The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-02-06
LEGISLATURE STILL
DEADLOCkED ON
SENATORIAL FIGHT
BEACH WILL
TESTIFY in
OWN DEFENSE
AND WILL BE FOLLoWTD BY
HIS WIFE.
Woman Will Testify That Negro and
Not Husband Assaulted Her.
Expert Testimony.

AIKEN, :. G.. Feb. 5.-Frederick
q. Beach will take the stand m. his
own defense when his trial on the
charge OF assaulting his wife is re-
sumed here tomorrow. This was the
plan outlined by the defense at the
close of court today.
IL also is proposed to have Mrs.
Beach follow the accused New Yorker
as witness. Since the assault up
on her WAS committed in the yard
OF the Beach winter home here on the
hight of FrebriIary 20 last the story
told by Beach and his wife has never
varied. Both have maintained that
Mrs. Beach was attacked by an un-
known negro when she left the house
To give her dogs an airing.
Today the state rested its case
which consisted almost entirely OF an
attack on the plausibility OF Beach's
story. The introduction of Beach's
Jewelled pen knife upon which one
or the states witnesses claimed to
have found traces OF blood corpuscles.
was held by the prosecution until the
last. Four OF the defense's Witnesses
were examined during the afternoon
session of the court and the testimony
o. all OF them concerned the knife.
DIR. ID. Hastings Wyman. Jr. testi-
ned at the morning session that he
made a microscopic examination of
The knife al the request OF Mayor
Giles and had found traces OF blood
Later he said he took the knife To
Augusta and submitted IL TO DIR. &.
u. Partridge. professor OF microcop-
lcs or the University of Georgia. who
he said; refused to express an opinion
as 10 the presence of blood.
Tn'n he wen; to Columbia. = g.
and obtained q written opinInn there
from Boykin Minis. an ANALYSIS NAT
There was blood on the knife
When the prosecutor announced AT
the opening of the afternoon session
thtt IN" state mad presented its ease.
the defense offered DIR Partridge as a
witness. Dr. Partridge testified that
i.e mad examined tine knife and had in
Formed Dr. Wymnn there was no
blood there. He was making n very
good witness for the defense until
Prosecution Gun;er hogan oross-ex-
aiming him. He seemed 10 b.cone
confused and answered questions
only after long hesitation.
Didn't You r.:uSs To- nut the 70
SUI Of your examination down in
wit ing demand II the prosecutor.
tn" witness did not answer.
Didn't vuu%''
Finally H. said H. did not wish to
make u written report.
Expert testimony was given for The
fc."Ls' 10y Dr. r. .. D.rtaIi. ~ iut.us-
10 formerly professor or pathology
and mi ros""py a. tho University of
Georgia.
Anticipating that IN. state might
contend that one blade OF the knife
had been broken m bv , bl,v "a,
Mrs. Rcach'c throat the defense asked
~" witnsss li. in his opinion. ~
'"nid nave been broken in this man
ucr.
Dr pretaii snid ho had mad. An ox-
pertinent on the hudy of "a negro with
s';niiar knife in'iictiuE such a wound
as had been mod" in Mrs. Ren,h.s
n'c', without damlrc to M. knife
SO you took g dead niger and
tried to break on the knife in his
neck
Il did"
Mr. Gunter then wanted 10 know n
u wOuld not be- possibl" for a blade
To be snapped OF II the blow was
not clean
IT might. hut the wound would no
a Jagged one" replied the witness
The Beach family physician. Dr G.
II. Hall. testified that after no vas
called 10 the Reach home by Telephone
he found Mrs Beach suffering from
q three inch wound In her throat a
superficial wound In the left breast
and an abrasion on the left ear.
Was TIE attitude Of Mr. and Mrs
Reach toward each other one Of aifcc.
tion q"
Yes. Mr. Reach held her hand all
The time J was dressing her wounds
pr Hall said he saw Mrs Reach bo.
iore she was carried upstairs and she
told him then she had been attacked
by q negro