| Show 7 1 authorities UNABLE TO FIND C L ald W S 54 IN ata at A A TRAGEDY N 1 ift baffled in their search for the woman supposed to have been with louis yeager after he left the home ot of his fiancee myrtle finley on the night of his death the authorities of kokomo kokomos ind decided to postpone the continuation of the inquest in the hope that further efforts to locate the woman may be successful one whole day was spent in sharps ville where it is believed yeager made the appointment which ended fatally and the county prosecutor is inclined strongly to the belief that the young man who all along has been the sup posed victim of the feud between the villages of hemlock and oal ford corn com bitted suicide on the Sharps sharpsville ville road twelve miles from his home in oak ford by the route he follo followed Aed and sis sia miles from hemlock where he had spent the evening the case against logan ingalls dillard and frank eades will be dis dig missed said the county prosecutor the evidence against them is poor at lest best and the threats were the natural outcome of the enmity between young men of rival villages their alibis cannot be broken down the motive for the suicide was dis covered when it was found that yea ger had hael been pressed to set a date for his wedding to myrtle finley but ie fused his sweethearts plea because bis his physician had told him he could not slot marry his grief over this fact effected him deeply and the death of bis fils friend francis sutton who was shot in the same way it is believed added to his despondency dr J H ross of kokomo kokomos is said to have made the revelation that yeager had been his patient for some weeks and had been told a week before his death that he had an incurable dis dig ease and of which he had often spoken az to his friends in oakford yeager eager appeal pealed ed much depressed when he left the physician physicians s office and the night afterwards visited his sweetheart the 9 rl after greeting him warmly dis dig cussed their plans for future happ ness and said aid 1 I wish you would see father about our marriage I 1 think we have waited a long time they had nearly a 3 ear no I 1 don t want to see him tonight I 1 think it better to wait until sunday yeager replied he ile appeared to be suffering then but on the following sunday was cheerful when reminded of his promise in the evening he left sud denly an hour or more before the time he usually departed bix hours after his body was found in his car ariage before the gate of his father fathers s farm the county prosecutor took the foregoing statement from miss fin ley the motive mothe is plainly apparent he said the first theory that yeager was murdered as the result of a feud was abandoned and no further effort will ill be made to trace the where outs on sunday of the boys now under arrest the coroner clangs to the belief that yeager was murdered by or r for f a woman and said after alter his from sharpsville Sharps ville it if I 1 were to bring in a verdict this minute I 1 would say yeager came to his death at the hands of parties un known the verdict should be suicide of nothing new is discovered said prosecutor cooper there are a few who still believe that yeager was murdered it was asserted that yeager was in a store in oakford when the place was held up and robbed a year ago the crime it Is believed was committed by young men living nearby yeager leager told the authorities of having a clew to their identity and some think he may have hav e been killed by the men who robbed the store in order to silence him few kokomo kokomos people accept the county prosecutors theory that louis yeager killed himself oakford peo pie have raised a fund of 1000 1 with which to employ detectives peti eions ing the county commission ers to offer 1000 1 reward are being signed by hundreds the strange woman who holds the ley 1 ey to the yeager murder mystery has not yet been found and but lit tie tle progress has been made toward establishing her identity she Is described as being epen expensively dress ed where she came from how she tell fell in with yeager and where she went after the shooting are circum stances that are engaging the atten tion of the officers it is the theory of the dead mans family that the wj sreng vows woman was brought by enemies to lure yeager to his ruin and death logan ingles and the two eads boys under arrest on suspicion of killing yeager will not be released without trial the preliminary hear ing Is set for friday may 22 |
