Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-04

| trial commenced. A goodly number of SO.
| ciety ladies' dressed in silks and gay colors,
| pushed their way through the throng of
| rough. dirty-lookinglmen and were admitted
to seats reserved for them next TO the bar
| rail.
"Wonder II she will act up agaln!n OBJ
served tall, stub-nosed mntron who, by her
| manifest expression and evident anxiety,
was sorry she had not been present before,
and desired to see the morning scene re-
peated.
County Attorney Mahouey received a tele-
| gram,yesterday from HenryW. King, sr., say.
| ing that he had finally decided not TO como If
| the prosecution could get along without him.
~ would much rather have had him here"
| said Mr.. Mahoney, "but presume we can
get through. He is a fine-loolting old man,
and his presence, think, would have had
| some influence
When Miss Biechler came In in the after
noon with Sheriff Coburn and sat down,
Judge baldwin inquired whether she felt
fatigued. .,t.
Her reply was given with a shake of the
| head Her handkerchief however, was strong
ly saturated with some stimulating medicine,
which by inhaling served to drown any
| faintlng feelings
| Miss Wyriclt, the pert and positive young
| woman, who was on the stand when court
| adjourned for dinner took her own time to
| get back. After waiting about ten minutes
for her, proceedings was resumed by calling
| p. j. Wheedon, a carpenter and builder,
| whose testimony had reference TO the size,
| construction and plan of the parlor floor of
| the Paxton hotel A map was offered with
| his testimony
In the meantime Miss wyricl arrived and
| came on.
"Think carefully and tell the jury all you
| heard the defendant say" demanded the at
| torney for the state.
| 81 can't think of more than two ex-
| pressons. One of these was stand and the
other, MY God, have killed my husband"
Miss Wyrick was not where she could see
the parties when she heard the command
| given by Miss Biechler to '.stand."
| She heard all the shots that were fired.
| When the shooting commenced she ran to
| the banister and looked over into the Office
below. Then she looked around, saw Miss
| Biechler fire at q man near the head of the
| stairway and ran.
| Rosa Slachnicht, stold looking German
| girl, who spoke low and indistinctly, and
whose most remarkable talent was telling
| what she didn't know, testified.
worked at the Paxton house last Novem-
| ber. never saw defendant or King; heard
shots that morning; was in the hall; saw
| King lying dead on the stairs and blood spots
| on the parlor and hall carpets in several
| places.
Cross -Examined-I heard four shots fred
| in quick succession, with trife longer in
| verval between second ana third shots.
George w. Scott, the Rochester travelling
| day of the murder than any body else, got an
| opportunity Immediately after the servant
| girls, to tell his story. He arrived at the
| hotel at the same time Miss Blechler did and
| registered right after her. The next time he
| saw her she was in the hallway on the third
| floor sitting in chair with head bowed
down and hands resting in her lap. He
went to his room, washed, put on clean
! collar and went down stairs. When going
| into the dining room to breakfast he heard
| the first shot and ran back into the office.
Less than minute after the first shot,
| Scott had his attention called to u
falling down tpi al no
west end OF the office. The man
! fell on the landing. Defendant (meaning
| Miss Biechler) followed close behind him.
| She stopped down, picked up his head and
| Scott, 'she raised herself, looked at me and
started back. said, What have you doneg
Her reply was, Il have shot my husband,
who is living in this house with another
woman" r--
Scott says he led Mias Biechler
down into the office and took sthe revolver
from her. Later she wanted to go back and
see King, but was told that this would be i'm
possible. Then she said, Il did not come
here to kill him. God knows did not"
The witness described rather graphically
| the scenes that followed, both in the hoJel
Office and at the police court. All the time
she moaIed and was prostrated,. but he sltci
ceeded in getting her to talk and in answer
| to his question she told him of her marriage
! with King, why they lived at Quincy under
| an assumed name, how she got acquainted
get married and many other incidental
| events. 80.
When 1 asked her whether she had the
papers to show that she was Kings wife,
she said: "Why had meeting. with him
| and his father and lawyers in Chicago, and
| we had settlement. l gave up. all the
! papers had, and also signed apaper they
| presented to me, the contents of which was
not acquainted with"
| She told me nothing about the terms of
| the settlement only that she had received
| Sl,50O, and something about having received
| some other money S50OI think at o previous
| meeting. She told me her maiden name was
| Elizabeth Biechler. This was in answer to
| a question put to her by reporter in the
| chiefs Office She said the revolver had
| been given to her by MIR. King, he remark
| ing that he was so much away from home
| that she could take it as sort of protection.
| She said when she came from Chicago she
| hurried home, threw some things in her
| satchel hastily, and the revolver was
| wrapped up in the night clothes, and at
| night when she retired she put it in her
| pocket. This conversation took place in the
| Paxton, in the carriage on the way to the
station and at the station in the presence of
the reporters Her condition ali this time
was hysterical, crying and moaning and
struggling to get out of the seat
She talked ramblingly and incoher-
or whas aMsS had tasea aee
She asked enc or two Of the reporters
| whether King was dead and they assured
| her that they did not know. Some gentle
| man from the Paxton afterwards told her
| that he was dead. l have never seen her
since until yesterday, here in the court room.
| On cross-eXamination MIR. Scott stated
that he came into Omaha on the Milwaukee
| road, and boarded the train at Mariette, la.
| He first saw Miss Biochler at the hotel reg
| lister, and saw her put down her name. She
then went away with a bell boy, presumably
| to go up stairs in the elevator. Ten minutes
| after she left the Office he went up in the
| elevator and saw her in the hall on the third
| floor She was walking back and forth,
| with head bowed and hands crossed in front
| of her. A little bit later he again saw her
| sitting in chair. He didn't notice any
| thing peculiar about the woman, other than
that she snapped the pen rather abruptly
| out of his hand He was bid to repeat the
! story first told up to the time that he
reached the spot where King lay, and saw
| the woman.
General Gown asked the witness to state
| what her manner was like.
| 'She looked very pale"
WAS she not in q dazed conditiona"
| "She was"
| To this question Mahony raised an objec-
ton on the ground that it was getting an
| opinion out of the witness.
~ have right TO his opinion" retorted
| Gown.
| ~ think so, too,n said the conrt and over
| ruled the objection.
| After repaininp con sciousnass and racoyer-