Show ELROD TRAGEDY DY Authorities Ponder Over Theories of Murder and Suicide in Iowa Case Ia Jan 21 Contradictory P statements as asto asto to the financial condition of Charles Elrod faced authorIties today as they pondered d theories ot of murder and suicide In connection with the mysterious death of the Lewellen Neb youth Marshalltown 1 and Waterloo friends of th the victim of a love Jove letter let let- teT ter hoax sal said he had collected moro morn than within a few ew weeks ot of his death leath leading to a belief that ho he might have been slain for money Elrod's year old sweetheart Veda who testified at ata a coroners coroner's inquest that she sho wrote fictitious love letters to arouse the youths youth's jealousy maintained however however how how- ever that Elrod was worried overa OCTa over O a IH heavy avy indebtedness Only 8 was found on his body last Saturday Tile THe coroners coroner's jury having delivered ored ered a verdict that Elrod met death by violence although there were no marks on his body an and l no traces trace of poison were found authorities ag again ln directed attention to the exact exact ex- ex act condition of the stuffy little hotel room where the ule body was found lying on a pIllow marked with a single spot of blood Physicians at a post mortem examination examination ex- ex concluded that the blood was from Crom Elrod's tongue and pointed point point- ed out that a certain poison con con- the jaws and might cause bItIng of the tongue with resultant loss of blood of Iowa however said Raid that Elrod's El- El rods rod's stomach gave no Indication of having contained poison The youths youth's father W. W C. C Elrod convinced that his son met an unnatural un- un natural death departed last night for a a. brief visit to his home In Lewellen after the he had visited Miss parents who it was learned had objected to Elrod's cou courtship of Veda Ve The elder Elrod said the bo boy and girl should never have been allowed at- at lowed to keep company it If they were not to be permitted to marry many Mr and lbs previously previously had told the coroners coronas jury that they had acted only with cau cau- cau tIon and they intended to give permission permission per per- mission for the wedding Miss secluded at her er home today reiterated the story interrupted interrupted in- in when she became hysterical cal at the coroners coroner's inquest She said she wrote the letters to Elrod purporting to be from a rIval In Inlove inlove love In order to arouse his jealousy out hut declared she left him the night or of his dearth in a happy mood and that there was nothing to indicate he might have contemplated sul- sul cide The rho love letter idea she obtained ob- ob from a magazine sto story |