Friend Mary suggested this event for a blog. I thought it would make a good one. Cold-blooded murder or justice for a failed lover? Whichever you decide, the facts are, George D. Saxton was a 40+ year old woman's man. And he was shot by a woman. The 1890s brought a lot of crime stories and this is a good one. Ida McKinley, wife of the President of the United States at the time, had a brother who bounced from one love affair to the next. The Saxton family lived in Canton, Ohio, a long way from Washington DC. George Saxton was a man that, as it appears, had no true morals. And this fact cost him his life on October 7, 1898. As he stood on the front steps of the home of his present lover, he was shot three times by an ex-lover. There were articles about the killing in the papers but for the most part, this event was hushed up as it had happened the the First Lady's brother. On this blog the events of that day are explained for the most part by the newspapers of the times. Had this murder happened today, no doubt it would be all over the 24-hour news cycle and the internet.