Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-02-04
ATTACK OCCURRED LAST YEAR
WHILE WOMAN WAS WALKING IN
THE DARK A MAN STRUCK
HER SUDDENLY
JURY INDICTED HER HUSBAND.
COUPLE, HOWEVER, ARE NOT
EsTRANeED. APPEARING IN
COURT TOGETHER

Aiken S. G., Feb Charged with
assanlting his wife. Camilla Morse
Iiayemeyer Beach. with intent to
Kill, Frederick o. Beach, New York
millionaire, toda 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 winter hornq
here and received serious cut III
the throat Immediately after the at
tack Mrs Beach asserted that her
assailant was negro After an in
vestigation by the authorities. a-7ear-
rant was issued for the arrest of Mr.
Beach. Repeatedly he had denied the
charge
Mr.. Beach appeared ID the court
room early. accompanied by Mrs.
Beach her sister. Mrs, James B. Tay.
lor, and Miss Marion Hollins
Beach and bis vie sat a their.
,counsel's table behind bulwa o.
wbooks. chaeung while thel
prosecution was calling the Witnesses
in another case.
Soon after their arrival Mrs Colvin
Iselin came in with Mr.. Henry Hollim |
and took their seats just behind the
Beaches. Back of the rail a score or
more of women, only few Of whom
were members Of the winter colony,
had occupied the best seats and
strained eagerly for glimpse Of
Beach and his wife.
The case was called at 1920 o'clock.
Only % minutes was required to Sc
cure a jury. Seven Of the men charg-
ed were farmers, one country mer-
chant and the other cotton mill opera
tives. While the Indictment was be
ing read Mrs. Beach kept her eyes
upon Prosecutor Gunter. Her
face did not change expression when !
he reached the word edid assault with
murderous intent" p
Beach rested his chin on his hand a
and gazed straight before him. He ?
was not formally arraigned, thus being t.
spared the humiliation Of standing the u
prisoners docket Prosecutor Gunter q
opened his side BY having the steno- 2
srapher read the testimony Of Miss
Iiallah Wyman. who is Ill The testi- 4
nony was taken yesterday 3
Miss Wyman was examined in the q
nesence Of Prosecutor Gunter and p
Colonel Henderson, counsel Tor the de- n
ense. she testified she was in her
bed in the front room Of her home oi
which is directly across the street o.
rom the assault scene, when she
leard two screams. She went to the el
,pen windows and tried 10 locate the &,
source Of the screams.
Seeing no one, she returned to bed r,
md in few minutes she heard two q
more screams. This time she saw . Il
man come down the street from the dl. d
.ection Of the Beach home, When she i
shouted to him to stop that noise or )
She would call the police, she said
the man broke iuto a run. q
You had better run and run fast, q
was her parting shot at the retreating q
figure. Miss Wyman could not say Il
the man was white or black. /,
She said the suit he wore, nwas not a
real light OF real black
After Miss Wyman returned 10 her a
bed again she said she heard ! third Il
series OF screams from the direction 4
Of the Beach home. Dr. Hastings wy o
man, the girls father, was the first a
witness. He testified that he was I
IA his library reading when be heard L
two series Of screams across the v
street He did not hear the third