The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-07-03

1899. did not see Beetmau leave the
house at al
Judge Bonsall asked II she ala not near
Esther Hall 'cl' hr that sns saw Mr. |
BeelSman 30 out ~ the nusc 1ni she |
said that she aid tear the woman ten |
him that Nv - sk'nln went out OF The |
house and passed j. c. MauoNs feed |
yars and then back that way, iut dii
not know where he went
Adjourned until after dinner
Dr c. $ Aker was the first witness
called after dinner and his testimony
was as follows:
Il knew Judge Beekman prior 90 h's
death ! saw him about nool vesctrdav
Ha was In about the same c)niiton which
have observed him TO- -he pasi ;wo|
weeks. somewhat intoxicated. lie has on
several occasions indicated to me in his
conversation that he might take his life,
| usually In my office. and after / had re-
/ fused to give him medicine or morphine
TO sober him. 1t has been about three
weeks since he talked that way. I do not
| except from what he told me whether 9TH
er physicians have given him medicine or
not I have seen him IN the offices Of
different physicians. I have given him in
iections OF morphine Ihave sobered him
up frequently for the past -four or Ave
years In my opinion acoholic stimulants
have been the greatest detriment 10 his
health. He has not taken morphine In
any quantity 10 my knowledge until re-
Gently and ! think he has never taken it
without a physician administering Il un-
an the last three weeks ] saw him yes
terday about noon and not from taht time
unit latter be was dead I did not talk
to him yesterday; think he looked no
worse yesterday than on former occasions
7 next saw him about 1O:i5 last even
ing, when I was called by the city u a
house on South street, where / fouue
laying dead I do not know teh house or
the people I found Mr.. Beekman IN the
hands Of the officers, City Marshal Gala
han and Policeman Mantor I found The
body lying on the bed. lying upon the
back with face turned slightly toward the
left and toward the front Of the bed.
! There was a shirt undershirt and drawers
upon the body. The mouth was part"
open His eyes were closed and he vas
, lying In very peaceful attitude as
, though he had puietly dropped aslcep.The
, pupils OF the eyes were somewhe, con-
tracted and the skin was covered With
z a cold pirspiraton. From the conditions
, been dead about an hour Myself the
e Of the body and in my op' Mon he had
marshal and the mayor examined his
, pockets IN his pants pockets we found
, q paper which contained a white powder.
part OF the contents Of which this morn
ing made a chemical analysis and found ST
, to be morphine, without any liable. poi
Z son or otherwise. This wa sbetweeu 10 As
1 and 1880 p. m. In the post mortem exam
E nation. by order Of the coroner. at 1890
. a. m, June 30 ! performed an autopsy on
G the body Of j v Beekman. ! found the
. stomach comparatively empty containne
3 only about tablespoonful OF fluid Tn,
Y stomach was very much contracted The
: internal coats Of the stomach We're in-
n tensely congested a dark reddish brown
/. color except Ia the lower portion where
= the color was a bright red The liver
4 was in the conritlou know IA as "nut-
q meg" liver. the result Of alcoholism. In
q my opinion the cause Of death was an
. overdose Of morphine. An oplate con
tracts the pupils Of the eye / rather
p think / did not see Judge Beekman on
- the street after lE o'clock l never saw
May Miller unen last night / aid not
e see her between 4 and 10 o clock vester-
) day evening
! HIS KANSAS RECORD.
s Kansas city. July IA special to the
I star from Arkansas city, Kan. says:
j Ex-state Representative J V. Beekman
? is dead here. Last night about lO:i5 May
r. Miller, the proprletress Of a -oomna
d house, notified the police that Judge Beck
o man was dead at her house. She stated
Y that at 4 o'clock Beekman came 20 heI
D house and ( sked for a room ana requested
her TO call him al 10 O'Clock A. tho time
Fl stated she went TO call Beekman and
e found him dead
& Beekman came here about 10 years age
h from Lincoln. H. and Is well known IN
! Logan and Tasewell counties OF that
{ state. He was a very prominent and sue
cessfrl lawyer and had served one term
I In the Kansas legislature.
: Mr.. Beekman since 1895 has been one OF
Z the conspicuous pen IN Kansas lie came
3 10 the republican legislature Of that year
] comparatively unknow outside of MS own
p county. Like Bryan IN Chicago his oppor-
tunity came In a speech One day on the
& floor Of the house hemade one OF the most
( eloquent speeches ever neard there Ii
E was delivered in a good voice we'll modu-
lated, was clar cut and az once attracted
/ the attention Of the state. From tina; day
( until the close Of the session ne grew in
strength and became one Of tho leaders
Of the house He was a gensrus man and
was devated 10 his friends. II there 50 4
man IN Kansas that can say that Beck.
! man, during his few years oi his polilicas
activity did not tote fair on all propo-
lsitions, he has not yet ma1e the fact
known TO the pubic.
Mr. Beekman was talked Of FOR con-
gress IN the third district but WIS pye-
vented from entering the race by his
solcitous friends v no realized that he
was walking In a pathway that would lead
70 ruin. He was once a minister OF the
gospel In the Christian chuc H. lie came
10 Kansas after the liquor habit nal galn
ed hold on him, 'eformed aai butt Up
successful lay practice. He took to drink
again and only few years ago took tho
Keely cure. Things all went well for a
time but he has since dlverged from the
straight and morrow path Frequent and
lprotracted eebauches IN Topeka ana Kan
sas City were followed by similar exper-
iences at his home in Arkansas City. Only
recently he engaged n a street fight AID
was arrested and fined in police court. He
was physical and mental wreck from the
one cause-liqucr His natural ability wos
destroyed and death found him IN a ri zee
he would a few years az have scoghed.
There are few pla'es OF prominence in
Kansas that have nyt soug.t mr. Beek-
man for public al lresses. lie Was an old
| soldier and his pnfrf 81 enon1f ~-nt.o