The sun., 1909-06-28

Nobody down here doubts for minute
that Lame Bob would be streaking 1t
, for mighty distanty ocality II he hadn't
, been 30 iuokless as to fall in love with
the woman that ali Talbot county was
plainly charmed with.
. EDITH MERELY FLIRTING.
There Is nothing to show that Edith
woodil was in the same state Of mind
by any means, Many bits of evidence
indicate that she was not Where East
man was moonstruck the girl was merely
trying skilful hand at a new Irritation.
The crooked broker belonged to world
whose attractions she had tasted, p very
different specimen Of man from the
itinsophisticated youths Of the county
who used TO sit in her parlor with large.
round eyes while she rippled Chopin
7Ahd Beethoven on tho piano or raised her
efne voice> In song OF Schubert. East
mar, spoke the language OF the world out
tide, a very gay world that had petted
Il .ifief. The girl coquetted outrageously.
sthere isn't grain of doubt about that,
and shewas ready enough to take chances
: with her reputation. hitherto unsoiled in
the county, by risking being seen by
acquaintances going by night to East
;fnan's bungalow. But she had no mind
- to run away with Lame Bob or anybody
else. -f--
,rN One OF the last conversations she had
- with her friends in Easton touched on her
affection'for her husband Gilbert Woodill
-oS Los angeles. and on her desire to see
Is him. Nobody In the county who knew
the girl at all we'll believed che would
have provoked an outright scandal by
her relations with the former broker.
She was trying her hand at a game she
had played before. played In Washing
ton. In Baltimore. In Paris and London,
and even here In the country among
simple subjects. She had been so petted
- and spolled by great men and small that
abe loved to see every man who ap-
preached her as wax to her hand. In
Eastman she met an outlaw who had
snothinE TO gain by restraint.
=" 1t seems probable that Eastman got
Z her to go to his bungalow on Saturday
night week ago for the purpose OF plead
Ing with her to accompany him. 1t is
J mono the less reasonable to suppose that
, the girl refused instantly and that there
were quarreis running through Saturday
J night and part OF Sunday which ended
with his committing the murder In rage
and disappointment.
-0f7fTs NO PLACE FOR CHURCH PEOPLE.
y She was heard upbraiding him at Q
O'clock on Sunday evening. and it is
: supposed that he killed her very shortly
After William Sutton. who had been
49, u, .Ir f~N
the house and told his friend Powell
2 srhis is no place for churchgoing people. :
- Eastman pounded her on the head with
. champagne bottle while she lay on his
bed This afternoon a party Of men VINO
wore searching the house and digging
s0p the grounds on Wild story that East
man had murdered others there found
Z two strips OF plank in the cellar. The
boards were hidden under a pile OF lum-
: ber and odds and ends.
- When they were taken out and joined
2 they United the halves OF a great blood
stain. A moments investigation showed
that the boards had been set in the floor
! by the side of the bed. Eastman after
8 he killed the girl ripped up the planks
where the blood had fallen. painstakingly
concealed the old ones in the cellar.
ar,The position OF the girl when she wss
bsAtsnl to death was further demon
strated when the searchers examined a
wooden pillar which supported the floor
and 5oame to a head exactly under the
{. two planks, that Eastman had torn out.
:. A. hand plano had been showed up and
down It's length. removing traces of
something. What that something was
the investigators found by examining the
base OF the post where Eastman In his
hurry or carelessness had forgotten to
plane. There were red streaks broadening
downward.
NO FRIENDS THERE THAT NIGHT.
The discovery Of the torn letter with
It's warning to Lame Bot' makes it certain
that Eastman entertained no friends the
night Edith Woodill went to his bungalow
or the night after. 1t hardly required a
Talbot county constable. whose intelli-
gence Is most alert when pursuing the
succulent crab, to understand that he was
trying to induce the CIR! he ha,. lost his
bead about to run away with MIN. That
PARTY idea and it's possibilities did not
occur to Eastman. In all certainty, until
Mrs. Woodiil had been put out OF the way
Ono little piece OF evidence sufficiently
illuminating on the point was brought
Woodil to the bungalow Lame Bob
bought some food. but he bought barely
enough for two. a bit Of steak which he
igob 'at the Fairbanks meat market In this
,town and loaf OF bread.
Cora Dodson. a knowing young person,
eaw Eastman buy these things. and she OBJ
essrycd that a veiled woman was waiting
for him around the corner. II there was
any party at the Eastman bungalow il
swas before Mrs. Woodill entered the place
bn the night Of Saturday. June 10.
e.fE ron USE AFTER ARREST
Il was the mans revived cunning. the
authorities believe, that suggested the
writing Of letters which might clear him
II the case grew desperate. But he never
intended that the letters should be seen
.llnlees he was arrested for the murder OF
'Mrs WoodiH. They were written several
days before he wa' cornered like rat
h Harris Creek by four men who were
dtaking II the truth was told. as much
a. was Lame Bob alone in his boat
Charley Payne, the negro, was the only
one Of the lot who had the nerve TO 60
,doHn to the skif after Eastman had
collapsed in 1t. but Charley, as he told
an Interested audience to-day, -onct
whopped twelve men with nary a weapon
In NAH hand
Tia vileet part OF Eastman's scheme.
as show n in the letter to his wife Winnie
was the attempt to show that the woman
.he murdered was intimate with another
man than himself and that she was
killed because another woman was angry
at Mrs. Woodills ooquetries.
4 All idea that Eastman was visited here