The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-27
NEW THEORY ON
 WOODILL MURDER
Other Murders May Be Traced
 to EaStman'S Bungalow
SIMILAR TO GUINNESS CASE
Motive for Murder of the Young Wo- man May Yet Be Found Different From Any Yet Offered to
 the Authorities.

St Michaels, Md, June 26.-(Special) J. ] The authorities of this county will begin l digging for human bodies tomorrow around the bungalow of Robert Emmett Eahtman, the fugitive Wall street swind- 1 Ter who committed suicide in his row boat the Back river as he was about to be captured for the murder of beau- tiful Mrs. Edith May Thompson-W -Woodin. Certain unsanitary indications on the l premises aroused strong suspicion in the minds of the authorities today when the mans past and the savagery of his nature as displayed during his last days, com bined with today's developments suggest the possibilities of another Guinness mys- | tery. Freshly turned dirt in several places prompts the belief that Eastman may have had a private graveyard. 4 great number of letters involving men and women of high social standing and unblemished regulations have been found in Eastmans bungalow States Attorney | Turner, however, refused to divulge the contents of a single one of them on the ground that he might be doing grave injustice. Unless he has made sure that what Eastman wrote concerning these persons and the replies were predicated on facts he will not let them get out of his hands.
 Light continued today to filter upon the tragedy. As the tangled skeins of the story are picked up one by one, they tend more and more to dissipate the claim advanced by Eastman that it was a wonl- an and not he who killed Mrs Wood- i'll.
 Jewels Are Found.
 Today the jewels worn by the woman at the time of her disappearance were found in pawn shop in Baltimore, placed there last Tuesday by a man who answered the description of Eastman. The man got S200 on the two diamond rings and on pearl brooch. Two hundred dollars which Mrs Woodill had when she left her foster fathers home last week is missing. Eastman repaid a loan last week of s200 and when he returned here from Baltimore on Tuesday night he seemed plentifully supplied with money.
 There promised for a time today to be fight for the legal custody of Eastman's body A. S. Rosenthal of New York, who represented Eastman when he was charged with grand larceny, and who se- cured the bail which he forfeited by flight, arrived upon the scene, and acting for Mrs. Ida Eclzstein one of the sureties who lost heavily by the forfeiture of the bond demanded the custody of the body in order that he might make delivery of 1t to the New York authorities, by whom reward of $l5oo had been offered.
 Body Not Given Up. The local authorities declined to give up the body
 In an interview tonight MT Rosenthal declared that Eastman and Mrs. Woodill had an acquaintance of long standing and that as Eastmans lawyer he knew that his client had visited the woman at her California home.
 Witness William Sutton who 1t was said last night had heard a party of men and women merrymakng in a bungalow on Sunday night, declared today that it was late Saturday night when he went to visit Eastmans place, and that he heard only the voices of one man and one wom- an In the bungalow. He said the voice of the woman was that of Mrs. Woodill. Sutton did not make his presence outside the house known and went away.
 When the cabin was searched following the discovery of the body, places at the table were set for two Plates, cups and saucers were there and unused.
 The Girl Visitor Eastman, when he returned on Sunday morning with the team he had borrowed to meet Mrs. Woodill with on Saturday, spoke to hIs neighbor of the fact that he had a girl visitor at his bungalow the night before. There was no mention of party.
 There Is no serious thought here that Eastman killed Mrs. Woodill through mo- tives of robbery. Neither is there any idea of reconciliation. The two were heard to quarrel they drove away from the Royal Oak station Saturday after noon. The girl knew of Eastman's past life and the theory Is advanced that in the course of their quarreling the girl threatened to disclose the identity of the man who had taken the name of Roberts.
 The theory then is that while Mrs. Woodill had fingered longer in the east than either she or her husband intended, because of her association with Eastman. she had decided at last to go away and see the man no more.
 The disclosure of this purpose may have led to her death in the bungalow.