The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-18
SUIT0R HELD.
Result of COroner's Verdict in
Ell Dorado Killing.
Theory That Robert Hall Cut
Teachers Throat.
WAS MADLY JEALOUS.
Objected to Miss Glass Receiving
Other Company.
Thought That Hall Attempted
Suicide Later On.

Ell Dorado, Kan, Jan. 1S.-Mary H
Glass, the school teacher who was
found dead with her throat cut in the
Whitewater school Wednesday night
came to her. death from wounds In
f1icted by Robert T. Hall, her sweet
heart, according to the coroner, who
completed an inquest yesterday.
The coroner viewed the body of Miss
Glass in the school house at o'clock
in the morning and then went to the
home of. Mrs. Hall, the accused mans
mother, where Halls statement was ia
ken.
Hall. with deep gashes on either side
of his throat spoke with great diff
Guilty. He said that Miss Glass tried
prevent her from killing herself he was
slashed by her.
When the coroner decided that Hall
had inflicted the wounds which killed
Miss Glass, the sheriff, who had accom-
panied him, read a warrant for Halls
arrest.
"Take Me-" Said Hall.
Here I am. Take me- said Hall
feebly.
mo. I'll not take you today"
We'll, I'll be here when you come af-
ter me-" was Halls rejoinder.
1t is believed that Hall will recover.
He was left in the charge of a deputy.
Nance Thompson, ranch laborer.
who boarded at the Litton home. where
Miss Glass lived. is the man of whom
it is believed that Hall was Jealous.
escorted Miss Glass to neighborhood en-
tertainments. 1t was supposed that
they were merely friends. Thompson
had not taken Miss Glass often.
But Hall. according to report, was
extremely jealous. 1t is believed that
he went to the Whitewater school house
to exact from Miss Glass a promise to
stop receiving attentions from Thonfp-
hn4 throat
she refused to make, a promise. After
he reached home and realized what he
had done, it is believed, he tried to kill
himself. - All
No Blood in His Buggy.
Hall rode to the school house in a
painted light color. There are no blood
stains in the buggy and none on the
snow around the school house. Blood
stains were found, however, on the snow
in the path from the front gate of the
Hall home to the house. This tends to
show that Halls wounds, which must
have bled profusey, were not inflicted
until he reached the front gate.
1t is said that Han received a letter
recently from Miss Glass, in which she
asked him to GOMEZ and see her and
had had about Thompson. Others say
that the letter contained a request to
Hall not to Gomez to see Miss Glass
again. Hall says nothing about -thiA
letter.
A Crowd at the Schoolhouse.
When Coroner Hunt and Sheriff Jol-
life reached the Whitewater school
house, IA miles northwest of FL Dorado
at o'clock in the morning they found
the body of Mary Glass on the school
room floor with the jugular vein sew
cred. From the nature of the wound
it was believed that she had bled to
death in Is or 20 minutes. The school
house yard was crowded with persons,
he
the examination the body was removed
to the Glass home.
The coroner and sheriff went to the
Hall home and examined Robert Hall,
who was in a stupefied condition. The
coroner talked with him and drew from
him the statement that while in the
school house Miss Glass asked him for
his knife He handed it to her, he said,
and she went to the farther end of the
school house and cut her throat.
He rushed to her, he said, and Crap