Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-04-25
HEARING MAY,
 JOLT SOCIETY Beach and His Wife Return From Europe to Answer Charge at Aiken, N. c. VANDERBILT'S FRIEND Wife Was Brutally Attacked, Beach Says, By NegrO-Detectiye Says
 1t Was Beach.
VANDERBILT's FRIEND
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 BEACH'S STATEMENT RE.
 GARDING THE ASSAULT


 K 1912, my wife was in the yard near the Turner cottage to air her dogs when she was brutally as saulted by negro. I left the Tur- ner cottage, where I had been spending the evening, to find her * reeking in blood. Detective Baughn's Charges. E That Frederick o. Beach on the night of the 26 day of Feb ruary, 1912, did commit an as- * sault and battery with intent to * kill in that he did wilfully, un- * lawfully and maliciously, and '" with malice aforethought, with * knife, cut and wound one Mrs. Camilla Beach with intent to kill ] and murder * The motive for Beach's alleged crime is supposed to be clan destine conversation between her and a mysterious @'man in gray * * * * s; * * * * * * *
 New York, April 24.-Fredreick O. Beach and Mrs. Beach today reached here on the steamship Kaiser Will helm from a trip abroad, where MT Beach learned that he was wanted in Aiken, s. C., for trial on the charge of having attacked Mrs. Beach there on February "A.
 { The attack sof Mrs. Beach created a sensation in society. She was seized in front of the Beach winter home in Aikein and slashed in the throa; with sharp weapon. It was said that Mrs. Beach was assaulted by ne gro.
 MT. Beach stated that he ran from the house to his wife's rescue when he heard her screams. After Mrs Beach's recovery she and her hus- band returned North and sailed fol Europe. Later a warrant was issued on the affidavit of a detective, accus- ing MT. Beach of the attack.
 The airing which the case will re- ceive when it comes up for trial will involve the names of some of the most noted society people of the Unit ed States. Mrs. Beach, formerly wife of Charles F. Havermeyer the sugar millionaire, who committed suicide ir his Long Island home, is a sister O. Cortland D. Moss Jr., and IS related to many of the elite of society. He1 husband Frederick o. Beach, is close friend of w. K. Vanderbilt ant has been prominent in society circles for years.
 The assault was committed on thu night of February 26th. when Mrs Beach was knocked down near th' gate of her winter home at Aikel with a fence paling, slashed acros: the throat with a sharp knife, hel earrings torn off and left lyins screaming for help. The earrings were found close to the spot next da! and seemed to dispose of the theor! ' of robbery. Mrs. Beach charged thu ! attack to negro.
 A search was immediately started for the assailaint, nearly $2,000 beln: offered in rewards for his apprehen sion. A series of persistent rumor charging that Beach himself commit ted the assault, because he found hl wife in clandestine conversation with a mysterious man in gray, le' the town authorities to new clue however and they engaged a detectlv' whose investigations resulted in tn issuance of warrant for Beachs ar I rest.
 The two chief points upon whicl | the warrant for MT. Beach rests ar Beach's diamond studded pocketknlfe whic his reported to have been givel l to Mayor Gyles, of Aiken, as the re