The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-28
WAS LIVING SECRETED
AT HOME OF A NEGRO
Scratches on His Face Thought to
Have Been Inflicted BY His Vic
tim-Behr Is Dope
Fiend.

Louisville, January 6.-With his cloth
ing in several places clotted with blood,
one clot on the right sleeve being five
inches long and three inches wide, his
face badly scratched Harry Behr was to-
day taken into custody as a suspect in
connection with the murder of Miss
Sarah Schaefer at Bedford, Ind, on the
night of January q.
Chief of Detectives Sullivan and De-
tective Maher arrested Behr at the home
of Roger White, a negro, with whom
he has been boarding since the day fol-
lowing the murder. The grounds given
for Behr's arrest are stated by the Of
ficers as follows:
Behr was met by the negro White on
Friday morning, January %, the day fol-
lowing the murder. Behr was coming
from the Louisville dock of the ferry line
running to Jeffersonville. Ind Bedford is
rs miles from Louisville on the Monon
road, the journey being made in three
hours by passenger trains. and five to
eight by freight trains.
Two Deep Scratches on Face.
Behr bore two deep scratches, one on
each side of his forehead, and two or
three minor abrasions about the face.
His clothing contains several blood clots
of large size which he attempted TO re-
move after going to Whites home.
Behr after his arrest told an uncertain
and disconnected story to account for his
whereabouts at the time of the murder,
and in explanation of the wounds on his
face. Some portions of his story are con-
tradicted by his mother and other state
ments by Behr fail to fully substantiate
details as to time
According to the story of the negro
White, Behr asked for permissiont TO
board with him and smoke lits ~
White assented and Behr went to he
negro's home where he remained until his
arrest going out but twice for brief in
tervals Two days ago Behr produced
newspapers containing accounts of the
Schaefer murder and asked Lizzie White
to read to him the story of the murder
He was smoking opium frequently and
was twice heard to say that he had a
woman's blood on his clothing. This morn
ing Behr awoke from a stupor induced
by 'the pipe" and screamed for Lizzie
White, calling out that he had killed a
woman.
Detectives Are Notified.
The negroes notified the detectives and
the arrest followed. To the officers Behr
stated that he wss a native Of Memphis
and gave the address of his mother there.
He declared that he left Memphis last
Thursday night, coming to Louisville and
remaining here. The scratches on his
face he claimed to have received during
the municipal election IN Memphis, Janu-
airy 7. during a row in the ninth ward.
The local officers are now following up
two trails. Some are endeavoring to fol-
low Behrs movements from Memphis.
Others have instituted an inquiry as to
the possibility of his having ridden out
of Bedford on a Monon freight train on
the night OF the murder
The facts in favor of the prisoner are:
Behr is an Opium Fend.
The hair clutched In the dead 1goman's s
hand was read, while that of the prisoner
is dark. Behr is an opium fiend and the
detectives frankly admit that his cry
uttered to Lizzie White may have resulted
from an opium dream following the read
ing and discussion of the Schaefer case
Behr's explanation Of the freshness Of
the wounds on his face is that he suffers
from eczema and they remained open.
although the election in Memphis and the
row in which he claims to have partlci-
pated occurred January T.
The work of tracing Behr's movements
will take time and the case is al a stand
still for the present. The prisoner will
be sweated again tomorrow
A strong point in Behrs favor came to
light at 10 o'clock tonight when tele-
phone message was received from c. c..
Howard editor of a newspaper at Hod-
genvlIe, Ky. Mr.. Howard stated that he
boarded an Illinois Central train at Ce-
ella. Ky. last Friday morning.
Shortly after he got aboard there was a
fight between two passengers and on How
ards making inquiry as to the names of
the combatants, he was told by a man
hailing from Memphis that one Of them
was Harry Behr of Memphis. The man
identified according to Howard's story,
answered in every way the description Of
the man arrested at Louisville today.