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• vr •t s CASE ISJIIOII ONE EJUL TO CONNECT BEACH WITH ATTACK ON WIFE WHAT WITNESS SAID One Witne*e Hays Beach’s Penknife Bore Evidence of Having Homan Blood On It, While Another Wit ness for the Defense Testified Just to the Contrary About Knife. NOT GUILTY. : • News was flashed from * • Aiken that the Jury had no * • quitted Frederick O. Beach on * • the charge of murderously 1 as- * • vaulting his wife a year ago, * • Beach and his wife accusing • • an unknown negro of the bru- • • tal crime. • The State rested Its case Wednes day m the scusatioual Beach trial over at Aiken. The Introduction of Heaths jeweled penknife, upon whi'h line of the State's witnesses clai...'d to Line found traces of hlo.' i ot puarles, w as held by the pio--'' r.'jn uu:il the lutit. It had b*-« • : !.i :; atfil by the defense and t h e \ v.. : e puparel to uo^t expeit t- >■ \ . 1 I. ex • I l It at. n.ony ev - • ti 1 ■ t x’eut o* p' v** ntii.g a wit <1 1, .e.i 1 fcw ul e Kl,.te an ! to Und am l li the defense's witnesses d duiii.g the arteruoon c.Mtn and the tesll- ■ OI l » all of tlii in roiircrnwd thu kui:- ■ r D Hsu' lug* \\ ) man Jr , Ii..- :! p4-rson of it." saiu" family lO ti , f,l as a vilDuss. t44»tlfied at tin 4 O: ' :.i:.g H**ssi on (bat he had Bail' 4. . nwo; ,o exauilnatlon of Ik. V ! • • .it th" ri-qui-'-t of Mayor Gil. • i (..id found trarcs of blood 1^4 - i ! to. k t h.- k nl> to As. . . .i nr. ! »u bin it t"d It to I >r r r'ri.i/4- of tii4* l nlvcrsity of r.t • * 4 :. *• \ ^'-.’t Hi U,i T"!H t'pll' * ii- • It 1-44 ri i :."d. r4-fu*4'd to ' • i - •i i ; - ti on as lx 'iiu pr4-*»-Q'-44 ef D" Thro h" w. ir ' bis ■ h' i;n4- i a » r ’'4-n o; luion th*-- . , ri M' t'D-r, Vn.« na anaiv’t- tal < i - n tst. that there was blood on th" k IV U > • •tt Thn prx.a^rutor annoum-ed at ' Ikb i <*n it t, of the afternoon se*sion l hji ' )< f . -x'Hte had p'^sontfMl ita raso. the f! nae immediately offered Dr Fart r U e as a witnesa Dr Batrldge test: fi. M t •hst he hal examined ths Inf** All 1 t.sd informed Dr Wyman fbsi • ► V»» e » a* no blood there H. k; t \t- ih" .'ury a very t4-< hnical • Xpn .i ■ on of the manner in which kv ii. j .!•• hli siainlnatloQ ani was ma * ■ < i very good wttnesa for ths rtcfr I. until Soilrtor Gunter got ki.lil i r h :n and bt-gun aubjf*cttna h 1 "i 1 fM-urcli.ng ju'-atlonitig Im n i i!' ’ • . v he became *<> coufu-ed that v» .1 , u: ah"' to HUriaer »l!h- out • • !,. a.'.at.on quualluna ou the t u h: ■ •* t. h he iiM* made a life Bn.*- "I ! i, t you r'-fuae to put the re- suit , f >i ur exd'iiir.aT'on down in vr • !■ m ti •" . 11," solicitor Tt,. .. - .4 1. ,1 n " t h r "I ■ t >"!]■"' rt-pi-a'u 1 the »"'iirl- tor T* • : e v a v a t t •' ■ r : h r u.; g h the n i • ' .. v 1.' ti tic » 1' n• -a i'iiti• t n • U> J ' ) "i :u iiti silet.f J .a l.y h" *a' 1 ti,.'- ’ 1 i i 11* w sh to mak" a writ- ten r 't "V * » vx.ie afraid it would fail in tl," ' . • 1 i S’i •, w i '••!.'t you’" ' 1 N 1 v ns tin! i.i 1 at t liat tlnie "But .ou have become blasted since then !i 11 en't you’" "No " Dr I’artridge agsin tHicame angled when the prosecutor questioned him about tils direct testimony that the knife ha ! no broken blades when he examined it. “Wil, you swear that the knife had two bTadoe?” The witneea hesitated then said: •'No. I don't think I can swear to it." •'Hut you did Just now," prodded the prosecutor. The witness remained silent for a long time. "I think it's safe to leave out the other blade," he then declared amid laughter. On his direct examination Dr. ?■»> fridge said that Dr Wyman brought the knife to him on the morning of March 29 with a request for an ea.ly report because he “wanted to a ton a Ban going ont of town who was g«- tng to leave at three." Dr. Wyman en crose-examinatlon had denied making any auch statements. Expert testimony was given for 'he defense by Dr. T. F. Ortell of An- gmsta. formerly professor of pathol ogy and microscopy at the University of Georgia. Dr. Ortell declared that be could not tnd flaws In the tech- fttqne employed by Dr Partridge In bte examination as in the latter's teetimony “Can yon find flaws In the teeh- aiqne used by Dr Wyman?" asked Attorney Fallef 1 of the defence. "Yea,” he replied. guuieui that one uisue ot tue suite nsd been broken oil by a’blow ut 1 Mrs. Beach a thioat, the defense ask-1 ed the witness if in bia opinion It could have been broken in this man-1 aer. , Dr. Ortell said that he had made an experiment on ten body ot a negro with a similar anile, inflicting such a wound aa had been made in Mra. Beach s neck without damage to the knife. The prosecutor in his cross-exami nation of the witness asked: "So you took a dead negro and rt.M ». -V »v.« W l». •„ VI. neck?" "Did he struggle?" The answer w as lost in the laugh ter that followed. Mr. Gunter then wanted to know if It would not be possible for a blade to be snapped off if the blow was not clean. "It might, but the wound would be a jagged one,” replied the witness. The Beach family physician, Dr. C. D. Hall, testified that he was called to the Beach home by telephone be tween 9:30 and 10 o'clock. He said he found Mrs. Beach suffering from a three-inch wound in her throat; a superficial wound in thwTeft breast and an abrasion on the left ear. "Was the attitude of Mr. and Mrs. Beach toward each other one of af fection?" he was asked. "Yes. Mr. Beach held her han i all the time I was dressing her wounds." " Dr. Hall said that he saw Mrs. Beach before she was carried up stairs and that she told him then that she had been attacked by a negro. On cross-examination the solicitor made inquiry as to tin* room in wh!(!i the Beaches were sitting, according to M,s. Beach's story to the duett r when she went to let the dogs out. Dr. Hall said they were sitting in the living room on the i.rM tloor. 11.e entrain e to. w hit h was but a few feet from the front door. "Assuming then that Mr. Beach was sitting in the farthermost cor ner of the room," he was asked, "don't you think he could have heard a scuffle or scream In the front ysrd not more than feet away’" "It would seem so, ' the witneas re plied The last witness of the day for the defense. Dr. M K Wyman, a pfivsl- rian of il years’ experience, exp r es-- ed the opinion that a blow a' 'h»- ihroat with the Heai-h pen knif-i i ou! ! not have broken off the bia-e. whether d'-ilvered from front or ba< k He admitted under cross • x- animation that if the blade was struck on the side it might snap o" Uurai I’oitevuian K K Holly, thr next witni-ws. w-o* a.k*-l If he had nny eon v w t sat .on with Beach the night of the assault about the value of the earring* afterward found "Yea. Hea<h aald hi* wife had loal a pair of earring*. He aald he didn't know their exact value, but they were worth about |4.000 or |O.OjO," replied Holly Mayor H> riwrt E Gylea. who took an active part In the Inveatigatlon following the assault, waa examined and croaa-examlued at great length He aald the police turned the ear ring* over to him and that he gave them to Beach after he bad aatiafled himaelf that they were paste. "Beach aeemed aurprleed to learn that the earring* had been found," he added The witneas declart-d that, after auroral weeka' investigation had proved fruUlt**a. he thought a dm teetive should be employed and a man named Itaughn was secured for (he work B«ughn expressed a d»*- slre to get i>t>a»eai*lon of Beach's knife and Die mayor accompanied the mthctne to BeHch'a house and asked him for his knife. Without h>>aitatlon. ha aald. Beach look a oeautitul gold handled knife • tunded with uianionds off his watch ■ ba n and hand's! it over. The wit ness said he examine,] the knife ilosely ,ind saw stains near the base of a broken blade ilia* might have been blood, or v'i«r h« could mint is HR. AND MRS. BEACH GIVE TRUE VERSION DEI HE BRUTAL CRUEL ATTACK . r •» *4 fr* C ii tC ' iUx LU uuil i am iuic e.is in .elereuce lamoiie coiilareiiee Ui ouo i l ue, Uioie wax GIVEN HEW Y DAMAt.HH, Put In an Insane Asylara IVecanse He Hefmted to Move. Fifteen thousand dollar* damager for false imprisonment wa* awarded Wednesday to Rev. Father L. A Klauder by an Ogdenaburg, N. Y., Jury. The defendant* in the action were Bishop Henry Gabriels of the Catholic dioceae of Ogdenaburg; Coadjutor Bishop Joaeph Conroy and Doctor* W. B. Hambridge and W. G. Cooper, of the Ogden*burg state asyl um for the inaane. The plaintiff set forth that the defendant* had caused him to be placed In the asylum after his refusal to relinquish hia parish at Faust, N. Y. Tranaferred by the bishop, he declined to accept the change, and going to the cathedral started to read an address In defense of his stand. He was then seized and committed to the aeylum He ob tained release through a habeas cor pus wrtt and brought the ault Just decided. HIHa Self and Woman At Jacksonville, Fla , C P T-onv, a wholesale liquor dealer. Saturdnv shot and killed Miss Busan Dickinson of Wilmington. Del., svd ‘.’3. sii'l , then killed himself. The tragedy took plsce In 1-onr's office after 'he two had engaged In a onn-rel cording to, the rvollre the connle vis Anticipating that Solicitor Gunter Fed a road honee PVtrisv night md Ight contend In Wa ramming up nr- are «atd to have drank heavily They Both Testify That the Murder ous Assault on Mrs. Bench Mas Made by a Negro, But for What Purpose They IHd Not Beem to Know. Frederick 0. Beach denied emphat ically Thursday that he cut his wife’s throat; his wife, Mrs. Camilla Morse Havemeyer Beach, his alleged vic tim, swore emphatically that her hus band did not commit the assault, the crime for which the well known New Yorker, member of Aiken's winter colony of tourists, was tried In the Aiken County Conrt. The testimony of these two principals is that a ne gro committed the deed, and that Beach rushed to the assistance of his wife when he heard her screams and that the assailant meanwhile made his escape. Frederick O. Beach, defendant, was on the witness brand over two hours Thu:«dny morning, and told the story, conforming in th" main to whit is known is the "Beach ver sion” of tl,,' ursaiiSt upon L s wife. And a good wrtH'SH * he <!• :• • d.!’" proved to be. f.il::. and v t< ! i >r the in ist part, and m w ry ; •• y voice, he anew, r>d <ji:*-. Mera pr< pounded by counsel, in tlrrn end vlming n.auner. even in those points that contra die'* 1 his foruer eiatemen's and tes'.mony to .'.'f'- tlvcs and city oftlciaN, I,is afitud* was no bold that it bespoke Fine* city and honeFty. in other wp.rdH. or in reallv pure Addisoninn Fiig!i“h "he put It acroer". Only once d'd wit ness approach excl’enient, and this was the emphasis with which he an swered the direct question "D'd you not, while In Mayor Gyles' office with Just your w'fe try to go* her to place the blame of this thing on Pearl Hamp'on's {■'other’" "Al-tw lu'el.- not. ' w as the reply, "net a word of it, and a- y sDi'cr.'-r t •hat I ever said su. h a thing is whol ly fa!*e, ' and Mr TVob ra’sed h.s vo'ce cons de-ably wti# n t t.t> ring t* . denial It was on this o-f usion that c-rtaln men of Aiken ar>< said to have been concealed behind b >ok cases In Mayor Gv!>-e' off* band to have overheard conver«.a:ion E>etwe- n Beach and his wife Mr Beach told how on the night of February !*>, a few moments after h‘s wife stepped out into the front yard to "put the dogs out ", he hoard her scream, that rushing out he sawr his wife leaning up against the s.de of the porch. that hurrying toward her he wa* passed by a ' (dark figure" running 1u the direction of the gate. *o close that he could have T'lppod him that, paying no gr'-at atteni.ou to the fleeing figure, he rushe 1 to ills w'fe. asking what wa-* the mutter, to which hi* wife replied "Oh. h*-> lone something dreadful to me Mr I’esch said he picked her tip In Ire arm* not knowing h.-r throat wu« cu' at the time, carried hi r into th< house, left her in the hail, hurried up stairs, secured his pistol then male hasty search on the s'n-ef for the alleged assailant Wi'nwfs said It took him har !ly more than tweti ty hi on 'is to make ?! - .- h M r 1 each. Vrs !’• i. .> s Hol'm* tiH*tiffed ti'.a* r*-:»i h s roturii to the house was Jus* tt''ir * Is search for tie assailant uni that the door v> ;is cli si .I nf'er he went l?>to the yard, because Mrs Beach was h’i'.i i , rvous and hysterica! a- ; kipt f ry ing out' "Oh, shut that door arid keep that bln-’k man otr ” It v.«s testified that when Beach cam,* back he knocked and was readily admitted _by Miss Hollins Mr. Beach testified that he held his wife's hand while the doctor was sewing up the wound in her neck; that the pain was so severe she "hung on to me". It was only some time later during the night tfcat be discovered the blood on his clothing, he said. His elegant scarlet-colored smoking Jacket, his knickerbockers, vest and evening shoes were intro duced in evidence. The coat was a present from his wife Christmas Mr. Beach was emphatic and posi tive In stating that when he turned over his knife to Detective Baugbn there were two blades In It and de nied emphatically that he had broken ont the blade after the assault. He said he had kept a pretty keen watch on Baughn ever since his operations there. Witness denied ever telling anybody that Mrs. Beach’s earrings were worth |4,000 or |5,000—this in contradiction to Rural Policeman Holley’s testimony. • Bogardirg his wealth, Mr. Beach said he wished to goodness he were a millionaire, that he had Been him self writteni of as "the wealthy New Yorker ’ bm thn* he jvas not wealth' J hv b 'one ott,'* Hol'cttor Gunter | had •, pnoii tip! to say about hlf 1 wop.ith ti ">■ i 11on piDb rmn'orin cr j, n°l Cf u •p-r t . Tni ii.Hr ir ban v escaped ^ p. I-I* rn-'B-r VB m 1 n , I • •*» the -it , prss p i. i.,|» n fir'rg 'iregtions a* Mr 'i-tn^e, <r» one 'tr ct’iro at such ra pM -•,•.• * he Bollcltor wra kept so abKlii^ In I he lin« utiysji U>ie8 liU du ittgnipll lr UBT . uul tl IS Milu BUUU* llnu^p <*tir ueaiu. AUU all lie.tih InuitUa.' ailliUBi acUaneU Ji. ounier oi oem* oue oi Uie uieu Oe hmd the hooaoasuB, ai ttMiai tie diu not exonerate the soliciotr iroui such a course. V let ini lYlik oi AtUvciL. Mts. Beach related the story of the attovV •yrw' was not for robbery. Such an Idea did not occur to her She said that she knows the negroes of Aiken and many of them are her friends; that she is absolutely without fear and never dreamed that harm could come to her, even at Bight, especially s r: \p iii, tmmti-i m v v, m-. v/r. xit-t u Att premises, in the heart of the city and that even when she saw the ure of a "ginger-cake negro, .t! ong overcoat, much too big for him slouch hat and shabby appeafancy, -landing at her Irout gate, she wa not afraid. The negro, she said came on in the yard and said he had a message for Katie ^at Mrs. Harri man's and somebody else, I just can'; think,” and, according to Mrs. Beach the negro came on toward her, stiB trying to recall the other name. She said that meanwhile she was walk ii.g on toward the end of the house, carrying out her purjvose in refer ence to the dogs, anil that in a mo nrent the negro bore heavily upon her, both hands ot, her shoulders, that she was knocked to h» r knees twice, and tha - at one time tin btrucl; tli< negro in tin face wit! 4 1 ' i ivlAL Of f. 0. BEACH H \IU.ED WITH TRYING TO SCTR- DKK HIS WIFE. both her fiet:, p'ruggling ail ti.i " but struck i,^:..c *n fit r terr. Si,, did in.t ki.oV' me; winn siic v..- cut, t u? iTecovered it a T ter much ol ::io r*ruggic, wticn Ftie placed her i.and fin-her tt.ioa^. Then, she said, hi r s' uses seemed to return and sh* si learned. whtreupou the negro struck her on the but ear with a si.ck of Home kind, tearing it badly, th'-n ran. Mrs. lu-ath satu sh* rsally "yelled", not scre.nrisd. when she cam*- to her senses, and tha’ sh' stood le-aclng against the porch until Mr Boat h came to her "Vy Htoi kings and my knees bore testimony to the fact that I was knocked to my knees," said Mrs. Beach, whe added that she did not even miss her earrings until she was l.» ng prepared for i- 1. The tar merelv clasp ot th- tar et 1 come iff east 1 v, »s was dcu.oustrat- • d Thi.rHda ' "I valued those earrirgs very high ty, because th* v v, it:. lue’h'rv Hn.d Mrs. (teach in somewhat subdued aii I reverent voir- "My early r*xvl lei Don of her iiicluded the earrings fin i 1 was fond of them, tvs She wore them " Mrs Beach has had them re arranged with the new clasp, becau**- "my ears are not pierced, and I had two little diamonds set in them. I have several pa'rs of very expensive earnngH. but thev arc in New York." When Mr Beach went to bia wife's rescue. Mrs Beach said he called ouv "What ta the matter dearie?" and as to tier attitude toward him she skid regarding the stitches to close her wound "1 held tight to Mr. Beach to stand the pum " Witness denied vr-v p?rongly ths? she had held tin eon v ersatlon attrl- b ;ied to her In Mr Gy les' office fh, i’ d say that she hud told the officers tt ke* p the r eye on Bear! Hampton's brother, a negro bv the name of Brunt-on, who she thought would le.^rn ail that wa* to be known if T’i rirT Uamp’on hcese»v found out anything about the assault '•ii Mr Beach cut your throat’" • d rounsi "Nfi, he d'd not" terrified Mrs. Heai h Miss Marian HoU-ns c r New York. ,< no wh« the gm-tB cf the Beaches ' !o night of the assau!', was the th rd witness c> f the dav Miss iicl- lins is the p r f • ttest woman in trie t .:r?v Rtrirtlv an out df>or typ-- Hh'- *s ts'autiful in the enjoyment or -ohufit health And then, there th a cry charming li’tle lisp in her sp> ech, Just perceptlhle. For In stance, she pronomices the word "around" with the "r" and a "v.” melted together then molded In li quid form by her pretty mouth. She is thoroughly cultured, but *tolid, calm, collected and Immovable. A really wise lawyer wouldn't attempt to “rattle" Mias Hollins; for he couldn't. In fact, moat any really wise man would be afraid to "cross" her. Not that she is a suffragett, but, well, Miss Hollins can take care of herself very well. Her testimony Thursday was In eorroboration of the story told by the Beaches. She was In her room on the second floor, and the trouble took place almost beneath her window. She declared she heard the screams and then a male voice command • "Keep still.” Miss Hollins spent the remainder of the night In Mrs. Beach’s room. Bleeping on the floor. The defense introduced three affi davits Thursday afternoon, two from Swiss maids that spent the winter in Alkm last season, in which it was set forth that upon the same night that Mrs. Beach was murderously at tacked. they were hailed and some what ’•ottghly treated by a negro whose description tallied with that •riven by Mrs Beach. The third af- ff’avlt was hv a chauffeur support ing part of the declarations of the maids, witnesses were also produe- r *o D»’ I e- establish the print of •he course shoe that led from the demises to the railroad cut. and was there plainly dl«eernabl« In the mud. adjoining th* Beash cottags, at LM time. She teatlfled that the Lyoaaflg were giving g dinner party that a>ght and that the Bsachet were Ml ireeent. She etnrted to leave UM house shortly after nine o'clock and (oilcod a man standing by a beak near the fenoe separating tha Beaa> premises. "Who is that?" ah* aald she 1* qcirea.* * Nobody to hurt yon." waa the ra> ply. The wltneaa aald ah* started beak to the kitchen and the unknown kN her in the hack of th* head MmR knocked her down. Then the screamed and ran, re* turning to the kitchen and reporttaw the occurrence to the two other ser vant*. She aald they accompanied her away from the place by anotbaa exit. On croM-examln&tlon the woman said she waa unable to tell whether her assailant was a white man or negro. She said be wore a dark gray suit or overcoat. She was eo excited, ahe aald, that abe was un- • K!« try f+4 • <1 A«<»r1 otton nt the man. Anna Bowman, a white servant, employed at the Lyons home, teatS- fled that ahe heard screams after Pearl had been gone for about tea minntea. A few minutes later Pear) came back crying and declaring that she had been attacked on the drive way Kali' O'Neal while cook at th* Lyonsea’, corroborated this testimony and added that Pearl had been gone nearly twenty minutes before she came Lack. She sain that Pearl did r.<M have her hat on when Btie left the kitrhen and that she was arcua- tomed to having her coat ami hat y n .irhed the hat in the laundry w hich standi* inid- x P-each had way t vet ween the Lyons and Peach horn* s The last witness of the day waa Sheriff H. L. Howard, who was chlet ha* stuck to of police of Aiken at the time He wrs attacked said that he waa summoned to th* Beach home ny teiepnone about aa hour after the aaeault waa supposed to have occurred. Beach related the same story te him that he told to others. He said he did not #e« Mrs. Beach that night He made an examination of the prem ise* and diecovered evidences of He said be found earrings, combs and hair pins, afterwards Identified as belong ing to Mr*. Bosch, and a bloody fenoe picket Thla picket, he aald. bad been torn off the fence iepar- atlng the Beach and Lyons premises "Itoacb told me." said the witness, "that he beard his wife scream and ruabed out of the front door in time to see her assailant strike her. Beach aald he almost tripped the man aa be fled by him out of the gate. After carrying hia wife into the bowse be said be went up etair*. got hia gua and want in p* ran it of tb# assailant Returnlag from the chase after a abort time, be aald be knocked on the front door and aald: This la Beach; let use ln.‘ ’’ The wltneaa aald that ha dlaeovest ed footprints of a man and a woman In the aide yard. Mrs Beach has They Are Rich New Yorkers and the tsaault Wats Made at Tbelr Winter Home in Aiken. With the examination of eight witnesses the proeecutlou lets Tues day had practically finished the con struction of Its circumstantial ease ■igainst Frederick O. Beach, the rich New Yorker who la charged with at- temptlng to murder his wife at their winter home In Aiken last February >y cutting her throat. It will be re- euibeiv . that the affair created a rest sensation at the time of its oc- urrence. Not one of the witnesses whose esiimony consumed the first day of tie trial could give details of the as- -ault. Four members of the "Wyman Kinlly, living across the street, told i a series of screams from different •arts of the Beach premises about • 30 o'clock on the night of Feb- nary 20 Two of them testified that he dying echo of the last scream * as followed by loud rapping on the loor and the sound of a man's voice xclaimiiig: "This is Beach; let me 'n." Dr. Wyman and his father. Dr. Ma*;tings Wyman, the first outsiders •r e Mrs lo-arh after sh-- had been wounded, ad mil tel on crops-evan- ncTicn that the attitude of Beach iii'i ids wife toward each other was iri<‘ rf i ff* "i n Ti D.i.i v Inch M ■ r;irn*d while th<* blood wa*» -i r» uni'.L;’ frem it woo'd in her neck 'ii*i und'-r th" right car and Beach old th« :n tb** F'ory h* *v< r fini<>, tnpt his w.f« n front cf their cottage ny an un- •fr.own negro while he was outside .riving her dogs on airing F.vtry eftort of the prosecution ruix-day app-cired to t-e directed at c.rktng flaws In Beach's story rather han r.t Hupi*orting it* own conten- ion that Ix-arh attack, d his wife af- •cr he J.i' '. failed to overtake a white struggle at the sdde yard usn h. was pursuing. Mrs Beach was tfx moFt consplciioiis figure in '.he ecu*! rf>om T<ti-*d?v She sat 'hroug’’ tl. t * i i i 'iig tesvlor.r tak- np an occasional now trom ti.e t- «- ’itiior y and chatting with he' h . bind and fr.cnds who surrounued her Beach appeared in the conrt room fully an hour before the rase was called He was arromunnied hy Mrs Beach, her stator, Mrs Jsme* H TayUr and Mias Manon Hollings Beach and his wife sat at thHr law yers’ tahlc behind s bulwark of law hooks, chatting gaily while the proa- ecotlon waa calling the witnesses In another came. Boon after their arrival Mr* Oli ver Iselin came in with Mr and Mrs Harry B Hollings and took seats lost behind the Beaches Beck of the rail a acore or more of women, claimed that tb* negro attacked her only a few of whom were members tn of bous* and dragged of the winter colony, had pre-empted her lnlo *jde yard. On examina- the he.- s««ts and strained eagerly tlon of thft wUnoas a sharp exchange for a gl"np*c of B«*rh and his wife occurred between opposing counsel. There wcr-. many ladies in the court gherlff Howard bad laid that aboit tiouee during the trla 1 three weeks after the assault he was Bolicltcr G ti ti tc r oiM*ned his ad- c^jjpd to the Beach house for s ooo- Irees by havinr the stenographer rend tb* t/eDmony rf Miss Lallah M'ymai), who is 111. taken Monday. Rhc testified that she was in her bed In the fro" room of her home which 'S direct)-, nc-r> fis the .r.i from tljp •veen' 1 of the kseau’t, when she beard •vo fcri-cn:-' Rhe wi nt to trie op*'ii wirdo’.v sr.d tried to |cr-a*c the source cf th*- scx-ea-uH. Rfxir.g no one. she returned t'> Ixd, and a f* w minutes •>.,, p- r ect ?r<>L\ the T'l-nch home M’licn sh" sh< 1 itted *o h::n to stop ’hrt r o)h ■ r- *1"' wo-.fd col) tne po- p!,-: h,.M th man brtikn Into a -ui, j "Yet; had he«?cr run, end run 'aet," sh" rrh d Pt th" rc*reatmg flg- uro. M1bp Wyman could not say J vhothc' th" man wan w hit" or black 'ho said the milt he wore was not ‘reel light or real black". After Miss Wyman returned to bed again, the affair but tbet Col Henderson wa* fereaee about when be saw there he quit. "Didn’t he conduct things pretty much to suit himself?" asked Solici tor Gunter sol for the. defenae Jumped ta hia feet. "When you say I conducted thloge to suit myself, you make a very 1m- I>ert1ent and Improper r"mark,'' be shouted gt tne prosecutor. "If I had said tha* 1 had stu<-k by It." was the reply, "I merely asked th" \x:tii«*a* If you did not " The wltu"*s declared that when be found Col Henderson there he "gave up and took a back eoat". He said that he was sick In bed when the warrant was sworn out for Beach and he had nothing to do with It. The defense brought out the fact sbo said she heard a third eerie* of the Reach wae screams from the direction of the \* ortw i up by a detective named Beach home. Baughn who employed by the Dr. Hastings Wyman, father of t(rwi j council. Baughn baa not Miss Wyman, was the first witn-eea. summoned ea a witness. Solicitor Ho testified that he wae In hie libra- Guiitor then established by the same -y reading when he heard two seta witness the alleged fact that another of screame across the street. He did ' d «ctl T e named Foe was put on th* act hear the third set of screams re- ^,y Beach before Baughn came ferred to by his daughter. Dr. Wy man said that after he had heard the screams, be and his son. Dr. Marion Wyman, rushed over to the Beach home end were admitted by Beech to s room in which Mrs. Beach was ly ing on the sofa with blood stream ing from her throat. Beach told him that his wife had been stabbed by a aegro who attacked her when nhe took her doge out for an airing. Dr. Marion Wyman testified that he heard three distinct eeta of ♦creams from the vicinity of the Reach home end then a knock on a door followed by the sound of a voice commandtnq:. "Let me In, this tt> Beech." Examined closely on this point, the witness said that he asked Reach next day about the knock on •he door and that Beach had explain ed to him that, after carrying his wife Into the bo nee, he had secured •Ms revolver and had gone outside xgsln In search of the assailant. Pearl Hampton, a negro servant, was called to tha stand, She was employed at tha home of J. W. Lyons, Many Men Wanted Wife. There are 1.176 letter# in the dead letter division of the Poflt Office de partment at Washington for “Mini Z. X. Radcliffe, Elgin. Ill" Tha mys terious "Miss Radcliffe" wrote to the mayor of San Francisco some time ego end asked help to get a husband who would appreciate a good girl and $30,000. Answers rained into Elgin, hut nobody called. Few Die in Obair. Four murderers will pay the pen alty for their crimes In New York during the week of February Ifl. Gov. SuUer aanounoed that ha had refused tn «rt*nd elemenev In theflr \ Four Die in Wreck. During n gale on Long Island Bound Wednesday night, the barge Annie R sank off Bartlett's ree(,*ar- rytog with her ths captain. Me urM* «*>•• +ww CMMfCg. j A- *' .4 V