The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-28
No One Willing to Utter
Prayer for the Depraved
Wretch
new EVIDENCE SHOWING
THE WORK Of A F|END
Coroner's Jury Is Investigating the
Case and the Other Members of the
Alleged Boat Party May be Arrested
Any Moment

theory that Edith May Woodiill was
lured to Lame Bob" Eastman's lone
ly bungalow without knowledge of
where she was going and that she
was drugged and detained there
against her will, was advanced today
when a further search of the shack
which the superstitious folk of the
neighborhood forevermore will shun
as haunted, revealed a small bottle
which a hasty examination showed
contained mixture of narcotic
drugs. There were strong traces of
morphine in the nearly empty phial.
This discovery tends to bear out the
theory which the people of the COM
munity who knew and loved the girl
have long wanted to believe. They
never have listened to the idea that
she was involved in drunken orgie
at the bungalow and have contended
that she lost her life in repulsing the
advances of the man who acknowledge
ed his guilt by snuffing out his life
when it seemed that the hands of the
law were about to be laid on him.
Today's investigation led the au-
thorities still urther away from the
idea that anyone other than Eastman
had a hand in the murder. 1t is in
conceivable that Eastman could have
invited friends from New York OF
from any other place to visit his bun
galow in the condition that it was
The place, only half competed, Offer
ed no accommodations for visitors
whatsoever.
Buried In Silence
In a new made grave, not fifty feet
from the scene of the crime which
led him to his death, Eastman's body
was laid away in the early hours of
Yesterday. No man of the church was
there to offer last word for the dead !:
no friend or relative came near. The
undertakers and their assistants, a
little band of newspaper men and a
few idle persons morbidly attracted to
follow the strange funeral procession,
were the only persons at the grave.
With barred heads they repeated the
familiar words of the Lords PRAYER.
Mrs. Eastman, stopping twelve miles
away at Easton, expressed no desire
to attend the funeral.
1t was $3.50 o'clock Sunday morning
when the casket containing Eastman's s
body was placed in the roughly fash
Toned country hearse and the UNDER
takers and others in the funeral par
ty started from st. Michaels on the
seven mile trip to the bungalow.
Notwithstanding the early hour.
there were large number of peo-
pie abroad in the streets on St. Mi
chaels and along the way to witness
the passing of the strange cortege.
Buggies. wagons and all manner of We
hicles were in the funeral line. An
hours drive through the fragrant
pines and along the shores of the many
tidal streams that indent the country,
brought the party to within sight Of
the unfinished bungalow, which stands
now as monument for the newly
mounded grave almost within its
shadow. No church or churchyard in
the vicinity would open its doors or
gates to the dead man.
When the hearse had drawn up
alongside the grave, four men lifted
the casket from the vehicle and plac-
ed it temporarily on two plank sup
ports stretched across the grave, into
which a pine box already had been
lowered.
The undertaken drew back the slid
ing lid of the casket in order that all
might see that it was Eastman who
was being consigned to his last rest
ing place, and closed it again.
There was an awkward pause. The
party who were about the grave, fid-
geted nervously. At now the support-
ing boards were slipped away and
the casket gradually sank into the
grave. The two grave diggers hesitat-
ed moment and then stepped for
ward. One of the undertakers looked
around with certain uneasiness of
manner.
Gentlemen" he said. "it seems to
ME that some one should say little
word of prayer. Won't one Of you?"
His glance fell upon James Sutton,
merchant of Bozeman.
You are church member, Mr.. SUIT
ton," said the undertaken, won't you
say it?'
Sutton hesitated for moment, then
asking all to join with him. began to
repeat the Lords prayer with solemn
earnestness. When the last words of
the prayer were uttered, Sutton STEP