St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-20
LINKED WITH A BRUTE
The Mother OF Harry Kings
Slayer Tells a Strange
Story.
Mrs. King, Nee Beiehler, Is
Held to the Grand
Jury.
Having Welded an Advent
u1ess, Fred Barber Prefers
Death to Dig grace.
A Pennsylvania Woman Dis
figures Her Inhuman Hus-
band With Vitri0l.

CLEVELAND, O., Nov, 19.-The par
ents of the woman who killed Harry
King at Omaha live at No. So Carter
street. Cleveland. A reporter was de-
tailed to call at the house this after
noon. Carefully picking his way
through the mud of Carter street, the
reporter climbed the yellow clay bank
upon which a dozen or more small
brown houses are perched. They are
located just where the ceaseless whistle
of switch engines, the smoke of hun
dreds of factories, the dust of the high
way and the fragrance OF the Cuyaliota
river combine 10 reduce the rents. Stop
ping in front Of the half of one of these
houses which bore the number 5S, the
visitor knocked vigorously and his
summons brought to the door sad
eyed woman, who said her name
was Mrs. Beichler. The door opened
into room, which served the double
purpose of reception and bedroom.
Everything indicated the severeSt pow
erty, and the only decorations that APP
peared on the walls were the notices:
''The Lord Will Provide" and There's
No Place Like Home" Two of the ten
children whom William and Maggie
Bechler have given as hostages to
poverty" were in the room, the young
est, girl of but two years. When
asked if she had heard from her
daughter, Mrs. Beichler said: Eyes, we
have just received this dispatch from
her. We sent asking what we should
do with the furniture in her Chicago
home. and who was to care for her lit
tie brother Joseph, who has been stay
ing there with her, and with Mary, who
is in Chicago at school," The telegram
reads as follows:
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 1910 Mrs. William
Beichler, No. 5S Carter street, Cleveland, O.:
Mother, cheer up. Have furniture, every
thing. packed and shipped home. Don't
unpack it. Mary must stay in convent. VIII
care of Joe. Mother must not leave home
until send for her. Will write. LIBg1E.
Il can hardly realize" continued Mrs.
Beichler, ''that it is my daughter who
committed such q desperate deed.
When we came here from England ten
years ago, she was thirteen years old,
and Que of the kindest of daughters.
AS we were poor, and had SO many
younger children, she never attended
school after her arrival in this country.
On Sunday she used to go to the Bethel
Sunday school, but as she grew Older
ceased her attendance. She commenced
going out to do hOusework when only
fourteen or fifteen years old, and looked
out Tor herself entirely after tiat. She
became a very neat and capable house
keeper. then a dressmaker. and found
time to become good letter writer and
reader. She
BECAME QUITE A LADY
in ways and appearance, and was proud
and high-Spirited. Atter 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 a man
named Leegarde. We had never seen
him, and no one but my daughter saw
him until he had been married to Lizzie
more than two years. They located on
Randolph street, Chicago, and there we
addressed letters to Mrs. Lizzie Lee
garde." Ibid your daughter know
when she married him that Leegarde
was not his right name, and that he had
divorced wife?" ''She was ignorant of
both facts when she married him. but
found out about Ora Walker, the variety
actress. who was his first wife, before
she learned that his real name was
King. | don't think she knew that un-
til 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. l
found Lizzie living in fine style. Satur-
day night Harry did not get home from
business until late. saw him short
time Sunday morning. That night he
WAS BROUGHT HOME DRUNK.
He had to be carried into the house.
I did not 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
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 divorce and get enough money
to live on. | wrote right back telling
her to come home to Cleveland. not to
go into courts, and not to take any more
of his money. She never got this letter,
if she had she would not be where she
is now. We burned her letters as she
told us to-" Later in the afternoon the
reporter saw several people who were
in a position to know something of
Lizzie Reichler's habits before her
removal to Chicago. and they said she
had rooms in different places down
town. Iney also Sdlu IlldU IL was uU0eT-
stood about town and in Chicago that
she was legally married to I'll. w. King,
the victim of the death-dealing revolver.
SHE WAVES EXAMINATION.
Special to the Globe.
OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 19.-At the pre-
liminary examination this evening of
Mrs. Libbie King, alias Beichler, her
attorney waived examination and the
prisoner was committed to the district
court. Her attorney also gave notice
that the name of Elizabeth Beichler in
the indictment would not be recognized
as belonging to his client.
BIGAMY AND THEN BULLETS.
Fred Barber Duped by an Adven-
turess Prefers Death to Dis
grace.
LocKPoRT, N. Y, Nov. 19.-Fred Bar
Der, of Sheffield, Eng. who commi ted
suicide at Suspension bridge Friday
night last, came to the Prospect hotel
on the 14th inst. with woman giving
the name of Mary Pattison Hill, and
later in the evening was married to her
by Rev. Mr.. Stowitts. a Presbyterian
clergyman of the Falls. They were be-
lieved to have then gone to Hamilton,
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