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Show Ill 1IITEB IMTH FES lOg'den School Teacher Victim Vic-tim of Trunk Mystery Known in Salt Lake. (Continued From Page 0na. tho woman s boy today, lmi was un-a'ji-i tu aay ".viu'.t caLi.O'i lUatiJ. VIRGO AND WOMAN END ENGAGEMENT. Virto was on the stand rno-l oj: ; the ar'ternooii. Jie had paid ardent i j eoart lo the missing1 woman, he said, j j They were about to be married when she had broken with him, he '-ontin- j ! uofi, o-jveii tip her sehool in Kaiama-; j zoij and returned to the family h'jme ; liere. tic on afterward she disapp- pen red. Inquiry of her mother, he tes- j lified, brought the assertion that Miss Tabor had yone to tho west tu tea eh j and had died there. The witness said j he did not believe she was dead. : Yiro declared he made no attempt I to see Miss Tabor after the break and had received no communication from her. C. K. showers, a real estate man, who acted for the Tabor family in the sale of some property, was recalled f-(iay f-(iay and declared he had suspected foal play ever since M iss Tabor 's disappearance. disap-pearance. The day before site disappeared, disap-peared, he said, he talked with her on bu.-iness matters. He recalled a statement state-ment he said he made to an attorney at the time that ' ' he could find the body ol the girl if o-iven a spade and permission to enter the Tabor cellar." Tlie elder sister. Mrs. Florence Tabor f'ritchlow, estranged wife of a San Francisco merchant, the prosecutor announced an-nounced today, would be held as a ma- j ferial witness, although it had been established that she was in tho west at the time of her sister 's disappearance. TRUNK VICTIM AFRAID TO STAY ALONE AT HOME ! Fear of death by violence constantly I haunted Miss Maude 32. Tabor, former : Ogden .High school teacher, whose body j was found Sunday in a trunk in the ; basement of the Tabor home in Law tun. Inherited Family Estate. ! she srvu was a lav y-: , had !--."-I h e entire e s : : .-, w h i a eon . .-l e d of three farms in Mh nlgan. :-,nd tl r-- had h-ft- t.!h- son and hi- other (ha.u.t'r a very small sum. I thl: h she said a. aollar apiee.-, in oru -- that tln-v e u. . i.ot eon-t-st rh-' will. Bad fee'.in-r -i.-r to --ist --ist b..-tweMi Ot" si'i-rs an-i Miss Tabor told n . that tln-y t'd v.:. tv.::?. "H.4brot'Ur did ser.u to ' av- a :-le;:dlv f.;ing toward In r, Ith-r. m1-.hoegh m1-.hoegh tahc.d a'o.o:t his i.:le f"n. whom, I beiiove. h.e fahed ALnlcuin:, a u J vi-.orn, sue said. .h-: was cda.;- ;h,. Ce Lised to write her iiCie Iv'.t'-rs ;:i a o..l.i-:.-!'. I'.aud. "Si.e s;::fci'-.d g.vat'y :':'o:n a-. linn, and heart died she took ap sniri; - fa l;su:. w ; h tlie idea per.:ans of i.uno'.nnir g wim him. At iea't sue u.-ed to i'-ll us thm la; '.-ana-to her soiiP' times a night and she womd i ft ay in her r-.iom a nd : a Ik io him. I went into her room several at ! night, thinking she m;g:: be- snf f.:rh:g I from an attack o: her ma lady, a nd would tell me tha.t it wa.s no1. iduLr, Pur j that he had been communing with the I dead. Concentrates on Making Money. ! "Although she was a. hr; !i inn i - minded I woman and possessed oC a certain ina;-1 ina;-1 netism. she w:is very nuoer and was ol-isssed with the idea of ma.Uing numoy. trhe was aiways talking aaout .-ome pet-rich pet-rich -quick scheme and trying ;o i n tc rest tho people with wlom she cam-' in ou-taet ou-taet ith some m oney- making proposition. proposi-tion. "She talked much of going to hh.ror't and planned on going there wild her mother and renting a chateau in ranee, where, she might live through a season or two, in order ' t hat she might pain first-hand knowledge of the Freie-h people. peo-ple. She talked KreueVi fluently, a ud tau g'nt it to private pupils. She hud a wonderful mind along mathematical lims, and could figure with ready ease a problem prob-lem which' seemed very intricate. "I did not know her when her sweet -heart died in Arizona, hut friends of hers told rne that she mourned bis ioss so lAiuch that her health was impaired. Later she became attached to anotuer man, and she consulted me in choosing her trousseau. trous-seau. "When she left ugden I understood that she was arranging to go to Curope, as she had planned, with her mother. i "Many times I wondered what had be- ' come of her and one day I wa talking j to a friend of i-iers in ugden and we discussed dis-cussed the possibility of her O'-ath. A j number of her friends who had been in- j terested with her in ppiriluaiism talked 1 I ;:".i ali the time she livi d wiCi me I " in i-MiU Vabor w-s'v; -.,d for hl: ; i day at 1 'goen by a woman friend, wl j ; . L ; r w m : . : u s l o the cafe ' i s : n -j s s w i ; i . V-r fr. Iln'h. X-v. Aiis Tabor is said o ki vc t amis'. n-d th-"1 mo i. One oi liss Tab.M-'s s.,rers lived in Los Angc-a-s. aid j'rit-nds h ("gd-'n be-ieve this j s :.-rer was i lie one wL v."'-r.t into busi-I busi-I in--' wirli la'-r ;.t Km h. In Tvlis? ! Tab;.r a hurried trip to Txr.s to ; atit :;d ihe f-me-al oi a young man whose J '.'i:.: v as behaved to ha.'e been Mur-j Mur-j i.oek. Tlrls ir; y have b'.'-n tar swet- hf-art vim is ia-i erred to as having- died , ;u A Czoae.. ft :s knov.Ti Cn.r L Miss Tabor made th" trip !.' the outli ii: a chair ea r, her f u inis being' low, not perniitting th-; makimr of i'ulhr.an re--trvat:"or.s. yriss May K ie. a teaciier in tin- Last h.h;h. said she had t aught in the Og- Cn seiiufJs ".i:u M'ss Tabor. i"ho was eonshieredi to he a v: ry brihir.nt pnd rible j t er.cher. hue of a very j.ecuiiar d:sposi-: d:sposi-: i .;-. Sh-- was obliged to give up her ;. : - e h ; 1 1 g work in O g c e m it was under-! under-! si o. id among i he teaching force. Miss ! ivyie said, b- causo of her ladling health. ; AmoT.tr Miss Tabor's friends in Ogden wer..- Mrs. J. Ft. Lp:-rson. -iOS Twemy-sixth Twemy-sixth sireti. with whom Miss Tabor i r ' 1 o m e d fi-'un S-vtember. LiO-, until J.e-..ember. J.e-..ember. ivk:: Mrs. A. W. J'utnam. -liy Thirteenth rire snd Mrs. T. C Rowland--, now a resident, of Oakland. Mrs. Putnam recalled yesterday at Ogden Og-den the last h-iter she received from Miss Tabor, late in September or the -arly pari of October, lit! 4. in which Miss Tabor t'dd f a lawsuit at Lawion. ; j M ich.. in which re)at ives were con- cerned and in wiiich she and her mother ; j were making a f;ght against outer mem- I her.-: m" the family. Mrs. Putnam said : tliat Miss Tabor's hither had beedi a lav.'- -er and I lie daughter seemed to have taken an interest in 'legal matters, and 'in her letter to Mrs. Putnam she gave a very vivid account of the lawsuit. She also wroto of h '-r mother, to v." horn she, ! seemed greatly devoted. Letters Unanswered. Shovily aft-sr receiving The letter Mrs. Putnam said that both she aaui Mrs. Rowlands had written to Miss Tabor, but the letters were unanswered. Then Mrs. Rowlands wrote to Mrs. Tabor at Lawton to inquire if Miss Tabor was id or if any misfortune had befallen her. The letters were una nswered and they wore returned to the writers. Mrs. John V. Jobbs, 2269 Adams avenue. ave-nue. Oden. was intimately acquainted with "Miss Tabor in Baptist church work. Mrs. Hobbs said yesterdav the church had sent a message to Miss Tabor each year at Christmas time, but had never received any acknowledgment. "Miss Tabor's disappearance, seemed a my si ery to us,'' said Mrs. ITobbs, "as she was such a faithful worker vrh.il e I : I "r.ore and v.. .s.- :: iorL--t-d t:Kit -r- :K-rvd .slra;:i-c lli.i'. .-e aid 1101 w:-;!'"' ! iU'ttr th,:- lui- i imlL-ii." i 1 It was )ur.-d -.flr.lav i!-;,t -M! i I Tabor's raihvr rtL-fi at i-T-': v. ii.it- she j was t-jacuiiiy buiTi'ol ai Cv1!'.';-. Sister Visits Ogden. : R.-gs.rding a y apposed vi It t. "'gd--n 1 in 1 'j IS ci Mrs. Fun-once Ta u--r 'hatch - ; low, a. sister of The murders d oinan. who Monday was held tor further i-xan:- j i nation when she refused io t esi i;'y at ' t J1. o c.-roner's inouesL at Lawton. vas re- 1 called yesterday by Mrs. J . L. Webster, ! sup'-rintendent of the Hstmr 1 bene tk-r ; G:r3s. 'The won. an said she was a sipier; of Miss Maude Tabor, aeeordmg to Mrs. , AVebster. who former!;.' taught 1 tin in t tlie Ogden high s' hook Toe supoi seo ' sister .said thai she v. a s walking from ! Chicago to San Fra nciseo. SeViTa 1 of f Miss Tabor's friends met ihe woman., ; Mrs. "Webster sa.id, but because of her j appearance none tallied - with her very , much. She left Ogden after a hiy's visit, j LTiring tile t itne she was in Ogdm , M iss Tabor was a close frie;id of "M'rs. ; O. J. irtilwed, who. with Mr. S: dwell. ; came from a town hi Michigan ne.u- j Lawton. When M iss Tabor ieft igdeu ! sho corresponded with JTrs. St dwell until! the fall of 3HJ-L when tetters ceased, to tlie summer of 19111 Mr. and Mrs. Stilweh i wen' to Europe, where ihey -ere aj number oi months on a motor inp. Mlrs. ' Stilwell sent cards io Miss Tabor. Walter Tabor, a brotlnu- of the victim of tho trunk murder mystery, is not known in Ogden, nor is the mother of Miss Tabor. While in Ogdon, it is said that Miss Tabor was generally in company with the women teachers of the hinh school and tho women of the Baptist church and did not seem to have, or care, for many uenilemen friends. |
