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The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27

ST. Michaels, Md. June 2G.-Witnout
ceremony, the body of Robert e. East
man-'Lame Bob"-thc New York
stock broker. who murdered pretty
May Edtth Thompson Woodill, and
then committed suicide, was buried
a The expense OF Talbot county
The farm near Bozeman, where he
had made mis- home, during his stay
iii this county, and the bungalow, where
the murder took place, were sought
for n burial ground, out permission
was refused. No cemetery would per
nit the body to be buried within its
graveyard, and the authorities were
forced TO seek a resting place for IL
on the farm of the man himself
That the dead man was Ieally Lame
Bob" Eastman, the fugitive New York
broker, is now established beyond all
doubt Louis B Pcdler. an artist on a
Washington newspaper. identified the
body today. Pedler is a cousin of Vim
ME Bradcombe, the New York actress.
who, il turns out, is the wife Of East.
man. and to whom he addressed the
letter in which he charged that a wo.
man had killed Mrs. Woodlll Pedler
had known Eastman we'll in New
York, and there was no nesitancy III
his Identification.
The story OF the drunken row told
by Eastman ln his letter to his wife
has caused speculation here, and ei-
forts are being made today TO locate
members of party OF four or five peo-
pie who are reported to have left here
on a launch tne day after the suppos-
ed time OF Mrs Woodill'S murder
The fun text of the letter found on
Eastman and addressed 10 Winnie
BradcOmbe, his wife, giving his cir
cumstantial version of the killing of
Mrs, WoodIll by another woman, was
made public today. Eastman claims
the murder was committed In the bun
galow Instead of in a launch as first
supposed. The letter follows.
'Vlnnic-Take this money and 80
at once to Mcdaniel, Talbot county,
Maryland. and claim my body and all
my property. The property consists OF
twenty-five acres of land and bunga
low There is also motor boat
Have A sale aud convert the whole
thing into cash. I don't owe a cent
except for the paint, pump, etc. which
Shanahan s Wrighton. OF Easton will
be glad TO get back, as It Is not brok-
en-. just as IT was shipped
Little girl. I mad no hand in the
tragedy. I was there and removed the
evidence after the other TWO couples
fled | did this for selfpIcSeUyatiou
and am haunted. The victim was my
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27
Humor There, Some,

Here Is another stor in
the far east that Is TO s
Isham, the novelist:
Two Cinnamon in Shanghai were
discussing the president-elects visit
to that place shortly after the depar-
ture OF the TAFT party.
Mr.. Taft is certainly a very big
man." said one. making o gesture that
implied large circle as he spoke.
He is that answered the other.
I'VE have certainly had a consider
able sphere OF American influence In
our midst recently"
And yet they say Cinnamon have
no sengc OF humor.
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27
VETERAN WALKER WILL
Spend DAY IN CARLIN

Edward Pnyson Weston arrived at
Carlin. New. at 11;1O o'clock last nigat
Sn5 r-;n mend Sunday there. He LETT
-J I{sI,ec,, at 1890 O'Clock Friday night
a,'.trnJ -.r at Elko at S;25 Saturday
morning. took breakfast tnere and con. n
tt,ned on his way at 9:10. Halleck is
go miles from ogden. Mr.. Weston
icft hero at l:10 o'clock Monday
morning and despite the extreme heat
81 81 tho desert made exceptionally good
limo during his weeks walk; At this
ratc he viii doubtless be able to reach
sam Francisco in the one hundred days
,.oicb no gave himself 10 walk from
Nyo,v York 10 the Golden Gate.
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27
HRS. WOODILL'S
JEWELS FOUND
Continued from Page onc)

the bungalow as late as II o'clock on
Saturday night.
There Is no serious belief here that
Eastman killed Mrs. Woodill through
motives Of robbery. Neither is there
any widespread idea of premeditation.
The two were heard to quarrel as they
drove away from Royal Oak station on
Saturday afternoon. Attorney Rosen.
thai declared tonight that Eastman
had known the murdered girl prior TO
her marriage to Woodill, and said he
believed Eastman had visited her In
California after ner marriage, The
girl knew much OF Eastman's past life
knew him as an accused Swindler
and embezzler and fugitive from JUS
tice-and the theory Is advanced that
in the course Of their quaTellng the
girl threatened to disclose the identity
OF the man who had taken the name of
Roberts, There Is the theory. too, that
as Mrs. Woodill had been longer in
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27

ST. MIchaels. Md, June 26-The full
text of Lame Bob" Eastman's version
OF the death Of Edith May Woodill, as
related in the letter he sought TO mail
to Winnie Bradcombe. his wife. has
added new Interpretation TO the
tragedy But robbery as a possible
motive for the crime has now been
advanced, Word comes from Balt-
more that man answering the de
scription OF Eastman pawned in that
city on Tuesday last two diamond
rings and a diamond brooch valued AN
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27
Let Charity be anoovmo,,s

Let your charitable gifts De apony.
nous gifts. These have the double ad,
vantage o. supprcssing at once in.
gratitude and abEse-Alexauder Du-
uas
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27

about $500 Diamond rings. a DIAMOND
brooch and diamond. set bracelet
worn bv Mrs. Woodill wlen las; SEGA
with Eastman have not been account
ed for Eastman went 10 Baltimore
on Tuesday, and mailed from there a
letter written b. Mrs. Woodill several
DAYS previously TO her sister at alc-
Daniel.
Eastman's story of the crime. which
he declared was committed by
drunken woman IN flt OF jealousy, is
so circumstantial however. that Fore
man Radcliffe OF the ooroncr's jury
which Is inquiring into the death or
Mrs Woodil is convinced Of It's truth.
Mr. Radcliffe again today postponed
the inquest to await some action by
the law officers The authorities are
inclined to take but little stock In
Eastmnn's declarations. They believe
the last letter may nave been written
in an attempt to shield his wife and
boy from a final and Overwhelming
stigma.
States Attorney Turner declared
that he will not abandon the invesu-
cation until he is convinced that
every tangible clue has been followed
10 the end,
The Baltimore police adhere TO the
theory that it was Eastman who com
mitted the deed Detective Captainn
Humphrey of Baltimore. in an inter
view today, explained MS theory in
detail He believes. despite East
mans declaration. that Mrs Woodill
was n new acquaintance, that the two
were old friends. and that the woman
was killed from motives OF jealousy,
when, after postponiag her departure
TO join her husband, she finally de-
clared that sac was going back TO her
home in Los Angeles.
Here, where MIS- Woodill lived as
girl, the neighbors of her foster father
and old Colonel Thompson himself
hold the thcOry that the girl was killed
in repUlSing Eastman's advances,
One Of the clues yet 10 be run down
is locating the men who were TO visit
Eastmans bungalow the night of June
16 A letter found in Eastman's bun
galow. addressed 10 Roberts" as he
was known here. follows,
"Eas;on. Md, jane 1G Rear Rob
crts: Ryan and Shotwell Will arrive
Oxford boat IL o'clock tonight Cap
tain Lee Will take us over to your
joint Get there about 12:40 but must
leave after looking the place over
Sorry yoJ have decided not 10 go this
time Folks all at indianapolis. Here
lis the one you sent for me. Yours.
"HOWARTH.'
There may have been party at the
bungalow prior TO the arrival OF Mrs
Woodlll en- the 18th. and this fact may
have given Eastman ais Idea for an cx-
planatioA of the 0rimey cog u.-
Several persons along The road, it
Was learned TO-DAY. heard Eastman and
MSs Woodill Qqarrellng 2 .as- they drove
Dom9RPy1e eQali7 station. whel e he met
ben Saturday last 70 Chs wharf at Nc
Daniel where she was seen entering a
motor boat vita Eastman.
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27
hadd dcnino.

Jhere never was a man so patient
that 1t didn't make him mad to get a
line under his horses tall when out
driyipg.-Atchison Globe.
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27

Baltimore, June 26.--De'ective Cap
tain Humphrey Of the Baltimore police.
who has been at work Oh the Woodill
tragedy, secuted the IDEA today that
Il woman committed the murder
From what | have discovered" he
said Il have no doubt tlat Eastman
and Mrs. Woodiil were old friends
don't think 1t was mere coincidence
that brought him to I've within a
stones throw OF her foster fathers
home | believe Eastman was in Cali
fornia recently, and that he lad come
to the eastern shore OF Maryland
knowing Mrs. Woodill was soon com
ing east
Mrs. Woodill had intended return
ing west Il few DAYS after her hus
band left, but in my opinion, when she
found Eastman domiciled near her IA
thers home, she could not resist play
ing with the FIRE. We know that Mrs
Wocdi!l saw great deal of Eastman.
believe, q, last, MIR. Woodill informed
Eastman that she intended TO rejoin
her husband. and tlat he became in
sanely Jealous and forbade il.
1T is easy 10 conjecture that there
we're mutual threats. MIS- WOodiN had
been toid of much of Bastmans past
life, and she could easily have threat
ened 10 disclose his identity 10 the
authorities"
Captain Humphrey said it would be
useless for him to send mon to st.
Micl0els
The mau who committed the muir
der is dead" he declared, $50 waat is
the Use 1f spndlno mon ont Simnlv IN
rake up scandal 4"
a. S, Rosenthal a New York lawyer,
who says he represented Eastman at
the time he was charged WITH grand
larceny ,1PqsSed 5bropghs baltimore to
day en- route % ST H1chaeTs He
says lie cannot imagine where East.
,nlGan got The m9hey'to bil% the property
on the Eastern shore,
The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-27

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
Agricultural Reform In Alabama .

Commissioner of Agriculture WillS- inson is striving to induce the farm CTS of this state to diversity their crops. No doubt they should grow their own corn and make their own meal But there is a reform that is still more important and that reform relates to the blowing for all crops. Shallow blowing is unknown in the northern states. Deep blowing is un- known in the south. Here is where a vast difference in productiveness per acre ereeps or rather bulges in.
 It is not necessary to produce fig ures. It is not necessary to contrast corn production per acre in this state with corn production. say, in Illinois or Kentucky or Missouri. We have 16 black belt counties in this state and the soil in any one of them is as good as the soil in Illinois, Kentucky or Missouri. The soil in the latter is plowed 12 inches deep, whereas It is plowed but three or four inches deep in the south. True, deep blow ing is not all, but it is the basis of all field cultivation Proper fer tilization and proper culture are also needed, but the practice of shallow blowing should be first abolished.%
 Deeper blowing would lead to dl- versification of crops and perhaps it would be better to have all reform efforts in agriculture take that form. The bane and clog of the south is shallow blowing and until there Is reform in this matter there will be no considerable change for the bet fer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
MERRY WIDOWS SECRET

otherwise have been left in darkness. Gounods opera nearly misses the whole moral in the story of Faust, but, through the compelling power of genius it suc- ceeds in investing that somber theme with so much of the sunlight of music as to make the world look and listen enough to let us hope that it will eventually take in all of the great truth Goethe taught. A little more sunlight on the blank walls frowning at us from the back of every Ibsen stage would illuminate him, per- haps, to the point of helping some people to understand how some other people understand how to understand him. It is possible to understand Ibsen in a book, but as he is presented to us on the stage he makes it so much easier for us to understand the Merry Widows secret Give Ibsen a rollicling chorus or two, and his secret might get out. If it is worth knowing let us have it, and so end the trust monopoly pf those who say they have found 1t, but can't tell it to any body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
Political Muddle In Illinois

The democrats and anti-Deneen re-
 ,h1;oonv in Illinois succeeded in or ganizing the house of representatives. This is embarrassing to Deneen and the state administration, for the ma iority in the house refuse to enter a party caucus. This is complicated by a contest by Adlai Stevenson for rhe goyernorship. Deneen's plurality was only 24,oO0 although Taft carried the state by 1SO000 plurality. This contest may not be successful, but it, together wth the adverse control of the lower house, will prove embar- rassing to Governor Deneen, who is full of net measures he desires to become laws.
 The filling of a seat in the United States Senate is also involved. Sen ator Hopkins is not a reformer. He belongs to the inner circle of sen ators and his majority in the state primary was very narrow. He begins to think his primary nomination may prove empty, for he is not popular in Illinois and the bolting republicans in the lower house of the legislature are not willing to attend caucus. The new coalition has elected a dem- ocrat speaker of the house and some predict it will not hesitate to elect a senator of it's own choice. Both Hopkins and Deneen are in a peck of trouble and that, too, in a state that went overwhelmingly for Taft last November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
.Lese MajeSte In America

As yet 1t is not known In just what way lese majeste will be trans planted and made to bloom contin- uously in this country, but 1t is known that Attorney General Bonaparte is at work in accordance with White House directions and that several newspaper men have been ordered to appear before District of Columbia court. Possibly the United States will ap- pear as complainant and possibly the name of an individual will be used. If Uncle Sam is not to be the com plainant then by all means let the irrepressible William Nelson Crom- we'll step to the front.
 Nothing more Rooseveltian has hap pened in the pending ruction than this attempt to import and assimilate the offense of lese majeste. The Hohen- yollerns have long had a monopoly of 1t, but this monopoly will be broken if the effort at Washington is sane toned by the courts. It would then become progressively dangerous to crit icize the government or any servant or official of the government, for any such act would mean a strife with the millions of dollars and thousands of detectives that the government con trols.
 The plain meaning of the pending efforts at Washington is that the pame of the President must not be spoken of lightly or in an offensive manner and that William Nelson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
am declined Into the vale of years.
 -OthelIo
New Fifth Avenue Hotel

A new steel frame hotel is in this city only a matter of time and the sooner the hotel is built the better for the city. for the travelling pub lie and for the entire district. The enterprise is important and every good citizen should lend a helping hand.
 A modern skyscraper hotel is lack ing in the city's outfit and now IS the time to get it. It calls for the subscription -ef some capital, but not for a dollar that Is in the nature of a gift. present or prospective Tor every dollar put in the proposed build ing will prove good investment as the years go on.
 Subscriptions to the preferred stock of such an enterprise are especially sound and the citizens of Birmingham can secure a building they greatly need by putting some of their sur nlns money in such stock. The need and the opportunity have met, and now is the time to gain what the c;tv lacks in order to put it in line with all other progressive towns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
IN HOTEL LOBBlES
The Music Festival.

'The business men at the head of the music festival movement are among the most public spirited and successful in Birmingham and will no doubt be able to provide splendid festival for May" said a music lover.
 'The plan at first discussed, whereby citizens were asked to subscribe to stock in the Music Festival assoeia- tion, payable 20 per cent annually for five years. has been abandoned and now s5000 is to be raised in cash by 100 men giving $50 each This plan is to cover this year only; but with $5Ooo in money to start with there will be no possible chance of a deficit to be met after the festival.
 Tn former festivals the orchestra and soloists were engaged for only two days, but in the one now projected the festival will last three days with two performances day. It promises to be the greatest musical event ever held in the south; and the music and the floral parade to be held in conjunction with the festival will together attract thousands of visitors to the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
Snowfall Protects Wheat

Over perhaps all the surplus winter wheat states lies a blanket of snow which will afford at first protection and then moisture to the plans un- derneath. The winter wheat crop has no important setback, but its progress has been slow and the recent snowfall is very welcome to the farmers in the great wheat states.
 While the winter season remained warm and open and dry farm work was progressed and all accounts agree that more than the usual amount of blowing has been accomplished. Here in the south fertilizer sales are heavy and both the west and the south promise to outdo themselves this year. A year of good crops is needed and the farmers seem to be doing their level best to hand us a year of that sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
THE BLIND SPOT,
From Lippincotts.

From Lippincotts.
 In all visions there is a blind spot; every savant. is a fool upon some topic This Is exemplified by the readiness with which the most acute business and professional man will dabble in speculation-such as mining and allurements similar.
 What man of ordinary common-sense would think of buying a house he had never seen and his agent had never seen; or a horse, or gun, or almost anything into which he is putting money. without privilege of examination and expectation of using that privilege? And yet the ma Jority of men will Invest, sight unseen," as the boys say, in mine, in an oil well, In rubber plantation, merely upon the word of machine-made prospectus.
 Somehow. ninety-nine out of hundred men who thus invest, as a side issue, seem to anticipate that chance will overlook their utter disregard of business principles. and will work a miracle in their favor They go upon the theory "A fool for luck" This is why specula- tion of this nature is fallen into evil ways, and why gold mine so often proves gold brick.
 The public has itself to blame. Mines, oil-wells, rubber plantations, can be made sources of profit, and are made sources of proft; but they should not be played as one plays a slot-machine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
Business Conditions.

If business seems somewhat quiet now conditions are far better than they were this time last year" remarked T. S. Minor of St. Louis.
 q was in Birmingham the second week in last year and things looked very blue here then. Nearly all the in dustries had shut down and the out look for industrial revival was any thing but bright. It was the same way in all manufacturing centers. But bus mess has been improving steadily since last May and since the presidential cleo tion the improvement has been still more marked.
 People who expected the new year to start off with a rush of prosperity were expecting too much. It Is gem orally felt however, that prosperity will be in evidence by April or May. If this years crops turn out well the sum- mer will bring high degree of pros perity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
ReIiuious Statistics.

According to the world Almanac for 1909 the principal religious denominations in the United States show gains," said a layman ''The statistics are furnished by those who have been engaged in this sort of work for many years. The Roman Catholics are credited with 11,795,S12, not including the Catholics of Hawaii, the Philippines or Porto Rico. The Metho- dists lead all the Protestant denomina- tions, their total being 6,660 7s4. The Bap- lists come next with 5,224,9O5. The Dis ciples of Christ-commonly called Chris tians-have 1, ,2S5,123, and the Presbyterians have 1921, ,504. The Lutherans are credited with 2,022, ,605. The Episcopalians have s30, 659 In this total are the Reformed Episco- palians, numbering 9419. Christian Sci entists number s5,0s6, Nand the Unitarians only 71,900.
 ''The World Almanac gives not only re- ligious statistics, but several pages are devoted to setting forth the tenets of various churches. This is of much inter- est, especially as 1t informs the public regarding the new sects and so-ca1led ethical religions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
THE COMIC POSTCARD.

From the washington Post.
 Maiden ladies of Maine are said to be hypersensitive upon the subject of age, but that one wno sued Vermont beau for $5o0O because he sent her comic postcard treating of the humors of spin sterhood, deserves peoples thanks Com pared with comic postcard the average internal machine is a welcome visitor in the mails
 The illustrated post card is one of those fads which. like hated enemies, threat ems to live forever. Originally instituted as a pleasant help to the tourist, who might thus easily and at small expense furnish the folks at home with few bits of the scenery over which his wan dering footsteps led him, it has become the favorite medium of every awful eari- cature of art. From bearing the photo graphs of churches and fields it dropped into it's first offense against good taste when it took to wearing the photographs of people. From that point on it's descent was rapid Chromos, woodcuts, eolored prints-all the heinous offenses in the lithographers catalog-were heaped upon it.
 Still the fame of the postcard grew. Today it has become a fashionable dis ease, which those persons who do not want it themselves seem eager to spread among their friends. There is no relief from it. It comes from the friend in for eign lands or from the cousin visiting the village of his childhood.
 Nothing is sacred from it's envenomed stings. Claiming to hold the mirror up to nature" it exposes our every frailty, our little mannerisms. The illustrated post card in the hands of a friend whose appreciation of humor exceeds his good sense may prove a most potent instrument in the encouragement of domestic strife. It may be the very last sting in a day of petty irrtants that ruins a mans con- stitution and makes him misanthrope
 Some day, perhaps, the government will see that the comic postcard is growing indecent; it is impudent coarse. offensive of good taste. and corrupting to good morals. Then the government will let us hope, put it on the list of those things unfit to go through the mails. And may the day come soon.