The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-20

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fluid-chloroform, the doctor said II
and from the right corner Of the
mouth to point two inches below
the lobe of the right ear ran burned
streak ending in what looked like a
pressure OF thumb. Six small dents
could dig in the soft flesh of wo-
mans face, showed like curious pune
lures around the lips, mouth and chin.
A dark spot like q faint bruise was
distinguishable on the forehead. Al
lamp was still burning on wash
stand which stood against the north
wall Of the room.
Then q Note Was Written.
Ten feet dntervened between the
bureau where the empty chloroform
bottle lay and the head of the bed.
The door into the hall was closed,
but not locked. In the rain softened
sod on the front yard in a straight
on the roof nearest the caves were
made by the feet" of ladder. On
the grass beneath the first floor win
dow on the south side of the house
and directly under the south window
/af Betta's bedroom. her brother-in-
ar. Roy Sheerer, found scrap of
r. h.. ~hich had been torn from
gro> made out to Beta and
waoss yeaa rb stia, lay ynese ep hsF woras, sa
rudely pencile>. % hdently scrawled
ina dim light or-,n darkness by one
whose physical and mental state was
Ona of aYtreme emotion.
"Aiy God (here an unde cipherable
word) man l killed herr for Christ's
sake take the poneys Tor rings) meat
ME couple blocks N. Tor W. of
here"
There was no signature. The point
of the pencil showed double lines in
strength of nervous fingers. Had this
Beta Benignus's room to confeder-
ate waiting below it would have fallen
precisely where Sheerer says he pick
ed it up half an hour or more after
the finding of his sisters dead body.
A Robber There Five Weeks Ago.
The young woman owned some jew
elry. diamond engagement ring CIV
en- her by Livingston, worth about
500, and several other rings and a
pearly necklace. These she kept in
her bedroom until about five weeks
ago, when one night when she was
alone in the house she heard man in
her chamber. She was downstairs
and shouted for her father, thinking
to frighten the Intruder away. The
man dashed down the steps. the fam
lily say, and rushed out Of the front
door. She caught a glimpse of his
back, but did not see his face. He
escaped through an alley in the rear
of the Benignus barn.
The next morning, Beta found her
pearl, necklace. in. q. clnmp Of weeds
behind the barn. Since then she had
kept her 1ewelry at night in hand
| bag in her parents bedroom on the
first floor. She told a cousin Amelia
Buttell, recently that the outlines of
the man who rushed from the house
that night reminded her of medium
sized stranger in black clothes and a
black slouch hat who for weeks past
had been eyeing her on the street
corners as she passed and who sever
al times had seemed to be following
her.
Many Mysterious Circumstances.
my God killed her." cry the
scrawled words on the scrap of paper
found beneath the window. If there
were no accompllce why the note?
Why the profane appeal to take the
ponies and meet me couple of
blocks north?" Whose ponies? The
dead girls father owns two black
ponies. They were not taken.
Whence came the ladder that gave
access to the roof outside the bed
room window? There Is a clumsy
stepladder lying in tall weeds near the
Benignus barn, but it does not fit the
scars in the front yard sod and is
too short to reach to the caves. That
is straight drop thirteen feet and
seven inches. fully fifteen feet as one
counts the slant of ladder. The
stepladder by the barn is only ten
feet long.
| Whose is the broken knife blade?
Whence came the 20-penny spike?
| 1t rained 1-2 inches here in Abil-
enc. Thursday afternoon, enough
downpour to wash thousand half
burnt matches off the sloping porch
roof where that bit of charred wood
was found. New screenS were put in
all the windows of the Benignus home
three weeks ago. None Of them had
been torn or even dented.
| The hole cut or torn in the front
screen of Betta's room will admit a
mans fingers and permit the freeing
of the hook that held the screen. The
screen swings out upon a noiseless
hinge, permitting entrance to a cham
ber from the roof.
Who lighted the lamp that was
burning when Benignus found his
daughters body? Did she forget to
put It out? Did the murderer light
it, in the excitement of the discov-
cry that he had killed her?
Who Wrote These Letters.
Thursday morning Beta Benignus
received letter. 1t was handed her
at the telephone Office by her closest
girl friend, Mamie Stark. fellow en-
ployee. In the afternoon came sec
ond letter In the same handwriting,
bearing the same postmark. After
reading 1t Beta betrayed excitement
bordering on keen anxiety. In the
girls bedroom yesterday the envelope
was found which had enclosed this
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