Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-17 | Page 1 | Community Aroused by Mysterious Death

COMMUNITY AROUSED BY MYSTERIOUS DEATH DOVER. Del.. July IG.Tho supposed murder of William Williams, the 60-vear-old farmer who lived near tho Maryland Stato line, and who was about to marry Elizabeth Walls, a 13-year-old girl, has aroused the entlro Delaware peninsula. The authorities of Queen Anne county, Maryland, where ihe supposed crime was committed, and of Kent county, Delaware, where Williams resided, aro sparing no efforts to reach o. solution of the mystery. mys-tery. The body of Williams was burled today. The evidence of the coroner's physician before the coroner's Jury disproved the suicide theory and ho said death was due to blood clots on the brain, the result re-sult of a heavy blow on the head. Members of the family are very rctl-clont rctl-clont regarding- the; tragedy. In searching for clues, the Delaware and Maryland authorities have discovered, It is said, that both the Walls and Williams families were bitterly opposed to tho marring"-