The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-25
YOING WOMAN
FOULLY SLAIN
IN MARYLAND
Mrs. Edith May Thompson
WOodiII of Los Angeles
the Victim.
amy FOUND IN CREEK
WITH SKULL CRUSHED
..,sshND HAD ACCOMPANIED
HER EAST AND RETURNED
HOME.

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: 81 lHchae.s. Nd June 24.-John =
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= 5ry 5Trs. Edith May Woodill of Los =
: trgsrae was surrounded i'm the e
: Forsa Of John b. McQuay of Coy ::
: man seven miles from here, to- =
q night a posse left i'm automobiles >
3 m aH in his capture Roberts Is =
: said 10 Doe heavily armed =
: Roberts called at McQuay's house =
, . f7r water. McQuay invited him in =
. and then sent his wife secretly to =
. notify ueighbOrs, by whom the =
. house was surrounded.
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baltimore. June 2i-The body Of the
varan found yesterday in Back river.
near ST. SHcGaels. Md, has been identi-
a-5 as that of Mrs. Edith May Thomp-
I'm W0ldII I'd years old. Mrs WOOdill
-s-,Fa7 at Los Angeles, but came east
-4+- her husband last week to spend
M ssumer at the home of Captain
charles NJ Thompson, her foster father,
IT Mcdaniel this state. Following the
discovery and Identification of the body,
rfrb evidence pointing TO murder. States
srernav Turner of Talbot county today
,art out kilograms asking that a man
uH0 had claimed to be newspaper man
A dispatch from st. MichaeIs says that
bloody sheet and a woman's garment
lid DO have belonged TO Mrs. WOOdill
acre found I'M the room of the suspect,
vb0 disappeared last night.
The suspect was comparative stran-
r-r i1 Talbot county, He went there
last fall and bought a little farm near
one Thompson place. He described him
s-F as a writer and newspaper CORE
sq0ldeut
Last Seen With Roberts.
Mrs Woodm had not been seen since
saturday. when she was said TO have
gone oa Niles river IN motor boat with
trs man suspected, until her body,
weighted down with an iron post and the
skull crushed iu, was discovered by two
boys.
Mrs W00d1i was possessed of rare
beauty and was well known socially in
Baltimore and on the Maryland eastern
shore She numbered among her warm
esq friends former Secretary of the
Treasury Lyman j. Gage. Soon after
Der arrival at her foster fathers farm
40 Mcdaniel the man now sought, John
T. 5r EmIu T. Roberts. was noticed 10
have been much i'm her company. Tt ap-
rand that the pair had previously
formed am acquaintance and they were
seen together "a great deal in the few
DAYS before she disappeared
Last Saturday Mrs. W1odIl went to
Easiea and had some dental work done
When she left Captain Thompson sup
posed that Roberts would see her safely
bone. as me was going In the same di-
rctOn
Met by Murderer.
u develops that Roberts met her at
Royal Oak station with a horse and car
1se and the pair drove to st. AIichaeIs
where they embarked in Roberts launch
1assss their homes The last seen of
Mrs. Mo0uIl alive was when the little
launch left the St. Michaeis wharf Be
tween that time and the discovery of the
eady in The creek there IS mystery as TO
what uauspred
To Captain Thompson and others who
's'-me anxious az the continued alb
@lla of Mrs Wo0dilI. Roberts said that
She bad come 90 Baltimore. He sought
' alsy the fears of the foster father by
a.Hg him that she would return i'm a
taU DAYS
Lying Letter Received.
Roberts came TO Baltimore himself on
TUESDAY aH1 uL that time a letter was
received ny Captain Thompson which
.rH9Ited r1 Doe from Mrs Wooduu. It
Was mailed iu this city and said she
"--.- D." back home in a day or two.
N1'e..s returned to Mcdaniel, found
.--. Old. letter had been received and
sl said. "i told YOU So" But CAPTAIN
..la4sHH was not satisfied He inter
.,.7a some of his neiglhors I'm the mat
PER alt began searching
'.1 hHHl.- was said To- have had
81 sum ". money with her and wore
--.-.. ornaments when she left home