The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-14

bungalow. marking the finish of fam
Gus Lame Bob" of Wall street
81 don't see how he could have muir
dered this woman. He was so kind and
gentle. He used to say to me. L don't
see how a person can punish a little
child
HE was an elderly man when his
sister. Julia Eastman, introduced me
to him. When he didn't want me to
tell about our marriage | agreed with
him.
"a woman couldn't help doing what
he wanted her to do
How Eastman Lived.
What Eastman did to lure Mrs
Woodhil to his cottage proves the
statement of his wife that "A woman
couldn't help doing what he wanted
her to do"
Edith May Thompson Woodhill. pro-
tege of Lyman Gage favorite of Presi-
dent William Mckinley, recipient of
gifts from governor of Maryland
musician, fascinating. sought by men.
unyielding. was as clay in the hands of
crepit, fugitive from Justice, "the
greatest failure that Wall street ever
saw"
Mrs Woodhill had come to the home
of her foster father. Colonel Thomp-
son, for her summer vacation.
He had met both Mr.. and Mrs
Woodhil in California, where she in
troduced the cripple to her young hus-
band of less than year as MIR. Rob
erts."
When the young couple arrived at
the home of Colonel Thompson Wood
hill discovered that Roberts" had
purchased a farm nearby. He i'm
mediately returned to the west. but
his young wife refused to accompany
him.
Fatal Meeting Place.
Three weeks later, on Saturday,
June -. Mrs Woodhill left the
Thompson place, saying she was going
to Easton, Is miles away. to dem
lists. At Easton, after visiting the
dentist she went to the Hotel Norris
and wrote letter to the Thompsons,
saying that she was in Baltimore and
would be absent for several days.
Then she took the train for Royal
Oak. a small station on the short,
rickcty railroad. Here she alightcd
and went to a small dock and asked
whether a man in a launch had called
for her. This was about 6 o'clock in
the evening. She was much provoked
when the boatman gave negative
answer He directed her to a nearby
house whore she could get something
to eat.
| Eastman in the meantime, had
been crcling past St Michael in his
launch, heading for Royal Oak. He
hired a livery rig with one John Butler
I as driver, to rush to Royal oak, -four
miles from St. Michael. The boatman
showed him where Mrs. Woodhill was
eating her supper.
Goes to Her Fate.
"Do you suppose I'm going with you
in that rig" she asked testify, when
she saw that Eastman had not come in
his boat.
They entered into a long argument
At last after about Is minutes, East
man said:
you come with me-" He grabbed
her wrist and looked her in the eye
"All right" said the woman who
had said mo- to millonaires.
Il saw her smile when she said it,
says Butler.
They drove to st. Michael, she
wearing heavy veil Here Eastman
gave up the rig and took Mrs. Wood
hill down to his boat, which he man
aged to put in shape.
AS they put out to st. Michael they
were heading both for the Thompson
place and for the Eastman bungalow,
three miles beyond it, therefore no
scandal was apparent in their being
together.
That StrOngc Power.
Eastman put far out from shore,
1t was about II o'clock that night
when the launch was stranded a short
distance from shore and not more
than two blocks from Colonel Thomp-
sons home. But Mrs. Woodhill didn t
go there. The strange power which
this cripple Eastman eXerted over the
beautiful woman was too great. East
man had got her to shore in a Dor
rowed skiff she walked on past her
home into the woods.
Eastman went to the barn of
Charles Taylor, with whom he had
been boarding, and tried to hitch up a
horse. The Taylors We're asleep.
They drove three miles to the bung-
allow, arriving there about o'clock in
the morning.
Eastman must have hurried back
directly to the Taylor house, for at ;
O'Clock in the morning Taylor saw
him driving into the yard.
Eastman the Brave.
"Ha! Ha!' laughed Eastman.
Thought I'd fool you. | took a wo-
man to my bungalow in the rig and
wanted to get it back before you got
up"
He went in with Taylor to breakfast
Then Eastman went into bedroom
and slept until in the afternoon.
All this time Mrs. WoOdhill was in