Evening star., 1909-06-27
MRS. W00DILL'S JEWELS
PAWNED IN BALTIMORE
No Doubt That Supposed Slayer Was
Man Who Offered Them.
WIDOW ARRIVES AT EAST0N
Fight for Possession of Brokers'
Body-Claimant Seeks to Re-
cover New York's Reward
for Fugitive.

ST. MICHAELS, Md, June o6-Tell.
tale shafts Of light continued today to
inter in upon the tragedy of the lonely
bungalow at Broad creek
As the tangled skeins OF the story are
picked up one by one they tend more
and more to dissipate the claim advanced
by Eobert Eastman that it was a woman
and not he who killed Edith May
Woodill.
Tocay the jewels worn by the womant
at the time of her disappearance were
found in pawn shop in Baltimore, placed
there last Tuesday by man who an
swered fully the description of Eastman.
The man secured 500 on the two dia-
mond rings and an oriental pearl brooch.
Two hundred dollars which Mrs. Wood
Ill had In her possession when she Nh
her foster fathers home last week is
missing. Eastman repaid loan LASTS
week of $500. When he returned here
from Baltimore on Tuesday night he
seemed plentifully supplied with money.
Mrs. Eastman at Easton.
Mrs. Eastman arrived at Easton. ten
miles from here. by train tonight from
| over to st. Michaels.
1t had been planned that the burial or
Eastman's body should take place late
tonight beneath the scrubby pines of
his own farm, near the unfinished bun
galow where Mrs. Woodill met her
death. But the non arrival Of Mrs.
Eastman caused a postponement until
tomorrow.
| The authorities also want to COM
municate with District Attorney Jerome
at New York regarding the reward Of
| fered by the state of New York for
| E5StmaI's arrest on larceny charges.
The final inquest will be held tomorrow
| afternoon.
| No churchyard of the Eastern shore
4 Will open it's gates for EaStman's body.
Superstitious negroes of the community
| refused to dig his grave. Two white
| laborers finally were induced today TO
| undertake the task.
Mrs. Eastman n has secured a local at
torney to look after her interests in
| her husbands property and any other
way he can assist her.
Fight Over Body.
| There promised for time today to be
| fight for the legal custody of Eastman's
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
scene and, acting for Mrs. Ida S. Ecstein
| of New York one Of the sureties who los.
heavily by the forfeiture of the bond. de-
manded the custody of the body in order
| that he might make delivery OF 1t to the
New York authorities. by whom reward
of 1,5OO had been offered.
The local authorities declined to give up
| the body.
| The letter of the suicide, in which he
gave to his wife his version OF the kill
| ing of Mrs Woodill by~a jealous woman.
was made public today, and deeply i'm
pressed many who read its circum stantiai
account of the tragedy, for which the
| writer claims he was in no way re-
| sponsible.
| Foreman Radcliffe OF the coroner's jury
declared himself convinced of the truth
| of the strange missdve. and urged the
authorities to investigate further into the
| matter. With all his disclaimer of re-
| sponsibility, however. Eastman admitted
| in the letter that he did not dare take
| the chance of a trial, and had decided
| to draw the curtain forever.
While many others were as deeply i'm
pressed as the jury foreman, the search
| ing investigations of the authorities fail
| to substantiate any of Eastman's claims.
The state attorney and the members or
| the coronerS jury continue to withhold
| the contents Of the two letters found
upon Eastman after his spectacular sui
| eide in the little skiff in which he had
hoped to elude for time at least. the
| clutches of his pursuers.
| They declare they wish to exhaust every
clue and to leave no stone unturned to
find if other persons really were in any
way connected with the crime.
Heard One Woman's Voice.
| The witness, WILLIAM. Sutton. who it was
said last night had heard a party OF
men and women merrymaking in the
bungalow Sunday night, declared today
that it was late Saturday night that he
went to visit Eastmans place and that
he heard only the voices of one man and
one woman in the bungalow: that the
voice of the woman was that OF Mrs.
Woodill. Sutton did not make his pres
ence outside the house known and went
away.
When the cabin was searched. following
| the discovery Of the body, places at the
table were set for two. Plates, cups and
saucers were there and unused.
Eastman. when he returned Sunday
morning the team he had borrowed to
meet Mrs. Woodill with Saturday. spoke
to his neighbor of the fact that he had
had a girl visitor at his bungalow the
night before. There was no mention of
party.
Passers-by saw lights through tho
shaded windows of the bungalow as late
as IL o'clock Saturday night.
There is no serious thought here that
Eastman killed Mrs. Woodiil through
| motives of robbery. Neither is there any
widespread idea of premeditation The
two were heard to quarrel as they drove
away from Royal Oak station Saturday
afternoon.
Attorney Rosenthal, whose client East
man was. declared tonight that Eastman
had known the murdered girl prior TO her
marriage with Woodill. and said he be-
lieyed Eastman had visited her in Cali
fornia after her marriage. The girl knew
much of Eastman's past life-knew him
as an accused swindler and embezzler and
a fugitive from justice.
The theory is advanced that in the
course of their quarreling the girl threat
ened to disclose the identity OF the man,
who had taken the name of Roberts.
There Is the theory, too. that while Mrs.
woodll had fingered longer in the east
than either she or her husband had in
tended. because of her association with
Eastman, 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 bungalow.
Motor Boat Observed.
n Ashton pI,pnmar Of fhia place Sew