Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-28
BRUTAL MURDER |S COMMITTED
 NEAR L|BBYY|LLE
ROBERT EDWARDS IS CONFINED IN SEWARD JAIL AS RESULT
 OF REGENT SHOOTING
(AnCnOlage Hines ,


 Une c. tue most Crutal murders ever UOmmltteu ii tue DerIus uIs- .rict occurred auuut Lue nlueteeuLu oI Ju4y When GeU4ae D. Guwatua, d young uIau % years u age, Was shot lO death Dy one oI nls partuels as ne iay IL Ills sIeeplng oas II camp 50 ulIles up the riyer Iro4u LlDD! EiI4e, Un DrlsIol Day. his Is the repotC brought lo AncnOrage yesterua! Oy Ur. Joun A. Flanders, Wno arrlyeu rom that district on the iauncn Lalua.
 According to the story, kalpe E. Wolf, twenty years or age, one ot the partners, was arrested a lew days lat CT and in a signed statement tOlu ot the crime in detail and stated that early one morning the other partner, Robert $. Edwards, no relation to C. Edwards, grabbed high-powered rifle and deliberately killed the third part her. It later developed that the reason for the murder was because the trio could not come to satisfactory terms as to which way they should go into | the hills Through the confession of Wolf, R. s. Edwards was arrested on board the steamer Starr and is now | confined in the Seward jail, while the other boy, Wolf, is on his way to the Valdez jail.
 The story in detail as related by Dr. John A. Flanders, resident doctor at Libbyyille, who performed the autopsy over the body of Edwards follows:
 ''In the hospital at Libbyville male nurse by the name of Robert $. Ed wards was employed. He hailed from Seattle Living at the ranch of Hung ry" Peterson, close by, was another young man by the same name, but no relation, George s. Edwards who had i been employed by the Bristol Bay Packing company and who had come to the country from San Pedro, Calf, George Edwards quit the Bristol Bay | July and started to secure an outfit to go up the river to Iliamna lake on a hunting trip and possibly to remain throughout the winter. He purchased a dory and spent several weeks going between the B. & B. plant and Libby vile, completing his outfit, and re- peatedly dropped in at the hospital at Libbyville to visit with the nurse, R. s. Edwards. On July 4, Edwards quit the hospital, giving as his reason that he wished to accompany George Ed wards on the trip to Lake lliamna. A third party then joined the pair and on the night of the 18th, they left Libbyville in George Edwards dory for Iliamna. The trio made fairly good progress and on the sixth night of the journey camped at place about Is miles from the lake.
 1.-TWO. days later Robert Edwards and Wolf appeared at Libbyville in the dery owned by George Edwards. They told the story that George Ed wards had sold them his outfit and had gone on to Lake Iliamna and that they intended to go to Egigik and break through there to Cold Bay dis trict. Their story. caused considerable comment, as everyone knew that Geo. Edwards had owned the outfit and that Wolf had no money and Robert Edwards had received only S15 as the balance due him when he gave up his position at the hospital.
 Both Robert Edwards and Wolf made various attempts to find employ ment, but were unsuccessful. About this time (July 26) the Starr was due to reach.aNaknek.- anchorage so the cannery launches left for the mail. Edwards succeeded in boarding the