Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-07-03
MRS. WOODILL
LOVED EASTMAN
Letter Signed Edith" Indicates
Feelings Toward Slayer.
SENTIMENTAL NOTE FOUND

@Every Heart Beat Cries Out Against
the Enormous Crime That Makes Me
No Longer Yours"-Hated Existence
Away From Him.
st. Michaels, Md, June 80. - The
feelings entertained by Mrs. Edith
May Woodill towards her slayer.
Lame Bob" Eastman. we're indicated
In a letter signed Edith" parts of
which were found in the bungalow of
the murderer and suicide last Satur-
day. The missive, which Is In Mrs.
Woodills handwriting, and couched in
most sentimental language, was pre-
sumably sent to Eastman. 1t not only
indicates warm attachment for the
man, but seems to prove that she had
known him at least year. On the
same paper in Eastmans handwriting
Is the following:
Eastman's Postscript.
Little Dear cannot live after our
short of bliss.
with the coming of you and part
ing ever before me. If we meet In the
unknown let's continue the blissful
times that we spent here. ! am with
you in every thought"
The letter signed Edith contains the
following passages:
us the iron immodest when 1t
creeps through the loadstone and
clings to it's side? Il the seed i'm
modest when it sinks into the ground
with budding life! Is the cloud bold
when 1t softens into rain. and falls to
earth because it has no other choice.
or is 1t brazen when it nestles on the
bosom of heavens arched dome and
sinking into the blue-black infiinity
ceases to be itself?
us the human soul immodest when
drawn by a force 1t cannot resist it
seeks a stronger soul which absorbs
its ego as the blue sky absorbs float
ing cloud and as the warm earth
sweIls the sea. as the magnet draws
the iron?
81 do not feel myself to be bold or
wrong or in myself for drifting to-
ward you as ! do. | would not feel
myself wrong to go straight to you to-
morrow.
There is ever and always some hui
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, and | read only
the same alteration that years abb
sence would not shadow.
Could Not Understand.
"And the wonder comes to me that
you did not, could not, understand.
Surely such a life as yours brings to
me understanding; you must know
lewd from the modest, the untrue from
the true.
Dream of you, did / say? Long for
you would be better, for every heart
beat seems to cry out against the
enormity of the crime that makes me
no longer yours. All the best In ev-
erything seems only to exist because
of your, and for you.
II hate existence away from you.
why do men dare to lift up their
voices against the blessed art In 9th
ers, which is but greater, stronger,
warmer spark of Gods soul that they
possess or can lessen the understand
ing we have one for the other and no
difference can make us forget?
Remember me always, as you loved
me best, and, though were you IA
bandit-a-anything-my heart would
beat in responsiveness to yours.
thine but asks instead wilt thou
be miner Loved by time one has
grown to know its significance, has
usury been made degenerate thing.
That is hard to recognize"