The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-03-24
MRS. EATON, HID
IN CELL, SPURNs
EASTER SERVICES
Resurrection Morn Brings
Little Joy to Widow Ac-
cused of Poisoning
Admiral
WOMAN NERVOUSLY
PAGES BARRED ROOM
Belief in Guilt Grows, but
State Lacks Tablet Clew
and Has Weak Case
ny PATRICK GALLAGHER
Especial pispatch to The CAN

ny PATRICK GALLAGHER
Especial Dispatch to The calD
BOSTON, Mass. March 23.-Within
tine shadows of Plymouth JAIL Mrs.
Jennie Ainsworth Eaton spent Easter.
her grief and anxiety relieved only by
a few cards from friends still loyal.
forwardel with a daughters message
of love and hope.
The resurrection morn brought little
Joy to the widow of Rear Admiral
Joseph Giles Eaton, now the central
figure in a mystery more battling than
the famous Maybrick case which stirred
to bitter controversy the people of two
continents more absorbing than any
strange story penned by the dime nov
elist.
Distaste of the morbid curiosity
which has penetrated even within the
walls of the Jail, induced the woman
whose whole life story reeks with re-
spectacle squalor and domestic dis
sonance to deny herself the solace of
the Easter prison service.
WIDOW PAGES CELL
Part of the time she sat with bowed
head and clasped hands. nodding nerv-
ously. apparently excited but trying to
control herself. Again she would rise
to pace back and forth in the cell,
watching and gaining light as the sun
rose toward the meridian and the COM
ing of the soft shadows toward even
tide.
Is this woman. twice a wife, doubly
divorced by mans decree and the doom
of death, a. scheming deliberate muir
deress, to be Stunned and abhorred or
the helpless victim of foolish attach
ment. mismated and enmeshed by an
WHALING net of deceiving cireum
Stances. snarling the trail to the real
cause of the death OF the admiral. her
second husband? That is the one ques-
ton one hears discussed on every hand
in Boston.
STATES CASE WEAK
1t must be said that the woman has
10 willing believers in her guilt to one
who refuses to accept the theory of the
prosecution.
But even those most violently preju-
diced against the widow are forced.
reluctantly it may be. to admit the
weaknesses in the states case.
The announcement that an attempt
is to be made to attack the sanity
Of the woman is regarded as a sign Of
weakness-a preliminary admission that
a TNs
trict Attorney Barker and influential
friends of the admiral, fear that it
viii be impossible to trace the purchase
OF the poison to the widow or any
member of her family.
Mrs. Eaton and her daughters will
resist this move by every means in
their power. 1t is one element in the
case which brings anger to the eyes
and hard words to the lips of the
widow
"Cowardly. wicked" she said to one
of the officials of the Jail; either 1
am innocent or I am guilty. They
can not doom me to the living death
of life in a lunatic asylum"
WHO BOUGHT POISON PELLET.
Who bought the fatal poison pellet?
Ths answer to this question may con-
vict or liberate the prisoner
They will not find that we have
bought any poison" said Mrs June
Ainsworth Keyes. her daughter by her
They can search wherever they like,
but they will never trace that to either
my mother or myself
For moment she reverted to the
Wednesday before the admiral's death.
the day on which her mother was sup
posed to come to visit her in Medford,
and on which day she went to ASST
nippi, when her parent did not appear.
Il found the admiral in his usual
good health" she declared; she was
feeling well and apparently was in
good spirits. I talked with him pleas
antly about various matters, and when
/ departed he kissed me goodby The
visit was a pleasant one, with nothing
to mar it."
NOW SAYS ADMIRAL LOVED HER
Then, IN surprising contrast to her
previous declaration that she hated the
admiral and that he sought her life,
and that he made life unbearable for
her at the house, she continued:
"The admiral loved me. loved me
dearly, but his actions at some times
we're so strange that I don't think he
knew what The was doing. At those
times he made life unbearable for me,
and it was impossible to live with him.
.sThe admiral left me $4,000 in his
wN,1. but, Of course. you know that that
was made at time when he had
money which by now has probably
gonS TO pay bills and expenses
Reverting to'the charge against her
mother and the poison hunt, she said:
MY mother is innocent I know 1T.