Arizona republican., 1909-06-27
Robbery andPerhapsh Mingled
Revenge and Fear
VICTIM KNEW TOO MUCH
Of Eastman's Past -Suspi-
cion That Another Trag-
edy May Be Unearthed
at the Lonely Bungalow
Where Mrs. Woodill Died

st. Michaels, Md, June 26.-Tell-
tale shafts Of light continued today
to filter in upon the tragedy of the
lonely bungalow of Broad creek. As
the tangled skeins of the story are
picked up one by one, they tend more
and more to dissipate the claim ad-
vanced by Robert Eastman that it
was woman and not he who killed
Edith May Woodill.
Today the jewels worn by the wo-
man at the time of her disappearance
were found in a pawn shop in Balti-
more, placed there last Thursday by
a man who answered fully the de-
scription of Eastman. The man Sc
cured 5000 on two diamond rings and
an oriental pearl brooch. Two hun
dred dollars which Mrs. Woodill had
in her possession when she left her
foster fathers home last week is
missing. Eastman repaid a loan last
week of 5000 and when he returned
here from Baltimore on Tuesday he
seemed plentifully supplied with
money.
There promised for a time today to
he q fight for the legal custody of
Eastman's body A. S. RosenthaI of
New York, an attorney who repre-
scented Eastman 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 for Mrs. Ida S. Eckstein of
New York, demanded the body in
order that he might deliver it to the
New York authorities, by whom a
reward of $500 had been offered.
The local authorities declined to give
up the body.
The letter of suicide in which he
gave to his wife his version of the
killing of Mrs Woodill by a jealous
woman. was made public today. Fore
man Radcliffe of the coroner's jury
declared himself convinced of the
truth of the strange missive and urg-
ed the authorities to Investigate fur
ther With all his disclaimer of re-
sponsibility, however, Eastman ad-
mitted in the letter that he did not
dare take the chance Of a trial and
had decided to draw the curtain for
ever" The states attorney and the
members of the corOner's jury con-
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letters found upon Eastman's body
after his spectacular suicide.
The witness, William Sutton, who
it was said last night heard party
Of men ana women merrymaking in
the bungalow on Sunday night, de
cIared today that it was late Satur
day night that he went to visit East
mans place and that he heard only
the voices of one man and one Wo-
man in the bungalow; the voice of
the woman was that of Mrs. Woodlll-
Attorney Rosenthal declared tonight
that Eastman had known the muir
dered girl prior to her marriage to
WoodiH and he believed that Eastman
had visited her in California after her
marriage. The girl knew much of
Eastman's past life; knew him as an
accused swindler and embezzler and a
fugitive from justice and the theory is
advanced that in the course Of their
quarrel, the girl threatened TO dis
close the identity of the man who
had taken the name Of Roberts.
There is the theory too, that Mrs.
WoodiH had been longer in the east
than either she or her husband in
tended, because of her relations with
Eastman and she had decided at last