Evening star., 1909-06-30
EDITH LOVED EASTMAN
Ardent Letter to Slayer Tells
of Deep Affection.
PHILOSOPHY WRITTEN IN
Evidence in Missive That She Had
Long Known Him.
FOUND IN DEAD MANS COAT
Another Note Penned by Broker In
vited Her and Foster Sister to
Visit Bungalow.
FOUND IN DEAD MANS COAT

Visit Bungalow.
/ ST. MICHAELS. Md. June 3O.-A re-
markable letter. written by Edith May
Thompson Woodill to Robert Emmet
Eastman. and found with other papers
among the effects of the murderer and
suicide at his bungalow, has been made
public by States Attorney Turner of Tai
bot county and then turned over to Col
Thompson, the dead woman's foster
| father
The letter was signed Edith" 1t not
| only indicates the woman's infatuation for
the fugitive New York bro<eE, but also
shows that she had known hfn for q
year.
CONTENTS OF LITTER
! The letter. in part, follows:
"Is the iron immodest when 1t creeps
through the loadstone aud clings to Its
side? Is the seed immodest when 1t sinks
| into the ground with budding life? Is the
cloud bold when it softens into rain and
| falls to earth because it has no other
choice. or is 1t brazen when IT nestles on
| the bosom of heavens arched dome and
| sinking into the blueblack infinity ceases
to be itself? Is the human soul immodest
when. drawn by force 1t cannot resist
| 1t seeks a stronger soul which absorbs Its
| ego as the blue sky absorbs floating
! cleuG, and as the warm earth sWells the
| sea. as the magnet draws the iron?
/ 'Al1 Of these are of one quality. The
iron, the sea, the clouds and the soul OF
| man are what they are. do what they do
live they live, or die as they die, be.
/ cause there is no other choice
i 1--WE think we are free because at times
| we act as we please. forgetting that God
| gives us the please and that every act
of our being is only the result of die
| tated plan.
Not Free Agents.
do you find any freedom save that
which you firmly believe exists within
yourself? Do you? You don't! There Ii
no self-God BY every people He Is
called differently-the people of the
east
/ Here the page is torn and the remain
der of the sentence 1ost)
/ And to the end lives and dies witt
a mistaken understanding of itsall.
II do not feel myself to be bold OF
wrong or lin myself for drifting toward
you as l do. l would not feel myself
wrong to go straight to you tomorrow.
There is ever and always some human
so,,i to love and trust MS, and whose con-
i idence we would not alter. We are no
of our own making, and our lives belong
to another Abraham who rules and IL
wise.
Have j Sdi1 all tftlS Sid. bC 80
for 1t is my present belief whenever hui
man things go. against my desire and al
4 ways the same lesson comes back TO me
i "As one who was unconcerned. and 1r
every line of it and / read only the same
4 alteration that a years absence would
not shadow.
/ "And the wonder comes to me that you
did not. could not understand. Surely 9
life such as yours brings time understand
ing; you must know lewd from the mod
Il -, frn,
i (Four pages are here destroyed. Then
4 the letter continues:)
i agent; 1t seems no one is unnoticed
i however humble, and so it is that l SIT
i idly dreaming when my longing Is to be
i putting down every thought.
i Longing for Lover.
i "Dreaming of you, did I say? Longing
for you would be better. for every heart
beat seems to cry out against the enor-
nifty Of the crime that makes me no long
er yours All the best in everything seems
only to exist because of you and for
you.
IT hate existence away from you. Why
do men dare to lift up their voices against
the blessed art in others, which IS ou,
a greater stronger, warmer spark OF
Gods Souls that they possess, or can
lessen the understanding we have for the
other and no difference can make us for
get?
best and though we're you IA bandit-a
any thing-my heart would beat in re-
sponsiveness to yours.
/ "Thine but asks instead Will thou be
mine?' Loved by time has grown to know
its significance. Has usury been made q
degenerate thing? That is hard to recog-
nize.
/ Are We not blessed and know that no
happenings can? EDITH
Eastman Writes Of His Sentiments.
/ On the same paper. but in Eastman 6
writing, Is the following, evidently writ
ten to Mrs. Weodill
i Little Dear: I cannot live after our
/ short 49, of bliss.
i with the coming of you and parting
4 ever before me. If We meet in the un-
known let's continue the blissful times
that we spent here. ! am with you In
| every thought.
| Still another footnote on the letter,
which may be of much significance. was
the words In Eastman's handwriting:
Rev. Austin, Baptist"
More About Launch Party.
The state attorney also gave out this
| letter by Eastman. 1t Is similar to one
written to his wife and already pub
/ lished:
.'Mr. Taylor: Inclosed find SO to cover
my indebtedness to you. l believe 1t
ample II not, will send difference.
[ appearances are against me, but had
| no hand in the tragedy. The poor little
! girl was practicing the art OF taking a
| fellow from another girl who was under
| the influence of wine and hit hsr three
| times with full bottle of champ .gne.
"The four imme ediately left and | re-
moved the evidence of the crime and
/ once more making an effort to get bonds
men, for / don't want to get locked up.
/ But if not successful and | cannot per-
suade all parties to come up and take
! their medicine, why. | will blow off the
top of my crazy head. and in that case
| l wish you would kindly see that all let
! tiers found on me are mailed.
ROBBIE"
Launch to Be Given to Wife.
/ The following order was found IN East
mans pocketbook:
Mr. G. B. Taylor: Please deliver my
/ motorboat TO Mrs. r. E. Eastman or
| bearer +. h. ROBERTS,.
| In letter addressed to Miss Julia East
man. Larch avenue, Bogota. Bergen
| county, n j. was found a deed. No. 6I4,
/ dated November 25 1893. This deed was
| for lot In a cemetery of the Maple
| Grove Cemetery Association. for which
$93 out Of $40 had been paid. The deed
was in the name of Robert E. Feeney and