The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-12

room she says she went upstairs to the
door of the room and spent half mln-
ute listening, but could hear no sound
Being questioned as to the condition
and appearance of the body of Mrs
Beers she declared the face was very
pale, that the muscles of the neck
seemed strained. and that there was
a good deal of blood on the sheets and
pillows The bed covering had peen
thrown over most of the body, Sne Salo.
There's trouble here" she says she
exclaimed to Beers as soon as the light
had been turned on.
Yes, lady, there is trouble here, she
says the minister answered Sne leIt
me month ago and came 10 iopena
and I've come up today to see II we
couldn't straighten it out. we've
been quarreling about the children the
witness declared he told her
Where is the gum" the witness salo
she asked DR.. Ernest, after sne hdu
noticed a hole in Mrs. Beers NeS'
about over her heart.
There is no gum she said the pnysl-
clan answered, and that ne aooeu'
cher teeth are down her throat Sne
said Beers told them the woman hau
two sets of false teeth, one set u
which the witness says sne saw iyinS
near the woman's shoulder on tne oeu.
She did not make an examination anu
did not know which set 1t was.
what was Beers appearance" de-
manded Assistant County Attorney
Tom Lillard.
There was lots of blood on his hanos
and face"
Beers Was Calm-or Dazed.
What was his condition as TO be-
ing calm or otherwise?"
He was very calm
Did he show any manifestations OF
grief?'
Not the slightest that could see.
"Was he fully dressed?"
81 don't know whether ne hao OH
a coat or collar or not"
otherwise he was dressed?'
YES
on cross-examination the witness adj
mitted that perhaps. the proper de-
scription of Beers apparent conoltlon
was that he was dazed.
Yes, dazed, that's the word that
describes it," she said when Attorney
Otis Hungate asked her if that was MS
condition.
On cross-examination also she told
of the meetings between Beers ana
herself and DR.. Ernest on the physi-
clans arrival.
Mr.. Beers threw the door wide
open," she said, land he said, Come
in, doctor, you're too late. She's gone.
It's too bad, too bad"
She declared she went Immediately
to the light and turned it on, the
room DelllS udI hiAOoo SiANS
reached it. -.
Mrs. Charles O'Neal, of Wakarusa,
one of the minister's parishioners, Gre
ated a good deal of amusement by in
sisting upon telling of her own in
ferences and the gossip of the neigh
borhood with reference to the min
lister. She stopped, however, when it
was explained to her that she must
tell only what she said or heard Beers
say, or what anyone else said in the
presence of Beers.
A Parishioner Testifies.
when was the first time you saw
Right after he came to Waka-
rusa.''
twas his wife with him?''
Eyes, they took dinner at our
place"
What was the attitude of Mr..
Beers toward his wife while you saw
them together?"
Mrs. Beers didn't have anything
to say while he was around, but talked
freely enough when he went out with
Mr.. O'Nea1," she answered.
After Mrs. Beers had left her hus-
band Beers went to the O'Neal home
with his little boy, she said, and the
boy told her that Mamma is gone"
Yes she said Beers added; that
is no joke. She is gone and I don't
know where she is
his wife's religion had taken her away,
and said they had had trouble in
Ohio before they came to Kansas in
asmuch as his first family could not
get along with his wife. He told her,
she said, that his wife had joined the
Methodist church before they were
married, but that nevertheless she was
a Catholic.
He told her, she said, that his wife
wanted him to take pastoral work in
Kansas, but that they had had more
trouble after they came here, result
ing in her leaving him.
Atchison Flags Rev. Beers.
Numerically f1aying the Rev. w.
L. Beers, defendant in the murder
case on trial in the second division
of the district court, County Attorney
William E. Atchison, in his opening
statement to the jury, pictured the
preacher as some sort of human mon
ster. Beers is given to violent fits of
anger, the county attorney said, and
he added that evidence would be pre-
scented to show that he has grossly
mistreated the wife he is accused of
killing, nearly ever since his marriage
to her.
Atchison declared also that Beers
had one manner of abusing his wife
that is significant in the present case.
He said the preacher frequently would
force his big hand into his wife's
mouth and throat. He said the de-
PENDANT would sometimes drag his
wife from one room to another by
the hair, and otherwise would treat
her cruelty.
The jury as finally accepted by both
sides consists in five farmers and sew
eral retired business men. The per-
sonnet of the jury, who will hold the
fate of the preacher in their hands, is
as follows:
q. T. Fitzgerald. farmer of Valen-
cha; G. w. Main, a travelling salesman
of Topeka; L. M. Carter, retired
business man of Topeka; F. w. Wild
shops; S. P. Hawkins, colored, a con-
tractor of Topeka; w. T. Cromwell
and F. NJ. Moran, farmers living
southwest of the city; William Mar