The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-27
According to Eastnq's Ls- ter Another Woman KII-
 ed Mrs. WoOdiIIl \
BURIAL OF RESTRAINTS
 BODY HAS BEEN DELAYED
Eastman's Wife Will Inherit the Prop erty Where Murder Was Com mitted and Legal Fight
 May Be Result.

St Michaels, Md, June S-Tell-tale shafts of light continued today to filter in upon the tragedy of the lonely bungalow of Broad Creek As the tangled sketns of the story are picked up one by one i they tend more and more to dissipate the claim advanced by Robert Eastman that 1t was d woman and not he who killed Edith May woodill.
 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 man who an- swered fully the description of Eastman. The man secured s9oo on the two diamond rings and an Oriental pearl brooch. Two hundred dollars which Mrs. Woodi1l had in her possession when she left her fos- ter fathers home last week Is missing. Eastman repaid loan last week of $2OO, and when he returned here from Balt- more on Tuesday night he seemed plen- tifully supplied with money.
 There promised for time today to be a fight for the legal custody of East mans body. A. s. Rosenthal of New York. an attorney who represented East man when he was charged with grand larceny and who secured for him the bail which he forfeited by flight, arrived upon the scene, and acting fer Mrs. Ida S. Eo- stein of New York, 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 it to the New York authorities, by whom a reward of $500 had been offered.
 The local authorities declined to give up the body.
 Letter Made Public.
 The letter of the suicide, in which he gave to his wife the version of the killing of Mrs. Woodill by a jealous woman was made public today, and deeply inn pressed many who read it's circumstan- tial account of the tragedy, for which the writer claimed he was in no way re- sponsible
 Foreman Radliffe of the coroner's jury declared himself convinced of the truth of the strange missive, and urged the au- thorities to investigate further into the | matter.
 While many others were as deeply iIn- pressed as the jury foreman the search of the authorities failed to substantiate any ! of Eastman's claims. The states attor- ney and the members of the coroner's Jury continue to withhold the contents of the two letters found on Eastman ! after his spectacular suicide in the little slxif, in which he hoped to elude for time at least the clutches of his pur- suers. They declare they wish to ex- haust every clue and to leave no stone unturned to find if other persons were in | any way connected with the crime. | The witness William Sutton, who, it was said last night, had heard party of men and women merrymaking in the bum galow on Sunday night. declared today that 1t was late Sunday night that he went to visit Eastman's place, and that he heard only the voice of one man and one woman In the bungalow; that the voice of the woman was that of Mrs. Woodill
 Table Set for Two.
 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, un- used
 Eastman, when he returned on Sunday morning the team he had borrowed to meet Mrs. Woodill with on Saturday, spoke to his neighbor of the fact that he had had a girl visitor at his bunga- low the night before. There was no mention of party
 Passersby saw lights through the shaded windows of the bungalow as late as II | o'clock Saturday.
 There Is no serious thought here that Eastman killed Mrs. Woodill through | motives of robbery. Neither is there any widespread idea of reconciliation. The two were heard to quarrel as they drove away from Royal Neck station Saturday afternoon. Attorney Rosenthal, whose cli- ent Eastman was, declared tonight that | Eastman had known the murdered girl prior to her marrige with Woodill and said he believed Eastman had visited her in California after her marriage
 The girl knew much of Eastman's past l life-knew him as an accused swindler and embezzler and a fugitive from jus tice-and the theory Is advanced that in the course of their quarrel the girl threat ened to disclose Eastman's identity.
 Another Theory.
 There is the theory, too. that while Mrs woodill had fingered longer in the | east than either she or her husband had intended because of her association ! with Eastman, she had decided at last to | disclosure of this purpose may have led to her death in the bungalow.
 D. Ashton Hummer of this place saw l a motorboat with two women and three l men, all stylishly dressed. making it's way out of Broad creek which the l Eastman bungalow is located. the Sunday morning following the murder. After l making trip to Oxford, however, the boat and passengers returned. There is l nothing to indicate that the launch came from anywhere in the immediate neigh borhood of Eastman's farm, however. and the only definite clews in possession of the authorities indicate that not moro than two persons were in the bungalow | on Saturday or Sunday.
 Eastman had been living more or less by his wits of late and there are many | now who believe that he borrowed con- siderable money from Mrs. Woodill. Be- ing badly in need of money it is ae- lieved that the idea of pawning the jew- elry came to him when he felt that flight