The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-01

had furnished rooms. and ] told him
did. He said he wanted q room and paid
me for It. He gave me quarter, and as
was preparing the bed he made the re-
mark: I am feeling sick and am going to
the springs In couple Of weeks After
I had arranged the bed I went out OF the
room and closed the door. Just as
closed the door he asked me II I would
waken him about 10 o'clock. and told
him would. 1t was some time after 10
when I thought to waken him Mrs.
Hall was there and we were talking and
playing with deck OF cards. which made
me forget him until she was about TO go
home. She went over home, and went
to the door and raped twice without get
ting an answer. Then-I took the lamp
and went into the room. / spoke to him
and he did not answer. / noticed that he
was not snoring, as he had been during
the evening. I had just made the remark
to Mrs. Hall a while before that a per-
SON could hear him clear to Summit
street. L went closer to the bed and no.
ticed that he was Strengthened out and
that the pillow was wet with perspira-
tion. l touched him and noticed that he
was cold. 1 screamed for Mrs. Hall, and
then set the lamp down and went out into
the yard and called her again. She came
over and after looking at him said: Yes,
The is dead; heart failure or something
asked her to stay, but she said she could
not at that time. / came up town for
Mr.. Callahan and asked a couple of gen.
tlemen on the corner If they had seen him.
and they said they had not. crossed the
street to the stairway and saw Mr..
Kreamer. He said he would try to find
Mr.. Callahan or one of the officers. The
officer came to the house. Mr.. Beekman
did not say anything to indicate that he
was not in his right mind. He left no
papers or writing OF any sort with me.
saw nothing of the kind at all. l had
no conversation with him after he went
to bed / don't think It was more than
three or four minutes after he went to
bed until he was snoring. He snored
very loud. The snoring did not seem I'M
usual TO me. 1 went across to get little
girl to go I'D town for me for some arti-
cles from q store. After that Invent up
to the store a few minutes myself, but
don't think was gone over five minutes
from the house. l went to Mr.. Harris
drug store.
81 went to the drug store about half
past nine, because 1 asked Mrs. Hall IL
she would watch the door a minute. 1
purchased some narcotics while 1 was at |
the store. / bought some cocaine. dis |
covered he was dead about an hour after |
[ had been up town. i did not see him |
take anything while in the house. He did !
not even ask for a drink of water. There |
was none in the house beside myself |
at the time he came in. have lived here |
six months and eleven days. 1 did not |
think 1t strange that he should come to |
my house for room. / supposed he was |
only sick and wanted to lie down. 1t is
not an infrequent thing for people to
come to my house. / heard him snoring
after the 9 o'clock bell rang. It was near
half after ten when 1 found him dead.
| do not know whether he left the house
after he went to bed or not"
Judge Beekman went to Arkansas City
rom Lincoln, H., ten years ago
preacher and exhorter. He was a sue
,essful lawyer and served in the legisla-
ure of Kansas In 1894.