Show I 1 I I I JEWELS fOUND J F FIN f fIN IN PAWNSHOP if IN BAlTIMORE 1 f t Murderer of Edith May Wood Woodill ill III Robbed Body of Rings t i and Money I l SEVERAL THEORIES AS ASTO ASTO 1 TO CAUSE OF THE CRIME I i WOMAN HAD KNOWN HER SLAY SLA SLAYER SLAYER ER BEFORE HER SECOND r f I IM MARRIAGE M A R R lAG E St It Michaels Md June 26 Telltale i shafts of light continued today to filter i In upon the tragedy of the lonely bun bungalow bungalow galow plow of Broad Creek Cn o k As the tangled skeins of the stor story are picked up one by one they tend more morp and more to die d pate the claim advanced danced by Robert J Eastman Eatman that it was a woman and not he who killed Edith May Woodill Today the jewels worn by the woman at the time of her disappearance were wore f found in a pawnshop In Baltimore t placed pieced there last Thursday by a man t t who answers fully the description of 1 Eastman The man secured 00 on the j two diamond rings and an Orient I pearl brooch Two hundred dollars which Mrs Woodill had in her posses possession po possession es I sion slon when she left her h r foster fathers home last hist week is missing Eastman c repaid a loan ioan last week of 00 and I when he be returned from Baltimore on Tuesday night he seemed plentifully supplied with money t I I Contest for Body There promised for a time today to be bea bea a light fight for the legal custody of East t mans body A S 8 IU of New York an attorney who t ho represented Eastman when hen he was charged with grand larceny and w who ho for nim 1 the bail ball which he forfeited by flight ar ay arrived rived upon the scene soone and acting for Mrs Ida S of New ew York de do demanded T the custody of the body in or j der that he might make delivery of it to t the New York authorities by whom a reward of OO had bad been offered The local authorities declined d lIned to give J up the body f The letter of the suicide in which he b i gave to his wife the version of the kill lag ing of Mrs Woodill b by a Ii jealous wom worn woman woman an was made public today Foreman Radcliffe of the coroners jury declared i himself convinced of the truth of the li j t strange missive mile and urged the 1 uto t tie to t investigate further into the t mat matter mt mattar tar ter With all his disclaimer a of reopen h I 1 admitted m in i inU the t U letter leter that he be did not dare take the i c chance of a trial trl and ami had decided to draw dr w the te curtains curIn forever Letters Withheld H i iThe The Te states stes attorney and the cOroners e jury ju continue to withhold the contents content of two letters found upon Eastman Elman after ater his hl spectacular suicide The Te witness William Sutton who it was wa said ald last night had heard hera a party part t of men and women merrymaking in the th bungalow bu on Sunday night declared declare to today tody today day dy that tt it was late lat Saturday night that he went to visit it place pl e and that he heard only the of one oe j man m and one woman in the bungalow j that the voice voie of the woman was waa W that 1 of Mrs Mr Woodill Woodi Sutton Button did not no make ineke me H M his hl presence pc outside the house hous known kw and a went wet away C i When the cabin was searched follow followIng followIng rc Ing the discovery of o the body by places at atthe atthe the th table were yet set et for two and th thi 1 2 dishes dl were Passersby saw lights through th the shaded eed windows of the bungalow as late at 1 11 Saturday night 1 Eastman an Old Acquaintance There Tere is no serious belief here that tat Eastman killed Mrs Woodill Eman through motives of robbery Neither is ther r any ay widespread idea of premeditation The two to were heard hard to quarrel a u as he they drove away from Royal Oaks Ok station Saturday afternoon Attorney Rosen I that thaI declared del tonight that Eastman Estman ha hal bal I known kown the t murdered girl prior to her t I Imre marriage to Woodill and said he be be believed 0 lle Eastman Bastman had visited her in Call Cali California Cai fornia after fter her marriage mari The Te girl gil knew kew much of life knew him hm as an accused swindled and accused acus embezzler and a fugitIve from fm justice and the theory is 15 advanced that in the t course CUI of oC their quarrelling the girl I threatened to disclose the identity of the theman thema theman man ma who had taken the name of Rob Roberts Roberts erts ert There Tere is the theory too to that an as al I Mrs Woodill Wo H had hat been longer hi in I the if east than either the she hp or fr her husband in tn intended Intended tended tende because r ui f hr relation with wih t Eastman she str derived at last to go 1 away and see nee se the man no nf More ore The Te dis disclosure disclosure ii closure cor of this purpose nay have led to her hr death in tv tb n bungalow 1 Lived by His Wits Eastman Estman had b ben en living ing more nore or less 8 by his wits with of lat ana In nn there theme are ar many mn p who believe that he lie borrowed consid considerable con considerable d erable money montY from froni Mrs Irs Woodill Being Bing badly bly in need of if money mon it is believed that the idea of paw pawning ning the jewelry jeer came to him when he felt Celt that flight might m ht be b ne essar Mrs MI Wol t wedding weding ring Is still unaccounted for forThe forTe forThe The Te ring and brooch located In a Sal Bal Baltimore Bl v were re identified i pool positively by the deal deai girls foster tb irs father and sister an aerI It I was waa as announced that the au authorities tomorrow will wi dig up the ground near the bungalow to In Invest vest Continued en on Page 2 JEWELS FOUND IN PAWNSHOP IN BALTIMORE Continued from Page 1 gate a strange odor which is becoming more and more apparent The fact that Eastman lad had gone to Baltimore Tuesday Tue day was known prior to the discovery di covery of or the pawned jewelry It was that day that he mailed the let letter letter letter ter written some time previously by Mr Mrs to her foster fo ter sister It is thought that the letter which was In Intended Intended Intended tended to convey the Impression fon that the writer was In Baltimore was penned by b Mrs rn Woodill either to mask her visit to the bungalow T r else she had written the letter with the idea of actually going to Baltimore after meeting me Un Eastman The quarrelling of the two as 8 they left the station Saturday ac according accordIng cording to the witness seemed to be over the girls girl refusal to go SO to some specific place with the man |