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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
HIS IDENTITY ESTABLISHED
Man Who Killed Mrs. WoodIlI Was
Lame Bob" Eastman.

st. Michaels, Md, June 2S.-With-
out ceremony and In the qutetest and
most transformations manner possible
the body of Robert E. Eastman
Lame Bob"-the New York stock
broker and the man who murdered
pretty May Edith Thompson Woodill
and then committed suicide, was bur
led at the expense of Talbot county.
That the dead man. whose sensa-
tional taking of his own life. was
really Lame Bob" Eastman. the fugi-
tive New York broker. is now estab-
lished beyond all question of doubt.
for the body was positively identified
by Louis Il. Pedler. a member OF the
art department of one of the Wash
ington newspapers, who came down
here to develop the story. Pedler Is
q cousin of Winnie Bradcombe, the
New York actress. who, 1t turns out,
10 the wife OF Eastman and to whom
he addressed the letter In which he
charged that woman had killed Mrs.
Woodill. Pedler had known Eastman
well Ia New York and there was no
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
NEW LINK IN THE MYSTERY
Sudden Death Of Chief Witness in
Chicago Case.

Chicago. June 2S.-The sudden
death OF Mrs. Cecilia Kenyon, sister
of Agnes Barrett, proprietor of the
lace shop where Ella Gingles, the
Irish lacemaker, was employed in the
Wellington hotel, added a new link to
the chain of mysteries surrounding
the case of Miss Gingles, who, while
under charge of stealing lace from
Miss Barrett, was found bound and
wounded I'm hotel bathroom several
weeks ago. The charge Of theft Is
now pending trial.
Mrs. Kenyon, who was chief witness
against Miss Gingles, died in a room
above ScholPs roadhouse under cir.
cumstances shrouded In mystery, the
threads of which the police are only
Just beginning to pick up and weave
together into tangible clue.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
EARLY LIFE OF MRS. WOODILL
Was Adopted in Minneapolis Nineteen
Years Ago.

Minneapolis, June 2S.-An unusual
story of tragedy in child life is brought
to light in the circumstances sur
rounding the early days OF Edith May
Thompson Woodill
Mrs Woodill was the daughter of
Zatella Witt. who, about nineteen
years ago, was a resident of Mime,
apolis. The daughter, who was first
named Anna Pearl Witt, was born I'm
CcuZ Creek, Wash, her father being
Matthew WITT, miner A few weeks
after her birth her father was mur'
dered as the result OF quarrel In the
camp Mrs Witt came to Minneap
oils, where she met Albert Kight. a
farmer living near Elk River, MINI.
and was married to him. The Rights
were unable to properly care fCt the
child. Accordingly Pearl was adopt
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles III. Thomp.
son
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
WILL RETURN IN NOVEMBER
Mrs. Roosevelt and Children Sail for
Europe.

New York, June 28-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt, wife of the ex-president.
sailed for Europe on the steamer Gre
tic with her daughter Ethel and her
two sons, Quentin and Archie. The
first month of the trip will be passed
with Mrs Roosevelt's sister. Miss
Carew, in the latter's villa near Rome.
The remainder of the stay abroad will
be spent IN tour of France, designed
especially for Miss EthePs benefit.
Mrs. Roosevelt plans to return to the
United States with the three children
In November
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28

bricks at Running Water on Sunday,
May 30, the husband win be tried
upon the charge of murder.
1t is alleged tina. evidence will be
produced showing that there was a
struggle in The room where the body
OF the woman was found and the posi-
tion and course of the bullet wound
testimony
The prisoner is In Jail here. The
coroner's verdict was suicide.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
TROOPS MAY BE CALLED OUT
La Crosse Police Unable to Control
Riotous Mobs.

La Crosse, Wis. June 29.-Sheriff
Edwards and Mayor Sorenson are con
ferring with Governor Davidson rela
tive to ordering out the state militia
to quell the street car striking rioters.
No definite decision has yet been
reached.
No cars are running on the North
Side. The street car tracks are filled
with ties and rubbish and conductors
and motormen have been taken from
the cars by the mobs.
The local police appear to be unable
to cope with the situation, which
seems to be growing worse.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
Wickersham Replies TO Senate.

Washington, June 2S.-Attnrney
General Wickersham informed the
senate that he had directed the Unit
ed States attorney for tho district OF
Massachusetts to dismiss legal pro
ceedings brought against the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road company and the Boston and
Maine Railroad company for violation
of the Sherman antitrust law The
statement was in reply to a resolution
introduced by Senator Culberson.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28

the city is believed to be in imminent
danger of attack from the revolution
lists.
The city is fairly well fortified, but
the defending force is wholly made
quate to cope with the revolutionary
army. Colonel Liakhoff's force of
Cossacks constitutes the chief reli.
ance of the shah as his own soldiers
are not only inefficient. but also unre-
liable, and 1t is believed they will de-
sert TO the revolutionists at the first
sign of danger
For several weeks the revolutionists
have been slowly creeping nearer the
of
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
IS BLIND, DUMB
AND SENSELESS
Justice Too Lenient, Says
Senator Stone.
PRODS HARVESTER TRUST

Mlssourian Speaks in Favor of Putting
Agricultural implements on the Free
List ard in So Doing Outlines Test.
mony Taken by the Attorney Gen
eral of His State in Prosecuting the
international Company.
Washington. June 28.-When the
consideration of the tariff bill was re
sumed in the senate the pending ques-
tion was the amendment offered by
Senator Bacon placing agricultural i'm
plements on the free list. Senator
Stone of Missouri Immediately took
the floor to continue the speech in
which he had outlined the testimony
taken by the attorney general of Mis-
souri, in prosecuting the International
Harvester company as trust Sen
ator Stone asserted that number of
companies had been merged to consti
tute this trust; declared that 1t was
conducting S5 per cent of the bust
ness of supplying agricultural imple
ments and contended that it was a
trust and monopoly Notwithstanding
the denial of Senator Aldrich. Soon
after Mr.. Stone began his speech he
was interrupted by Senator Davis of
Arkansas with a statement that the
company had been driven out of Ar
kansas by legal proceedings under the
state antitrust law.
Mr.. Stone read statement from
Attorney General Major saying that in
testimony recently given in New York
by George w. Perkins of the firm of
j. r. Morgan Il Co, in the Missouri
custer proceedings, Mr.. Perkins had
admitted that through him Morgan &
Co. controlled the entire business of
the company.
So satisfied had Mr. Major been
with the result of the Perkins testi-
mony that he had decided to close his
case on July IL. Mr.. Stone also quot
ed Mr.. Mccormick of the company as
Confessing to the Consolidation
and saying that it had been made
necessary by the fierceness of com
petition. He read from speech made
by former senator from North Da-
kota (evidently referring to Mr.. Hans
brought, who claimed that the Inter
national Harvester company had at
tempted to control the delegates who
were to elect his successor with the
object of defeating him because he
had introduced resolution in the
senate to investigate that corporation
IF they were after his scalp" con-
tinued Mr.. Stone, they got it, 1t is
dangling at the monopoly's belt"
THE department of justice is asleep
or blind" continued Mr.. Stone, In re-
ferring to the failure of the attorney
general to prosecute the International
Harvester company for violation of
the Sherman antitrust law This is
case In which justice is too blind
blind and dumb and senseless Ar
kansas, Kansas, Missouri and other
states have proceeded against them.
The department of justice sits with
palsied hands, but the United States
senate at least should take notice of
this great criminal corporation and
open it's doors to the world so as to
mitigate as far as possible the evils
1t has created and to lessen as far as
possible its power of extortion."
BY vote of 26 to As Senator Ba-
cons amendment placing agricultural
MI CT
jected and the paragraph as reported
by the finance committee was agreed
to.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
Escape From Insane Asylum.

Concord, Y. H., June 2S.-Joseph
Gouin of Dover, implicated in the ser
sational Rockingham Junction murder
three years ago, and William Chap
man of Portsmouth overpowcred a
keeper at the New Hampshire state
hospital for the insane, where they
were under observation, and made
their escane
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
PERSIAN CAPITAL IN
DANGER OF ATTACK
Russian Troops HuTring to
Assist the Shah

Teheran, June 2S.-In response to
an urgent summons from Colonel
Liakhoff, the Russian commander of
the shahs military forces, Russian re-
the capital from Northern Persia, as
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
Urges Roosevelt for 1912.

Peoria, Ill, June 28.-The Peoria
Journal (Democratic) prints an edi-
torial urging the candidacy of Theo-
dore Roosevelt for president In 1912.
It demands his reelection on the
grounds that he only can force
downward revision of the tari8.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
WOMAN'S GEMS z
FOUND IN PAWN
Robbery Possible Motive for
Murder of Mrs. WOOdill.
LETTER TELLS0F TRAGEDY


Bob" Eastman, the Suspected Slayer
and Suicide, Declares the Crime
Was Committed In His Bungalow by
Drunken Woman in Fit of Jeal-
Gus Rage.
st. Michaels Md, June 2S.-With
the making public of the full text of
Lame Bob" Eastman's version of the
death of Edith May Woodill, as re-
lated in the letter he sought to mail
to Winnie Bradcombe, his wife, has
added a new Interpretation to the
tragedy of the lonely bungalow on the
shores of one OF the maze of tidal
streams that put in here from the
Chesapeake bay.
But robbery as a possible motive for
the crime now has been advanced.
Word comes from Baltimore that a
man answering the description OF
Eastman In every detail pawned in
that city on Tuesday last two diamond
rings and diamond brooch valued at
about $500. Diamond rings. a dia.
mond brooch and a diamond set brace
let worn by Mrs. Woodill when she
last was seen alive with Eastman
never have been accounted for.
1t is likely that the 1ewelry will be
sent here for Identification. If 1t
proves to be that of Mrs. Woodill, as
now is believed, an entirely new light
will be shed on the strange tragedy.
Eastman went TO Baltimore on Tues.
day and mailed from there letter
written by Mrs. Woodill several days
previously TO her sister at Mcdaniel.
Eastman's story of the crime, which
he declared was committed by q
drunken woman In a fit of jealous
rage, is so circumstantial and seems
in way so much like the sincere dec
larations of a man about to take his
own life, however, that Foreman Rad
cliffe of the coroner's jury, which Is
inquiring into the death of Mrs. Wood
Ill, is convinced of its truth and is
endeavoring to induce the authorities
to obtain the service of expert detec.
tives to work upon the case.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28

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hemorrhages.
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
sastman's Story of the Murder.

EaStmanS Srcry OF the Murcer'
The full text of the letter found on
Eastman and addressed to Winnie
BradconIbo, his wife. giving his cir
cumstantial version OF the killing of
Mrs. Woodill by another woman, has
been made public. Eastman claims
the murder was committed in the
bungalow instead of in a launch. The
part OF the letter referring to the
tragedy follows:
Little girl, had no hand in the
tragedy Was there and removed the
evidence after the other two couples
fled | did this for seIf-preservation
end am haunted The victim was my
particular friend and we were well
mated Have only known her three
weeks We all, that is, two men and
two other women from Annapolis,
went to the bungalow for time
Every one got full excepting edith
and myself Edith tried to win one
of the girls fellows while lying on
the bed with MIN and was hit three
times on the side of the head with a
full bottle of champagne and the fel-
low hit once She fell over on the
floor and died. The man did not come
to for an hour / was left with the
corpse and cannot take a chance for
trial Life to me is very bitter and
| will pull down the shades and say
yopdhyp
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28

BEST
REMEDY
For Women-Lyd Pink
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Noah, Ky. =" / was passing through
the Change of Life and suffered from
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-06-28
ON THE CHARGE OF MURDER
South Dakotan VIII Be Tried for
Death OF Wife,

Tyndall, s. D.. June 2s.-As re-
suit OF the death of Mrs. Jesse Hen
The Pensacola journal., 1909-10-03
''TY" COBB REAL
NOISE TOT|GERS
NEW YORK EVENING TELEGRAM
FIGURES GEORGIA BOY TO BE
REAL STRENGTH OF JENNINGS
TEAM AND THE ONE REAL KING
OF THE GAME.

What part does "Ty" Coob bear to-
ward the success of the Detroit team?
Would Connie" Mack, manager OF
the Athletics, take him as a player II
he could obtain his serviceS2
These questions were sent to th7
New York Evening Telegram by a
baseball enthusiast who wished a lit
tie information because be and anoth-
er baseball enthusiast who had been
arguing the matter couldn't agree.
The Telegram answers thusly:
"CObb's value to the Detroit team
as a ball player seems TO be worth
its present position In the race, It's
championship last year and its cham
pionship the year before. In other
words. the Evening Telegram would
say that Detroit would not have won
the championship in two years if II
had not been for Cobb. and would not
be so high this year were 1t not for
nIs excellent work as d batter, base
runner and fielder.
True, il is impossible TO prove
that such is the case. In baseball
argument and suppOsition it is impOs-
sibIe to prove a great many things,
but that doesn't prevent one from haY-
ing a fairly good estimate OF the val
ues that together make a winning
team.
"'Ty' Cobb as a batter is the best,
taking him ior his general ability, in
the American League.
AS q base runner he is one OF the
best in either league. Sometimes ne
NAV be headstrong, but It Is fair 70
figure that he has made more than
he has lost In his mad dashes around
the bases.
'As a fielder he is OF Class \ grade
and no better throwing outfielder
plays in the league.
with all these qualifications, it IS
evident that he is not player Of OF
binary ability. Nor is he.
If Connie Mack should refuse to
take him for the Athletic club-grant-
ing the possibility that he ever had
the chance to do so-it may be said
that salary, and salary alone, would
be at the bottom OF 1t.
The Philadelphia club is a thrifty
organization, conducted by a thrifty
man. It does not run rampant in the
baseball world with saIaries. and
never will.
Were Mr.. Mack at liberty to en-
The Pensacola journal., 1909-10-03
HOW FLAGLER
GOES MOTORING
LIKES THE CAR TO GO At HIGH
SPEED-oNcE HATED AUToMo-
BILES-MRS. FLkGLER FINALLY
CoAXED HIM INTO INDUCING
THIS SPORT AND NOW HE is
KEEN FOR 1T.

"Cholly Knickerbocker'' who han
dies the society dope in the New York
American, has the following to say
regarding Henry NJ. Flagler:
"A note from Henry NJ. Fiagler says
he is in Lowell, motoring back from
Breton Woods to Mamaroneck-one
can't say by easy stages in making
known thos octogenarian's end-of-sea-
sons transitions in his car, for that
isn't the way he wants to run.
"'Uncle Henry as the White Noun
tainS know him each summer and
as Florida knows him in winter, likes
the high speed, and when he takes the
wheel, with little showing under the
peak OF his cap but his white nous
taChe, he keeps 1t there.
L remember when IL wasn't quite
so. That is really putting mildly his
former horror Of the car that ran not
upon safe Tails-foT he used to threat
en- with annihilatiOn people and even
places that lent themselves to the
sport Ormond and Daytona came
near being waste places one time be
cause they gave their twenty miles of
hard beach to aid auto races.
Since he was weaned from coal
power to gasoline through the prefer
beauty, who has added so much to his
life for what he lost. he follows the
tenet Of chauffeur and much farther
"His favorite car will be in the
garage at Orienta Point in a day or
so, and It's owner viii remain near
New York until time to open the
bronze gates of whitehall, at Palm
Beach. He does enjoy life and its
friendships, for, despite the many
fulminations-few of which he carries
beyond the threatening stage-he is
really Iovable, If that adjective may
be applied to a man. Alone Of all
the Standard Oil crowd, Tom Law
son didn't attack him.
by the way, Mr.. Flagler's conVer-
sion to motoring has always been
claimed by Albert Bostwlck and CHI
ford Brokaw, then near neighbors on
Fifth avenue. They got him into
car one day and took him few miles
out and back In as many or less min
utes. On his return Uncle Henry set
out to buy 8 like machine. In fact,
the year before this all the roads
about the Mount Washington Hotel
bore the marks of his wheel chains,
for Mrs. Flagler and Chauffeur George
early that season coaXed him into her
car, and he ever after enjoyed the
before hated means of lOcOmotion-'
The Pensacola journal., 1909-10-03

It's a right smart smooth sort of q
scientific chap who has the natural
born nerve to land on people and tell
them straight out and out that they've
worms and things, now isn't it?
Hook worms, mind you-which
somehow wriggIe into the feet OF per-
sons who carelessly form the habit In
early youth of going bare-footed, and
thus allow these promiscuous crawl
srs 70 work from the ground up
In their efforts of general devastation
end so on!
Are you going to stand for it,
really?
And do you think that you and
and the rest of the draggly bunch of
common everyday well meaning hu-
mans may actually get 'wormy"-a1-
belt scientifically, ''hook'-wormy-
ike a piece of ancient and sportive
Humph, Will some one feebly.
softly tell what's next?-for l can't
really!
wormy. indeed!
Abas, This Thing Science!
Which. If you are a man. would you
maFe gently knock q fellow down for
-k, n you're a woman, how much
sodher would you scratch a person S
eyes out: if he said you were plain,
everyday lazy-or just had a bunch
of these latter day stylish sort OF
hook worms?
Difflcult, isn't It?
You can feel OF your muscle and
take your choice!
Several years ago, when II became
nolite TO call plain ordinary thieves
snd shop Hfters ''kleptomaniacs" IF
the narticuIar maniac in question hap
nened to have a few Of the filthy and
The Pensacola journal., 1909-10-03

gage Mr. Cobb il is fair 70 assume
that the salary demanded would be
somewhere near high c in the base
ball salary register.
Even though it would be possible
for the Philadelphia management to
recoup itself quickly, because of the
larger crowds which would be drawn
to see the games. It is fairly safe to
say that MessrB. Mack and COBB
never would come 70 terms.
$50 far as the ability of Cobb is
concerned as q player, there isn't a
reason 20 believe that Mr.. Mack
would not take him in q minute. II
he didn't and the Philadelphia public
should learn OF il. even the faith OF
the Quakers might be shaken in the
infallibility Of their philosophical
manager"
The Pensacola journal., 1909-10-03

made a noise like social whirl, this
delightfully."- wise old world of ours
shook it's equally wise old head-and
chuckled and chortled with the thinks
it had coming on the particular case
in view.
When brain storms" became the
rage, later, the effect among good, or
binary common sense sort OF people
was mainly the same-and now-its
hook worms! (sIow music, pleased.
A bunch of away of scientists can
raise more downright Cain among
otherwise sane and sensible going
people, I've noticed, than any of the
other rocky propositions which will
somehow bob up and ruffle the world
and it's folks at given intervals; and
the best thing on earth TO do is to
hold on just as fast and tight as you
can to the eternally practical com
mon sense business like view of things
and just naturally, easily escape
being several particular kinds of a
fool and a downright crank.
But returning to WORMS!
II it's hook-worms We have in this
lazy, day. beautiful. poetic sort Of
climate and surroundings, when the
scft gulf breeze whispers the sweet
nothings of nature into our magic-mad
hearts-when the whole sweet scheme
is as unworldly and witching as pos
sible-then l think we're just the
hook wormiest" bunch in the world.
along about dog days-for how in the
world can we naturally help it,
1t isn't any more natural to be rip
pingly energetic away down here on
the gulf coast when the summer sun
sWeetens the earth and the air into
purity rare indeed, than it is to dream
and sit still and freeze onto things
The Pensacola journal., 1909-10-03
49, 49, HOOK WORMS: YES? - -

A fellow couldn't VeTy well be ex-
pected to have good ready cash and
be incapacitated vita hook-worm5-
could he!
What boon for the cheap economi-
cal chap
He couldn't really have the energy,
alone, to be half way worth while
and prOspeTOus-wi.h hook worms :
Now how could he?
If a fellow didn't happen to feel
like getting down town az the Office
some cold damp drkzly morning-he
could have an attackOf hook worms
and everybody cOult get sympathetic
and beautiful at ono.
No more grandnDtheTs nor other
ancient relatives Z the office boy
would be called uJOn to shuttle OF
these mortal coils plOmisCuOusIy when
the ball game came 'rOUnd-the hook
worm racket would answer the pur-
pose fully as welI-and probably bet
ter.
Wouldn't il be a sumner IN the way
of something dOinS, though, to see a
woman with the hoOk-worms?
Wouldn't it2
II she were just naturally laid out
with an attack o. this thing-inca-
pacitated all around and round and
round, you see, vhere'd you suppose
her tea fighting opacity would be?
What would sic do when some
slant-eyed female took a notion to
naturally ride Ter around on the
splittering wheel Of the whirligig
show OF a gossfpig stunt?
Shed be in fle feather truly, TO
hold her. own win the rest OF them
think?
She'd be walked over, stepped on.
jumped beautifully, and come out a