Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-06-25
Events Follow Quickly Af-
ter Body is Found in
Maryland.
LAST SEEN WITH A MAN
Latter Commits Suicide When
Officers Are About to Ar
rest Him.

New York, June 25.-lt is now be-
Iieved the slayer of Mrs. WoodiII may
have been Lame Bob" Eastman, a
Wall street broker, who failed in New
York last July with liabilities Ct from
s15ooo0 to 100000. Eastman left the
city and was arrested in Chicago Aug.
a on complaints made by persons who
had lost money through his operations.
CORONER FINDS LETTER.
ST. Michaels,s Md, June 25.-The
coroner has Possession of letter
found on Roberts, or Eastman, ad-
dressed to Miss Winnie Bradcomc, care
of kiaw G. Erianger, New York, IN
which the writer asked the giFf to
come to Maryland to take charge Of
his body as he Intended to commit
suicide. Eastman added he had been
out in a boat with two men and two
women. All were drunk except him
self and one girl, and that one woman
struck another with wine bottle and
killed her.
DO NOT ACCEPT VERSION.
The full text of the letter will not ne
given out until it is read before the
coroner's jury. The letter throws a
distinctly new light on the situation
End while the authorities are not pre-
pared to accept this theory OF the muir
der, they are working upon it dill
gently. States Attorney Turner holds
to the belief that Roberts or Eastman
committed suicide to avoid capture.
Z. The -nlurder-is believed to have been
committed last Saturday night.
DECIDES 1T WAS SUICIDE.
Late this afternoon the coroner's
jury decided Roberts committed sui
eide. The general inquest will be held
tonight.
Gage Talks of Girl.
San Diego, Cal, June 25.-When
told of the dispatches from Maryland
in reference to the WoodiI affair, ex-
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J.
Gage said to the Associated Press rep
resentative today: "My relations with
my ward. Mrs. Woodill, were perfect
ly honorable, as is we'll known by those
who know us. She was a sweet, Iowa
BILE girl. and | became deeply attached
to her. She has been foully murdered.
/ think it a disgrace the poor girls
body should be made the basis of an
attempted scandal Further than that
positively have nothing to say"
Met Through Mckinley.
"Is it true you first met her through
President Mckinley in Washington
when she was about II years old?" he
was asked.
YES"
"Who were her parents?"
Il have nothing more to say"
Cornered by Posse.
ST Michaels, Md, June 25.-Emmet
E. Roberts, a newspaper correspond
ent, magazine writer and author, who
is wanted for the murder of Mrs
Edith May Thompson-Wood adopted
daughter of Colonel Charles \. Thomp
son, was shot to death today by d
sheriffs posse while resisting arrest
at Mcdaniel.
Seen In River.
Early last night information reached
the authorities that Roberts was Oh
the river in a small boat He was fol
lowed up the river by deputy sheriff
and two other men, who gradually
drove him 10 the neighborhood of Nc
Daniels wharf, not far from which the
murder was committed. Here were
waiting Magistrate Willy and a posse
Replies with Shot.
Willy, when Roberts was within 10(
yards of the shore, ordered him t.
throw up his hands. The reply of the
fugitive was shot. Before its echoe:
died away a member of the posse firet
and Roberts dropped back into his sea
dead.
Had Tragic Career.
st. Michaels, Md, June 25.-kidnap
ed from her Chicago home when ;
baby, the tragic career of Mrs. Edit
May Thompson -Woodill of Los Angeles
Cal, and ward of former Secretary o
the Treasury Lyman ]. Gage, culmina
ted in her murder near this place.
Her body, weighted with an iron pos
and with the skull crushed, was foun'
Wednesday by two boys in Back river
near the little Maryland town wher
she had gone on visit from her hom
in Los Angeles, Cal.
Emmett e. Roberts, supposed to be
newspaper correspondent of Washing
ton, was frequently seen in the youn