The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-07-01
ST. Michaeis, Md, june 28.-Lass
this afternoon the coroner's Jury
decidad that Roberts committed
suicide to escape capture.

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Los Angeles. June 2s.-Gilbert Wood
Ill, husband OF the murdered woman,
today received the following dispatch
from Captain Charles II. Thompson, Of
Mcdaniel, Md, foster father Of Wood
Ills murdered wife:
I'VE buried Edith in tho family
lot. Murderer was shot YESTERDAY.
Am writing fully"
Woodill remains under the care Of q
physician. and his relatives are en-
d~eavoring to induce him not to go to
Maryland.
Mcdaniel. Md. June 2s.-Doubt as to
whether the dead mans real name was
Roberts was raised today by the find
Ing, near his body, of a letter and deed
addressed to Mrs. Robert e. Eastman,
care Of George B. Taylor, will be called
for" The deed records the sale by
Robert B.. Eastman to John =. Mann, OF
New York, OF six lots at Bergen. Bo-
gotta county, New Jersey, and is dated
July 20, 1908.
The coroner has in his possess
sion a letter found on Roberts, or
Eastman, as he is now supposed
to be, addressed to Miss Winnie
LANCER, New York" n which the
writer asks h girl to go to Mary
land to take charge Of his body and
property, as he intended to COM
NIT suicide.
ST. MichaeIs,. Md, June 25.-
correspondent, magazine writer
and author, who was wanted for
the murder Of Mrs. Edith May
WoodiIi, adopted daush-
ter of Colonel Thomas L. Thomp-
son, was shot to death by a sher-
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the wharf at Mcdaniel, Talbot
county, at 4 o'clock this morning.
Roberts fired one shot from a re-
vo1ver, but without effect.
Shortly after midnight this morning
q small craft was seen moving up the
waters of Back river. along the shore
of which are homes Of Colonel Thomp-
son and Roberts.
Sheriff Mortimer and q posse obtained
a boat and followed. Roberts, the man
in the leading boat, apparently became
alarmed and iastened up the river at
a faster pace. For one, two n three
hours the two boats and the sheriff.
party proceeded up the river, the shores
narrowing all the while.
Nearing tho End.
Roberts was nearing the scene of his
alleged crime. AS the shores drew to-
gether, members of the posse made u
the features of Roberts. He was near
ing the wharf at MCDANIEL, from which
point he is supposed to have fled.
When Roberts got abreast Of the
landing place and was but 100 feet from
shore. Magistrate Willy and his two
deputies stepped out into the open.
Hello Roberts, throw up your
hands," shouted the magistrate.
Roberts did not utter a word, but
rose In his seat with q big ~revolver. in
his right hand. He quickly leveled 1t
at the party on shore and fired.
Meyer Crone. a special deputy, fired
a shot from a revolver at the white
shirted figure standing in the boat.
Then Magistrate Willy discharged a
shotgun. Deputy Crone fired a second
shot. During the fusillade Roberts
dropped in a heap in the boat, his re-
yolver falling at his side.
Shot in Mouth.
The deputies waded put to The
mall craft. Roberts had been shot
In the mouth and was dead.
The BOAT was drawn to the shore and
the body examined. Roberts had a
bottle Of poison in his pocket and "a
number of letters. The body was taken
to St. Michaels.
Boston, June 28.-Mrs. Edith May
Thompson-Woodill, who was murdered
at St. Michaels, Wednesday, Is believed
to nave been the divorced wife Of DR..
Walter w. Caswell. an osteopath of this
city. After being divorced from DR..
Caswell, the woma was engaged to
a resident of Mt. Vernon, N. Y, but a
few months before the date set for
the wedding she married Woodill.
Mrs. Woodill is also said to nave been
a protege OF Mrs. Katherine Tingley,
leader of the ~Theosophical cult in the
United States.
Story of Murder.
st. Michaels, Md, June 2S.-Practi-
cally the entire eastern shore of Mary
land is aroused n searching for one
Emmett q. OF John Z. Roberts. Manted