The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-28
Relief to Friends.

r,i- tends To bear out the theory which
%. raa11a of the community who knew
~ 1or4f the girl long nave wanted to
.grsra They never have listened 10 the
---fsria1 that she was Involved IN
s--rEan orgy at the bungalow and have
----5.T that she lost her life in re
I47r the advances Of the man who
srs1oWIadged his guilt by killing him
.sf when near capture.
Toiarz Investigations led the aUthori-
lies sin further away from the idea
,rsr anyone other than Eastman could
lave invited friends from New York or
ram arv other place TO visit his bum
raf0w I'm the condition it was in. The
Iisea only half completed, offered no
g-,7rlrr1dgfious for visitors whatsoever.
a single bed. poorly fitted up; table
Ind washstand, completed its equip
usrt of furniture. Eastman himself
slept in the place infrequently-
Funeral of the Murderer.
Ina grave not fifty feet from the scene
of th5 crime which led him TO his death,
Essmans body was laid away today.
The undertakers and their assistants,
little band of newspaper men and a few
Hs persons morbIdly attracted To follow
th5 s-ranEs funeral procession were the
only persons att the grave.
SIR Eastman, stopping twelve miles
auay at Easton, expressed no desire to
attend the funeral
so church or cfurChyaTd of the vicinity
would open its doors or gates - the dead
man. SuuerstitOus negroes who could
not Boz induced 90 dig the grave stood
aEsstriCken ON the outskirts of the fu-
neral party.
When the hearse had drawn up along
SEE the grave four men lifted the casket
f1m the vehicle and placed it temporar-
y 0u two planbs stretched across the
gave into which a pine box had already
been lowered.
Lords Prayer Repeated.
There was an awkward pause. One OF /
he UndeTtakers said.
Gentlemen. it seems to me that some
we should say a little word of prayer. !
Won't one of EOUT
His glance fell upon James Sutton, a
merchant of B0zemau
You are "a church member Mr. SUIT
t1l.' said the undertaken; won't you
say t2"
sutton hesitated for a moment then.
asking all to join with him. began TO
repeat the Lords Prayer with solemn /
eanestness.
When the last words of the prayer were
uttered Sutton stepped forward and, fill /
ing his hands with neWly-turned soil from /
beside the grave. thrice tossed the sandy /
a4m upon the CaSllet as he said.
Earth 10 earth. ashes to ashes, dust /
% DUST
Murder Committed in Cabin.
The search of Easuman's cabin revealed !
further evidence of the fact that the muir
der was committed there. At the place 4
fE6ra the head of the bed had rested l
@ part of the flooring had been ripped I
~ and new piaEks laid loosely down. I
hen1dth these plarks the floor beam had l
been newly scrsped with chisel or some /
'neT sharp instrument But the efforts /
10 remove an blood stains had failed. The /
H.I| 4
u.y of the giTis blood.
Particular search was made for any pos /
ei-it fragments of "a champagne bottle /
which might tend to bear out Eastmans
calm that Mrs WOOdill. was murdered /
av another woman TWO whisky and I
.---e wine glasses were discovered but I
mere were no evidences of champagne /
.elits ever having been i'm or around l
The shack
Wrote Many Letters.
IL is becoming apparent that Eastman /
was q prolific letter writer II is said l
mat whenever he left St A1ichaels TO go /
90 b-l-imore or Washington he always q
-a.--a letter back here addressed to him
s.I as Roberts. Tt is claimed he also |
wrote To- Postmaster Taylor the letter
signed 'E b. Wellington telling the
-lSlHasl-r what a fine fellow Roberts
vas ana how much he Wellington, an
-leie living in Denver, was interested I'm /
.-lL The writer asked that Roberts be /
eolsderatgly treated
Attorney A. S. Rosenthal of New YORK .
NHo is here ass a former lawyer for East
.-- dNd as the representative of per
-s VINO lost heavily as sureties on East !
-al 1ond, when he fled from New
io.A, declared today that ne would en-
eldtof 20 have the bondsmen discharged
M proof of Eastmaus death and thus re- /
H-Ne the sureties
I'm. me local police have tried to communi- |
.-ye with District Attorney jerome as to
-e status of the New York reward Of
--zel t0r Eastman
mere still exists a strong belief among
aye. members of the coroner's jury .
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