The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-28

the advances of the man who ac.
knowledged his guilt by killing him
self when near capture
Today's Investigations led the au-
thorities still further away from the
idea that any other than Eastman
could have invited friends from New
York or from any other place to visit
his bungalow In The condition il was
in The place. only half completed.
offered no accommodations for visit
orS whatsoever. A single bed. poorly
fitted up. a table and a wash stand
completed its equipment of furniture
Eastman himself slept in the place
frequently.
In a grave not fifty feet from the
scene of the crime which led him 10
his death, Eastmans body was laid
away. The undertakers and their as
Sistants. a little band of newspaper
men and few idle persons. morbidly
attracted to follow the strange fu-
neral procession, were the only ones
at the grave.
Mrs. Eastman. stopping twelve
miles away at Easton, expressed no
desire to attend the funeral. No
church or churchyard of the vicinity
would open its doors or gates to the
dead man Superstitious negroes who
could not be induced to dig the grave.
stood awe-strIcken on the outskirts OF
the funeral party.
When the hearse had drawn up
alongside the grave, four men lifted
the casket from the vehicle and
placed 1t temporarily on two planks
stretched across the grave into
which a pine box had already been
lowered.
There was An awkward pause. One
OF the undertakcrs said:
Gentlemen. 1t seems to me that
some one should say little word Of
prayer Won't one of you?"
His glance fell upon James Sutton,
a merchant of BoZeman.
You arc a church member, Mr.
Sutton" said the undertaken; won't
you say IT."
Sutton heSitated for moment
then asking all TO join with him, be-
gan to repeat the Lords Prayer with
solemn earnestness.
When the last words Of the prayer
were uttered, Sutton stepped forward
and, filling his hands with newly
turned soil from beside the grave.
thrice tossed the sandy loan upon the
casket as he said:
Earth 10 earth. ashes to ashes,
dust to dust"
The search OF Eastmans cabin re-
vealed further evidence OF the fact
that the murder was committed there.
At the place where the head of the
bed had rested, part OF the flooring
had been ripped up and new planks
laid loosely down. Beneath these
planks the floor beam had been newly
scraped with a chisel OF some other
sharp instrument. But the efforts TO
remove all blood stains had failed
The ground below had also absorbed
a quantity of the girls blood.
Particular search was made for
any possible fragments of a cham
pagne bottle which might tend TO bear
out Eastmans claim that Mrs. Wood
i'll was murdered by another woman
Two whisky and three wine glasses
were discovered, but there were no
evidences of champagne bottles ever
having been In or around the shack.
1t is becoming apparent that East
man was prolific letterwTiter. II
is said that whenever he left ST.
Michaels to go TO Baltimore or Wash
lngton, he always mailed letters back
here addressed to himself as Roberts,
1t Is claimed he also wrote TO Post
master Taylor the letter signed "E
B. Wellington" telling the postmaSt-
er what a fine fellow Roberts was
and how much he (Wellington) an
uncle living in Denver, was interested
IN HIM. The writer asked that Rob
erts be considerably treated
Attorney A. S Rosenthal, of New
York, who is here as a former lawyer
for Eastman and as the representa-
tive of persons who lost heavily as
sureties on Bastman's bond when he
fled from New York, declared today
that he would endeavor 10 have the
bondsmen discharged on proof of
Eastman's death and thus relieve the
sureties.
The local police have tried to COM
municate with District Attorney Je-
rome as TO the status of the New York
reward offered for Eastman.
There still exists a strong belief
mong several members of the cor
oners jury that others than Eastman
and Mrs. Woodill were in the bunga-
low al the time OF the murder
1t was even limited tonight that one
or more arrests may be made at any
time. 1t was further intimated that
the arrest may not be at st. Miohaels
or at Baltimore,
Mrs Eastman. wife Of the accused
murderer. has not changed her opin-
ion since coming to Easton that her
husband did not Kill Mrs Woodin. She
declared today that Eastman had told
her he was fugitive from justice. and
that he would rather commit suicide
than serve twenty years in the peni.
tentiary on the charge OF grand lar
ceny. Mrs. Eastman says she will re-
turn 10 the stage to earn a living for