Show SUICIDES TO ESCAPE PURSUERS murderer of mrs woodill ends enda life rather than stand trial st michaels md ald in the midst ot of 9 fusillade front from pursuers pu niters who had bad surrounded him after a thrilling chase the man who was sought as aa i the slayer ot of mrs edith may thomp son BOH woodill lyman rages gages ward killed hilled himself early saturday morning to evade capture A letter round found upon the suicides ides bod body rc TO first of all that he was waa i not emroe tt E roberts journalist and author as he had been known bere hereabouts ile he was none other than robert E emmett eastman boatman broker swindler and ball jumper who had bad been missing irom from new york hla his home for almost a year after he had bad got away with about of 0 his clients money then another letter written by himself declared that he was the innocent victim of circumstances andaas not the beautA beautiful ful young girls slayer there had been a party of men and women aboard hla his launch saturday night this sald said two other couples beside himself and mrs airs woodall they had been be en everyone save the two became in of 0 tho tb ether women j jealous ai 0 the th thai ailt waa paia imd to mrs woodall Wood of her youth and ana beauty struck tier her over the head with a champagne bottle tho the guests fled leaving matman eastman alone vath the tha body ye ile weighted it and let it sink to the bottom of the creek then realizing that he be her friend would naturally be accused he ae wrote this letter placed it in his pocket and determined ter mined to mil himself it 1 he be could not escape it 11 I 1 cleved pos possible tible though schaal bodely ij probable that bastmann s W ax plan atlon of 0 tho the killing may inay ba true |