The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-13
AGAINST BEERS.
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According to Maze the preachers
| hands and face were covered with
blod when he entered the room. He
| says that the body of the victim of the
tragedy was lying in a pool of blood
on the bed. The blood ne said, so
covered the face of the woman that
he could not tell what the expression
on her face might be. He declared
the blood extended nearly down to
her waist on the bed, and covered her
breast as well as her face and hands.
When Beers opened the door for
Maze and DR.. Ernest, who returned 70
the room with him, the witness said
the minister walked back and forth
between the bed and the door several
times. Then he said he began ques-
tioning the minister, and declared the
conversation between them was prac-
tically as follows, the questions being
asked by Maze:
''Who is the woman"
she is my wife," the minister is
said to have responded.
What is the trouble?'
We've had some trouble"
What is the trouble about?' Maze
said he persisted.
Trouble Was Over Religion.
We've had trouble before, he
said the preacher said. It's about
our children. My God, amt it awful
for a Methodist minister to be in trou-
BILE like this! The trouble is she's
Catholic"
him of a telephone talk with his wife
from his home at Wakarusa in which
| they agreed he should come to Topeka
and try to 'straighten OUT the trou-
BILE. He said they took a room on ac-
count of the rain, and that after they
went to bed they got into d fight.
"She almost pushed me out of bed.'
| the witness said the preacher told him.
| : What did you dog" he says DR..
Ernest asked Beers in the presence OF
of the witness.
He Put His Hand i'm Her Mouth.
Il put my hand in her mouth to
stop her from hollering,'' he said
Beers answered.
you mean you put your hand over
| her MOUTH" DIR. Ernest is said to
have persisted.
No" the witness said the preacher
| answered, Il put my hand in her
mouth
After the physician had gone out
| to call the chief of police and the
coroner Maze said the preacher de-
clared that could not lie about it, :"
and that he put his hand in hex
mouth
| They had had trouble for quite a
while, he says Beers told him. on ac-
| count of their religious beliefs and
their children. Then he talked
| further, telling the detective, he said,
that Mrs. Beers frequently would get
| him in a public place and would
scream and humiliate him by scream
| ing He said the witness testified, that
! he had to suppress her before under
| similar circumstances.
your face is scratched, the witness
said he remarked.
yes he said the preacher an
swered. cit has been scratched worse
| than that.
Maze described in detail the find
| ing of the false teeth, both the upper
plate, which lay partly under the vic
TINS neck and the lower plate, which
was discovered in her throat. He said
he could plainly see the bump on the
| neck where the teeth had projected
| against the skin.
Maze was followed by Chief of Police
Morris Jenkins and City Detective Carl
/ Golf, both of whom substantiated to a
great extent the testimony of Maze.
She Was as Stout as He.
He told me she was nearly as stout
as he was Golf said in telling of his
! conversation with the preacher. land
; that she was screaming and fighting.
J Former Assistant County Attorney
James A Mcclure, who had charge of
the examination of witnesses at the
coroner's inquest. went on the witness
stand to tell of careful examination
made by him of the body of Mrs. Beers
\ after the post mortem examination and
| told of numerous small scratches and
, bruises he found on her face and neck.
He admitted that none of these We're of
| a serious nature. He also admitted
| that the scratches on her neck might
| have been caused by her clawing des-
perately at her throat when she was
/ strangling.
| The last witness for the state was a
| reporter for the State Journal who told
| of an interview with Beers at the city
prison after the tragedy The reporter
declared Beers had told him that he
had been compelled to put his hand
| in his wife's mouth to prevent her
screaming, and that he said 1t was not
! the first time he had had trouble with
his wife
A crowded courtroom continues to
hear the evidence. and from the looks
| of the room when court convened this
morning some of the spectators might
| have remained all night The janitor
] says they did not, but evidently they