The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-10
FRIEND OF BEACH
SAYS It IS ROT
c. Oliver Iselin Declares He
Will Cable Accused
to Return
CRIME MISDEMEANOR
IN SOU, H CAROLINA
Detective Baughn Declares
He Has Enough Evidence
to Convict Millionaire
Society Man

AIKEN. s. c.. April 1o-c. Oliver
lseIin. dean OF the Aiken winter col
ony. laboring under subdued rage at
the issuance Of the warrant charging
Fredk. o. Beach with assault and
battery with intent to kill his wife.
Mrs. Camelia Beach, denounced the
action taken by the authorities as
rot" He stated that 1t was his in
tention to send cahlegram to MIR.
Beach Informing him OF the warrant
and advising him to come back to
Aiken at once.
Mr.. Iselin appeared to be very pos
tive that Mr.. Beach would act uuon
his advice, and confidently stated to
Mayor Gyies that Mr.. Beach will re-
turn to Aiken in about ten days.
II Mr.. Beach Is convicted OF the
crime OF which he Is accused Mr..
Iselin will be called upon by the
city Of Aiken to write a check for
$1,000, the amount OF reward offered
Internationally by Mr.. Iselin.
Considerable doubt Is expressed.
however, that Mr.. Beach will return -
Aiken or that II he chooses not to do
so he Will be extradited although it
IL regarded as a certainty that Gov.
Blease viii sign the reauisition pa
pers on the Governor of New York.
A MisdcmeauOr Only.
The crime with which Mr. Beach is
charged Is regarded by the South
Carolina laws not as felony. but only
as misdemeanor.
The fact that Pearl Hampton, the
colored woman. who WIS arrested as
q witness for the State, and who is
supposed to know more about the
events N the night OF February 2sth,
hot Ah. 40 Afr~ a~H
sauited. has arranged for bail THROUGH
Mr.. Beach's lawyers. who busted
themselves in her behalf Immediately
upon her arrest. created a great deal
Of comment. Unsuccessful efforts
have repeatedly been made to obtain
the wosrAn'S atory Of the affair and
the Identity Of the man who assaulted
both her and Mrs. Beach.
Believes Beach Guilty.
THE city has employed me to
ferret out the mystery" said Detec-
tive Baughn. land ! want to be per-
fect1y frank about H. The evidence I
have gathered fs tncoHtrovertibfe. sat
fsfying not only myself, but the city
authorities. that Mr.. Beach himself
made the assault upon his wife and
invented the theory OF an unknown
negro. which has been exploited to
conceal HE own guilt, else no war
rant would have been served.
Il have found out enough to con-
vince me beyond the least possible
doubt that Mr.. Beach cut his wife's
throat, and we have the knife with
which he tried to take her life"
Have Other Evidence.
"AIr. Beach's knife" continued Mr..
Baughn. lis merely an accident. how
ever. In the chain OF evidence We
consider II important. but by no
means the most important. We have
afiidavttS from ye-witnesses to a
that night. both before and after the
attack upon Mrs Beach. We have the
witnesses themselves and we can fur
s1ish absolute proof that the ver-
sion as given by both Mt. and Mrs.
Beach. which does not coincide In
every respect. and in which they
have contradicted themselves. il be-
yond human possibility"
Asked II he knew the motive OF
the alleged attack by Beach. the de-
tective said:
He had seen thinss with his own
eyes from the point on the street
where the paling is torn from the
fence. from where he got m :nnoh-
tvtUCtSQ Wow III tuS HtOOuAt&ut into
the laundry In the next yard which
caused him to attack HI wife.
I'm Jealous rage maddened. he
made his way toward the laundry.
enccunterinx Pearl Hampton on the
way. and when she stood II his path
he felled her. then pursued his wife
Who. warned BY the negro woman's
screams. ran through an opening In
tho fence and on towards her home.
He overlook her a. she made to es-
cane In the side entrance. There the
police found tins bloUdstatns. 'tire
Ground torn up. and Mrs. Beach's
eArrinKx."
sThe only thing We haven't found
out, conclued Mr.. Baughn. ia the
identity OF the nan In . light suit
Of clothes who was seen to run out
81 the Lyons yard from the laundry.
ana In the opposite direction from
the Beach house. He u not the man
naost people think he was. that par
ttcular man was at dinner party
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