The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-10

at once received a
MRS. HENRY BEERMAN. murderous bIow
an the head. Blow after blow was rained
upon her as she lay crying for mercy; her
front teeth were knocked out, one eye was
destroyed, one cheek was laid open and
her face horribly pounded. And for all
this no one can assign any certain motive.
If robbery was intended the assailant
must have been the clumsiest of amateur
scoundrels, for he made no attempt to stille
her cries, did not touch the jewelry she
wore or even the pocketbook she dropped.
Nor was there any attempt at baser
crime, though that may have been due to
the speedy approach of help. Nor could it
have been a case of homicidal mania, for
there were evidently two assailants, and
monomaniacs do not work in couples.
The first man to reach the injured wom-
an was Albert Mayder, who was at work
in a stable near by and heard her cries. He
saw man running away on one road. DR..
+. Hueppe, veterinary surgeon, next
drove up with a companion, and they had
just met man running away by another
road. These two men have been traced at
various points in the neighborhood. They
had peered in the faces of three other
females that evening, coming close enough
TO brighten the women; they had gone on
two porches and looked through the win
dows, and finally they had stolen a sash
weight-eighteen inches long, and of iron
which was found near the woman and
with which the work was evidently done
But why?
One of these men threw away his over
coat, which was found near by badly spot
ted with blood. A little later Miss NJ
H., Al
station at Granton, saw this man without
his overcoat and much blown by running,
so she took very particular notice of him.
He is a short very stoutly built man, of
light complexion, very clean shaver, with
light hair and dark eyes. Two other wit
nesses saw him, and it would seem that
his Identification will be easy. The other
man is tall and dark, but little more is
known of him.
The victims tenacity of life and strength
was amazing. She was able to direct her
helpers to her home, but could speak no
more. The loss of blood alone would have
killed a less vigorous woman She has
gained strength rapidly, and can speak
plainly enough to say that she saw but one
man, and knows he was a white man.
Wonderful to relate, her skull was not
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literally beaten off of it by repeated blows
with the iron bar. The bones of her nose
and face, however, are badly splintered,
md at the best the once beautiful matron
will be marred for life. She is but % years
If age, though she has been married seven
FEARS and has several children.
The locality near that stone bridge has
an evil reputation. Three years ago
dead man was found in the bushes near
ny with bullet wound in his head; two
white girls were recently assaulted there
by negroes; other women have been
threatened there and escaped by speedy
fight. The officers in charge of the case
Of Mrs. Beerman have two theories; one
that the scoundrels intended robbery, but
Numbered; the other that some enemy
wanted to ruin the lady's beauty But |
neither the lady, her husband nor their |
friends know of her having an enemy.