The evening world., 1904-01-20
Those'for the Defense Deny that
! There Were BIoodstains
Found In the House After Ma
bel Was Murdered.
WOMEN WEEP IN COURT
WHEN TRIAL Is RESUMED
Lawyer for the Mother Makes
an Impassioned Plea. for His
Client, Whom He Declares to
Have Been Maligned.
Especial to The Evening world.)

topoClhl y Iu0 evening WOrlO.D
ALLENTOWN, Jan. 2o.-with the
opening of this mornings session at the
trial OF Mrs. Catharine Bechtel for COM
plicity after the fact in the murder of
her daughter Mabel. the prosecution
having finished It's side, tho defense
asked the Judge to auash the indict-
ment. The Judge said the motion was
p~ntenable; that the prosecution had pre-
vented a case based on sound legal prin-
ctples, and that 1t was for the jury to
decide on the guilt or innocence Of the
accused after the defense had presented
its testimony. The motion to quash wal
~overruled. .
Capt. James L. Schaadt, chief counsel
for the defense, in an impassioned
Ipeech to the jury hen rapidly out
lined the theory of the defense. His
address was short. 1t indicates hat
Che defense will deny fatty most of the
allegations of the prosecution. and for
the rest appeal to the sympathy of the
fury. Mrs. Bechtel and her daughters
wept ~copiously and many women in the
audience cried in sympathyt Schaadt
declared Mabel Bechtel wasn't killed in
her mothers house. that she wasn't
killed by her brother TOM. He declared
there were circumstance similar to
those in the Bosschieter case and that
the family had been unjustly maligned.
He continued:
Defense Calls Blood Experts.
To work out his plan of defense, Capt.
schaadt first called to the stand his
own blood experts to refute the allega-
lions made blythe. experts for the pros
ecution. His first witness was DR.. NJ,
F.. Cawley. State Medical Inspector and
member Of the Allentown Hospital stan.
On this same stan the surgeon in chief
Is DR.. c.. D.. Schaffer, the final witness
for the prosecution, who last evening
~corroborated the testimony of Drs. Lear
N Eckert.
swore that any assertion that there
was any splattering of blood in the
Bechtel house was unwarranted. Dr..
pne Of the alleged blood-stained articles
In evidence in this case that really con-
tained blood was the undervest OF the
murdered girl when the body was found.
Decries the Bordet Test.
on nothing else?" was asked Of DR..
cawley by Attorney, schaadt T
ON nothing else" was the reply.
There flashed to the minds Of people
80 NAe a. SAO ~ NlO g
house waist. which in spots Is posi-
lively blood soaked. DIR. cawiey in re-
spouse to leading questions by Capt.
had not studied it much, he admitted,
but at any rate he didn't believe in it.
He said, of course. 1t was having a
struggie for reeognition, same as the
self were on trial" said Dr.. Cawiey.
and his fate depended on his test. /
DO not think he would> want it m
Judge Trexler asked DR.. Cawlev
whether the Bordet theory couldn't be
REGARDED as tenable IL the anti-toxin
The witness replied that he regarded
~ nn,n as zoe new to give n positive
oPWbaRtS WHEN aP he began cross-examinat,o,
DistricttAttorney LichtenwaIner an
peared In a very favorable light. He
showed from the start that he had
studied the blood question with minute
ness and care. In short order and with
admirable blandness he began to ask
questions that might be denominated as
DR.. Cawley was at first quite positive
when he was called upon to give his
opinion by the prosecution as to the
Bordet theory. He said 1t was new and
had not been generally accepted by the
profession, and personally he didn't be-
lieve in 1t at all.
Q: Do you believe in diphtheria anti
toxin? A. / certainly do.
.. Vol, wasn't that a new thing only
n few years ago? A. Yes: the first time
i was present when 1t was used the
patient died.
Q Why did the patient die? A. Well.
she was very sick and likely to die and
RntitoXin was introduced to save her.
1t was new, n doctors here did not
then know how to use 1t. Since then I
have learned to use 1t. and persons to
whom 1t is now administered are gen
erally saved.
Q. So from that experience you reason
by analogy that the first time the Bor-
Diet test Is tried 1t is unreliable? A. ]
do
@. But 1t may develop into as stand
ard as antitoxin? A. 1t may.