Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-30
For Eastman Shown BY
Mrs. WoodnI's Letter.
Couched IN Sentimental and.
AftectIonaie Language.


st. Michaels. Md, June 2a.-Ths
feelings entertained by Mrs. Edith May
Woodill towards 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 last Saturday
and given out for publication today.
The missive, which is in Mrs. Wood
ills handwriting, and couched in most
sentimental language, was presumably
sent to Eastman. 1t not only indicates
a warm attachment for the man but
seems to prove that she had known
him at least a year. On the same
paper in Eastman's hand writing is the
following:
Little dear. I cannot live after our
short-of bliss with the coming of you
and parting ever before me. If we
meet in the unknown let's continue the
blissful times that we spent here.
am with you in every thought"
The letter signed Edith" contains
the following passages:
"Is the iron immodest when it crops
through the loadstone and clings to it's
side? Is the seed immodest when it
life? Is the cloud bold when it softens
into rain ard falls to earth because it
has no other choice, or is it brazen
when it nestles on the bosom of
heavens arched dome and sinking into
the blue-black intinity ceases to be it
self?
us the human soul immodest when
drawn by force it cannot resist: it
seeks stronger soul which absorbs it
even as the blue sky absorbs a floating
cloud and as the warm earth swells
the seed, as the magnet draws the iron.
do not feel myself to be bold or
wrong. or in myself for drifting to-
ward you as l do. would not feel my
self wrong to go straight to you to-
morrow.
There is ever and always some hui
man 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, who
rules and is wise.
"And the wonder comes to me that
you did rot, could not, understand.
Surely a life such as yours brings time
understanding, you must know lewd
from the modest, the untrue from the
true
Dream of you. did 1 say? Long for
you would be better, for every heart
beat seems to cry out against the enor-
nifty of the crime that makes me no
longer yours. All the best in. everything
seems only to exist because of you
and for you.
~ hate existence away from you.
Whv ~ ry9on dorat fC lift
voices AGAINST the blessed art? Art in
others which is but a greater, stronger.
warmer spark of Gods soul that they
possess. or can lessen the understand
ing we have cne for the other. and no
difference can make us forget?
Remember me always, as you loved
me best and. though were you "a
bardid a-anything-my heart would
beat in responsiveness to yours.
Thine but asks instead Wilt thou be
mine?' Loved by time one has grown
to know it's significance mas usury been
made degenerate thing. This is hard
to recognize
This letter of Mrs WoodilFs and sew
eral written by Eastman were made
public today by the states attorney.
They had been in possession of the
county authorities and were read be-
fore the coroner's juries. but had been
withheld from the public by the officials
who had previously stated that they
would not be given out until any clues
to the murder they might contain could
be run out. $685..
The letters written by Eastman were
found on his body. One of them was
addressed to George TAYLOR station
agent at Mount Daniel, and told of the
killing along the same lines as con-
tanned in the letter to his wife.