Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-06
Saw Blood on
 Beach s Knife
GOVERNMENT WITNESS FOUND
 TRACES OF IT.
WAS NO BLOOD ON IT
Medical Expert for Defense So Tes-
 tifies-Mr. and Mrs. Beach Expected
 to Go on the Witness Stand Today.

Aiken, $. C., Feb 5-F'rederick O Beach wIil- take the stand in his own defense when his trial on the charge of assaulting his wife is resumed here to- morrow. This was the plan outlined by the defense at the close of court today.
 Beach follow the accused New Yorker as witness. Since the assault upon her was committed in the yard of the Beach winter home here on the night or Feb. 26 last. the story told by Beach and his wife has never varied Both have maintained that Mrs. Beach was attacked by an unknown negro when she left the house to give her dogs an airing.
 Bloodstains on Beach's Knife
 Today the state rested it's case, which consisted almost entirely of an attack on the plauSibility of Beach's story. The introduction of Beael's iewelIed penknife, upon which one of the states witnesses claimed to have found traces or blood corpuscleS. was held by the prosecution until the last. It had been anticipated by the defense and they were prepared to meet expert testi- nony with expert testimony. even to the extent of presenting 8 witness who had examined the knife and had failed, as he sWore, to find any blood cells Four of the defense's witnesses were examined during the afternoon session of the court, and the testimony of all of them concerned the knife.
 Doctor Found Blood on Knife.
 Dr. D. Hastings Wyman, Jr testified at the morning session that he had made a microscopic examination of the knife at the request of Mayor Giles and had found traces of blood. Later he said he took the knife to Augusta and submitted it to Dr. c. D. Partridge, professor of microscopies of the Uni versity of Georgia, who, he said, re- fused to express an opinion as to pres ence of blood.
 Then he went to Columbia, s. C., and obtained written opinion there from Boykin Mins, an analysist, that there was blood on the knife.
 Doctor Found No Blood on Knife.
 When the prosecutor announced at the opening of the afternoon session that the state had presented it's case the defense offered Dr. Partridge as a witness. Dr. Partridge testified that he had examined the knife and had informed Dr. Wyman there was no good witness for the defense until Prosecutor Gunter began cross-exaIn- ming him. Ha seemed to become con fused and answered questions only aft CT long hesitation
 Would Not Make Written Report
 Didn't you refuse to put the result of your examination down in writing p demanded the prosecutor. The witness didn't answer.
 Didn't you u?''
 Finally he said he did not wish to make 8 written report.
 You were afraid it would fall into the hands of the state, weren't you ?''
 No, was unbiased at that time.s
 But you have become biased since then. haven't you? ?'
 "No."
 Family Physician Testifles.
 Tho Rn1 oh rbucieian ~ D. Hall. testified that after he was called to the Beach home by telephone he found Mrs. Beach suffering from 8 three inch wound in her throat. a su- perfcial wound in the left breast and an abrasion on the left ear.
 Was the attitude of MT. and Mrs. Beach toward each other one of affec- ton ?''