Show A A Modern Wom Woman's Womans ns Occasional Cig ret Puff S Stirs Main Ma i n Street S t re e t as Mu Much c h as as' Her Murder f A PICTURE STORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS BATHTUB MURDER I I 9 sk s 's IS' IS Il N kilt leaves I I I Inquest home earl to Lt a aas as o Da om l fl L' L 11 1 Oho S S 4 I next day y yf s'S sS f finis finds wife V l By ALLENE SUMNER N NEA EA Service Service Writer TROY TROT ROY 0 O. J arch ch 11 Fran n smoked a before she went to bed That calm statement which Jake Sake Nesbitt made at atthe the In Inquest Inquest inquest In- In quest Into the mysterious bath tub murder of his wife Fr Frances Drake Nesbitt has stirred d this this' little Main street city of ot as much as the brutal slaying slaying- of the former Ohio state tennis champion It was the first murder in this county in a quarter of a century It was an unusually brutal murder Mrs Nesbitt's skull was crushed from a death dealing blow and her body scratched bruised and torn was placed In a bath bathtub tub partly full of water At first the mystery of the crime Intrigued Troys Troy's Main lain street But this angle quickly was wa shoved into the background by the matter of fact admission of the husband that Fran smoked a occasion occasion- ally TROY DOESN'T LIKE IT For Troy does not countenance smoking b by wO women The Rev flung flung-an of the First Presbyterian terlan church who married and buried burled Fran Drake the town tombo tomboy and everybody's ever friend said It was a great shock to me I had never had the slightest inti iriti- mation that Frances ever looked at ata ata ata a I must admit that at least half the town has sort of ot lost Interest In the ca case e since this came out We are startled And Mrs Charles Charle Drake mother of oC the lain girl was wet-eyed wet as she went about the drear dreary after after- the-funeral the setting things to rights and said IT WAS A l Jake never told told me that Fran smoked d. d It It was certainly v a shock shockS t to o me ide ie But t it matter tt rp S And there In a nuth nutshell Il you ou have havethe havethe havethe the stor story of or Frances rances Drake Drale Nesbitt the the modern woman the modern wife wife wife-in in a Main street town Rosalie Rosalle lived in the pages of This Freedom Modern authors authors' galore have painted other But no author could have done better than to have known Frances Drake Nesbitt whose mutilated body was found in the tue tub bath-tub of or her little love nest a few tew days davs agoo while ago Troy stay-at-home stay wives with compressed compressed com com- corn com pressed lips did the accumulation tion of unwashed dishes ih lb Frans little sink Frances Nesbit worked outside the home She is described as s the best man we ever had by her employers em em- plovers for whom she Bhe sold and i A st N M JIll I demonstrated a certain kitchen de de- de vice A YEAR She drove her own little car over the highways and byways of or Ohio It Is said that she made as much as in hi one year year She was ambitious for tor her husband husband hus bus band whom she had known since Tro Troy school days She pulled him into the business with her Fran taught me all I know says her husband now She was the business head of the family Fr Frances Drake Nesbitt wanted something more from life lite than just work Lets buy a a. funny little lIttie cottage out in the the woods she said to her husband a few Cew months ago The little room four cottage hugging hugging hug hug- hugI I ging a a wooded hill hm far tar out from the I Ithe town itself the very house where the he girl wife was murdered was the he result Some of th the thought Ira Fran Frae queer about this country stun Shed She'd get up early in the morning and go out into the woods to hunt birds and flowers Fr Fran n bought antiques The poster tour colonial bed stained with her lifes life's blood was one of them and a funny tunny old dresser which Troy wondered about Troy does does' not does not go in for tOl antiques Fran had no babies and no plans for tor any said her mother Iran Fran ran Was was all business and am That's why they Joined the Country club Jake Jale was wasn't t sure about doing It but Fran said that the right conn connections would bring them business Fran hated housework housework and and why shouldn't she championed her torn grief mother when she could hire six girs with what wha t she earned NEVER AFRAID Fran could get around b by herself herself herself her her- self all right She didn't need a it itman aman aman man trailing around If Ie her husband was busy she drove her little coupe to Dayton for tor a show by b herself She Was vas never afraid when alone they say and h her r mother tells of cautioning her not to put the key up on the porch beam with the string hanging hanging hang hang- ing down so everyone could see H Fran would not only laugh and say that as long as as It didn't lIghtning lightning lightning light lIght- ning ning- and as long as she didn't have to fire a gun nothing would bother both both- er her her recalled her mother Frances Drake Nesbitt modern woman modern wife is dead deed Who Vho killed her is the question keeping count county officials on a day and night shift II I man marriage a e both eLl oU kitchen |