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Show MUCH MYSTERY ABOUT IS. IfOOBILl DOCTOR TELLS OF HER SUDDEN MARRIAGE. Actress Eastman Wrote. to Is Heard From and Says She Is His Wife. New York, June 25. Mrs. Edith May Wood 111 met her second husband and was married to him about a year and a half ago, while she was a stjri at the Hotel Navarre, under her maiden name of Thompson, Dr. Johnson W. Glhhs. formerly hou6o physician at the Hotel Navarre, utated tonight that ho remembered her well. "Her acquaintance with Lyman J. Gage and her Impulsive marriage interested in-terested and puzzled me," said Dr. Glbbs. "Then, too, 1 happened to have an unpaid bill for professional services rendered her that comes In $120. At the time there was so much mystery about the litUe woman that 1 never sent it in, as she requested me to. ("Ming Thompson told me eighteen month ago that she had got married that afternoon. "'I met him only three days ago,' she said. "He was a college hoy and she lold nie her husband'. name and it tallied with the name she bore the day she was killed. "I asked her how Mr. Gage would tike it. 'Oh.' she replied, 'we are not going to tell him anything about it.'" Vinnle Bradcombe, fx? whom Robert Kastman wTote his version of the tragedy trag-edy at St. Michaels, admitted tonight that she saw Eastman"s -wife. She is in actress but has not played since the birth of her baby, eight months ago. The marriage, she staid, took place January 16. 190?, about two years after af-ter she first met ?!astrnan. "I lived with him just five days," she said. "He treated me knldly, but he seemed to be laboring under a great strain that preyed upon his mind so much that I became frightened. "When we went back to New York after a five days' honeymoon I went directly to my mother and told her F was afraid of Robert She advised mo to leave him at once, and I did so, coming here to live with her, "I taw him only once afterward-Thtie afterward-Thtie was no divorce, as neither of us had any grounds to base one on in this state. ""When baby was horn I tried to get in touch with Mr. Eastman to tell him about it, but he had gone away I never heard of him again until I picked up today's paper and saw that he was the Roberts In this murder case." Mrs. Eastman said she did not know w hether she would go to St. Michaels or, not. |