Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-30
TIE MARYLAND MURDER.


of the former stockbroker at his ouDga-
low. 1t Is the first direct evidence that
the man OF the world and the woman oil
fashion had not only known eacn otner
for sometime, bat that they were iniatu-
sted one with the other.
The missive, torn here aud there, anu
fragments gone, is 10 the handwriting OF
the adopted daughter Of Col. Charles ID.
Thompson, the yonng matron who had
been taice married and seen the capitals
of America, England and France by The
time she va 20.
The letter, signed Edith, isA follows;
els the iron immodest when 1t creeps
through the losdstone and clings to Its
side? Is the seed immodest when 1t
sinks into the ground with budding life Z
Is the cloud bold when 1t softens into
rain and falls to earth because 1t has no
other choice or Is it brazen when 1t nes-
ties on the bosom OF heavens srched
dome and sinking into the blue-black
inhnity ceases to be itself?
"Is the human soul irnmodest when
drawn by a force it cannot resist 1t
seeks q stronger soul which absorbs its
ego IS the blue sky absorbs a floating
cloud and as the warm earth swells the
sea, as a magnet draws the iron
Gail OF these are of one quality. The
iron, the sea, the clouds and the soul Of
man are what they are, to do what they
do, live as they live or die as they die,
because there Is no other choice.
eve think we are free because at
times we act as we please. forgetting
that God gives us the please and that
every act Of our being is only the result
OF dictated plan.
''Do you find any freedom In this
world save that which you firmly believe
exists within YOURSELF Do you? You
don't There is but one God. self, by every
people he is called differently-the people
: Of the East
(Here page is torn.)
J ''And to the end lives and dies with
a mistaken understanding of 1t all.
J 81 do not feel myself to be bold or
wrong or in myself for drifting toward
/ YOU as do. I would not feel myself
wrong to go straight to you tomorrow.
, "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 belongs to another-this Brahma,
who rules aud is wise.
"Have | said all this before? May be
so, for it is my pet belief and chief COM
fort when every human thing goes
|, against my desire and always the same
: lesson comes back to me. Here part oil
the page was torn away,
Gas one who vas uncOncerned and In
Q every line of 1t and read only the same
alteration that years absence would
not shadow.
"And the wonder comes to me thai
YOU did not, could not understand.
Surely life such as yours brings time
understanding; you must know le9d
b from the modest, the untrue from the
]. true
!, -Four pages destroyed
j. agent; II seems 40 one Is un
j noticed. however humble, aud 80 1t il
r that BIT idly dreaming when my long
n log Ia 10 be putting down every thought
f'DISaming OF you, did sayH Long
a ing foYyou would be better, for every
i heartbeat seems to cry out against thu
Y enormity OF the crime that makes me
;. no longer youys. All the best in every
" thing seems only TO exist because Of yot
d and for you.
/. 81 hate existence away from you
Why do men dare lift up their voice
70 against the heart in others, which Is bu
"A greater, stronger, warmer spark o
20 Gods soul that they possess, or car
4 lessen the understanding we have ont
= for the other and no difference can max
n us forget
e "Remember me always "a you low
70 me best, and though we're you a
dit-a-anything-my heart woul
beat in responsiveness to yours.
=, "Loved by you, one has grown t
- know its significance.
% "EDrTH."
pr On the same paper, but 10 Eastman
y, writing, is the following;
- "Little dear, | cannot live after on
y shoTt--Of bliss.
~ "Wilh the coming of you aud part
" ing ever before me. II we meet in tn
~ unknown let's continue the blissfnl time
., that we spent here. am with you !
B. every thought"
rp Still another foOtnote on the lette
les which mar be of Significance, we're tn
eS words in Esstman's handwriting,
or "Rev. Austin, Baptist"
The letter was read to the coroner
as i1ry, bat kept from the public. 1t show
~ that the woman, who fascinated men
all walks of life, possessed q rare literaI
ability and mind stored with though
out of the common. She had delyed ini
J" philosophy.
IT. Colonel Thompson himself tells thu
or Mrs. Woodll had studied the ethics
q religion at Lyman j. Cages school
g. philosophical study in southern Gal
%, fornis. The original letter consisted
ne 10 pages. Five Of the pages were di
gu covered in the pockets Of Eastman.
There was no date TO the missIve.
" was taken from the pocket OF one OF b
~ Esstmsn's many coats. The hsndwri
yer log WAS fine and perfectly legibl
We There is reason to believe that the lett
li IS was sent to Eastman short time befo
H. Mrs. Woodill arrived on the scene OF b
~ childhood days.
ID A letter found on Eastman, whiC
told OF the killing along the same lin
az contained in The letter to bis wife,
ess az follows: