The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-06-25
MURDERER NET
QUICK JUSTICE
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Roberts =, SO Hrutally Muir
/. Young
W.. KILLED IN HIS BOAT
Maryland Murder Sensation Comes
to Tragic Close When the
Criminal Was Run
Down.

: AoAAPooA WOUuul, WAS SQOC TO DeaCn
by the Sheriff's posse while resisting
arrest at the wharf near the scene
where the body was found, at McDan-
lei, Talbot county, at o'clock today.
He was rowing up the river and
was followed four hours by the posse.
When ordered to surrender, he arose
In his boat and had a big revolver.
The posse opened fire and he fell In q
heap in the boat. A bottle OF poison
and some letters were found in his
coat. Two men had followed him in
boat while others Of the posse crept
along the shore.
LOS ANGELES, June 25.-H. ".
Woodill, brother Of Gilbert. husband
Of the woman slain at st. Michaels,
denied that she was in the east be.
cause Of domestic troubles. He de-
clared that she went east with her
husband and that he later returned.
The husband is prostrated Lyman
Gage today refused to discuss the
case. He admitted that the woman
had been his ward. but denied that
she had anything to do with the
osophist cult III Point Iona, of which
Gage is a strong financial hacker.
ST. MICHAELS, June 25 There is
much mystery about the parentage ot
| the dead girl. She was married twice
and at the time OF her death was but
twenty-one. Captain Thompson OF
Mcdaniel, adopted her when she was
very young. She is believed to be the
daughter OF rich parents living eth
er at Newhaven or Hartford, Conn.
1t Is known that her husband, last
March, put an advertisement in the
Chicago papers reading Would like
to communicate with people having a
girl named Pearl stolen from them in
Chicago eighteen years ago.
BOSTON, June 25.-Mrs. Woodill.
who was slain at McDaniels, Md, was
the divorced wife of M. Caswell, a
Boston osteopath, and friend Of Mrs.
Kalper. known as the Purple Moth
er of Theosophy." She lived for sew
eral years In Brooklyn.
CHICAGO, June rs. Eli Gage,
daughter-in-law of Lyman Gage, today
denied any mystery of the girls pa
rents. She declares that Mrs. Wood
| ills father died about two years ago,
and that the girl knew all about her
early life. Mrs. Edwin S. Pierce, a
sister of her father, took great inter
est In her, because OF her musical tai
ent and helped to educate her. She
said that Woodill is deranged.
BALTIMORE, June 25.--With the
killing OF Emmet Roberts, the slayer
Of Edith May Thompson Woodill, the
mystery surrounding the strange ro
nance deepens to a point where there
seems no chance Of unraveling. Moth
ing has been found to indicate where
4 the two met. Emmett was a writer
and correspondent of thirty-five news
i papers and travelled considerably.
| NEW YORK, June 25.-That the
SLAYER Of Mrs. Edith May Thompson
| Woodill, was Robert e. Eastman,
former Wall street broker, and fugi
tive from justice who may have liyet
IN a small Maryland town under th'
alias OF Emmett E. Roberts, Is suspect
ed by the police here today. A dec
was found on the body of the murder
er showing the transfer of propert
: from Robert E. Eastman to John J
Mann on July 20, 1905. Eastman wa
known on Wall street as Lame BOD.
|, NEW YORK, June 25.-"Roberts
tora affliction was the same as Eas'
man,s Eastman was the head of tn
firm Of Eastman and Company an
! was suspended from the Consolidat
| stock exchange last summer. In A,
' gust Of last year he was arrested !
/ Chicago on charge of getting none
+ under false pretenses. At the time G
i his arrest he had fifty-five thousan
, dollars in his clothing. Eastman wa
indicted on two charges of larceny an
i was released under seventy-five hui
/ dred dollar bail. 1t was alleged ths
J. his liabilities were more than Slo0,Vo
q BALTIMORE, June 25.-It is state
here today that Roberts had moths
and sister living in Denver. II Mr.
Woodill knew Roberts before he cam
h to st. Michaels, she didn't comics
!. They became acquainted, were fa'
i. friends and spent much time togethe
Two years ago her foster brothe
!. Chrales Thompson killed himself b
v cause Of her refusal to marry him. L
man Gage was greatly interested