAS divorced
in 1905.
My falhers she said has promised
To come from Arizona. He viii do
everything IN lais power lo mam,na. I
knpW ne WIN. because he loves her as
much to-day as he ever did. and it lust
about broke his heart when mother was
divorced from him. Mn sister DOROTHY
and VIII be happy TO sec our father
and feel that narnna Will too be-
cause ne can help her a whole lot
Nightmare, She Says.
Just think. added Mrs. Kcses
what a terrible ordeal it has been for
poor lnotlcr--to be held np as :, .nur-
derci of her husband. To be torn away
from those she loves and TO be kept ain
these months in n jt,il. but We shall
stand by her. and so will father and i'm
the end 1T will all come out fine and the
people "ill see what a mistake has
been made and how ,motic, has snf-
ferc,l.
III is indescribablc-- constant
nightnlnrc. 1t looms up before me
every day and nighl--tie horrible pub
iieitN The disgrace. the sdelong
Chances of curious. morbid and too
often an unsympathctic public
The defense of Rear Admiral F.atons
widow on her trial will be that the re-
tired naval officer killed himself with
one of his queer East Indian poisons."
The prosecution asserts that Mrs
Eaton secretly gave her husband poison
AT his meals.
Helped Get Divorce.
OF Ainswprth. Admiral Eaton said
before he died.
II met Mrs. Ainsworth in Chicago
and Thought she was II widow. At
that time, however, she Was not actu-
ally divorced from her husband. 1t
MAS not until just before my marriage
that ] learned she had II husband
Then She aoid me that her husband WAS
alive and that she had just obtained a
divorce from him on tho grounds of
drunkenness and descrtion.
During the time paid attention
to hci. knowing her stlaiiencd Cir
Icumsts,nces and thinking her husband
was dead l helped toward the support
of herself and children. giving her
money. though at the time ] did not
know for what purpose she was using
II. Later after the marriage, learned
inadvertently that had been paying
foi. the divorce proceedings which she
had instituted against her husband.
Il married her because | had said
/ would and was too much of n gentle
man tn withdraw my promise She
has always been II good wife.
Il knew that money was given to
Ainsworth. but never With my consent
except once: then paid his fare TO
Cleveland to get rid of him.
After their marriage the lcatons went
to Rrookl!ne Soon afterwards the
rear adIairal met With financial re-
verses and in his last days led an un-
pretentious life on a poultry farm In
Norwell.