The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-30

AlIeulOWn, Ia, OCTOBER 2S.-N lth
David Weisenberg under five hundred
dollars bail, supplied by Congressman
Kline, and with Thomas Bechtel. her
brother and Alfred Eckstein, her accred-
tied lover. locked up in a police station
cell, the Allentown police are resting
in their work on the Mabel II. BechteI
murder case of yesterday morning, un-
til Coroner Schierers jury meets tomor-
row evening.
The mystery is still practically unsolv-
we'd, except that indications point to a
family row, in which Eckstein may
have figured as he admits he was at
Miss BechtePs home on Monday even
ing for an hour and a half. Because
Mrs. Bechtel had said her daughter left
for drive on Monday at 9 a. M, efforts
were made to trace the girls movements
away from home. Rumors that she was
at a road house near this city were
found to be groundless and the police
do not believe the girl was away from
home at all on Monday. Her brothers
Thomas, John and Charles say they did
not see her on that day and so also says
her sister Martha. ---.-
Martha usually slept with her widow
ed mother in the second floor rear room.
Thomas occupied the middle room and
John and Charles the front room. In
the latter. the police today on thorough
search found blood stains on the carpet
and on the wall paper and it looked as
6 rric h
wipe them out. Thomas bloody over
alls were found this afternoon in q
| neighborS yard. In a drawer OF a closet
| in the third story was found part OF
| Charles hatchet, such as skaters use,
slate roofing being his trade. The re-
| mainder of the handle was found in an
| other drawer some distance away. The
| break in the handle looks new and
| fresh.
The police this afternoon put the en-
| tire Bechtel family, except the mother,
| under thorough examination. All deny
any knowledge of how Mabel came to
her death or who placed her body in the
areaWay under the home on Tuesday
morning. The mother was not called
! because of her hysterical condition.
| Eckstein was Miss Bechters accepted
lover, though she also received atten-
tions from Weisenberg. EckStein and
the girl were to have been married No
| vember 22nd but the date was recently
postponed until Christmas. They had
frequent quarrelS over Weisenberg'S
| attention, Eckstein being jealous of
him. He had expressed threats to sew
eral persons that he would kill both.
| 1t is said he occasionally heat Miss
| Bechtel severely The Bechtel family
| sided with Eckstein. Weisenberg was
not allowed to enter the Bechtel home.
Police Sergeant Knauss returned to
Allentown from New York today with
Weisenberg. The latter gave a detailed
statement of his movements since Sun
| day which are cOrrobOrated fully. He
had not seen the girl since Sunday
evening; then he met her by appoint
| ment on one street corner, when she
had just left Eckstein at the next
{ corner The police are incline to believe
that the girl was not away from home
on Monday; that family row occurred
. over the girls supposed duplicity to
: Eckstein and her attachment for Weis-
enberg; that a blow was struck in an
ger, which may have been more severe
( than was intended and that the moth
| er's story is an invention.