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Show : YZl TO UllDl Mre; Vers? Carried by Chicago Wcmzn v Gives Key to IUllin of Eusi. . ness Man. . s C ; CHICAGO, Feb. 23. Out of the mass of extravagant rumors which were set going by the tragedy of the studio in the Omaha building, which cost "Webster "Web-ster J. Guerin his life Thursday, the police po-lice last night thought that they had evolved the -true story of the motives which led up to the crime. . The stories of blackmail and the mercenary mer-cenary features that first appeared to have a large place in the , case have been discarded, leaving the facts the story of the unreasoning love of au older woman for a young man who had grown tired of her. fihe gave him some money, but it now appears she did it voluntarily and because of her infatuation. ... , ( .., ; Probably the most important of the discoveries that caused the police to abandon the first theories of the case was that of a printed verse, torn from a magazine, which Mrs. Flora McDonald, McDon-ald, Guerin 's slayer, appears to have carried with her at all times. - Thumb-marked Thumb-marked and worn from much handling, the bit of paper is believed to hold the crux of the situation. The verse is: ' Out of the East nor West No tender eyes shall come To love thee first or best Or strike old echoes dumb. Out of the North nor South Passion nor pain nor Joy Shall lay to thy lips the waking mouth That made thee man from boy. Body and spirit first love bereft. Whole thou shalt never be; Heaven Itself shall . take what I left-Branded left-Branded with love of me. Under the words, "That made thee man from boy," words that are significant sig-nificant in view of the fact that Mrs. McDonald had been attracted to Guerin. from his early school days, she being much older are drawn heavy lines. ' The words, "Heaven itself shall take what I left," are also heavily underlined. ' . |