The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1920-01-02
CAUSE Ut DEAIH
LVED
RESPONSIBILITY FOR KILLING OF MISS
sTAUB ROT FIXED SUICIDE THEORY
ADVANCED FREDERICK COUNTY MAN
CLEARED OF SUSPICION AUTHOR
tiles DISSATISFIED.

grove, was IN session IrOU U CIOCh
en- Friday evening until nearly
o'clock Saturday morning, and large
number of witnesses were examined
hg States Attorney SeabrookA and Mr.
Brown, who will succeed him in that
udce next Monday. The jury was
forced to render the inoonclusive YER
dict that she came to her death by
being run over by a locomotive and
freight train of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company, but tina: the Jury
has no means of knowing how she got
an the tracks of said rail t3l1, nor
whether she was conscious or Uncon-
ecious when so run over" The an
S0psy made by DR.. ID. B. Sprecher
showed that her head was cut nif and
the right arm severed at the should
81; that the head was badly crushed,
hut that there was no mutilation of
the Torso below the dorsal vertebra,
nor of the legs. Trackman Thomas
described the finding Of the body Wed
nasday morning on the track east of
SRkesville, with the head and arm
2ying outside the inner rail of the
east bound track and the body be-
tween the rails. Her coat was found
in the frog of the switch west of where
the body lay, showing that the girl
had been run over by west bound
train on the east bound track. Between
Tia switch and the spot where the
body was found in the piinters Of the
rails at number of points, and even
IN the splinters of the rail on the
switch over WhicA no train had pas
ed were found lifts of hair. indicating
that she had been struck down and
rendered unconscious at some point
west of where the body was found,
and dragged to the place where she
was run over and placed ON the track
30 be run over by the approaching
train
Myrtle was nearly 20 years old;
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Staub, of near Catoctin. Frederick
county. Until March, 1910, she had
for three years been employed in the
home Of farmer, near Lewistowu.
In March, she went to live in another
farmers home in the same neighbor-
hood. In early October she went to
SEkesville to the home of her brother
Melvin Staub, where she remained for
about a month. She was then en-
ployed in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Hughes, until the night of her
death. While living at her brothers.
she was visited by a married man
arom near LeWistown, who took her
riding in his automobile. Her broth
ar's wife saw several letters which
she received from this man. In one
OF them he said he would pay for a
cloth suit which she had bought in
Frederick, but wanted to see her first
This man did not go to see her after
Gha went to live at the home of Mrs.
Hughes, but there she received atten-
ZION from Carroll county man, with
whom she went out frequently for a
few weeks, but finally gave up his Wis
Fts, supposedly because or the jealousy
Of the Frederick county man She
told Mrs. Hughes that she had ex-
pScted to marry a young man, named
FISHER, who lived with a Mr.. John
son, near Emmitsburg, but that he
had failed to meet her to marry her
III Frederick on a day appointed. This
Ofd not appear to worry her very
much. She also told Mrs. Hughes
that she was in trouble through the
act Of some man, but did not to Mrs.
Hughes reveal his name. A letter,
however, written to her mother, who
had written to her TO come home.
dated December 14th, told her mother
L am in trouble" and lit is all the
fault o. manning the Fred
eTlck county married man. States
Attorney Seabrook and Mr.. Brown,
accompanied by Sheriff Bloom and
former Sheriff Cliff, of Frederick, Wis
tied the home of the girls parents
1ear Catoctin, and of the married man
M question, near LeWistoWn, on Fri
day, and also interviewed a number of
other persons in that neighborhood.
Ehey learned that on Wednesday, De-
cember 18th, the girls father had Wis
tied the married man in question. to
ASK him to go in his automobile to
SykesVille and bring her home, but as
his wife was present did not do so.
He returned on Thursday evening and
made his request. That night the man
wrote to Myrtle, after his wife had
retired, and instead of mailing the
letter in his box at his gate carried
1t to Lewistown. This is the letter
which Myrtle received on Monday
which had disappeared at the time of
her death and could not be found ON
her person or in her room. The man
an question admitted that he had writ
ten the letter, and said that there was
nothing in it except a message tell
ing her he would come to Sykesville
the following week. This man went
: to her mothers home on Saturday ey-
en1ng and promised her that he would
go to Sykesv1lle and bring Myrtie
nome on Tuesday or Wednesday, in
time for Christmas, and got her to
write him a short note to Myrtle say
: ing that the mother had sent him. The
State has. both letters, that of De-
camber 14th and the mothers letter.
He says that he did not go on Tues
day. He did go to Sykesville on Wed
nesday morning, having told his wife
that he was going to Frederick to have
a leaking radiator fixed, and to bring
her sister back with him from Fred
eziok to spend Christmas. AT Sy-
kesVille he inquired for Myrtle and
was told Of her death, and went to
the undertaker's and saw her body.
Those who talked with him, in Sykes
willie say that he showed no surprise
and did not appear shocked when be
heard Of her death. On Thursday
morning he returned to Sykesville
bringing with him Myrtle's father
brother and brother-inlaw. There ,hel
brother Melvin told him that he was
suspected of having caused her death
He. declared that ne had not beer
away from home ON Tuesday. He