Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-25
TOday's Telegraphic News
MIS-. Woodil's Murderer Shot TO
Death.

m9s. W0o0ilPs Murderer ohOi W
Death.
st. MiehseIs, Nd, June 25.-Emmetl
+. Roberts, slsyer OF beautiful and
talented Edith May Thompson Wood
Ill, adopted daughter Of Dol. Charles
A. Thompson, ward OF former Secretary
of the Treasury Lyman j. Gsge, wife
Of Gilbert Woodill, wealthy auto
dealer, of Los Angeles, California, whose
nude, mutIlsled and weighted down
body VAS dragged from the river here
Wednesday afternoon, WAS shot 10 death
by sherifI's posse while resisting ar
rest on the wharf at Mcdaniel, Talbot
county, at four o. clock this morning
Shortly after midnight this morning
q mysterious looking craft was seen
moving up the waters OF Black river
along the shores Of which are the houses
Of Col. Thompson and the bungalow Of
Roberts.
Sheriff Mortimer, Magistrate Willy
aud a posse Of six men hnrrIed to the
scene, reaching the river shore st l q.
IN. All were armed. They crept down
to the waters edge. under cover
of the darkness, aud made out the
outlines Of a man in his shirt sleeves
laDguidly rowing boat up the river.
They made no demonstration, fearing
they would frighten the man wanted.
They resolved they would wait until the
rover got into narrower waters and
within range.
Sheriff Mortimer and Messrs. Hooper
and Harper obtained a boat and fol-
lowed Roberts leisurely to create the inn
preston on Roberts mind that he was
not being chased. Roberts seem annoyed
by the bost following. Magistrate Willy
and others, including the United Press
correspondent, followed along the shore
line. The cornering maneuver began
shortly after | q. m.
For one, two, and then three hours
the two boats aud the shore party pro-
ceeded up the river, the shores narrow
ing all the while. Roberts was nearing
the scene of the crime Of Saturday,
where the accomplished woman of fash
ion and musical prodigy was slain in OF
near the bungalow of the polished,
much travelled man of the world. As
the shores came together members OF the
posse made out the features of Roberts.
He was nearing the wharf at Mcdaniel,
from which point he is supposed to have
fed.
When Roberts got abreast OF the land
ing place, and was but one hundred feel
from shore, Magistrate Willy and his two
deputies stepped out in the open.
"HellO, Roberts, throw up your
hands" shouted the Magistrate. Roberts
did not utter word, hut rose in his
boat with big revolver in his right
hand. He quickly leyeled it at the
party on shore and fired. Meyer CrOne,
a special deputy, fired a shot from re-
volyer at the white-shirled figure stand
ing ds6nantly in the boat. Magistrate
Willy discharged shotgun at Roberts
Deputy Orone fred n second shot. Dur
| ing the lusilade Roberts dropped in {
heap in the boat, his revolver falling a
his side. The deputies waded out to the
small craft. Roberts had been shot
through the mouth by bullet and wa'
desd.
The boat WAS drawn to the shore aDC
the body examined. Roberts had a bot
tie of poison 10 his possession, and
number of letters. The body was taker
to 81. Michsels
1t is believed by some persons that
woman and rot Roberts killed Edith
and that she was struck three times II
The face a champagne bottle. Th'
letle', however, states that Roberts onll
disposed of the body.
Minneapolis, Ind, June 25.-Thr
court records of Minneapolis indicate
that Mrs. Edith May WoodilI was thu
daughter OF Mst,hsw Witt, of Sherburu
county, Minnesota The records SHOW
that Charles n. and Laura f Thomp
son on October Is, 1890, adopted Aims
Pearl Witt, in Minneapolis.
New York, June % That the slaye
of Mrs. Edity May Thompson Woodill
at Mcdaniel atsiion, Nd, was Rober
f. Eastman, T. former Wall stree
broker, who WAS fugitive from justice
aud who may have lived iutke small
Maryland town under the alias OF En-
NETT f. Roberts, ia suspected by thu
police here today.
meleoric eaIeer Was that OF Mrs