The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-07-06

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led when the boatman gave a neg
alive answer. He directed her to
a nearby house where she could
get something to eat.
| Eastman, in the meantime, had
been circling past st. Michael's
in his launch, heading for Royal
Oak. His engine failed him. He
returned to st. Michaeps, but
missed the train to Royal Oak.
He hired livery rig, with one
John Butler as driver, to rush to
Royal Oak, four miles from st.
Michaels. The boatman showed
him where Mrs. Woodill was eat
ing her supper.
DO you suppose I'm going
with you in that rig?" she asked,
testify, when she saw that East
man had not come in his boat.
They entered into a long argu..
ment. At last, after about IL
minutes, Eastman said:
"You come with me-" He
grabbed her wrist and looked her
i'm the eye.
IAN right" said the woman
who had said mo" to MILTON
aires.
81 saw her smile when she sal j
it," says Butler.
They drove TO st. Michaels. she
wearing a heavy veil. Here East
man gave up the rig and took
Mrs. WOodill down to his boat,
xurtnfnh bn IN a..Ax.
sfinpe.
AS they pat out from st
nichaels they were heading both
or the THONGS place and for
he Eastman's bungalow. three
niles beyond 1t. There was there
.i,re no scandal apparent in their
Icing together
Eastman PIE far out from
si,re. 1t was about IL O'Clock
that night un n the launch was
stranded a short distance from
shore and not more than two
blocks from Col. Thompson's
home. But Mrs. Woodill didn't
go there. The strange power
which this cripple Eastman ex.
erted over the beautiful woman
was too great. There in the dark
ness, after Eastman had got her
to shore in a boccowei skiff, she
walked on past her homo into the
woods.
Eastman went to the barn of
Chas. Taylor, with whom he had
been boarding, and tried to hitch
up a horse. The Taylors were
asleep.
They drove three miles to the
bungalow, arriving there about 3 |
o'clock in the morning.
Eastman must have hurried |
back directly to the Taylor house,
FOR at 5 O'Clock in the morning
Taylor saw him driving into his
yard.
"Ha! hal" laughed Eastman. |
Thought I'd fool you. took d
woman to my bungalow in the rig
and wanted to get 1t back before
you got up"
He went in with Taylor tol
Then Eastman went!
INTO bedroom and slept until 4
n the afternoon.
All this time Mrs. WoodiIl was
N the bungalow alone. La the
title shack, in the heart of the |
woods, she passed the
right. All Sunday she stayed In
here, alone, waiting for Eastman
% return. There were three neigh
,oring residences. She could not |
20 out for fear OF detection.
Here was indeed . case of
in distress.
The cripple Eastman knew that
nc had his victim trapped.
But, as evening came on, there |
we're chances that she could get
away.
So he hired . rig and drove to
Inc bungalow.
John Sutton, q neighbor, saw
him coming across the clearing. |
He ran behind him almost up to
he bungalow door. He saw him |
open 1t. Then he heard woman's |
foice:
How dare you trap me here
ike this all day7" she demanded.
I've been kept in here since
,'clock this morning all alone. III
iidn't dare to go out"
The quarrel grew.
Sutton went away.
And that night the beautiful
Edith May WoodilL girl OF mys-
cry, girl Of beauty, lost her IIfel
In the bungalow OF the crippled,
decrepit fugitive from justice.
Robt. Eastman.
Shortly after s O'Clock that
evening all the neiehbors went lo|
q Sunday school entertainment !