The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-09-29
New York and Buffalo Forces
areiTraiIing Down clews
DIVERS HUNT FOR BODY
OF BOSTON oIRL-cHAsE FOR
GfRARD SUSPECT is CLOS.
ING WITH POSSES STILL
I'M WOODS.

0lS incident which may modify or
change police theories of the murder
OF Jacob H. Thompson, the newspa-
per man who was done to death in his
rom at the st. James Hotel, No. 109
West Forty fifth tsreet, some time dur.
Ing the night OF September 7, has just
come to light.
1t proves conyincingly that there
was not only struggle but that the
sounds Of 1t were heard, and heard in
quarter least anticipated by the aged
editors assaiants. Those sounds, in
deed, were SO strangely transmitted
to the only known listeners to the hid.
den crime that they assumed an al
most ghostly and supernatural signi.
ticance. 1t was only several days
later. when accident revealed their
true source, that the mystery was ex-
planed, and the woman who heard
them realized her uncanny relation to
the murder that has SO for baffled the
police.
Directly opposite the St. James Ho.
tel, at No. 10S, is the Professional
Woman's League House Ii is one of
series Of tall brown-stone fronts.
The lower floors are devoted to the
uses Of the organization. the upper
ones are ,cnted to resident members.
Inc east room on the upper floor is oc
cuped D, Miss Engel Sumner, an ac-
tress. who has lived there since mid
summer.
Miss Summers room Is on the fourth
floor, but. taking into account the
English basement 1t Is on an exact
level with the room where Thompson
not@his haath. On the fifth hner Of
the FI5tei, ST, James Thompson i
window, the second from the east end
Of the hotel, IL directly opposite that
of Miss Sumner
The street hardly exceeds twenty
five or thirty feet In width, and, with
the asphalt pavement below, and tho
high stone houses on either side. has
almost the effect OF canyon. This
explains the practically perfect &C
counts which have added such singu
lar testimony to the crime.
Miss Sumner was well acquainted
with Mr.. Thompson $ methodical hab
it's Every morning AT seven she saw
him moving about his room, His Gus
tom was to keep the sash raised ana
the shade high to get as much air ant
light as possible, But to shield him
self from TOO close srutiny he PLACED
small screen across the lower par
of the window. From Miss Sumner
apartment he was plainly discernibl,
as he walked about or sat reading al
was his habit morning and evening
On the night of the murder Mis-
Sumner retired shortly before Ill 30
Her folding-bed when opened stretch
es across the window facing MI
Thompson's. AS she ha,i placed th
pillows at the foot her head was pre-
cisely parallel with the window
which was open, though the insid
blinds were drawn.
Usually an immediate and soun,
sleeper, she found herself unable L
close her eyes, She was vaguely III
easy, but 1t was not until she ha
been lying still for some time that tn
conviction grew upon her that ther
was some one In the room. At frs
II seemed to be that some one wa
sitting on the bed on the side farthes
from the window which sshe facet
Then the feeling that there was NOR
than one person near ner became ce
tain. & ia
She tried to shake off what she In
aginai was purely nervous terror br
for while lay paralyzed by fear.
Indefinite noises, always on the sid
furthest from the window, increase,
A clothes cupboard Is on that side
the room, and the frightened woma
reasoned that the sounds must con
from there. .Al!
Finally she summoned up couraf
TO rise and light the gas She scare
cd every nook and Granny but four
nothing She looked at her watc
and II was five minutes to l. She W,
SO completely shaken that she s
down and read the Bible for son
minutes to calm herself
When she went back to bed, ho
ever, the sounds that had so alarm
her continued AT last her ears caug
the short thud of something push
down or dropped, still on the farth
side next to the wall, and the muffl
movements as or more than one d
son In the room.
Miss Sumner sprang out Of bed.
the gas. and d second time made
search OF her room TO no avil 4
even walked TO the window. tnr
back the blind for moment and
ted the light In T'hompson's ro
across the way, with no thought
connecting her terrors with her
posite neighbor. Then she closed
and again read the Bible for an u,
or more. When sha returned To b