Show I 1 YOUNG MAH MAN LURED TO HIS DEATH killed in order to deceive the officers of the law bank embezzler adopted Dastard Methods to escape the punishment ment his dishonesty deserved exposure of a terrible crime rime st louis dec 7 the SL st louis post dispatch today throws light on a mysterious shooting which occurred in st louis louls on june 14 1897 and resulted in the death of bills ellis duckworth at kansas city kansas some time after that according to the story duckworth came to SL st louis from springfield mo to meet edward L doling an indiana bank cashier r who in a letter had fa dode offered red tre cormor a remunerative position before meeting doling duckworth who bad had registered at the planters hotel tel strolled out to forest park where ho ile waa was later found on tho the earna same day badly wounded with a bullet hole in his head and a revolver lying beside him it was apparently a case of suicide in the wounded mans pocket was found a card bearing those there words 1 I am edward L lc doling dolln of terre torre haute ind in case ot of accident doling it appears was i as at that time wanted for embezzling from a bank in some town near terro term haute indiana he disappeared about tho the time he wrote the letter to duckworth making the st louis appointment with the latter doling and duckworth who were not acquainted personally resembled each other to a remarkable degree the story continues saying duckworth waa was decoyed decayed here by doling and fatally shot a card put in bis his pocket with the batters lat name on tt it and the wounded man passed off on the police and public as the missing embezzler duckworth was taken home by his sister mrs E eva va C hutchinson Hutchin soa of hutchin eon kansas iio ile having revealed his identity the wounded man denied thai that he had attempted to commit suicide and said he be remembered nothing of the shooting doling it Is said Is at large and the police of the indiana town and those of st louis are searching for him one on the charge ot of cm bezz lement and the other tor for murder mra mrs E W lexford Tex ford tord of springfield mo a sister of E L duckworth makes public the following letter which forma forms an important connecting link in the circumstantial evidence to E L duckworth springfield missouri terra haute ind june 0 1897 dear friend I 1 hae haie a good position tor for a young man of your age in st louis ho mo you have been recommended to me rne by a friend who says ho he you will fill this position admirably it if you think yon you would like a good position one in which you will be given an opportunity to rise riso I 1 will talk to you it you deela to investigate my offer meet mo me at the ille t planters pl ittel ian at 2 on the afternoon of I 1 juno june 14 write me addressing caro cue of the planters hotel st 51 louis hoping for a favorable answer I 1 remain dwir sincere friend and well welli wisher E L DOLING mr duckworth passed away uway on nov 18 at the bland institute kansas city kansas i i |