The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-07
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FREDERICK BEACH
REITERATES DENIAL
OF ATTACK ON WIFE
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ton. who is president of the First Ma
| tional bank here, and also runs the uv
cry stable, received this lively greeting
from the prosecutor
Hello, there, Dave, when did you COM
mence to run with the four hundred?''
on, I've got so I can't eat my lunch
| TIL o'clock" replied the witness with
hearty laugh.
There was every indication tonight that
the trial would come to an end tonorrow
There are several murders on the docket
| set for trial at this term nearly half
OF which already has been consumed by
the Beach case.
Beach Takes Stand
Beach took the stand in his own de-
fense when his trial was resumed at 9.4i
O'Clock He said he was 81 years old.
that he was a property owner at Aiken.
and had been spending the winters here
| for II years.
When did you marry Mrs Beach?"
asked Representative Byrnes, of his coun-
| sci.
! November 20, 1s99'
Have you any children?"
"Yes, tWo."
Where We're you living in February,
1922" -
| Il had rented my house on Hoods lane
70 MIS- Lyons and my wife and | were
| living in the cottage adjoining"
Did you have any guests on Febru-
airy 26?'
| Yes Miss Hollins; she arrived the day
before"
did you have any other guests for
supper that night?'
No"
What did you do after supper?"
The three Of us went into the sitting
ffAf tf,,sr l..
swered. Miss Hollins retired about 10
minutes after O'clock We continued
| reading. Suddenly we heard screams
My wife exclaimed: MY, what's tha.?'
told her I thought it was some me-
groes quarrelling. Then we heard another
from the direction of the Lyons place.
| Two or three minutes later my wire
said she thought she would go to bed
but that she would put the dogs out
| first. She went out with the dogs closing
the sitting room door benin her. A min
| ute later | heard her scream. / ran out
the front door and saw my wife leaning
up against the post at the corner Of
! the porch. I started for her and had
! gotten about quarter of the way on
the porch when negro darted by me
acriss the bushes. and out the front
gate. | could have intercepted him. but
| instead l rushed to the assistance of
my wife. My first thought was when l
heard her first scream that she was
dead or dying after finding the other
woman dead. When discovered her she
! said. He has done something dreadful
| to me-. | carried her onto the porch.
opened the screen door and laid her down
inside. Then / saw the cut in her throat
1 and realized for the first time what
/ had happened. l rushed upstairs OBJ
tanned my gun and went out into Hoods
lane in search of the assailant. I re-
turned in short time and found the
door had slammed to. knocked vigor-
ously and Miss Hollns came to the door
and asked who was there before open
ing it. I replied: Its me, Beach. Let
4 me in.
Telephoned for Physician
Beach said he left the house to tele-
phone to DR.. Hall, his physician. He
met the two doctors who lived across
the street conong in. He telephones
DR. Hall from the Aiken club and then
returned TO his wife. When DR.. Hal
arrived and began sewing up the wound
in Mrs. Beachs throat he said ne
held her hand because it was very pain
! full and she held onto me-" He said he
did not remain in her room during the
/ night because Miss Hollins was there
with her. but he declared that she sem
for him several times during the night
The witness then began long nara
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wifes assaiant to justice. He said thai
he asked that night what was beini
done and was told by his friend, II
Smith. mot 10 worry as he would os
caught before morning" He said thai
he telegraphed for a detective the mex
i day.
| Beach said day or two later he EN-
ployed Colonel Henderson to represent
! him in the investigation and the attof'
new told him then that several persons
suspected him of cutting the Wife. Tbs
detective he employed worked for twt
weeks on the ease without success. Thel
Detective Baum. employed by the city
! took It up He told of giving his pen
knife to Bauhn in the presence OF Mayor
| Gyles
How many blades did the penkniss
have when YOU gave il TO the dctee'
tiye2r counsel asked.
II had TWO, there was no broken
blade.
Roacn said ~ had had several con