New Britain herald., 1924-11-25
R-3 EACHES WASHINGTON
 AND WILL RETURN TOHOME
 STATION LATER M THE DAY
SHEATSLfY EXPLAINS SUSPICIOUS STAINS
Supposed Blood Marks May Be Rabbits s'-Con-
 slider Exhuming Body

Columbus, O., Nov. 25.-Mrs. c. ". Sheatsley. wife of the pastor of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran church of Bexley. appeared to be in nor nal tr-me Of mind last Monday noon County Prosecutor John R. King. was told at Lithopolis, village south of here, today by Mrs. Gladys Redelphs, wife of Rev. Harry Re- delphs of the village. Mrs. Redelphs visited the Sheatsley home last Mon day and was one of the few persons who last saw the minister's wife alive.
 Mir. King went to Lithopolis today hoping that Mrss Redelphs might have some information that would help him in solving the mystery of the finding Of Mrs. Sheatsley's body in the furnace of her home last Monday evening He announced that nothing definite had developed.
 Mrs, Redelphs said she delivered Christmas cards to Mrs. .Sheatsley, which the latter had ordered two weeks before. She said she arrived at the sheatsley home about noon and that she was admitted at the door by Alice the 13 year old daugh- ter. Clarence, Is year old son, the first one to find something strange in the furnace, and MT. Sheatsley. Mrs. Redelphs told King, were exam ming the morning mail. Mrs. Sheatsley was in the kitchen pre- pairing lunch.
 After a short talk with Mrs Sheatsley. Mrs. Redelphs said, she left, after having declined an invita- ton to remain for lunch. She said she did not know what Mrs. Sheats- ley was getting for the meal. Mir. King found at Lithopolis that MT. sheatsley, with President Otto Mees of Capital university here, and other men, were hunting in that sec tion the Saturday preceding the find /; ing of Mrs. Sheatsley's body in the furnace, and that they obtained sev- eral rabbits.
 After spending the morning in Lthopolis. King returned to his of l fee.
 MT. sheatsley. in statement at Canton today, said that the reddish stains, which were found by King and his investigators in various places in the Sheatsley home yester- day, and which will be analysed to determine whether or not they are human blood. asserted that the stains probably were made by him while dressing rabbits which he had obtained on the Saturday excursion.
 I returned from a hunting trip on the Saturday before the affair and carried four rabbits down the steps where the stains were found, into the cellar and dressed them near the furnace" said MT. Sheats- ley's statement.
 A pair of trousers also found yes- terday and which contained stains, Mr. SheatsIey declared, were the ones that he had worn while on the hunting trip and probably. he sa!d, had been marked by rabbit blood.
 On his return here. King took un- der advisement a move to eXhume the body of Mrs. Sheatsley, in order that Dr. H. M. Brundage. patholo- gist who Is working on the case. may examine the skull for signs of fracture. At a conference late last night between county authorities md Edwin Abbott, the undertaken who removed Mrs sheatsley's re mains from the furnace. Aroott said that he thought portion of Mr. Sheatsley's skull had been broken. He indicated that this might have been caused by the intense heat of l the furnace.