Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, October 22, 1913, Page 10

MRS. EATON HAD A WEALTHY LOVER Witness at Murder Trial Testifies That Admiral’s Widow Told Her About Him, But Did Not Reveal His Name—Re- ceived Considerable Sought to Have Records Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 21.—A refer- ence to “a wealthy lover in Chicago,” who wanted Mrs. Jennie May Eaton to leave her husband, was introduced to- day by the prosecution as showing a pessible motive in the trial of Mrs. Easion charged with the murder of her husband, Rear Admiral Joseph Giles Zaton. The evidence was given in the tes- timony of Mr Marshall Bursey of ‘Washington, D. C., who said that eight months before the death of the ad- miral, Mrs. Eaton told her of the Chi- cago man and his proposal. Alleged Lover's Name Not Disclosed. According to Mr Bursey, Mrs. F¥aton did not disclose to her the name of the alleged lgyer, but said that he owned much preserty and had promised to leave it all to her. Mrs. Buts said that it was while Mrs. Eat was in Washington follow ing the birth of a child to her daugh- ter, Mrs. June Keyes, that she made the statement regarding her Chicago friend, adding that she was afraid the admiral would poison her. Mrs. ton told the witness that Admiral ton had attacked her several times at night and at one time she awoke to find him injecting medicine into her arm. Received Mail from Chicage. Mrs. also said, a to Mrs. Burs that she w to have the admiral examined by an ex- pert and if he was found to be in- sane, have him put away. During her stay in Washington, the witn said, Eaton received much mail post- d Chicago. Sarah Ducher, a rk in the investigating bureau of children and in W said tha hington, the calling the 2 trict court to the ca was not receiving p an orphanage, Mrs, dis- Mail Postmarked ‘“‘Chicago”— Regarding Child Destroyed. destroy all the records in the case saying that her name was Owens and that she was the grandmother of the child. Later Mrs. Eaton gave several other names and finally admitted that she was the wife of a naval officer. The case was finally settled and Mrs. Eaton took the child. | Used Talcum Powder to Track Admiral The testimony of these two witnesses occupied the greater part of the af- ternoon session, the morning being consumed in hearing neighbors of the Eatons, nearly all of whom recalled instances in which Mrs. Eaton had talked about poisons and had made assertions that her husband was in- { sane. > How Mrs, Eaton tried to trail her husband’s footsteps by scattering tal- cum powder on the attic stairs was| described by Frank S. Booth, a Rock- { iand optician. Faton told me that ied to poison her.” testified he said she thought he had hidden poison in the attic and she had searched for it but could not find an Then she told e she scattered taleum powder on the®feps leading to the attic in the hope of jtracing his footprints. Her trap failed.' Five More Government Witnesses. Mrs. Eaton was an impassive listener to the proceedings today and paid no attention to the curious glances of the crowd that taxed the limit of the court her hus- “Mrs, room and overfiowed into the street. When court adjourned for the night, many of the women auditors left in| automobiles. scores of which - suar- rounded the building all day District Attorney Barker said that the state will probably rest its case tomorrow after five more witnesses been examined. The defense ex- three or four da hav pects to occupy Of the early married life of Sarah Knight we know nothing. Her maiden pame was Sarah Kemble, a daughter of eaker of the fifth commandment 1676 the son of a London trader name of Knight, who died abroad and | left her Elizabeth. with one child, a Mrs. Knight was daughter, a wo IF MEALS HIT BACK AND STOMACH SOURS “Pape’s Diapepsin” ends Indigestion, Gas, Dyspepsia and Stomach Mis- ery in five minutes. 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This clty will have many “Pape's Diapepsin” cranks, as some people will call them, but 1 will be enthusiast about this spiend stomach tion, too, if you ever take it for indi- gestion, gases, heartburn, sourness, dyspepsia, or any stomach misery, Get some now, this minute, and rid vourself of stomach trouble and indi- gestion in flve minutes. head five — e 0 @Z~rr—-m Mrme ©zZ-xPmr 20z WE'LL PAY YOU $1.00 FOR YOUR Old Fountain Pen Any day up to December 15, 19413, Provided You Buy a:Crocker “INK-TITE” Fountain Pen, here, (Only:one Pen taken in exchange for each new pen purchased.) < | vated a f sly kissed his wife in | urning from a long v in the stocks for uct. She mar belch | these | -order | min- | | prepara- | ided character: she pos ual degree great energ ication. She wrote poetry peculated in Indian lands and | erent times kept a tavern, mar ged a shop of merchandise and cult rm. Surely a New England d if it were on old England should- jto an | good e Norwich first claims her as a citizen | in 1698, when she appears with goods 1 nd is styvled a “widow and | shop-keeper.” She .seemed of a some- I what roving disposition, and remained | but a short time in Norwich, perhaps | | three or four year: { At the time of her celebrated journey | | from Boston to New York, she lived in Boston. The journal she kept during | her travels was published some years lago under Theodore Dwight's supi | vision. It must have been a tremend- { ous undertaking for one lone woman to | set out on a perilous journey like this | two hundred years ago, riding thro’ the Narragansett woods meant dangers, not only from hostile Indian tribes, but from four-footed beasts as well. Even men would not start out on a journey of a few mil without for | | Praye before they went post- | jriders put some six da | journey between Boston and New York, | This diary of Mr Knight's is of! importance to us peciz 2 a most vi {ers, because it gives ture of -gone days and told w such a delicious sense humor that we turn to her little way- | side sketches again and again. | | | Her route was probably by the “shore | {line, passing thro’ Providence, New | London, Guilford, New Haven.” In the | | first edition of Mrs. Knight's journal | {are two manuscript accounts of her, | | which are very inter ng because {they prove to the would-be doubter i |that she was a most inirepid woman. | {Let me give a few excerpts from the | | first account “as It is written, without puncuation and due regarrd for capi- | tals: | In 1704 she made a journey to New 'k to claim some property belonging r husband. She returned on horse March, 1705. Soon after her re- he opened a school for children. n and Dr. Samuel Mather | r first rudiments of edu- | n from her. Her parents both died | he was the only child they left, | she continued to keep hool in the mansion house till 171 The force lof Mme K's Diamond Ring was dis- played on several panes of glass in the old house and one pane of gla preserved as a curiosity for years, 11775. It was lost when Charle was burnt by the British, June 1 lines on the glass were committed to memory by the present write | “Thro’ many toils and many frights I | i | | | i was | | | | | have returned poor Sarah Knights | | | | | | | { | | till own The | { | Over great rocks and many stones God has preserv'd from fractured bones' This manuscript was whitten by a granddaughter of Rev. Cotton Mather, | The other manuscript reads very much | tells of the like the above. It famous | pane of glass being preserved as a| curiosity by an antiquerity (this word | has a delicious old-timey sound \lntill‘ the British set fire to the town. She| obtained the honorable title of Mad- {ame by being a famous school mige tress in her day. She taught Dr. | Franklin to write. She was highly re- t | spected by Dr. Cotton Mather, as a| | woman of good and pleasant humor.” The following extracts from her | journal give us a good bit of local cel- | or, and this is an abbreviated account | | of her first lodging place: i “I was greeted most discourteously | by the land-lady, who rores out: “Law | for me, what in the world brings you | here at this time-a-night? T never | see a woman on the Rode so Dreadful | late in all my Varsall Life. Who are | you? Where are you going? I'm | scared out of my witts.” with much [more of the same kind. I told her! she treated me very Rudely, and I did that I raight see her Ornaments.. ‘Buti' | what fastidious. ing palatable,” and paid s ners, which wa, describes some “Having call’d for something to ea Twisted something the bord, the woman like a cable, laying it on to bring it which having and Cabbage dinner. which I tho't wa: plac she xpence bro’t but IN, WEDNESDA The muttfon not be 8, apiece only smell. 3 who The Bui left it, | were debate stately & our cong of the 1ik rs name Ag ! tugg'd for into a capacity to spr with great complished, she served a dish of Pork |l uppose the r was of deep purple bolled d. mains of he "B These Valuable Presents and Hunareds of Others Each package of VETERAN Tcbacco corntains a Gift Ticket, and these YETERAN Gift Tickets are redeemable for the most valuabie and usefzl FREE Presents ever given wiiti tobacco! 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I bei norning | | not think it my duty to answer her un- |\ puners gotr a > st S et : il (g bl womanly, Question. = Miss stared|giomach was soom cloy'd and what e soon ended with Utother | silk made from a while, drew a chair, bid me sitt And | cahpage I swallowed served me for a good-night. the accessories then run upstairs and putt on 2 or 3 | GudaShe whole e B S Eoad nlent hesereay rings and returning sett herself just|mey| seems to have been obnoxious to | refnsed lodgings at the house before me showing the way to Reding | Madame Knight. She says in another | DeVille, break for ) the f G bit of nd uncomplimentary ch can 9 | dians. i for | bon | pal { hope, was quite out of the - oewstary® Truth compeis me to mention that W 17 she and six other people were imm dicted for selling strong deink to Tna They were fined twemty shile ngs and costs. t this same place shc died and was taken to New London interment, where her “poor tired ' have rested for over two cen- turies. LUCY B. sAYLES Magnet For Coin. here appears to have been a time in ew York when it was a general fad to hand William Sulzer money.— Washington Star. Denver is to open a chain of munict- neighborhood produce markets. her granams’ new rung sow, had it ap- |~ “\ye would have eat a morsell -our. | description | partakir The new perfected [/peared, would have affected me as|selves. But the Pumpkin and Indian- | “About four in the morning we set | hood and cloa | “« . . much. I pray'd Miss to shew me where | mixt Bread had such an aspect and |out fo The road was poor- | head very Ink-Tite Pen is the [|I must Lodg. She conducted me to a|the Bare-legg’d Punch so awkerd or | accomodation the fhce e . 5 parlour in a little back Lento which | ather Awfull a sound, that we left ost head in a Donce | For Infants and Children. ONLY selfsfilling, non- [|was almost filed with the bedstead. |foin» Head = BT ; 3 which was so high that I was forced | "“Tre followins bright and amusing SR (ibe 150§ 1me Kind You Have Mwa's BW‘M leaking pen ever offered. [Jlto/diimd on a chair to sitt up ‘:,‘;‘ig}f‘descripj\iz;n of her experience in a ca- 1gh { covered the ent were worn | t ¥ 3 {noe_ is inimitable: elp’'t out f afflictio: ¥ fes i se were | E C % having Stretched my tired Limbs. and |"““faving cross'd Prov. ferry. e e e e © were| Bears the very Crocker “Ink- Lay'd my head on a Sad-coloured pil- | came to a river which they gener: fernal Denn, | bead, or ide by | Bignatu.e of low, I began to think on the transac-|]y ride thro’, But I dare not venture, | where thus safe- | ma el 3 " Tite” Pen is guaranteed gotia of 2l past day e the fdeq | 20, (18 DOSE Eot 8 1ad & cance to carr | bestow one of these s picture €a | me to t'tother side. The canoe was comods: 3ut | upon our intrepid traveler. Her t Be o far hetter pen fo\gf:eh};?:an;oe?r??'ha\c: ;:;‘élry‘:f very small & shallow, so that when | meetin wholook'd | “horse furniture” consisted = of her Au l 0 noBEs we were In she seemed redy. to take old Devil If & quite as | side-saddle, saddle-bag which held | than you have ever those tired bones of hers on snowy lin- | in_ water, which ~reatly terrify’d me, | ould h get a word | her clothes, and her journal, a G+ Received k en and soft clean pillows, & caused me to Be very circumspe out of um, till with our Tmportunity | mentions in one entr ¢ ust Recelv nown. Those tall tour-(;:c:lsters that have | gitting with my hands st on each | they called old Sophister, who was | & few toothsome dainlies. In Montana and Plush—La 8i descended or ascende 11‘10 us from our | side, my eves stedy, not daring so|as sparing of his words as his daugh- | moved to Norwich und gave a - | b i CRANSTON & C0 ::::e:(z;s‘;‘rm ons could mount with- {’nu(‘hl x;x‘{ to lodge my umg.nlu: a halr's | ters bad bin no none was the | cup for the communlon service of the | Rubber Interlined—Inexpensive : readth more -on one side of my |revlys he made us to our demands | Norwich Town church he town in : . oy The word Lento, or lean-to, was melmmnm than Utether, nor so much as | Ife differed only in thls from the old | gratitude ;;“« er liberty to “gitt in | Wind Proof, Water Proof, Moth Proof back portion of a house, having raft- think on LotUs wife, for a very tho't ] fellow in T'toher Country, hee let us |the pue where she used to sitt in ye Economical Robe to buy. Boolu ers or supports leaning on another | would have cverseil our wherry’” depart.” | meeting-house."” after this perlod | Come — get look at th 4 building. In another description of a In tic following night scene, hes| In contrast to this Is her delg | Mme Knight seems to have divided g% 2 b il Shtionery Periodlcah night's lodging, , her “room was shared, | peetic tendency is apparent and her | the kind eption given her in | her time egually between Norwich - f 5 as was th foum:yyaw:ti?;?'h by %29 rhymes upon rum, to say the least, | London, where she was most civilly | and New Lendon. Tt men” who jeurneve er, e | realistic; entertained Governor Winthrop. | as she had dwellir Th L l Ch co. NORWICH, CONN. following emtry shews that the cooic | “I went to bed which, tho' pretty | Mme. Knisht Yery. somdescending | wlih nud Rov farips we | e L. apmal\ ing wae net always agreeable to Mad- | hard, yet neet & handsome, but I in her ¢ i of New York. She!|don. On one of these + . dame's palats, which we fancy some- could not sleep because of the clamor ' finde it pleasant, well com-'stone, she kept an inn, which we will 14 Bath St.. NOI’WICh, c"