The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-05-10

nnal plea for the return OF his daugn-
ter. Beck told the father that Dorothy
would never return home, and that he
would not disclose her whereabouts.
Willard told his wife that his efforts
to find their daughter were without
avail, and Mrs. Willrad went to Beck,
and begged to he taken to her daugh-
ter. Beck steadfastly refused, and
the distracted mother returned home
and told her husband.
Willard armed himself with a re-
volver and went directly. to Becks
grocery store and asked:
Beck, will, or will you not. tell me
where my daughter is?"
II will not" answered Beck.
Father Opens Fire.
The next instant Willard whipped
the revolver from his pocket and op-
ened fire. One bullet struck Beck in
D.; mouth, shattering the jaw bone;
S,jther entered the left side, pene-
itself in the liver. Beck fell to the
floor unconscious. Frederick Zusch-
nitt, brother-in-law of Beck, who
was in the store. rushed upon Willard
and knocked the revolver from his
hand. Willard fled from the store,
and, in descending the steps, he fell.
Before he could rise, William Jack
son, a district employe. who was
passing, pounced upon him and held
him until several other men came up.
Within five minutes score or more
persons were on the scene, and had
not Capt. Williams and Sergt. Ryan,
of the Fifth precinct arrived promptly
Willard would have Jared badly.
Beck was placed in an automobile
owned by Thomas w. Smith, whole
sale lumber merchant, and hurried to
Casualty hospital. He was placed i'm
mediately upon an operating table,
and Drs. T. A. Lee and John r. Well
ington sought to locate the bullets.
After probing for an hour one of the
bullets was extracted, and az the pa
tents condition was precarious, it
was decided to postpone further op-
erations.
Match Caused Gossip.
The marriage of Dorothy Willard
to Beck was the subject of much COM
ment in the neighborhood. For more
than two years the grocer and the
child were constantly in each others
company. The neighbors gossiped
about the affair, and, finally, the faith
er and mother of the child agreed
that Dorothy should marry the man.
Speaking Of the marriage, Mrs. Will
lard said:
Il was perfectly willing that Irving
should marry my daughter. He was
we'll established in business, and
felt that her future would be assured.
My husband accompanied him to the
license clerk, and even though Doro-
thy's age was but IA years and 6
months, my husband swore that she
was Is. 1t was agreed to by Irving
that he would not take Dorothy away
from us. 1t was on last Monday night
that he came to the house and took
her to the moving picture theaters,
and instead of coming home at the
usual hour they did not come home at
all. My husband was furious. He
walked the floor, and moaned and
cried for Dorothy
Suddenly he made rush into the
kitchen, and grabbing carving knife,
he attempted to cut his throat, but
prevented him. He then ran into the
street, and taking from his pocket a
package of insect powder, mixed it
with carbolic acid, and attempted to
swallow it. With the help of the
neighbors. again prevented him from
taking his life. We retired about 1
o'clock. and woke him up at 6
o'clock, and told him to go to Irving's
place of business. He said he would,
and left the house.
Mother of Victim Talks.
81 then kept my oldest daughter
from going to work and went myself
to see Irving. He refused absolutely
to tell me where Dorothy was. I
pleaded and implored him on my
knees. 1 feared for my little girl
among strangers. l was forced, how
ever, to return home with no knowl-
edge of Dorothy's whereabouts.
"The first intimation l had that
there was shooting was conveyed to
me by school children passing the
house. have not been to the station
to see my husband, as there is no one
here to mind my babies. want to
see my husband and console him."
Mrs. Beck, mother of the victim, in
speaking of the affair, said:
II never knew that Irving contem-
plated marrying the Willard girl. He
claims he did not know what he was
doing when he married her-that he
must have been drugged. He never
brought his wife to this house. We
wouldn't let her in. He was always
dutiful son. and not drinking man.
The day he was shot he took a five
years pledge, as he claims he was
'doped' when he married tho Willard
girl"
Beck and Dorothy Willard were
married by the Rev. j. w. Smith, at
the Wilson Memorial church, Eleventh
between G and H streets southeast.
The child was at the time a pupil at
Lenox school.
AFTER TREASURE