The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-22
Douglas TwiuS Figure
In the Weldon Case
Young Girls Testify Against the Prisoner.
Were Formerly In Court--EN-
denCe Presented.

a professional singer, and was non
/ resident of Washington, and when she
was in the city she stayed with her
sister. Mrs. Oelrichs. She sang wherever
she could get an engagement She had
sung at Weber & Fields, in New York.
and elsewhere. The agreement between
witness and Mrs. Weldon, which agree
ment was signed by Mrs. Bib. as agent
for Mrs. Dryden, was an agreement
10 rent the premises. 236 Ninth Street
stand the viii of Charles Beall was read
! to the jury.
Mrs. Bib on Stand.
Upon the conclusion of the reading of
the will, Mrs Minnie Bib was called
to the stand. Witness said she first
met Weldon in May of last year. She
was introduced TO him by her sister
Mrs. Weldon. In the course of a con-
yersatiOn relating TO the occupancy by
the Weedons of the house 226 Ninth
Street, witness said, Weldon cursed the
whole Of the Beall family, and said
he hated every one Of them.
In second conversation, after wit
ness had served a thirty-day notice upon
the defendant to vacate the premises.
according to testimony Of witness. Wee
don said:
Some fine day I am going to throw a
stick OF dynamite In Jessie Bealls house.
but don't tell her about II"
richs the daughter with whom Mrs.
Rachel Beall lived.
Afternoon Session.
AT the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion Mrs Jessie Beall Oelrichs was call
ed 70 the stand Witness testified that
she had lived at 1874 H Street northeast
for SIX years. With her lived her hus-
band. Charles Oelrichs. her mother. Mrs
Rachel Beall, the dead woman. and her
two nieces. VirgIe and Grace Douglas
Her mother had lived with her ever
since she had been in the house where
the alleged murder occurred.
She and her husband slept upstairs
and her mother and the Douglas twins
slept in the big front room on the first
1 floor. Witness came downstairs about
! 2 O'Clock. she said. and found her moth
/ er up. The two nieces were up also.
/ Later her husband came downstairs and
went out (of the house after breakfast
/ He was tho first TO leave the house AZ
| ter him Virgie Douglas went out on her
way 10 school. About 9 o'clock witness
and her niece. Grace Douglas left the
/ house together. They parted in front OF
the house. the nieceNgoing to school AND
/ witness going to keep an appointment
with her sister In the northwest.
Discovery of Murder.
Upon her return home she entered by
! the basement door I'm the back of the
Ecuse. Upon entering the kitchen she
| called TO her mother. Looking around
shs saw the aged woman lying on the
floor, half her body under the stove.
T he stove was red hot. Witness ran
and pulled her mother away from the
stove She was lying in a pool of blood.
| Just then witness heard a creaking at
| the back gate, and running TO q win
| dow she saw her husband lifting his
bicycle over the back fence. She called
| pened to her mother.
Together Mr.. and Mrs. Oelrichs eX-
amined the body and found the bullet
wounds. At first they thought she had
been stabbed, but upon opening hel
mothers dress. Mrs. Oelrichs found 9
bullet.
At this point of her testimony Mrs
Oelrichs broke down. and il was some
minutes before she could go on. Mrs
Dryden and the Douglas twins also gave
way to their emotions. Weldon appear
ed to be little moved by their grief.
Went to War Department.
Mr.. oelrichs, said the witness, the,
left and went to the War Department e
notify Everett Beall. a son of the dea'
woman. who work there. Witness wen
out Of the house. She went through the
gate in the back shed.
Then she came back ard tried to pU
the house in order before strangers cam
in. There was no wall paper in thu