Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-29
STILL IN THE DA Rk
Henry County Authorities Have
No Important Light on
Streed Mystery.
HE HAD TWO REVOLVERS
But Wife Cannot Identify One Found
Under Body and Has No Sugses-
tions to Offer.

Cambridge, H.. Sept. 29.-Baffied in
all their efforts to find a solution of the
shooting mystery which surrounds the
death of Attorney John V. Streed, the
officers admit that they are no nearer
the answer to the questions that con-
front them than they were an hour
after the dying man was found at the
door of the clubhouse back of the post
office block, in which he had living
rooms.
Close friends of the lawyer scout the
idea that there had ever been an at.
tempt to blackmail him or that he had
ever been personally threatened with
assassination. They say ;hat Streed
whose nature was open and frank
would have told them if this had been
the case.
Expressed Fear for Life.
They confess. however, that Streed
recently had had an indefinable fear of
his life and that his conversation fire.
quently turned in a general way upon
his danger. He did not. brood over
these fears, but on the contrary seem
ed TO be content in the belief that if
violent death was his predestined end
there was no occasion TO worry about
it.
Mrs Streed, who has been inter
viewed closely upon all phases of the
case by States Attorney SturtZ
reaffirms her belief that her husband
the suicide theory, to which many
Cambridge people continue to cling
She says her husband was of wonder
ful mental poise and that no difficulty
or business care. of which he apparent
ly had none, could have induced him 10
take his own life. She calls it brutal
murder. but her conversation fails TO
reveal motive for the act.
Pistol May Give Clue.
Considerable Importance was at
tached by the authorities 10 the decla-
ration of Mrs. Streed that her husband
had two revolvers in his room when
she went away. One of them. she says.
had a barrel a little longer than the
other. The revolver found under the
dying man Tuesday had ] barrel half
an inch longer than that OF the revolv-
er found in the drawer of his room. In
other respects the two guns were alike
Mrs. Streed, however. will not posi-
lively say that this revolver found un-
der the body is the one missing from
the room when search was made
In regard to the letter written to his
wife by Mr.. Streed Sept. 3 and left on
his desk, telling her of fears for his
life Mrs. Streed can offer no explana-
tion that will assist the officers in solv-
i:.g the mystery. No names are men
toned in that letter.
Efforts have been made to connect
this shooting with the incident of sew
en- years ago. when Mr.. Streed figured
as the target for some one whose iden-
tity was never discovered The bullet
at that time passed through his hat.
Former Attack Recalled.
Friends of Mr.. Streed say he was
convinced that the shooting then was
the result of animosities aroused when
he obtained confession from a young
woman TO writing anonymous letters
to many people in Cambridge That
was long ago however; the young
woman in the case has been dead many
years and the opinion of most of those
Investigating the case is that nothing
can be gained by reviving that affair
Mr.. Streed's funeral in charge of the
Masons this afternoon was attended by
one of the largest crowds ever assem-
bled in Cambridge.