ADMIRAL'S WIFE IN POISON TRIAL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1748, 13 May 1913, Page 6

ADMIRAL'S WIFE IN POISON TRIAL.

USUAL ACTIVITY OF AMERICAN PRESS. HEAUBKABLB I.RTTER BY ACCUSED' Now York, March 23. 111 accordanco with established custom in America, the newspapers arc anticipate ing the trial of Mrs. Jennie Laton, who IS accusal of iwis-aiiiiy hor husband, BearAdmiral Eaton, by a painstaking discussion of tho features of tho case. Iho Courts permit this, apparently. thinking that it aids ultimate justice, by increasing the chance of a virtuous prisoner pfo\ l.ng his innocence, and reducing tho probabilities of u guilty man escaping. ■ The press has not vet returned a verdict in tho Eaton trial. But it has established the fact that since 1909, when Mrs. Eaton charged hor husband with poisoning their adopted liabv, arsenic, or foino other equivalent, was tire tlioine with which the whole household was familiar. Indeed, some poison plot seemed al«;n.Y» in the air. In a letter written to her lawyer, Mr. Marshall Gallion, dated March 15, 1911, Mrs. Eaton thus described her husband: "lie is a sick, helpless, rad old man, ami it goes to- my healt. lam his eyes, brain, life, let how can I stay lierc alone and let linn kill mo and niv poor little innocent Dorothy i* Do is A most dangerous, subtle uiamac. 1 miinifln his llis tllG IIQAy nriX against >«e. All the doctors are too diplomatic and afraid to to deal with Tiim. Alter 1' lida.v 1 shall lie here alone with him ; Is it wise? 1:le is "0 subtle and sly. Find out whether >01 can. pet mo a woman who is a Mieilock llolmes in criminal insanity and high, standing with doctors ami aliensU-ono whose word would M. It she said he was inline Hjov would iio the list. . . This extraordinary letter has precipitated an inquiry as to he eond. ion of Mrs. Eaton's own mind. Mr. (.ha les Nordstrom, a Iloston (leteetive, says last June Mrs. &*°u an expert 10 n d in the efiVrt to prove that her husband was in a poison plol to his l'nmilv. Slie declared that ho Admiral Ind a nivstericits eliost ill their MassicWts 'home filled with green Indian pi ill-, Which ho collected in Bombay Ivh.m til" American squadron visited that. ..i. described how the Admiral woke her up one. night to find blood trick- ' down her arm, be'' hufbaijd s exlnnntion being that. lie had pricked .her with a needle conlamiug a mysterious nnicoiij from tho Far East. On the other baud, Admiral Eaton s friends are quoted as having heard him Lv "You're lucky folks, for you dout have to be afraid of anybody trying to pcison you. . . -Vlthough ser«'fli persons spMK of setv c n ir poison in ,the bouse, the detectives are unable to find the bottle or box which contained the arsenic which the chemical ■uvilvsis !i> r - shown caused tho Admiral s ilentli. In the absence of a pecuniary motive for tho crime, (ho ease for the l»o----bcciiition seems very wcuk»