The sun., 1913-10-26
MRS. EATON DENIES
POISONING HUSBAND
Closes Six Hours Examination
With Assertions Of Her
Innocence.
WAS "FOND" or ADMIRAL
Widow Declares That lie Was
n Drug Eater and n
Drunkairl.
WAS "FOND" or ADMIRAL

IITUIktIu.
FLYM"rru Mass. oct. 81 Nfter
sp-Iiuing sis hours in the witness chair
to-day. telling the story of her life and
tho circumstances surrounding the death
of her husband Rear Admiral Joseph a.
Eaton. Mrs. Jennie May Eaton closed her
testimony with an emphatic denial that
she had killed him with arsenic.
Pointing - finger directly ~ tho ac-
,uscd widow. William A Morse, her senior
counsel exclaimed
"Dd you administer wnitc arsenic to-
your husband""
Il; is ,h" must absurd tain- 80 the
world Mrs Eaton replied with II smile.
'Nc>cr, never, n",', IN my Ife did do
"pid YOU ever. MIS-. Eaton. administer
Whit ars"ulc ar any other kind uf pnison
I" YOUR husband
I uoNor did" W. tho response +
never did in my life.
"Mrs. Eaton. du YOU know poison
81 never s,w any poison IN my lif"
''tIa," YOU. Mrs Eaton. ever purchased
any prisuu ar whit, arsenic in your life
Never in my life
Mrs. Eaton. did YOU love YOUR hus-
band
II was very fond Of Admiral Eaton
MI. Mcrs" turned upon his heel with the
remark That is all" and thus ended
the most dramatic day uf the Eaton trial.
Mas Eaton. with th" same Cdlnnlcss
:hht Characterized hciNdcmrauor all day.
stepped from IN" witness box and within
- few minutes was on her way back 10
fl!Wou,h jail uu Munda. she will h.
Subjected I" tn" ordeal OF = cross-cAami-
ytsls sf..fN Al.
f:rhcr.
Called ADMIRAL "Drug Eater
i'uriui; mr testimony Mrs. Eaton de-
'ldi'd th>t both OF her husbands were
confirmed drunkarda. hnt tn, ADMIRAL. sh"
SAD. was also a clever drug s~tov and
was under It's Influence AZ l'dsi thr y"
times week Mrs Eaton admitted sh"
was jealous of her husband
Tho JEALOUSY" she testified. was when
j." Wa On the street with IN" and IN.
would continually notice other women
Letters j'c,N"d ny M's, Eaton from
IN" Admiral while sh. was in Washington
aud Weymouth wcr" introduced. Mos; Of
thsm were cuuchcd IN md, airing terms
a0d som" also contained sentences 80
Nulsat that Nj. Mors" whispered them
IL IN" jury. II WAS tn" u.'tLfr OF the
latter whj"h l,d Mrs Eaton to believe ne
WAS using drugs aud cHu~cd her to en-
gag Miss Rooney t" watch him.
Mrs. t.tt"n described the last ~u,p,t
-. family had together ami of tho Ad-
ANA! being tat'u III ana vomiting. Sh.
sa.d sh. at',ud,I him duHug tn. nigh,
AND "!S "u ia, point "t t'l'phpninc Tor \
phi S''ltn tn" nest morning when she saw
ID! trIm" coming iuio the yard
br framo lit some pills and sh" fol-
loved his directions in administering Them.
Mrs. Eaton Sud that after responding
a., Al IL
.a ,hc morning or March shc lay down
t,sid" him ard thought th"y must have
both ftll.u ASLEEP. Sh. said sh" had her
arm around his neck and Wd> awakened
by III" GOODNESS uf his body. She then in
formed burothy that shc believed the Nd-
unthl WAS dad and Ntcr t.l.phoncd for
d. Frame.
Mrs. Entom's Narrative.
tn. count room was sll,at and at
tentiNv when Mrs. Eaton told Tia. story
"f her III, Sh I"au,d forward ON the
ial OF th" witness h"S urd spok, IN calm.
clear tones. lI"r urst rrcoli"ctiouS were
those OF "a small town in Michigan where
shc att, n'i"d * hool. ana at tho age Of
married Daniel Henry Ainsworth.
Her two daughters were born III Mich-
gan. and thu family went to st
Louis to allow little Dorothy TO l." treated
for her llmeu"Ss. She told of the .X-
'csSN' 'UHhi'S 81 hci hu'hdhi. III 81
Louis Shr decided I" earn som" money,
sh" SAID, ana took up can\assing books
for time. aud was successful Later
III" family moved 10 Washington Il. &.
~ went through various parts of Wash
inst"I selling books. she said. "\ftcr
my husbands drinking became unb"ar-
able th" house was sold, the furnitur.
stored and ! decided would fit my
self professionally and entered the George
Washington Hospital for This purpose
Not long after this | got Il position as
nurse for Admiral f.at"ns wife"
From tn" start of her lie in the Nd
mirals home, Mrs. Eaton said she no
Iced his drinking. Sh" said he was in
his wifes funeral.
uous.Lc.n.r =, xno . w..L
lei' INC pace an" TOOK another po-
sitioh Tor Few Weeks, but later came
back as tne N"mIrals housekeeper' FOR
Which received S.o per week. the
"elehuah' continued ihe .Ndmiral iatel
came L" MASSACHUSETTS and took cot
tase AT iiulI was h"t inarilcd at that
'Int, Nlthoueh the Adhliral had pro-
posed II II! Washington
THE Admra' ana We're married at
the i'ark street 'hnrrh hrst residing
harvard avenue, I,IOOkllu., At thai