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Burial of Scofield took place last -Saturday afternoon in Mt Auburn ^ cemetery. Messages received from • the wife whom he had deserted were , to the effect that she was without ^ means and unable to bear the expense , ^ of burial, according to the testimony of Mrs. Talcott, who also told the f jury that a wire sent Mrs Roundtree, mother of the girl, brought a reply | j Saying if her daughter was satisfied at Heaven City, she may remain ( there, intimating that she too was ; I without financial means , ^Oil Magnate Story Mere Fiction ; ^1 That Scofield was an oil operator, and that he was wealthy as broad- ] ' casted by various daily papers is pure fiction, according to disclosures made j at the coroner's inquest. His worldly i y possessions consisted of the role of r money he displayed before the startled ^ eyes of the unsophisticated West \ ir- s ginia mountain girl and this he ex ( pended on the tour made through nu-, merous states after their flight from , f her home about four months agoScofield had been a member of the s Heaven City colony when it was es- ; ^ tablished near Harvard in He -drifted away later, however, going to' Texas and thence to Oklahoma, home | of his wife and three children When ( ^ minus funds he felt he would be able i to find an abiding place in the tollt;m f which he had deserted, some of the] members assert, as they discuss the 1 lt;unfortunate circumstances of his com j ing with the little girl, though the j * did not live there as man and wife, ( Mrs. Talcott testified before the tor- * oneris juryGirl and Sheriff Try BoxingSheriff Edinger was asked by j tState’s Attorney Pouse to put on the | gloves with fifteen year old Nita j Roundtree at the colony farm last ■,Saturday while the state’s attorney and sheriff were there on an in spec ^ tion tour of the premises “Just m • r dicate,” said the state’s attorney to the fifteen year old girl, “how ou hit ( t Scofield in the boxing bout ou had ”Quick as a flash the buxom girl | 1donned the gloves and faced thesheriff, who assumed attitudes taken , ^ by Scofield in the match Lying on the ground, as Scofield is alleged to ^ have been when he fell, the sheriff received a blow similar to that given ^ Scofield, she told the state’s attornev 1 j.“She has speed and directness ” ( ^ said the sheriff, “but the force is not j strong enough to harm an\ person ( physically fit,” he told those who wot « nes$ed the exhibition and the number ^ included a group of newspaper men . r with cameras, who took pictures in s profusion *
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Harvard Herald And Independent
Harvard, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1925
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