New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-12
BAIL ARRANGED FOR
Mr.. BEACH At AIKEN
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Signs
Bond for 81 900, Holding Up
<e EXtraditiOn Plans.
NO TRIAL TILL SEPTEMBER
Special Agent Baughn Says
Negress Now Says That Mrs.
Beach Was Attacked by
White Man.

by Telegraph 20 The TribuneI
Aiken, s c., April IA bail bond for
Frederick o. Beach was arranged here to-
dsv. Thomas Hitchcock, jr., signing as
surety in the sum of $1,000. This action
gives the Beach case q new turn. serving
IN hold Up the arrangements which had
been begun to have Mr.. Beach extradited
from Europe This morning Mr. Beach's
LAWYERS received the following cable dis
match. dated at Paris
"Hendersons. Aiken, S. C.-Authorize you
70 appear and sign bond for my appear
snce. Am returning next week"
The message was signed simply Beach"
solicitor Guuter said this afternoon that
evarythinc had been satisfactorily ar
ranged and that the bond obviated the ne
cessitv OF Mr. Beach's return to Aiken
until the September term Of the General
Sessions Court. as II would be impossible
Tor him to try the case at the June term
because Of the already crowded docket and
The June term continued only one week for
criminal cases He added that in the mean
time the witnesses for the state who had
hsen bound over would be required to ap-
near before the grand jury which meets in
June.
Mr.. Boachs cable message is construed
here 10 mean that he Will leave France
next week 10 return 10 America. but II is
thought that lie will stay in New York
and not come 10 Aiken at this time. Mr..
Reach having authorized his lawyers TO
sign hts name to his bond renders II
possibIe. solicitor Gunter said to-day. to
try him in his absence If the grand jury
presented true bill against him. Should
Mr. Beach. instead OF returning TO Aiken
10 stand trial. choose TO forfeit his bond
p sealed sentence would be rendered by the
court. but D. S. Henderson, Of Mr.. Beachs
counsel said this afternoon that Mr..
Beach would certainly return for trial,
that his client had no other intention ex-
cept to return and clear himself OF the
charge that had been brought against him.
Says Negress Contradicts Self.
Before his departure this afternoon for
Atlanta Special Agent Baughn was asked
whether in any Of his examinations of
Pearl Hampton, the negress, who is sup
posed 10 know more about the Beach case
than any one else, he succeeded in getting
any information from her. Mr. Baughn
replied that Pearl Hampton had stated to
him that the man who attacked her was
The same one who attacked Mrs. Beach, but
not negro. The negress has persistently
asserted that she was attacked by negro
whom she did not know. That has been
the story she has told. and all she has told,
since the night Of the attack.
II asked her. continued Mr.. Baughn, ~
he was g white man. and she told me that
he was and even added. in answer to
further question, that she did not think he
was & Southern man, as he did not speak
Ike one"
He declared that during his Investigations
while Mr. Beach was still in Aiken, on every
occasion when he sought to talk with Mr..
or Mrs. Beach they insisted on having their
lawyers present, and. although Mr.. Beach
wss not then accused Of the crime, he
would not agree TO give information about
the affair except on advice Of his counsel.
Lawyers Issue Statement.
m a statement issued this afternoon the
Messrs. Henderson and J. r. Salley, attOr-
neys for Mr.. and Mrs. Beach. take excep-
ton to a sreat many things that have been
published in connection with the case, and
ask the public not 10 be biased by mislesd-
ing stataments and rumors, but 10 await
the legal investigation Of the case.
TO the statement is appended one made
by Dr. ", r. Han. one of the physicians
who called on Mrs. Beach tho night she
was attacked Or Hall says that he is the
family physician Of the Beaches while they
are In Aiken. that when they left Aiken he
advised that Mre. Beach should go OH a sea
trip and that her going abroad meets with
hia full approval.
Paris, April 11-Frederick .. Beach, tho
We'll street broker against whom the legal
authorities IN Aiken, S. c., have issued 4
warrant on the charge Of assault and bat
terry with intent 10 kill his wife, wrote
letter this morning declaring that he still
had no statement TO make in connection
Wit the charge, and pointing out that the
afeir was IN the hands OF his lawyers in
New York