The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-10
STRANGE STORY
OF GIRL S DEATH
MARRIED MAN WHOM SHE LOVED
CLAIMS SHE CUT HER
THROAT.
SUICIDE Story DENIED
BY Others Who Claim Man is Trying
to Shield Girls Murderer--One
Drop of Blood on
Sleeve.

! Moran, Kas., Oct. 9.Dr A. Long
! tcstifying today before the coroner's
| jury which is investigating the mys
terious death of Miss May Sapp, de
clared that Miss Sapp did not commit
suicide. in his opinion. Mrs. Samne'
f. Whtlow, wife Of the grain dealer
whom May Sapp loved and who swort
that he saw her cut her throat in her
yard week ago last Friday night,
will be subpoenaed to testify at the
coroner's inquest, which was resume
here today after an interesting session
yesterday in lola.
Frank Reed, Is quoted as saying
he saw a man and woman quarrel
ing in the rear of the Sapp home on
the night OF the tragedy; Mrs. Frank
Messenger, who, while passing the
house heard some one scream for
help and others will be examined.
A remarkable story Of young girl s
hopeless intatuation for married
man was told by Whitlow. Whitlow
testified that he was at the girls side
when she cut her throat after vainly
begging him to run away with her.
He denied that he had ever had inn
proper relations with Miss Sapp. He
testified that for five years his wife
had been an invalid, and says they o.
cupied separate rooms.
Fer three and onehalf hours yes.
terday he told of his strange relations
with the dead girl. He told OF his
sLfferings during the two years an
one month when, he asserted, the girl
him almost every day. He
every question and looked
his interrogators fearlessly in the
eye throughout his long recital Of the
girls vain efforts to. take him away
from his family.
He declared positively over and
over again that May Sapp, while urg-
ing him to elope with her, never gave
him a single caress or even clung
to him when she made her most pas
sionate appeals. He insisted that NJ
had never so much as placed his
hands upon her. except occasionally
when their hands met in swift clas)
Of greeting.
The Tragedy.
Il met May Friday night. | walked
ID the alley to where she was stand
ng near the back fence. | told her
wanted to talk to her She told me
o come inside the yard. ! did, and
said | had to tell my wife all about
,ur meetings. 4 don't believe word
If it, she exclaimed. It's lie. Now
II show you what I'll do
"She made a movement with her /
light hand. which held a razor. AMI
screamed, | think, twice. started |
Onward. She made another motion
lgain. | siezed the razor. She stag
,ered and half turned. and fell against /
he poultry fence. | heard her mother
coming, and ! was terrified.
II stepped over the back fence,
where it sagged, and stopped and lis
ened a moment. ! walked down the
.lley south and across the street.
leard her mother screaming and ran
or my home"
Shielding Someone9
Whitlow's strange story Is the only
ubiect of conversation in lola. Many
,ersons believe he has told the truth.
others say that he is telling the
tory to shield someone else who
nay have had something TO do with
he girls death.
Whitlow says he stood in front
( the girl when she cut her throat
ut he got only one drop of blood on
ne of his sleeves. The flowers AMI
arden plants were splashed with her
Hood several feet in front Of where
e says she stood when she cut her
hroat.