The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-11-05
BECHTEL TRAGEDY.
The Asiher's Story Beleved 10 d
lnveaiioa.
POSSIBLE RESULT OF FAMILY Row.


Arentoxn. Pa. SpcCiai-with DAVID
wesSenbcrE under $50 bail. suppised
by Congressman Kline. and With Thoz.
Bcchtel. her brother. and Ani Alfred
Eckx,ein. her accrcdite lover. iocfed
up In . police station cell. the Ailcc-
town police arc resting In their work
on the Mabel II Bech:ei murder csns
OF Tuesday morning. until Coroner
Schierer's jury mcc,s tomorro~ evcn-
Ing. The mystery 10 still practically
unsolvcd. except that Indications potnt
90 a family ron In which Ecks,csn may
have hgured. as he admits DO Vas st
Miss BeChtci's home on Monday even
Ink for an hour and a half B-causn
Mrs Dechicl had said her daughter
left for a drive on Monday si a m.
Efforts were made 60 trsoe the girls
movements away from home Rumors
| that she WAS at n ros1 house near this
city were found to lie groundlc<s sod
the police do not believe the girl ~as
away from home At all on Monday.
Her brothers. Thomas. John and chas.
| say they did ms, see Acr on that day
| and so also says her hister Martha.
| Martha usually slept with her ~id-
owed mother in the second fioor. rear
room. Thomas occupied the middle
room and John and Charles the front
room. In the latter the police today.
OF thorough search. found blood stains
on the carpet and ON the wall paper.
and IL looked "a II vigorous enorts had
been made TO wipe them out Thomas
bloody ovcralls were found this Aftnr-
noon in a neighbor's yard. In a drawer
| cl closet in the third story sHs found
part OF Charles ha;chet. such a. sla-
tiers use In slate roof. being his trade.
The remainder OF the tools were found
In another drawer. The break in the
handle looks new and fresh.
The police this afternoon put the en-
tire Bechtcl family. except the mother.
under thorough examination. All deny
any knowledge OF how Mabel came 70
i-- a.,~.h sho nisred her body In
. the alley-wa under the home on tues
day morning. The mother was not
called because OF her hystericai con-
dition
; Ecks,eIn was Miss Bechteis acccptec
|, lover. though she also received atten'
) t,ons from weisenberg. EckstEn and
the girl were 10 have been married OF
}. November q. but the date was recently
: postponed until Christmas. They hat
|; frequent quarrels over Weisenberg'
= attentions Eckstein being Jealous o
I him. He had expressed threats 90 sev
g eral persons that he would kill both.
is sad he occasionally beat Miss Bech
y tel severely.
The BechteI family sided with Ech
stein. Weisenberg was not allowed !
enter the Bechtel home
Police Sergeant Knauss returned
= Allentown from New York today VII
|. WcIFenberg. The latter gave o o'
10 tailed statement OF bis movement
'n since Sunday which are corroborate
fully. He had not seen the girl sins
=, Sunday evening. when he met her }
- sppn ntment on one street corner whs
,. she had Just LETT Eckstein ~ the me-
~ corner. The police incline 90 the
lie, that the girl was not away fro
home on Monday: that family 70
=. occurred over the girls supposed d
., pl!city 10 Eckstein. and her attsc
o meot for weisenberg: that blow "
=, struck In anger which may have De-
- more severe than was intended. a
a. that the mothers story 10 an inve