Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1912-05-17
MYSTERY Y + Y THAT Ia, HAS IS
y SET s.: (. !; I \
ON EDGE
INVOLVES RICH AND GREAT
Strange Affair Of Mrs. Frederick
0. Beach, Whose Throat Was
Slashed BY a Man at Her Winter
Home in Fashionable Aiken, S. c.

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EA "a that would require the
IL " best efforts Of a Sherlock
k&~{i Holmes to solve. It has
M41EH some elements in It that
NH are altogether unusual in
AZ the affairs concerning tho
f rich and great. This mys-
terry surrounds the attack that was
made on Mrs. Frederick o. Beach at
Aiken, s.. G. More than a month has
elapAed since she was brutally a.
sailed in the darkness outside her
home! Her head was beaten with a
fence paling and her throat was
.slashed with a knife. The mystery is
still unsolved.
All the persons whose names have
appeared in this affair are In the
front rank Of high society. Mrs.
Beach, before her second marriage,
was the widow Of Charles F. Have
meyer. She was Camilla Moss. the
daughter Of Courtlandt D. Moss Of
Philadelphia. One of her sisters is
Mrs. ]. B. Taller, whose New York
residence Is at No. 43 West Forty
seventh street. Another sister is Mrs.
Johnston Livingston Jr. The Living
stons have an estate at Hewlett, L. l.
Frederick o. Beach is member OF
several clubs and close friend and
companion Of William X. Vanderbilt.
When in the north the Beaches make
their home at Hewlett. In the winter
they shift their domicile to Aiken. Mr..
and Mrs. Beach are prominent mem
bers of the "horsey" set Of society.
the colony that is devoted to out-of-
door sports and gathers every winter
at Aiken for shooting, hunting and
golf. It is the Meadowbrook and
Hampstead sporting element trans
planted.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Beach Favorltes Of
Fortune.
Mrs. Beach is a noted equestrienne,
and very fond of the hunting field.
Her husband long has been famous as
a driver Of crack four-in-hands and as
n airing rider after the hounds. His
handsome face has gained him the
sobriquet Of Beauty" Beach. His
wife is very pretty. She is still under
IS, but looks almost ten years
younger.
Mrs. Reach's first husband, Charles
F.. Havemeyer, was the eldest son of
Theodore A. Havemeyer, the enor-
mously rich sugar king. Her mar
riage to Mr.. Havemeyer was consid-
cred a very happy one. Two children
blessed the union. In May, 1898, Mr..
Havemeyer killed himself with a PTS
tol at his home at, Roslyn, L. L Au-
gust Belmont summoned the coroner.
A jury was hastily impaneled. It con-
sisted exclusively Of men In the same
social set. August Belmont was the
foreman. It met at midnight, and de-
clared that there was no evidence that
Havemeyer had fired the bullet into
his brain with suicidal intent-that
the self-shooting was an accident.
From her husbands estate Mrs.
Havemeyer inherited a great sum Of
money. About year and a half after
his death Mrs. Havemeyer married
Frederick o. Beach. As a girl she
was rich. as a widow she was richer
still, and as the wife Of Beach she still
had greater fortune at her command.
All her life, therefore, she has had all
the money she could possibly need,
millions of dollars.
Aiken is one Of the most fashionable
winter resorts within easy travelling
Aie<oooo ~ Nyav vo~l- ~ .,s~c TIT
Palm Beach in the luxurious way Of
living pursued by the fashionable col.
oHy, and is far more exclusive than
the famous resort on the coast Of Flor
ida. 1t has been celebrated for years
for its mild climate. Not only those
Of riches and leisure. but many who
are suffering from weak lungs are at.
tracted by it's balmy atmosphere.
Great pine forests cover the country
for miles all about Aiken, and the air
is soft and mild. no matter how bit
ter may be the cold in New York.
Perhaps hundred rich and fashion.
able families from New York, Fhila-
delphia and Boston have their winter
homes there. Then there are many
more who run down to Aiken to spend
q fortnight or a month. Some OF the
places Of residence are great estates,
among the most magnificent in Amer.
lea; others are big, comfortable
houses surrounded by spacious
grounds. One Of the most opulent and
select country clubs in the south is at
Aiken. The building in which 1t ia
housed b large and luxuriously ap.
pointed. It Is the headquarters for
the smart set. and many Of the society
people stop there in their fittings
back and forth from one place OF
leisure to another.
Robbery Not Motive. for Attack on
Mrs- Beach.
The stack on Mrs. Beach occurred
ON the evening Of Monday. February
z6. Ste was returning to her home
when strange man sprang at her
knocked her down with blow from q
paling which he had torn from the
fence that surrounds the Beach place
and slashed her throat with SHARP
knife. Mrs. Beach's earrings were