The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-30
Mrs, WOodiIs Infatuati0R Is
 Shown By Her Letter
HAD KNOWN EASTMAN WELL
Several Letters Written By Eastman Were Found Upon His Body in One of Which He Said He
 Would Kill Himself.

St. Michaels, Md, June 29-The feel ings entertained by Mrs. Edith May Woodill toward her slayer, Lame Bob Eastman, were indicated in lshter signed Edith" parts of which were found In the bungalow of the murderer and suicide last Saturday. The mis- sive winch is in Mrs. Woodill's hand writing and couched in most sentlmen- tai language. was presumably sent to Eastman. It not only indicates warm attachment for the man but seems to prove that she had known him ct least a year. On the same paper. in East mans handwriting. is the following:
 Little dear: T cannot live after our short - of bliss. with the coming of you and parting ever be- fore me. If we meet in the great un- known let's continue the good times that we spent here. l am with you in every thought"
 Mrs. WoodilPs Letter.
 "The letter signed Edith" contains the following passages:
 "Is the iron immodest when 1t creeps toward the 1odestone and clings to it's side? Is the seed immodest when it sinks into the ground with budding life? It the cloud bold when it softens into rain and falls to earth because it has no oth CT choice, or Is it brazen when 1t nestles on the bosom of h eavens arched dome and sinking into the blue lack infnity ceases to be it. self2
 'Is the human soul immodest when drawn by a force it cannot resist II seeks 6 stronger soul which will ab- sorbs its ego as the blue sky absorbs a floating cloud and as the warm earth absorbs the sea. the magnet draws the iron?
 q do not feel myself to be bold or wrong or in myself for drifting to- ward you as I do. I would not feel my self wrong to go straight to you tomor- row.
 There is ever and always some hu- man soul to love and trust us and whose confidence we would not alter We are not of our own making and our lives belong to another, 'Brahma' who rules and is wise.
 As one who was unconcerned and in every line of 1t I read only the same adoration that years absence would not shadow. . And the wonder comes to me that
  Surely life such as yours brings un- derstanding: you must know lewd from the modest, the untrue from the true
 Dream of you, did l say. Long, for you would be better; for every heartbeat seems to cry out against the enormity Of the crime that makes me no longer yours. All the best in everything seems only to exist because of you and for you.
 'I hate existence away from you. Why do men dare to lift up their voices against the blessed art in others which is but q greater, stronger, warmer spark of God soul that they possess, or can lessen the understanding we have one for the other and no difference can make us forget?
 Remember me always as you loved mo best and though were you a bandit-a any thng-my heart would beat in responsive ness to yours.
 Thine but asks instead, wilt thou be mine?' Loved, by time one has grown to know it's significance. Has usury been 8 degenerate thing? That Is hard to rec ognize.
 Are we not blessed and know that no happenings can"
 Eastman's Letter.
 The letters written by Eastman were found on his body. One of them was ad- dressed to George Taylor station agent at McDaniel. and told of the killing along the same lines as contained in the letter to his wife. It reads:
 MT. Taylor: Inclosed find s10 to cover my indebtedness to you. I believe it am- pie: if not will send difference.
 Appearances are against me. but had no hand in the tragedy. The poor little girl was practicng the art of taking an- other fellow from another girl, who was under the influence of wine and hit her three times with a bottle full of cham pagne.
 ''The four immediately left, and I re- moved the evidence of the crime and once more am making an effort to get bondsmen, for don't want to get lock- ed up
 "But if not successful and I cannot persuade all parties to come up and take their medicine why. I will blow off the top of my crazy head; and in that case I wish you would kindly see that all let ters found on me are mailed
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