The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-20
THE WOMAN WHO KILLED KING.
Her Mother Talks of Her Childhood and AL.
legged Marriage with the Man She Shot.

CLEVELAND. o., Nov. 19.-The parents Of thu
woman who killed Harry W. King, at Omahs,
live at No. IS Carter street, Cleveland A re-
porter called at the house. this afternoon. Every
thing 10 the house indicated the severest pow
erty, and the only decorations that appeared on
the walls were the notices, 1.-THE Lord Will
Provide and There's No Place Like Home"
Two of the ten children whom William and
Maggie Beechler have given as hostage to pow
erty." were in the room. the younger a girl OK
but two years. When asked if she bad heard
from her daughter, Mrs. Beechler said: Eyes.
we have just received this dispatch from Der.
We cent. asking what we should do with The
furniture. in her Chicago home, and who was 10
care for her little brother Joseph, who has been
staying there with her, and for Mary, who is in
Chicago at school. The telegram reads as fol-
lows:
OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 10. 1883.
To Mrs: William Beechler, No. IS Carter street.
Cleveland, o.:
Mother, cheer up. Have furniture. everything.
packed and shipped home; Don't unpack it: Mary
Wait for it. Take care of Joe. Mother must not
leave home until l send for her. Will write.
LIBB1E.
Il can hardly realize continued Mrs. Beech
aShs b4ati io III aduSutCE IL Ot1 y
a desperate deed. When we came here from
England, ten years ago, she was thirteen years
old. and one of the kin6est OF daughters. AS
We were poor and had so many younger chill
dren, she never attended school after her ar
rival in this country. On Sunday she used 10
go to the Bethel Suuday.scnool.
but as she grew older ceased her
attendance. She commenced going out
to do homework when only fourteen or fifteen
years old, and looked out for herself entirely
after that Sha haPama n vary naaf and ca
pable housekeeper, then a dress-maker, aud
found time to become a good letter-writer and
reader. She became quite q lady in ways and
appearance. and was proud and high spirited.
After awhile she did not come home often, and
we hardly knew where she lived or what she
did. A little over four years ago she came
down to the house and said she was going TO
Chicago and marry q man named LeGarde. We
had never seen HIM, and no one but my daugh-
ter saw him until hs had been married to Lizzie
more than two years. They located on Ran
doiph street, Chicago, and there We addressed
letters to Mrs. Lizzie LeGarde.'
Ibid your daughter know, when she married
him, that LIE Garde was not his right name, and
that he had a divorced wifel"
'She was ignorant Of both facts when she
married him, but found out about Ora Walker.
a variety actress who was his first wife. before
she learned that his real name was King. l
don't think she knew that until she went back
to Chicago, after her visit to Cleveland, two
years ago. One Saturday night, last March. ]
went up to Chicago and stayed over Sunday.
/ found Lizzie living in fine style. Saturday
night Harry did not get home from business un-
til late. saw him a short time Sunday morn
ing. That night he was brought home so drunk
he had TO be carried into the house. 1 did no,
see him again. Lizzie had nothing to do with
his folks, and Harry said he did not want them
to find out he had married again.
received a letter last Thursday
written the day before. in which she said Slick.
as she sometimes called him.. had run off with
| another woman. She said she would sue for q
divorce. and get money enough to live on.
wrote right back, tolling her to come homo tc
Cleveland, not to 60 into the courts. and moi
to take any more Of his money. She never
got this letter; if she had she would not bs
where che ia now. We burned her letters. al
she told US TO-"
/ Later In the afternoon the reporter saw sew
eral people who were In q position TO know
something Of Lizzie Bsecnlers habits before hel
removal to Chicago, aud they said she hat
rooms in different places down town. They
also said that it was understood about towr
and in Chicago that she was legally married Il
| II. W. King.