Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-06
EXPECT EASTLAKE
TO TELL ALL SOON
Police Say Confessions Are
Near in Murder Of Woman
in Virginia
SUSPECTS ARE UNNERVED

Sp, ciol Dispatch to Evening Public Lcdner
Richmond, Va, Oct. Ga detailed
confession from both Roger ID. East
lake and Miss Sarah Knox, suspected
slayers of Eastlake's wife. is believe
by the local authorities to be only q
matter of hours.
One or the other il expected to break
down and tell the whole story follow.
ing Eastlake's accusation against tn"
nurse on the train while the prisoners
were being brought here.
The real underlying reason for trans
ferring the accused pair to this city was
to separate them so that the detectives
could have a better opportunity to quiz
them. The prison in which they were
confined in Fredericksburg was so small
that it was necessary to put the man
and the woman in adjoining cells, and
anything said by either could be plainly
heard by the other.
Rapid developments followed imme-
diatcly on tho assignment of Detective
William A. Tolcr to tho case. Assisted
by Sergeant L. II. Organ. Of the Rich
mond police. Tolcr soOn uncovered GER
tain pieces of important evidence de-
spite the fact that the Colonial Beach
authorities had allowed sightseers to
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kitchen of tho little bungalow where
Mrs. Eastlake was hacked to death.
In Widely Separated Cells
Tho same sort Of police work that
has brought so much TO light in the last
twenty four hours will continue today.
Eastlake and Miss Knox are now in
the Richmond jail in widely separated
cells. When first brought here they
were lodged in one Of the precinct lock =
ups, but late last night they were sud-
denly transferred to the Jail.
Detective Tolcr and Sergeant Organ
will head group of detectives that will
grill the suspected couple all day today.
Sergeant Organ said this morning that
he believed one or the other would tell
the whole story.
1--WE will use the same methods that
were 80 successful on the train yester
day he said Just as soon as East
lake was separated from Miss Knox hs
showed n disposition to talk. In al
most no time he had stated that Miss
Knox had told him that she killed Mrs
Eastlake. OF course, she denied this
Being of stronger mentality than tn,
naval petty officer. she will probably re-
sist longer, but probably, once she i,
convinced that Eastlakc has turned
| against her she will tell everything.
When Sergeant Organ was asked /
he placed credence in Enstlake's tai,
that he was not in the kitchen whel
Mrs. Eastlakc was killed, the sergean
smiled.
NATURALLY. he would try to rove
his part in the crime at the start.
all his protestations that he wanted t,
aid the authorities in avcnging tn
, crime on his wife were sincere he woult
| probably have told us long before o
Miss Knox's confession to him, woul,
he not?
Believes Pair Planned Murder
"No. The authorities believe that |
was two-man job--only in this cas-
one of the two was woman. w
think Eastlake and Miss Knox togethe
murdered Mrs. Eastlakc, and that tn
crime was planned. although it Is pos
sible that It was executed little earle
than the pair had arranged. You ca
say that We expect confession from on
or the other today
Mrs. Eastlake. who is the daughtc
of William II. Thornc, Of 100 Sprut
street, Philadelphia, was brutally hackC
to death in the kitchen of her bungalo
at Colonial Beach. Va, a short tin
after her two little children had bee
locked in their room by their fathe
The husband asserts he left the houi
nfter kissing his wife goOd-by and kne
nothing of the crime until he was noti
fed of It on the ferry when he WI
on his way to the Dahlgren Provr
Station from his home at Coloni
Beach. Eastlake is thrty-two yea
old and his wife was thirty. Mi
Knox. whose alleged intimacy Wi
Eastlakc Is believed to have been Il
underlying cause Of the crime, Is fol
~ seven years old. and not particl
IarIy attractive. Mrs. Eastakc was
very pretty woman and extremely poi
: ular.