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Show tin SUSPECTED IH GIRL'S DEATH .. - Letter Signed "Jack" Believed Be-lieved to Have . Been Planted to Obscure Clue in Colorado Murder Case COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo, Aug. It. A new angle baa been Injected In-jected Into the mystery aurround-Ing aurround-Ing tha nlaylng Thursday morning of Mrs. Elsie But tie. 17-year-old bride of a mon,th. A woman waa concerned In tha girl's death, either directly or In- 0awWOlyir 4w4b0 Wrlrtow "0)f rtOBOeW of the dlatrict attorney'o office, and while they decline to comment on thla Una of Investigation aald to have been atartod laat night. It was Intimated that Importance la attached at-tached to the theory that a woman and not a euepsrtsd former suitor of tho young woman committed tha crime. Mra. Buttle, clad only In a night-dress, night-dress, waa found lying unconscious In bar bedroom. Her skull had been crushed and there ware fingermarks on her throat. 8 he died soon after her mother-in-law, returning from a store, found her lying acroaa a bod with a pillow over her head. A packet of five letters waa . found under tho pillow. Police aay tha lettera wore elgned "Jack," but refused re-fused to Indicate whether the Identity Iden-tity of tha writer Is known to them. Special Investigators called into the case attach little Importance to the lettera, preferring for the present to work on the theory that a woman waa tha slayer. Hand-wrltlnga Hand-wrltlnga are being compared and tha poeeibillty of an early arreat waa admitted thla morning. Mrs. E. C. Low of Denver, mother moth-er of the dead girl, waa oueetloned for several -hours yesterdsy afternoon after-noon by police and representallvea of the district attorney's office. At tha conclualon of her examination shs waa placed In tha county )all. Her husband, atepfather of Mra. Buttle, waa grilled for alx houra last night, but. It waa said afterward, was able to give little Information helpful to the authoritlea, Tha stories sto-ries told by Mr. and Mra. Low a It waa aald, vary In several Important particular. It waa declared last night that tha lettera proved little or nothing of the relatione between Mra. Buttle and tha unidentified "Jack." Accordingly, Ac-cordingly, it waa pointed out. In vestigators arc working en tha theory the-ory that tha lettera were "planted" to furnish a fslso clue and that a woman, for reaaona not yet known, cither waa tha alayer or waa Instrumental In-strumental In having tha crime committed. ' |