The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-26
Churches Will Not Permit His
Body to be Buried in the
Cemeteries
FUNERAL TO TAKE PLACE
FROM SCENE OF MURDER
People Shun the Place As Though Il
We're LoathsOme and the Country
Authorities We're Forced to Find a
Burial Place on the Farm.

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st. Michaels, N. D., June 26.-wlth-
out ceremony, and in the Quietest and
most unostentatious manner possible.
the body of Robert Eastman, Lame
Bob," the New York stock broker, and
the man who murdered pretty May
Edith Thompson Woodill and then
committed suicide, was buried this
afternoon at the expense of Talbot
county. The farm near Boseman.
where Eastman had made his home
during his brief stay in this county,
and in the bungaloo in which place
the murder took place, will be the
scene of the burial. No church here
will permit the body of a suicide to
be buried within it's graveyard and
the authorities are forced to seek
resting place for it on the farm of
the man himself. Already the bum
galoo and the farm, from being the
Mecca for curiosity seekers, is be-
coming Stunned. People decide to
drive by and no one is willing to visit
the place alone.
That the dead man, whose sensa-
tional taking of his own life yester-
day created countrywide interest,
was really Lame Bob" Eastman, the
fugitive New York broker, is now es-
tablished beyond all. question of
doubt, for the body was positively
identified by Louis B. Peeler, a men,
ber of the art department of one OF
the Washington newspapers who came
down here to develop the story. The
authorities here are working on the
case and there is a promise of some
new developments. The story of
drunken row told by Eastman in his
letter to his wife, has caused specu-
lation here, and efforts were made
today to locate the members of the
party of four or five people who are
said to have left here on the launch
the day after the murder of Mrs.
Woodill.
The full text of the letter found
on Eastman and addressed to Winnie
Bradcombe, his wife, giving his cir
cumstantial version of the killing of
Mrs. Woodill by another woman, was
made public today. Eastman claims
that the murder was committed in the
bungaloo instead of the launch.
The letter follows:
"Vinnie: Take this money and 60
at once to Mcdaniel, Talbot county
Maryland, and claim my body and all
my property. The property consists
twenty-too acres of land and bum
galow. There is also a motor boat.
Have a sale and convert everything
into cash. / don't owe cent, except
ing for the paint and pump, etc., which
Shanahan and Wrighton of Easton
will be glad to get back, as it Is not
broken; just as it was shipped.
Little girl, l had no hand in the
tragedy. Was there and removed the
evidence after the other two couples
fled. did this for self preservation
and 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 him and was hit three
times on the side of the head with
full bottle of champagne and the fell
low hit once. She fell over on the
floor and died. The man did not come
to for an hour. 1 was left with the
corpse and cannot take the chance of
trial. Life to me is very bitter and I
will pull down the shades and say
good bye. You can claim my property
and say as little as possible, but get
it, am awfully sorry for you anG
our boy, and I have been hustlirS
nadly to make your path clear and
fate Is against me.
(Signed) Bob"
"Take Pennsylvania railroad tc
Easton, Nd, and then change to B.
C. and A. Don't neglect this. Proper
ty is valuable"
Robbery Motive
Baltimore, Md, June 26-Robbery as
a possible motive for the killing of
Mrs. Woodhill was advanced here
today when it was learned that man
answering the description of Eastman
pawned in this city on Tuesday, two
diamond rings and diamond brooch
timore that day. The jewelry worn by
has not been accounted for.
Claims Property.
New York, June 26.-Mrs. Robert
Eastman, known on the stage as Vim
ME Bradcombe, left here today to
claim the body of her husband who
died a suicide following the killing
of Mrs. May Edith Thompson Woodill
near st. Michael's, Md. A younger
sister accompanied her.
RUBBER BURNED.
Trenton, N. j., June 26.-A portion
of the plant of the Trenton Rubber
company, just outside of this city,
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