Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-02
WILL UNRAVEL THE BEACH MYSTERY
Society Man Will Be Placed On Trial for Alleged As
 sault On His Wife.
HEARING IN AIKEN. s. c.
Wife Claims Negro Was Her Assailant But Detective Found Evidence to
 Sustain Another Story.

Aiken, s. C., Feb. 1.-The mystery surrounding the attack upon Mrs. Frederick O. Beach. New York socie- ty belle, at her winter cottage here on February 26, 1912 is scheduled for fi- nal solution when her husband Beauty Beach, accused of perpetrat- ing the outrage is called to trial dur ing the February term of the General Sessions Court which convenes here on Monday.
 Beach, his chief of counsel, Colonel D. s. Henderson, and his wife have repeatedly characterized the charges brought against the defendant as un- true and slanderous. They hold to the story originally told by Mrs. Beach immediately after the assault that negro was the assailant On the other hand States Attorney Robert L. Gun ter and M. s. Baughn who worked up the evidence upon which the wealthy New York society man was formally accused of the assault have advanced the theory that Beach committed the attack in a fit of insane jealousy. The man who eluded the pursuit of a CO., terie of citizens brought to the scene ] of the attack by Mrs. Beach's cries they assert was white not black and was instrumental in arousing the an- ger of Beach.
 This hint of scandal it was said to- day, might broaden into charges that would shake tn efashionable winter colony here to it's foundations, involv- ing the names of some of the most l prominent people in national and in- ! terational society.
 Moved in Society.
 Frederick o. Beach and his wife are residents of Roslyn, L.. l., and have long been associated with the most exclusive of American society. Mrs. Beach, the daughter of Cortlandt D. Moss, was formally the wife of Charles F. Havemeyer, millionaire son of the founder of the sugar trust Havemeyer was killed in his home at ls]ip, l.. I. in May, 1898 by his own hand it was said at the time. Eigh teen months later Mrs. Havemeyer and Beach were married in Grace church. The attack. Mrs. Beach alleges to have been made by the negro, was made on the lawn of Beach's Aiken home. She stated that her assailant struck her to the ground with fence picket, slashed her th1loat, tore a valuable set of ear rings from her ears and rushed away as her cries brought help. This story was at first substantiated by negro maid, Pearl Hampton, who was also felled by Mrs. Beach's a':sailant. Mrs. Beach de- scribed the man making the assault as negro of medium height, but stated that she could give no detailed description of him owing to dark ness.
 The attack so incensed both the Northern visitors to Aiken and the citienzs of that town that c. Oliver Iselin, Aiken's founder as a winter resort offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of Mrs. Beach's assailant and stated that he would be glad to participate in the lying of the male- factor This reward was quickly in- creased by the municipality and pri- vate donors and M. s. Baughn, de- tective was called, in by. the authori- ties to solve the mystery.
 Fred Beach Arrested.
 Baughn's findings in the case were made public in warrant for the arr rest of Fred Beach, sworn out on April s. In this warrant Baugh alleges that Mrs. Beach left her home on the night of the attack and that, Peach, becoming anxious over her failure to return, went out to look for her. 1 Passing around the side of his own l house to an opening in the hedge he had an unobstructed view, between his house and that of Joseph Hartman. He then pulled fence paling from the fence there, according to the com plaint, and walked to dark spot near the laundry and stood in the shadow.