Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — THE EASTMAN TRIAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE EASTMAN TRIAL.

MRS. EASTMAN CHEERING HER HUSBAND.

The Eastman murder trial at Cambridge, Mass., has been exciting widespread interest throughout the United States and even in Europe. Charles R. Eastman, accused of the murder of Richard Grogan, is a professor at Harvard University. The crime was committed in the latter part of 1899. A telegram from a correspondent who has been reporting the celebrated trial said: “Mrs. Grogan and Mrs. Eastman are living together, and there is every evidence of harmony among the accused, his wife and the widow of the man he killed. Mrs. Grogan is small, slender and dark. She goes to the courthouse every day with her sister, but is excluded from the proceedings, as she is a witness. Mrs. Eastman watches the scene all day. She sits far from her husband, who under one of the many peculiar provisions of the Bay State law, is isolated in a silvered steel cage, the front of which is open.

The cage floor is carpeted, the accused has an easy chair and sits back comfortably making notes in a book, writing suggestions to counsel or reading magazines passed to him by the reporters.’’