Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-06-30

tragedy at st. Michaels, admitted to-
night that she was Eastman's wife.
The young woman Is an actress, but
has not played since the birth Of her
baby, eight months ago.
The marriage, she said, took place
January 26, 1908, about two years
after she first met Eastman. II lived
with him just five days. she said,
"He treated me kindly, but he SEEM
ed to be laboring under great
strain that preyed upon his mind SO
much that l became frightened"
She said she had seen Eastman
once on the street since their sepa-
ration. She continues:
Il never heard of him again until
| picked up to-day's paper and saw
that he was the Roberts In this MUIR
der case"
Mrs. Eastman said she did not
know whether she would go to ST.
Mfchaels or not. She is waiting to
hear from the authorities there.
Girls Innocence Indicated.
st. Michaels, Md, June 27.-The
theory that Edith May Woodill was
lured to Lame Bob" Eastman's
lonely bungalow, without knowledge
of where she was going, and that she
against her WILL was advanced to-day
when further search Of the shack,
which the superstitious folk Of the
neighborhood forevermore will shun
as haunted, revealed a small bottle
which hasty examination showed
contained mixture of narcotic
drugs. There were strong traces of
| morphine in the nearly empty phial
This discovery tends to bear out
the theory which the people of the
community who knew the girl long
have wanted to believe. They never
listened to the idea that she was in
volved in a drunken orgy Of the man
who acknowledged his guilt by snuff
ing out his life when it seemed that
the hands of the law were about to
be laid upon him.
To-day's invC stigatiOns led the au-
thorities still further away from the
| idea that any one other than East
man had hand in the murder. 1t
is inconceivaDle that Eastman could
have invited friends to visit his bun
ealow in the condition that it was
in. The place, only half. completed
| offered no accommodation for visit
ors whatsoever.
Grave in Lonely Spot.
In new-made grave not SO yards
away from the scene OF the crime
| which led him to his death, East
mans body was laid away in the
| early hours Of to-day. No man of
the church was there to offer a last
| word for the dead; no friend or rel
| atiVe came near. The undertakers
and their assistants, little band of
newspaper men and few idle per-.
sons, morbidly attracted to follow
the strange funeral procession, were
the only persons at the grave. With
barred heads they repeated the famil-
lar words of the Lords prayer Mrs.
Eastman, stopping IL miles away at
Easton, expressed no desire to attend
| the funeral
Notwithstanding the early hour to-
uay, there were many people abroad
in the streets Of St. Michaels and
along the way to witness the passing
of the strange cortege. No church or
churchyard of the vicinity would
open it's doors or gates to the dead
man. p
No more lonely spot could well be
imagined than where the isolated
bungalow stands. When the hearse
had drawn up alongside the grave,
four men lifted the casket from the
vehicle and placed it temporarily on
two plank supports, stretched across
the grave, into which a pine box al
ready had been lowered. Marsh wa
ter had seeped into the grave over
night.
Following the funeral there was
another thorough search Of the bun
| galow and concealed beneath the
floor was found the small drug bot
| tie.
The search revealed further evil
dence of the fact that the murder had
been committed there. At the place
where the head of the bed had
rested. a part Of the older flooring
had been ripped up and new pianks
laid loosely down. Beneath these
planks the floor beam had been new
| ly scraped with chisel or some
| other sharp instrument. But the
efforts to remove all bloodstains had
| failed.
Particular search was made TODAY
for any possible fragments Of a
! champagne bottle which might tend
to bear out Eastman's claim that
Mrs. Woodill was murdered by ano-
ther woman in a jealous frenzy.
| There was no evidence of cham
pagne bottles ever having been in or
around the shack.
Killed His Wife, Then Himself.
Norwich, Conn, June 2S.-Anger-