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CRIME IS CHARGED ON NEGRO
Body of Mrs. Eleanor Louis Brigham Found in Cellar as Children Lie Ill Upstairs. - Lynch Threats Are Heard.
The Oil City Blizzard's leased wire of the International News Service brings information of the murder of Mrs. Eleanor Louise Brigham, reported from Oil City, in Orange, New Jersey. The dispatches state the Brigham's lived in Oil City until six months ago, but investigation failed to disclose any families of that name living here up to six months ago. It was learned that formerly several families of this name lived in Oil City.
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ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 28, William Battle, Negro, this afternoon confessed assaulting and killing Mrs. Eleanor Brigham, mother of three and then crowding her body into a closet in her home yesterday.
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By H. S. Denlinger
(Lx*, Staff Correspondent)
ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 28, ******tering citizens around the county jail today threatened ********* vengeance upon William E (?) Battle, 19 year old Negro, who **** **** by detective ***** --------

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Battle was arrested after Margaret, the 7 year-old daughter identified him as a man who had been working about the home during the day.
The negro denied knowledge of the crime.
Mrs. Brigham's body, horribly mutilated, evidently had been crammed hastily into a closet by the murderer before he fled. Her clothing was badly torn.
Authorities after an examination of the body, proceeded on the theory that Mrs. Brigham had been the victim of a degenerate.
Brigham collapsed when he found his wife's body and today was nearly wild with grief. He is a well known and prosperous business man.
The negro was today identified by the 7-year old daughter of the slain woman as one who had been employed about the house on the day of the crime.
It was revealed today that Mrs. Brigham sustained a frightful cut behind her head, cuts over each eye and her throat showed signs of strangulation. It is believed the murderer used a rope, from a swing that Mrs. Brigham had used to rock her babies in. The woman was outraged by her assailant, the ******* ******** ********** ********* ******* (unable to read remainder of paragraph)

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The children were all confined to their room upstairs by ********. They told their father that they had heard no sound.
The police say that the evidence is that the woman was either attacked in her kitchen and dragged to the cellar, or was attacked suddenly by a concealed assailant in the cellar when she went there on some household errand.
There were floor marks on the cellar floor showing that Mrs. Brigham had been dragged for several yards.
An autopsy on the body of the woman was begun this morning by County Physician Dr. George L. Warren. He found that welts on the victim's throat were indicative of the brutal grasp of the stranger who may have used a rope or a strand of rags.
The body was found by Brigham after he returned home from his place of business, the varnish concern of Debevoise and Company, Brooklyn, last evening. The men went to the children's room, awaking them. "Where's mamma?" said he. The children did not know, had not heard her for a long time.
Brigham began to explore the house, but did not think of the cellar. He went to the neighbors. No sign, no one had seen her. The man took fright and called police. Then the neighbors and detectives systematically searched the neighborhood. They found no trace.
Suddenly Brigham thought of the cellar, he and a detective rushed there. The sleuth noticed marks leading to the preserve closet. The door was locked. Brigham seized an axe and broke down the door. His wife's cut and bruised body with clothing twisted in mate, evidence of a struggle. Met the husband's eyes and sent him reeling back in horror.
There was a cut over each eye, but not deep enough to have caused her death, the doctors said when they arrived. First belief was that Mrs. Brigham had died of strangulation.
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MURDER VICTIM HAD RELATIVES IN OIL CITY

Woman's Body Will Be Brought To Former Home For Interment

The body of Mrs. Louise Burkhardt Brigham, who was murdered in Orange, N.J., will arrive in this city tomorrow noon accompanied by her husband Charles Brigham and daughter Virginia, and a brother Jack Brigham, of Chicago, Ill., who went to the New Jersey home yesterday.
Upon its arrival here the funeral party will proceed directly to the Grove Hill cemetery, where private commitment services will be conducted by the Rev. H. C. Weaver, pastor of Trinity M. E. church.
Mrs. Noah T. Clark, an aunt, of Pittsburgh, a former resident of West Third street, this city, arrived today, to attend the funeral. Mrs. John F. Davis of State street, and Mrs. O. M. Sherman, of West Fifth street, are sister-in-law of the deceased.
Harry Brigham, a half brother, former resident here, now residing in Buffalo, N.Y., accompanied by his wife, will arrive in the city this evening. Another brother, Richard Brigham, is a resident of Los Angeles, California, and unable to return in time for the funeral. A sister of Mrs. John F. Davis, Mrs. Charles E. Blair, former resident here, now of Detroit, Mich., is on a six-weeks tour in the west.
The marriage of Miss Burkhardt to Charles Brigham took place in Pittsburgh ten years ago. For a number of years, they lived in California, being transferred to East Orange, N.J., by the Debevoise Company three months ago.
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Obituary

Deaths
Robert Brigham
Robert Brigham, 15 year-old son of Charles F. Brigham of San Mateo, Calif., a former resident of Oil City, was drowned at San Mateo Saturday, according to word received here. The youth is a nephew of Mrs. O. M. Sherman of Oil City.
The funeral party will arrive in Oil City from Pittsburgh Friday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock. The body will be taken directly to Grove Hill cemetery where internment will be made in the family plot. Reverend Samuel L. Maxwell, pastor of Grace M. E. church will officiate.

Eleanor married Charles Fidelio Brigham about 1914. Charles was born on 27 Apr 1888 in Pennsylvania, USA; died on 4 Mar 1964 in California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Joseph Riehle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Melborne Fortune Ryan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obit: Marnie Woodworth;
helped raise funds to restore Star of India
By Jack Williams
STAFF WRITER

One hundred years after the iron-hulled vessel Star of India was built in Isle of Man, Marnie Woodworth joined two other women in forming an organization in San Diego to support its restoration.

As- the Star of India Auxiliary took shape in 1963, reaching a membership goal of 250 within two weeks, Mrs. Woodworth served as its founding president.

"Marnie inspired people to go beyond their expectations," said Marion Bovee, who joined Mrs. Woodworth and Pearl Reynard in Sunday night potlucks that gave birth to the auxiliary.
Mrs. Woodworth, who was honored in 1986 as a Woman of Dedication for her longtime community service, died Jan. 14 at Sunrise Senior living in Carmel Valley. She was 82.

The cause of death was cancer, said her stepdaughter Pam Halstead.
The Star of India, the world's oldest active sailing ship, had been bought by a group of San Diegans in 1926 and towed to the harbor the following year. Not until the late 1950s, however, did a fund-raising effort start in earnest to restore the vessel's grandeur. With the Star of India Auxiliary providing financial and promotional impetus, the ship was put to sea for the first time in 50 years in 1976.
"What Marnie and her Star of India Auxiliary did back then revived the heart in an old ship that was about to receive its last rites," said Joseph Ditler, former development director of the San Diego Maritime Museum.
"To her dying day, she remained an enthusiastic patron of the Star of India. Without a doubt, her involvement in the Star of India and the Maritime Museum proved to be one of the most valuable and fate-altering roles in the museum's long history."
In addition to organizing fund-raising efforts, Mrs. Woodworth christened the vessel on its 100th birthday, which was celebrated two years after Capt. Kenneth D. Reynard offered to head the Star of India restoration effort.
Mrs. Woodworth, who became an honorary life member of the auxiliary, was exposed to the nautical world by her yachtsman husband, Chauncey "Jim" Woodworth.

After their marriage in 1956,, the Woodworths lived on Mr. Woodworth's 42-foot boat, Leilani, in Coronado. They later settled in the La Playa area of Point Loma.

"Marnie, was always elegant, humble and clearly interest in caring for others," said the Rev. Peter Alexander, a long time friend and her former pastor. "We will always remember her smile that could light up the world and her real love for absolutely everyone around her."
Margaret Brigham "Marnie Woodworth was born in Oakland and raised in San Mateo. She graduated cum laude i 1943 from Stanford University and worked for 12 years as a executive secretary at Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp in San Francisco.

For several years, she joined her father in annual vacations at Hotel del Coronado. It was there that she met her future husband, a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard Reserve, whose family had settled in Coronado in 1921.
"He came up to her table after dinner, when the orchestra was playing, and asked he to dance," Bovee said.
A romance ensued. The marriage, at Stanford Chapel in Palo Alto, was her first and his third, Halstead said.
Mrs. Woodworth began to share her husband's nautical enthusiasm although she had never sailed until her marriage Soon, she joined a close-knit group of Star of India aficionados who gathered aboard the ship for Sunday night parties.

"Marnie was everything woman hoped to be," Bovee said. "She was well-organized, elegant and compassionate and tremendously inspiring to the rest of us in the auxiliary."

Mrs. Woodworth's community service extended to the women's committee of the San Diego Symphony, Globe Guilders, the La Playa Unit of the Children's Hospital Auxiliary and the Forest Home Women' Auxiliary.
She also had been active with her husband in the San Diego Yacht Club.

Mrs. Woodworth was among 13 Women of Dedication honored by the Salvation Army Door of Hope in February 1986.
Her husband died in 1987.
Survivors include stepdaughter, Pamela Halstead of Escondido; stepson, Chauncey C. Woodworth III of Charleston Ore.; and two grandchildren.

A memorial service is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. today at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1376 Felspar St., Pacific Beach. Private inurnment will be at Glen Abbey Memorial Park, Bonita.

Donations are suggested to the Star of India Auxiliary and Forest Home Women's Auxiliary.

Jack Williams: (619) 542-4587;
jack.williams@uniontrib.com
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Margaret married Chauncey Clark Woodworth on 28 Jul 1956 in California, USA. Chauncey was born on 4 Aug 1907 in California, USA; died in 0Jan 1987 in California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]