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Show Letters Found i n Room of Slain Girl Are Read at Inquest Mother of Murdered Young Bride Startles Probers With Declare. Uon of inside Job" COLORADO aPRTNOH. Cow, Aug. SI Reeding of four of the flva Utters signed "Jack." which were found vnder a pillow In the bedroom of Mrs. Elale Buttle, foaad slaia here Thursday morning, and tha startling declaration at Mrs. Minnie Jorgensen, mother of the dead lat that tha Tims -eeaa-Waa Inside Job." featured tha eoroner'a Inquest lata yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Buttle, child-wife af IV H. Suttle Jn, waa found dying ea her bed Thursday morning. Her bead had been beaten with a blunt Instrument, tha nightdress la which she waa attired waa torn and there were finger marks as her neck. Police and officers from the district dis-trict attorney's office In their search for the author of the "Jack" lettera arrested Jacinto Fernandea of Denver. He one waa able to Identify him as ever having been seen around tbe Buttle borne, and ha baa been released. I JURV. PINOINO. ' I The coroner's Jury found that Mrs. Buttle hsd come to her death through wounds Inflicted oa her head "with feloninio Intent oy S heavy object In the hands of a person ar person unknown tt .hl Jury." - "That girl wss killed en the In. side of that house, " Elsie's mother exclaimed dramatically, when testifying tes-tifying at the Inqueet. "I ant going to tell the whole Jury that It waa an Inside Job," Then she ssnk back near collapsed and murmured. "Oh. tha brute." Poorly written, angramatloal and scrawled en rough iaper, the four "Jack letters are said by officials of ths district attorney'a office to nsrrow considerably the scope of sender. One of tha "Jack" letters, designated desig-nated by the authorities aa the first letter, waa ae follows, without chsnge In opening ar punctuaUoni "Dear Etsis: , "Well another letter from you I an aura glad you corns to Denver and I got to aee yoq all I wanted to why done you leave that guy If you hate hint so bad you said that he waa so mean and you wantsd to be loose so you could come to me bow I hate to da what you said I might get caught I have slide for you but I dnnt want to km a guy and go to the pen I am coming down eo X can be eloee to you and see you every afternoon you aay be always atuck around at night and I eould get a good ahot at him I loot your number but found It dont write you will aee me In a day or two with imii. The other letters wsre shorter, but were along similar lines and dated Colorado Springe. In one ot them "Jack said he would place his notes "where yoa told me to." This. Investigators say, waa a flower boa outside the slain girl's bedroom window. In the fourth latter tha writer said In part: "I have been through hell and you know it new Iota go riding this afternoon as we can be together till after five he went follow you, watch the old woman (Elsie's mother-in-law) I have been around several nights but eould not get a ebanoe at him. Kill that dog and tha old woman too I eame timee yesterday so you had better be prompt If yon know whata good tor your hide, iiil JACK." |