Show FIND FINO EVIDENCE OF HASTY TRIP TAir TO DRUG STORE STURE Benzine Belie Believed ved to Have Been Bought by Woods After His Wife Had Been Killed Overcoat Missing Formulation of a defense for Omer Omer R R. R Woods alleged wife murderer against that charge commenced de developing developing developing de- de today when Attorney Thomas Ramage revealed two points uncovered by him both of which support Woods' Woods story of a bandit attack John H H. H Blevins an agent of the internal revenue office where Woods was employed will testify tat that that-t at 1030 o'clock on the morning of the murder two men came to the office in the Boston building looking for Woods Ramage said These men men were rough looking and one of them was tall and wore a brown overcoat at This corresponds to what Woods told the police of the tho two men who forced their way into his apartment These men Mr Blevins has told me refused to state their business and left the office e. e Another link in the defense will be introduction of evidence to show that Mrs Woods had been threatened while employed as a private detective in the Paris Millinery store This occurred just before Christmas according ac- ac according according ac ac- cording to Ramage Mrs Woods had caught two women shoplifters They were not arrested but were turned over to the manager who had the pair put out of the store Evidence produced by the police today to- to today to day tends to show that Omer Orner R. R Woods made a hasty trip to the drug store after murdering his wife before he set fire to the bed on which he had placed the body according to the detectives The poll police e say that Woods purchased a bottle bottle bf bf be benzine during this during this absence from the apartment His Isis return to the building was so I hasty that he struck a woman with thedoor the thedoor thedoor door at the lower steps on his return and muttered an apology This was at 12 1245 45 o'clock Monday At 1 57 o'clock the alarm of fire was turned in to the department and police and firemen discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered the Incinerated body of the woman An examination of the contents of the womans woman's stomach made by Herman Harms state chemist shows that she had Just finished the noonday meal when she was murdered The p police lice at attach attach attach at- at tach much significance to the fact that Woods Woods' overcoat has disappeared The clerk who Is believed to have sold Woods the bottle of benzine In Informed informed informed in- in formed the police that the customer wore an overcoat When he was called upon to Identify Woods the overcoat I might have aided materially in the Identification according to the police It is believed that Woods roods was aware of of this fact and disposed of the coat in some manner while absent from the apartment and apartment and before setting fire to the body of his wife They say that itis It ItIs Itis is doubtful that he would be able to cast It aside without t attracting some attention and that he either pretended to forget it while In some building or orM M sold ld It at a second hand store Later when the police were investigating investigating investigating the murder Woods was questioned questioned questioned ques ques- regarding the coat but evinced little interest lIe He said it had been I left in the apartment at the Pauline When he was taken to the building he made little effort to find It A red sweater worn by Tee Lee Woods daughter of Mr 11 and Mrs Woods Is also missing The police say that it is possible that Mrs 1 Woods wore the sweater on the day of her death and andt that t ft it was burned In the fire Th The i police determined to probe every angle of the affair went at the Investigation in the same manner in which the defense might attack attacH the problem Every possibility that robbers robbers robbers rob rob- bers might have committed the gruesome gruesome gruesome grue grue- some deed was entertained with the re result result result re- re sult the officers say that the story told by Woods appeared Impossible and ridiculous Funeral services for Mrs Myretta lyretta I Woods are being held this afternoon in inthe inthe inthe the ODonnell O'Donnell Co chapel with the Rev Stanley Curtis of the First Methodist Methodist Methodist Meth Meth- odist church officiating The rhe body will probably be shipped to Knoxville Tenn the home of the murdered woman An examination of Woods Woods' office In Inthe inthe inthe the federal building was made today for the first time since the murder The police confiscated a large quantity of correspondence e but have not had timeto time timeto to peruse It all aU According to information received from Boise Doise Ida Woods filed suit for divorce from front his wife on April 15 1918 alleging desertion but the suit was not pressed and was eventually stricken strick strick- en from the list Detective Cliff Patten Patten Patten Pat Pat- ten Is still in Boise Doise and vicinity investigating Investigating investigating Woods Woods' life in that state and possible Us-possible Its bearing on the crime It Is said that valuable Information has been collected |