The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-07-01
MRS. WOOD|LL
LOVED SLAYER
PASSIONATE LETTER FOUND
CRIME TO BE SEPARATED
FROM EASTMAN.
KNEW HIM OVER A YEAR
Believed 1t Would Not Be Wrong r.
&c To Hin,--Another letter,
Left by Eastman Teiis Of
The Muraer. ~


st. Michaels, Md. June 30.-The
feeling entertained by Mrs. Edith
May Woodii toward her slayee
Lame Bob Eastman, were indicated
In letter signed Edith" part of
which was found in the bungalow OF
the murderer and suicide last Satne.
day The misslve. which is in Mfg,
Woodills handwriting. not only indi.
safes attachment for the man, but
seems to prove that she had known
him a. least year On the same pa
per, in Eastmans handwriting is the
following
Little Dear--I can not live after
our shOrt-of bliss-with the coming
OF you and parting ever before me.
II We meet in the unknown, let's con
tinue the bisstu times that We spent
here. ! am with you in every thought:
The letter signed Edith" contains
the following passages:
is the iron immodest when il
ereeps to the lodestone and clings TO
Its side? Is the seed immodest when
ii sinks into the ground with budding
life? Is the cloud bold when IL soft.
ems into rain and falls to earth be-
eause It has no other choice, or is 1t
brazen when IT nestles on the bosom
of heavens arched dome, ANA slnkiag
into the blue-black infinity, ceases 10
be itself
No Self God.
is the human soul immodest when
drawn by a force il cannot resist it
seeks a stronger soul which absorbs
its ESQ as the blue sky absorhs a float
Ing cloud, ana as the warm earth
swells the yea, rs the pagne, draws
the iron2
"All of these are OF one quality.
The iron, the seed, the cloud and the
soul Of man are what they are. do
what they do, live as they live or do
as they die, because there is 20 other
choice.
We think We are free, becausS- at
lines we act as we please. forgetting
hat God gives us the .piease and that
every act OF our being is only the ra-
suit of a dictated plan.
DO you find any freedom save that
which YOU firmly believes exists with.
in yourself? DO you? You don't.
There is no selfGod, by every people
he is called differently-the people OF
the East-(here a page Is tornJ.
And to the end lives and dies with
A mistaken understanding of Il all.
Drifting to Him.
Il do not feel myself To be bold or
wrong for drifting toward you as | do.
would not feel myself wrong to 20
straight TO YOU tomorrow. -
AS one who was unconcs4ned ami
in every lire of it read 9S1y the same
alteration that year'9dbsence would
not shadow.
And the wonder comes to me that
you did not, could not understand.
Surely a life such as yours brings In
time understanding, you must know
lewd from the modest. the untrue from
tho true.
Every Heart Beats For Him.
Dream OF you. did | say? Long
for YOU would be better. for every
heartbeat seems to cry out against
he enormity Of the crimes that make
me no longer yours. All The best in
everything seems only 10 exist bA-
cause of you and tor You.
Still another foot note Oh the Letter
which may be OF much significance
we're the words in Eastmsas hand
writing;
Rev. Austin Baptist"
A letter found on Eastman which
old Of the killing along the same
ines as contained In the letter To
lis wife. although there are some dis
which indicate to many
hat both were composed OF lies. Is as
ollows
MIR. Taylor Enclosed find $40 to
over my Indebtedness to YOU: he