Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-04
Jury IN BEACH
CASE IS DRAWN
IN z MINUTES
Defense Offers No
Opposition to
the Names.
MILLIONAIRE NEW YORKER
AND WIFE CHAT AND LAUGi'
Case Is Opened by Prosecutor
With Testimony of Absent
Woman Witness.

AIKEN, S. c.. Feb. 4.-charged with
assaulting his wife. Camilla Morse
Havemeyer Beach. with intent to
kill" Frederick o. Beach, New York
millionaire. today was placed on trial
in the Aiken County Court of General
Sessions.
Mrs. Beach was the victim of a
mysterious attack ON the night Of
February 26 last She was assaulted
while standing on the lawn of the
Beach home here. and received a seri-
Gus cut on the throat. Immediately
after the attack Mrs. Beach asserted
that her assailant was a negro.
Eleven witnesses were called bv the
State and slow start was made in
their examination. Prosecutor Gunter
directed his efforts to attacking the
story told by Beach. and substanti-
ated by his wife, to the effect that
Mrs. Beach had been attacked BY a
negro when she left the house to give
her dogs an airing.
DR.. Hastings Wyman and his son.
Or. Marion Wyman, who examined
Mrs Beachs wound soon after she
was cut, expressed the opinion that
the stab was inflicted from behind.
The theory of the prosecution is that
Beach attacked his wife while she
was running away from him.
Dr. Wyman said that after he had
heard the screams be and his son. DR..
slarion Wyman. rushed over to the
Beach home and were admitted bv
Beach to room in which Mrs. Beach
was lying on the sofa with blood
streaming from her throat.
Beach told him that his wife ha d
been stabbed by negro who at
tackled her when she took her dogs
out for an airing.
On cross-examfnation DR.. wyman
said the attitude of Beach and his
wife toward each other could not be
regarded as hostile.
Dr. Marion Wyman testified that he
heard three distinct sets of screams
from the vicinity of the Beach home
and then knock on a door, followed
by the sound of voice commanding:
Let me in. This is Beach"
Beach appeared in the courtroom
an hour before the case was called.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Beach.
her sister, Mrs. James B. TayIer, and
Miss Marion Hollins. Mrs Beach
was becomingly attired in a brown
suit and brown toque and was yelled.
Beach and his wife sat at their
counsers table. behind bulwark of
law books, chatting gaily, while the
prosecution was calling the witnesses
in another case.
Only twenty two minutes was re-
quired to secure a jury. Seven of
the men accepted were farmers, one
a country merchant and the other
cotton mill operatives The court
designated the first man chosen to
act as foreman. While the indict-
ment was being read Mrs. Beach kept
her eyes intently upon Prosecutor
Gunter. Her face did not change ex-
preston when. he reached the words
did assault with murderous in
tent"
Miss Wyman is the daughter of DR..
Hastings Wyman. jr., who lives di-
rectly across a narrow street from
the laundry in the yard of the Beach
property. On the night of February
26 last Miss Wyman. who was in her
room on the second floor of the house,
heard noise in the yard across the
street.
Muffied Voices, a Blow. Scream.
MuhIed voices as of some person
arguing with another We're followed
by louder and more angry voice
raised in threatening manner At
tracted to the window. Miss Wyman
heard the sound of a blow and a
woman's scream. followed by hasty
footsteps as though someone were
running away. A few minutes after
ward man in gray suit of clothes
ran out of the yard and in the op-
posite direction from the Beach home.
AS the man made his escape another
sound came from the Beach house
like blow and Mrs. Beach screamed.
1t is the theory of the prosecution
that the first person struck was Pearl
Hampton, the negress. who was also
that night, presumably by
the same person who struck down
Mrs. Beach.