The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-10
A VEIL OF MYSTERY
Hangs over a Quiet and Retired
New Hampshire Farm.
THE HENRY HATCH MURDER CASE.
The Interest in it Rather Grows than Df.
minishes-A Horrible Story from
Morocco Of Headless Bodies.
Especial to THE HERA1D-Examiner Dispatch. !

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch.
NEWARK n. j., April 9-Over an old farm
near West HoplSinton, II. H., is spread the veil
OF mystery. It's romantic history has been re
called by efforts made during the past month tc
find the heirs of the property. 1t is worth prob
ably ten thousand dollars and was the home
stead OF the Beck family, the last representa-
tive of which, Pcrley w. Beck was foUn frozen
to death some two or three months ago Back
OF Perley Beck's possession of that proptrty are
the mysteries of two deaths.
Jacob Garrabrant was a wealthy contractor
who lived forty years ago at Bulls ferry now
called Shadyside, n. j. He had family of ten
children; the eldest daughter, Catherine, mar
ried James Westervelt. They had at the time
this history begins tn ee children Hannah
Catherine Wilson and Harriet.
CALVIN II. BeclS,a daShing school teacher, came
here from New Hampshire to take charge of the
school for the winter. He boarded at WeSter.
velts house. His attentions to Westervelts
WIFE became SO open that the husband ordered
him from the house. He left but the woman
Went Win nm. Alter wandering about the
country for awhile the husband forgave her and
she returned to her family Two days later she
again ran away, and all the efforts of the hus-
pand tailed to induce her to return again; So
ne OBTAINED divorce and eventually died of a
broken heart. Calvin Beck and Mrs Wester-
Velt lived together us man and wife in New
York. Then he purchased house and lot ut
Hamilton and called it GreenSvile The pur-
chase was made of Jacob Garrabrant, father
OF Mrs. WeStervelt, or as she was subsequently,
known, Mrs. Beck There the two
llVed for several years. Then the couple went
TO i've at BeckS brothers. in New hampshire.
Trouble arose and Calvin decided his property
10 his slster-in-law Catherine. She was seventy
years old. She refused to return the deeds to
Calvin when the latter asked for them and one
night she was found sitting in her chair dead,
partly burned. Inquiry into the cause and de-
tails of her death and the demands of her child
rem Tor the property and personal effects of
their mother met with no satisfactory replies
from Calvin Beck. In this tragic death lies the
nrSt mystery OF the old farm
In June, 1882, Calvin Beck suddenly dis
appeared and was never seen more His
brother gave out contradictory statements re-
gardlng his disappearance but an investigation
was never made, nor can it now Re made, for
during the past winter Perley Beck was found
lty OF clearing up the mystery of this New
Hampshire farm. After his death same of Cal
vim Beck's best clothing and other personal eff
fects We're found about the place and last week
came the report o. the finding of lot of bones
IN cider barrel. A curse seemed TO hang over
the old farm house.
After Perley Beck'S death came q long search
for heirs to the coveted estate, which had been
a bone of bitter contention if not an object of
crime. The administrator of the estate found a
Will made by Catherine Beck leaving the prop
erty to her daughter of whom the administrator
could for long time get no trace; at last two
surviving daughters of James WeSterVelt We're
given the property