The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-27
FIND JEWELS
OF THE VICTIM
Had Been Pawned in
Baltimore.
ROBBERY WAS NOT MOTIVE
Little Likelihood Of the Murder
Ever Being Solved.
The Authorities Place Little Faith 4.
the Last Letter writtes By
The suppoued
Murderer.
ROBBERY WAS NOT MOTIVE

st, Michaeis, Nd, June 26-TeIl-tale
shafts of light continued today to filter
in upon the tragedy of the lonely bum
gaiow Of Broad Creek. As the tangled
skeins OF the story are picked UP one
by one they tend more and more to dis
sipate the claim advanced by Robert
Z. Eastman that 1t was a woman and
not he who killed Edith May Woodill.
Today the jewels worn by the woman
at the time OF her disappearance, were
found in a pawnshop in Baltimore.
placed there last Tuesday by a man
who answered fully the description of
Eastman. The man secured 5000 on the
two diamond rings and an Oriental
pearI brooch Two hundred dollars
which Mrs. Woodill had IN her possess
sion when she left her foster fathers
home last week is missing. Eastman
repaid a loan last week OF $2eo and
when he returned here from Baltimore
on Tuesday night he seemed plentiful
~ supplied with money.
There promised for a time today to
be fight for the legal custodysof East
mans BODY A. s. Rosenthal. Of New
York. an attorney who represented
Eastman when he was charged with
grand larceny. and who secured for
him the bail which he forfeited by
flight, arrived upon the scene. and act
Ing for Mrs. Ida 9. Ecstein. OF New
YORK, one of the sureties who lost
heavily by the forfeiture Of the bond,
demanded the custody of the body In
order that he might make delivery to
the New York authorities. by whom q
reward Of $500 had been offered.
The local authorities declined to give
MP the body.
THE letter OF the suicide in which he
gave to his wife his version Of the kill
md OF Mrs. woodiil by a Jealous WOO
man, was made public today and deep
~ Impressed many who read its cir
cufnstantial account of the tragedy, for
which the writer claimed he was In no
way Responsible.
Foreman Radcliffe, of the coroner's
jury, declared himself convinced OF the
truth of the strange mfssfve and urged
the authorities TO Investigate further
into the matter.
while many others were as deeply
Impressed as the jury foreman the
search OF the authoritteg failed to sub
stantiate any OF Eastnlau's claims. The
~ s so ! T Safy tsaglKas q withhoid
the contents 81 the two letters found
on Eastman after hts spectacular SUI
eide In the little skin in which he
hoped TO eIude for a time At least, the
clutches OF his spursuers. They de-
clare they wish 70 exhaust every clue
and to leave no stone sunturned to find
IL other personsfwere In any way con-
nected with the crime.
The witness william Sutton. who 1t
was said last night had heard party
of men and women merry making in
the bungalow on Sunday night, de-
clared that IL was late Sunday night
that he went to visit Eastman's. place.
and that he heard only the voice of one
man and one woman in the bungalow;
that the voice OF the woman was that
of Mrs. Woodill. ~
Table Set for Two.
When the cabin was searched, fol-
lowing the discovery OF the body,
places at the table were set for two.
Plates cups and saucers were there,
unused
Eastman, when. he returned on Sun
day morning. the team he had borrow
ed to meet Mrs. WoodiIl with on Sat-
urday, spoke to his neighbor of the fact
that he had had a girl visitor 1T his
bungalow the night before. There was
no mention of a party.
Passers-by saw lights through the
shaded windows of the bungalow as
late as IL o'clock Saturday.
There Is no serious thought here that
Eastman killed Mrs. Woodill through
motives Of robbery. Neither Is there
any widespread idea of generalization.
The two were heard to quarrel as they
drove away from Royal Neck Station
Saturday afternoon. Attorney Rosen-
thai, whose client Eastman was, de-
ciared tonight that Eastman had
known the murdered girl prior to her
marriage with Woodiil and said he be-
lieved Eastman had visited her in Cal
ifornia after her marriage.
The girl knew much of Eastman's
past life-knew him as an accused
swindler and embezzler and g fugitive
from justice-and tn yetheory is advanc-
ed that in the course of their quarrel,
the girl threatened to disclose East
mans Identity.
There Is the theory. too, that while
Mrs, Woodill had fingered longer in tn
East than either she or her husband
had Intended. because of her associa-
ton with Eastman, she had decided at
last to go away and see the man no
more. The disclosure of this purpose
may have led to her death In the bung-
allow.
D. Ashton P1ummer of this place,
saw a motor boat with two women and
three Snen. all stylishly dressed. MAX
Ing it's way out of Broad Creek. on
which the Eastman bungalow is located.
the Sunday morning following the
murder. After making a trip to OK
ford, however. the boat and passengers
returned. There is nothing to indI-