The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-27
JEWELS FOUND
IN PAWNSHOP
IN BALTIMORE
Murderer of Edith May Wood
i'll Robbed Body of Rings
and Money.
SEVERAL THEORIES AS
TO CAUSE OF THE CRIME
WOMAN HAD KNOWN HER sLAY-
Err BEFORE HER SECOND
MARRIAGE.

St Michaels, Nd, June 26-TeHtaIe
shafts Of light continued today to filter
in upon the tragedy of the lonely bun
galow Of Broad Creek. As the tangled
skeins of the story are picked I'D one
Dy one they tend more and more to dis
slpate the claim advanced by Robert
Eastman that it was a woman. and not
ne, who killed Edith May WOodill.
Today the jewels worn by the woman
at the time Of her disappearance were
found in pawnslIOp in Baltimore.
/ placed there last Thursday BY a man
who answers fully the description of
Eastman The man secured $500 on the
two diamond rings and an Oriental
pearl brooch. Two hundred dollars
which Mrs. WOOdill had in her posses
sion when she left her foster fathers
home last week is missing. Eastman
repaid loan last week Of $500, and
when he returned from Baltimore on
tuesday night he seemed plentifuIly
supplied with money.
Contest for Body.
There promised for a time today to be
a fight for the legal custody Of East
mans body, A. $. ROsenthaI 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. al.
rived upon the scene, and acting for
Mrs. Ida S. Ecstein of New York. de-
manded the custody of the body in or
der that he might make delivery of it to
the New York authorities, by whom a
reward of $500 had been offered.
The local authorities declined to give
up the body.
The letter of the suicide. I'm which he
gave to his wife the version Of the kill
ing of Mrs. WOOdill by a jealous wom-
an, was made public today. Foreman
/ Radcliffe Of the coroner's jury declared
/ himself convinced of the truth Of the
strange mlssive and urged the authori-
/ ties to investigate further into the mat
/ ter With all his disclaimer of respon-
sibtlity, however. Eastman admitted in
/ the letter that he did not dare take the
/ chance of a trial, and had decided to
draw the curtains forever"
Letters Withheld,
The states attorney and the coroner's
/ jury continue to withhold the contents
of two letters found upon Eastman after
/ his spectacular suicide
/ The witness William Sutton, Who II
/ was said last night. had heard a party
of men and women merrymaking i'm the
/ bungalow on Sunday night. declared to-
/ day that # was late Saturday night
/ that he went to visit Eastman's place.
and that ne heard only the voices Of one
/ man and one woman in the bungalow.
I that the voice of the woman was that
of Mrs. WOodill Sutton did not make
| his presence outside the house known,
and went away
When the cabin was searched follow
/ ing the discovery Of the body places at
/ the table were set for two and the
l 67GFlc
! PasseTsby saw lights through the
/ shaded windows of the bungalow as late
at II O'Clock Saturday night
Eastman an Old Acquaintance.
There is no serious belief here that
/ Eastman killed Mrs. WoodiU through
/ motives of robbery. Neither IS there
| any widespread idea Of reconciliation
/ The two We're heard to quarrel as they
/ drove away from Royal Oaks station
/ Saturday afternoon. Attorney RoseD o.
thai declared tonight that Eastman had
/ known the murdered girl prior to her
! marriage to WOOdiu, and said he be-
! lieved Eastman had visited her IN Call
/ fOrnia after her marriage. The girl
/ knew much of Eastman's life-knew
him as an accused sWindled and accused
/ em5ezzler. and a fugitive from Justice
/ and the theory Is advanced that i'm the
| course OF their QuarreIltng the girl
] threatened to disclose the identity of the
man who had taken the name Of Rob
/ erts. There is the theory. too, that as
/ Mrs. WoodIl had been longer in the
[ east than either she or her husband in
/ tended. because of her relation with
] Eastman. she decided at last to go away
and see the man no more. The dis
/ closure Of this purpose may have led to
/ her death I'm the bungalow
Lived by His Wits.
Eastman had been living more or less
/ by his wits Of late. ana there are many
/ who believe that he borrowed consid-
! cradle money from Mrs. WoodiH Being
/ badly in need Of money. it is believed
/ that the idea of pawuing the tewelry
/ came to him when he felt that fight
/ might be necessary. Mrs. WoodiWs
/ wedding ring is still unsccounted for
/ The ring and brooch located in a Bal
/ timCTe pswnship were identified posi-
/ lively by the dead girls foster father
and sister.
/ It was announced tonight that the au-
/ th0rities tomorrow viii dig up the
/ ground near the bungalow to investi-
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