The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-19
TANGLED TRAGEDY
Search for Dead WOman'S Part
ner; She May Solve 1t.
Believe She Can Throw Light
on DIR. Adams Suicide.
DR.. HARRIS IS NEAR DEATH
Shot Thrice by DIR. Atwood,
Miss AdamS'S Fiance.
On Death Bed Said Harris Had
WrOnged Her.
DIR. HARRIS is NEAR DEATH

Boston, July 19.-Cr1mly de11ant,
DR.. Eldredge D. Atwood sat in his
cell today while police secured Bos-
ton for facts supporting his story of
betrayal by a brother physician of
Atwood's fiancee. DIR. Wilfred E.
Harris, named by Atwood as the de-
stroyer of his happiness, the real
cause of DR.. Celia Adams's suicide,
was towering between life and death
at the hospital with three wounds
from Atwood's revolver.
When Atwood was arrested late yes
terday, the police think he was on the
point of committing suicide.
The authorities are most anxious to
locate DR.. Mary Campbell. who shared
an osteopathic office with DR.. Celia
gagged. They desired further evidence
of alleged relations of the dead girl
with the man whom Atwood shot.
Took Overdose of Morphine.
The girl herself, who. according to
Medical Examiner McGrath, died
from morphine poisoning, was said by
Atwood to have denounced with her
dying breath the name of DR.. Har-
ris, alleging that he had betrayed her.
Atwood left the girls home after
her death and went Immediately to
Harris apartment in the Hotel West
minister. There, without warning, he
shot down his fellow physician. He
left the hotel and for hours watched
newspaper bulletins downtown detail
ing the attack on Harris and the hunt
for himself.
DIR. Campbell Can't Be Found
DR.. Campbell, DR.. Adams room
mate, was said to have left the city.
Police are exceedingly anxious to have
her version of the relations between
he mr. he fxxyn nh Sif.io
are osteopaths. Today an autopsy
was to be performed on the body of
the girl who killed herself.
In his confession Atwood said he
and DR.. Adams had been engaged for
several years. They met and fell in
love, he said, when they were both
students at DR.. Harris college in Cam
bridge. But she was older than he
he is only 23-about nine years older
than he, and her parents did not look
with favor on the match.
Harris, though always apparently a
staunch friend. had been sought for
advice, according to Atwood. Both
he and his fiancee had often called on
the college professor for counsel Thus
matters stood when he and his fiancee
went to the theater Monday night, ac-
coroing to Atwood.
Intended to Use Razor.
Then it was" said Atwood, that
she confessed to me that Doctor Har-
ris had betrayed her. We Quarreled.
But did nothing then. This morning
received word at my home in Wo-
burn that Doctor Adams was dying in
the Commonwealth hospital. L went
there. l saw her. She died.
II secured a revolver and razor.
intended to mutilate Harris with the
razor. But there were too many peo-
pie in his office. l shot him.
Demand SIS, 5000 Bond.
Doctor Atwood pleaded not guilty
when arraigned and was held in $15,-
900 bund until July %. The police
secured information today that the
betrayal of Doctor Adams by Doctor
Harris occurred two years ago, and in
confessing this to Doctor Atwood, Doc
tor Adams said that she had fallen
under hypnotic influence since that
time. 1t is said Doctor Adams tried
several times to break the relations
but failed, and at last decided to bare
her to her fiaOce