Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-14
WIFE IS HELD FOR
MURDER OF ACTOR
Mrs. Frederick r. Seaton, Once
a Crack Shot, Charged With
Bogota Crime.
JEALOUS OF AN ACTRESS
IN HIS ROAD COMPANY
carman Case Clippings, Found
in Home, Believed to Have
Inspired Shooting.
speciaI to tho Evening star.

Special to the Evening Star.
HACKENSACK, Aug. 14.--ATrs.
Frederick r. Seaton is in the Bergen
county jail here today. charged with
the murder of her husband, an actor,
uvho played last season in Get Ricn
quick Wallingford, at their home
in Bogota She is suffering from
nervousness and is under a physi-
=seians care. She will say nothing
sbout tie crime except to identity
The .3S calibre revolver as one that
might have been around the house"
nd to admit that she had had sew
raj drinks of whiskey shortly before
4er husband was shot.
e She was given a hearing before
ustice Cummins in the Jail here and
Commitment papers were made out
- is likely that her case will be take
Sup by the September grand jury.
ACTRESSES Name Mentioned.
seaton and his wife had many
9uarrels. which were heard by the
.,leigh bors. The name of an actress
g who had been in a road company in
+ which Seaton had a leading part,
s4gas used frequently in the aceusa-
lions Mrs. Seaton made against her
husband. Sheriff Heath has several
photographs of this actress which ne
found in the house.
Seaton had not been working for
some time, Wednesday noon he was
sitting on the back porch smoking a
pipe. His wife was in the kitchen.
Berthe Estelle Payne, thirteen. col
cred girl, was ironing in the base
ment and could hear Mrs Seaton up
braiding her husband. He replied,
e apparently trying TO soothe his wife.
The GIRL heard him saw.
- why do you always try TO stir
up a fuss?"
soon afterward, 1876 o'clock, the
quarrel reached such a height that
it attracted the attention of Frank
Cox, a trackwalker, and John Kelly,
fiagman. on the Susquehanna rail-
road. which runs back of the house.
They looked up and saw Seaton rise
from his chair and turn toward the
doorway in which his wife stood
- She dropped back a step as he
walked toward her, raised her hand
and the sound of two shots reached
the watching men. Seaton fell on the
porch as his wife, screaming, ran in
side.
Found Wife in a stupor.
Cox and Kelly ran into the house
and telephoned DR.. G. l.. Edwards.
Then they went inside and found Mrs.
Seaton lying in a stupor on the din
ing room floor When the doctor ar
rived Seaton was dead One bullet
had entered his mouth and penetrated
the brain and the other had entered
the left breast near the heart.
Sheriff Heath with two deputies
soon arrived at the house from the
city, only a mile away, and began a
search of the house. In the kitchen
they found the revolver. two cham
bers emptied, and a partly filled bot
lie of whisky.
Borough Marshal Winters told As
sistant Prosecutor ZabrislSie that
three weeks ago neighbors fired two
shots from their windows to call at
tention to the Seaton home, where a
quarrel had alarmed them.
The Seatons moved to BogOta two
years ago, buying the house in which
the murder occurred.
II was recalled yesterday by Mar
! shall Winters that Seaton had told
him his wife had been a sharpshooter
on the stage. In going through the
house Sheriff Heath found a picture
of her IN a COW girl costume with a
revolver in a belt about her waist.
He found also a newspaper clipping
in which a special writer had used
the Carman case as a terrible illus
iration of the madness of Jealousy
and o mice moral lesson for other
suspicious wives" Mrs. Seaton APP
parently had cut it out.
The couple had been married about