The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-06-30
LAME BOB" LOVED
BY MRS. WOOD|LL
Letters Found in Bungalow,
Signed Edith Reveal Sem
timents of Woman
Eastman Wrote Friend Saying
He Was Attempting to
Shield the Murderer

ST MICHAELS, Nd, June 29.-The
feelings entertained by Mrs Edith May
Woodill toward her slayer. Lame Bob"
Eastman, were indicated in a letter
signed Edith parts of which were
found in the bungalow Of the murderer
and suicide Saturday.
The missive. which is in Mrs. Wood
Ills handwriting and couched in most
sentimental language, was presumably
sent to Eastman, and was made public
today. 1t not only Indicates warm
attachment for the man, but seems to
prove, that she had known him at least
year On the same paper, in East
mans handwriting. is the following:
Little Dear: I can not live after
our short - of bliss with the coming
of our parting ever before us. II we
meet in the unknown, let's continue the
blissful times that we spent here. 1
am with you in every thought"
The letter, signed Edith" contains
the following passages:
rs the iron immodest when ii creeps
toward the lodestone and clings to its
side? Is the seed immodest when it
sinks into the ground with budding
life? Is the cloud bold when 1t softens
into rain and falls to earth because it
has no further choice, or is 1t brazen
when it nestles on the bosom of
heavens arched dome and sinks into
the blue-black infinity and ceases to
be itself?
rs the human soul immodest when,
drawn by a force it can not resist, it
seeks a stronger soul which absorbs
its ego as the blue sky absorbs a float
t,arr 81 "a
swells the seeds as the magnet draws
the iron?
Il do not feel myself to be bold or
wrong for drifting toward you. I
would not feel myself wrong to go
straight to you tomorrow. There is
ever and always some human soul to
love and trust US, and whose confidence
we would not alter. We are not of
our own making and our lives belong
to another-Brahma- rules and is
wise
AS one who was concerned and in
every line of 1t, L read only the same
alteration that a years absence would
not shadow. And the wonder comes to
me that you did not. could not, under
stand. Surely life such as yours
brings in time understanding; you
must know lewd from the modest, the
untrue from the true.
DO L mean you? Did / say, long
for you would be better, for every
heart beat seems to cry out against
the enormity of the crime that makes
me no longer yours. All the best in
everything seems only to exist because
of you, and for you.
Il hate existence away from you.
When do men dare to lift up their
voices against the blessed art? Art in
others, which is but greater, warmer
spark of Gods soul that they possess,
or can lessen the understanding we
have one for the other, and no differ
ence can make us forget
Remember me always, as you loved
me best, and, though were you IA
bandit-a-anything- heart would
beat In responsiveness to yours"
Several letters written by Eastman
also were made public by the state
attorney. One was addressed to- George
Taylor. state agent at Mcdaniel. 1t
said, in part:
Appearances are against me, but l
had no hand in the tragedy. The poor
little girl was practicing the art of
taking fellow from another girl who
was under the influence of wine, and
she hit her three times with a bottle of
champagne.
But If not successful and / can not
persuade all parties to come up and
take their medicine, why, will blow off
the top of my crazy head. and in that
case | wish you would kindly see that
all letters found on me are mailed"