Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-26

I Wobby," declining to see him at the
particular time but not wishing to
anger him, she said:
| 1t is only an intermittent delirium
and you had better go and Wash your
| dishes'"
After this Eastman evidently pre-
| vailed upon the girl to visit his farm,
| which was near that of her foster faith
er's, to see the new bungalow which he
! had built. Tne girl met Eastman Sat
urdaY, was seen to leave the Mcdaniel
wharf in a launch with him and
| Wednesday her nude body was found
| floating on the surface of Rose creek,
! crudely tied To rope and weighed
with iron bricks.
| Mrs. Woodill the wife of Gilbert
Woodill. an automobile dealer in LOS
| Angeles, who had been on d visit to
her relatives, had intended leaving in
a few days to rcjoin her husband, to
whom she Was Ostcnsibly happily mar
| ried. jealousy, induced by the fact
that she was so soon to go away, is
| StrikinCly foremost in the list of
theories. The crime may have been
meditatcd or it may bave been the
result of a sudden frenzy and attack
in the lonely bungalow. There were
| evidences of a struggle in the bunga
| low, bloody sheet same blood stained
boards, some half burned clothing. Mrs.
W"odll although twice married was
only a girl. weighing only about 100
pounds. Where the girl sprang from,
who her father was, and what should
have been her proper station IN life arc
clothed with much of the same deep
| OF nf
her death She was adopted by Col.
| Charles II. Thompson, well-to-dO
farmer of the eastern shore of Mary
| land, 10 years ago when she was tot
of three. She married in New York
| a DR.. Caswell or CroweIl, believed to
he from Boston. before becoming of
age The marriage was annulled and,
as Miss Thompson again. the girl was
engaged to Harry Adams of Mount
Vernon, n Y. Meeting Mr.. Woodill
about this time, she married him m
stead. The girls foster brother is said
to have committed suicide because OF
love for her.
st. Mjchaels, Md, June 25.-PurSuit
of an accused murderer was never at
tended by more thrilling picturesque
ness than that which ended in tn"
death early today of Lame Bob
Eastman; who had been known dur
ing his short residence here as EN-
NETT Roberts. Eastman had simply
transposed his name from Robert EN-
NETT Eastman to Emmett T.. Roberts.
The man disappeared late "Wednesday
evening. following the discovery of the
1 body of Mrs. Edith May Thompson
hn
Secretary of the Treasury Lyman j.
Gage. Suspicion pointed to Eastman
from the very first. for he was the
| person with whom the girl had la 81
been seen. Eastman made efforts t"
leave on Wednesday but was warned
that he had better remain to refute
the charges that We're being mad :
against him. Saying he could he
found at his bungalow when wanted,
Eastman disappeared. missing skiif
from the home of a ne1Shbor toid the
story of his flight
All day Thursday sheriffs' posses
were on the search No trace of the
missing man could be found. Late
last night. however, John w. McQuay,
on Harris creek, one of the estuari"'
of chesapeake bay. heard during tn"
but the man at the oars paid no heed.
McQuay sounded an alarm by tee
phone A posse answered.
For hour after hour Eastman. suffer-
ing for want of food and water during
the night and day of his hiding IN the
marshes of the many shallow streams
off from the bay. tried to snake OH ms
Dnrsucrc Clad in a blue hannel SURF
ard dark trousers, he was lar lcSS
conspicrous figure than were the mem
bers of the sherif's crew. VINO all wore
white shirts. In and out OF the "illo
ing stream Eastman led the way. ne
evidently was making Tor Mcl'ahiei
Inear The headwaterS of the creek, Where
he might steal team ana escape. bu,
Iexhausted as he was his progress al
rowing was so slow that the pursuefs
| a; last passed him in the darkness No'
| s,,re that the men in the other b"a
wore really on his trial. Eastman con-
| timed slowly up stream uhtii at ias'
| no had reached a point just OF '"'
home of Col. thompson, father py ao'p'
+ion IF the girl he was charged as nav
;nr murdered. Here the stream mar
| rov,s sharply and the spot was Seiec'ee
nv the nosse to make stand ioil
line tall grasses Of the shore tnes o""e'
to Eastman to SURRENDER
Twice the call was repeated Wi,hou
sv,or Then came the flash ana re
rot of a revolver.
n had been aimed by Eastman at ~
own heart and the bullet mad cone IL
r, .rhinking the shot had pee'
a,t NJ them in an attempt to resist af
49,, ,,osse returned the ire an,
claimed at first that IS W'
fusilade which had causeu '"e ~
crumple and fall IN a heap ~ '"e