Evening star., 1924-11-25
WOMAN|SQU|zzED
IN FURNACE DEATH
Says Mrs. SheatsIey Appear
ed Normal on Day of
Death.
By the Associsted Press.

BY the Associsted Press.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, November 20
Mrs. c. V. Sheatsiey. wife Of the
pastor of Christ Evangelical
Lutheran Church Of Bexiey. appeared
to be in a normal frame OF mind
last Monday noon, County Prosecutor
John r. King was told at Lithopolis,
a village south OF here. today by
Mrs. Gladys Redeiphs, wife of Rev.
Harry Redelphs of the village. Mrs.
Redelphs visited the Sheatsley home
last Monday. and was one of the few
persons who last saw the minister's
wife alive.
Mr.. King went to Lthopolis today
hoping that Mrs. 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
the conclusion OF the interview
however, that nothing definite had
developed.
Delivered Christmas Cards.
Mrs. Redelphs said she delivered
Christmas cards to Mrs. Sheatsley
which the latter had oroered 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
daughter. Clarence, l6-year-old son.
the first one, according to testimony.
to find something strange in the
furnace. and Mr.. Sheatsley. Mrs
Redelphs told King. were examining
the morning mail. Mrs. Sheatsley
was in the kitchen preparing lunch.
After a short talk with Mrs. Sheats-
ley. Mrs Redelphs said she left, after
p grc, RI a~ft Cd
main for lunch. She said she did not
know what Mrs. Sheatsley was get
ting for the meal.
Mr.. King found, at Lithopolis, that
Mr.. 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 sew
eral rabbits.
After spending the morning in
Lithopolis. King returned to his Office.
Pastor Accounts for Blood.
Mr.. Sheatsley, in a statement at
Canton today, said that reddish stains
which were found by King and his in
vestigators in various places in the
Sheatsley home yesterday and which
will be analyzed 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 excur-
sion. Il 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 Mr.. Sheatsiey's state
ment.
A pair OF trousers also found yes
terday and which contained stains,
Mr.. Sheatsley declared, were the ones
that he had worn while on the hunt
ing trip, and probably, he said, had
been marked by rabbit blood.
May Exhume Body.
On his return here, King took under
advisement a move to exhume the
body OF Mrs. Sheatsley in order that
DR.. III. NJ. Brundage, pathologist. who
Is working on the case, may examine
the skull for signs OF fracture. At
conference late last night between
county authorities and Edwin Abbott,
local undertaken. who removed Mrs.
Sheatsley's remains from the furnace,
Abbott said that he thought por-
tion OF Mrs. Sheatsley's skull had
been broken. He indicated, however,
that the intense heat OF the furnace
might have caused this.