Show POliCE TO FORGE LINKS IN WO D i iI I Story of Alleged Struggle With Robbers Fails to to Stand Op tip Jp Under Tests Made in Apartment I IBy By VINCENT J. J KEATING I As Omer Woods lawyer former probate probate pro pro- pro pro-I bate judge and revenue agent sits in in his cell in the county jail with a I charge harge of first degree murder hang hanging mg ing over him link by link the police I Iare are arc forging a chain of evidence about him connecting him with the death i last Monday of his wife Mrs Myretta I II I Woods In the Pauline apartments I First South and Third East streets I Mrs Irs Woods Woods' bod body charred almost beyond recognition was discovered by firemen responding to an alarm Evidently Evi I dently she had been struck a violent blow on the face sufficient to jar out I several teeth garroted with a handkerchief handkerchief hand hand- kerchief bound hand and foot gagged I placed on the bed and when benzine had been poured over her clothing and the bed the match applied Woods told the police poUce upon their arrIval arrival arrival ar ar- ar- ar rival that two men had entered his apartment forced him Into the bathroom bathroom bath bath- bath I room locked the door and then had committed the horrible crime The police scout this story holding to the i belief bellet that Woods was guilty of the murder of ot his wife wite Chief of Detectives RIley M. M Beckstead Beckstead Beckstead Beck- Beck I stead Assistant County Count r Attorney I Wallace Kelly and Detective Lester Lesterj j I Wire Vire visited the Woods apartment I I Saturday and for tor more than two hours ours j j searched the place thoroughly after which wilch l i it was sealed I SCENE REMAINS UNCHANGED The sooty walls the paint blistered door to the womans woman's room the brass brassI I I bed leaning against the wall with I shreds of burned feathers still clingI cling- cling I I ing lag to it bore mute evidence of the i brutal murder On the table in the i dining room remained the evidence of ofa ofa of ofa a noonday meal The table and chair had been pushed against the farther wall one of the ch chairs irs lying sidewise on oa the floor The room to a disinterested observer gave no evidence of the terrific struggle struggle I gle gie that should have ensued before the i woman was finally overpowered The empty milk bottle lay on its side with I I the neck hanging over the edge of the i I table One piece of toast had fallen fallenI I from the bread plate arid and rid lay near the I edge of the table I No fragments rif f chinaware or glassware glassware glassware glass glass- ware lay on the floor In fact the scene resembled a room where the tables and chairs had been pushed back hastily against the wall for a aI I encounter to give the contestants contes- contes j i tants plenty of room for action The I I china cabinet against the wall next I to the room In which the charred body i I 1 was found showed no evidence of having hayIng hay hav I hav-I ing been touched and and it It was filled with china I CURTAIN RECENTLY PLACED A window curtain veiled the glass I of the front entrance It had been placed there the Saturday before the I Ii j i murder Chief Beckstead said explain explain- eXPlain j lIng ing that had Woods lifted the curtain I before opening the door he could have I seen tho the bandits Several overcoats I I were hanging in the hallway and a aI telephone stood on a nearby standOn stand I On the whole the place was well I furnished The oriental rug the blue I plush furniture and phonograph In the e corner of the living room gave the apI appearance ap ap- ap- ap II of a comfortable home But I the crime room in the rear exerted ft Its somber influence over the whole apart apart- I ment apart I Beckstead Kelly and nd Wire by ex exI experimentation ex- ex I proved to their entire satisfaction that had there been a struggle the dropping of a chair or I of a milk bottle It would have been heard In the apartment a below Sounds In the bathroom ordinary bathroom ordinary sounds sounds- could be heard distinctly in the dining I room with both doors to the bathroom closed After his experiments Beckst Beckstead ad felt more positive than ever that the chain was slowly being forged about the ac accused accused accused ac- ac husband During the Investigation by the po police police police po- po lice Miss 1 Tee Lee Woods accompanied accompanied accompanied by her uncle A. A G. G Woods of I Knoxville Tenn entered the apartment apartment apart apart- I ment in search of a sweater and her heri i fathers father's overcoat Neither It api appeared appeared ap- ap i could be found I Miss 1 Woods It is understood will accompany the body of her mother to fo I Tennessee for burial |