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

YeS, lady, there is trouble mere,
Mrs. Louise Arnett, manager of the
Wife'S death when, in company with
DR.. F. L. Ernest she visited the room.
"She left me month ago., the wit
ness said Beers told her, land came
see if we can't straighten it out. We've
been quarreling about the children, B"
the witness said he concluded.
LOOK at your hand and face,
she said to him.
Yes" she said Beers answered.
''she clawed me-"
The courtroom has been crowded
are anxious to hear the trial When
court convened at o'clock the seats
practically all were taken. AS the
hearing proceeded nearly all the avail
able standing room outside the bar
was filled, and a way out for the
jurors had to be cleared by the bailiff
when the jury was excused for short
recess.
with hardly an expression of any kind
on his face, watching the proceedings.
Once or twice during the morning he
talked moment with his attorneys at
almost motionless during the hearing
Nothing that is said or done seems to
make any difference as far as outward
expression is concerned.
Bell Boy First Witness.
The first witness called this morn
ing was Wallace Mcdowell, bell boy
at the Glenwood on the afternoon of
the tragedy. The boy swore that he
looked at the clock when Beers and
his wife entered the hotel, and de-
clared positively that it was within a
minute or two of o'clock. They
walked to the center of the room, the
boy said, and Mrs. Beers motioned
her husband to the desk to register.
Then he took them to the third floor
and showed them their room, No. ST.
A question of time entered into the
croSS-examination, the attorneys for
the defense trying to show that a
greater time elapsed between the time
the boy showed them to their room
and when he says he went upstairs
again to investigate a scream, than
the boy wanted to admit
what did Beers say when you took
them into the room ?" was asked on
direct examination.
He asked me to turn on the heat"
What was the condition of the
room?'
1T was dark and chilly
WAS the curtain down?"
81 think it was
The witness said he thought Beers
told him not to raise the curtain.
Returning to his seat he declared
about 10 or Is minutes later he heard
a scream and went upstairs to inVesti-
enough to walk down the hall, and
then going to the third floor He said
he heard a noise as though someone
were choking, or more like a person
was sick and was attempting to vomit
and couldn't issuing from room 81
and satisfied that the guests would call
If they needed help he went back
downstairs. Ten or Is minutes later,
ne said, a call for a bellboy came
from room 81, and he went up.
When Rev. Beers Opened the Door.
Mr.. Beers opened the door, he
said in answer to questions, land he
said Get a doctor and policeman
The boy declared he saw only Beers
face and head, and that the darkness
in the room prevented his seeing any
more of the minister. He noticed,
however, that the minister's face was
bloody.
On cross examination several minor
discrepancies between his testimony to-
day and that given by him at the coro-
ner's inquest, held the day following
the tragedy, were called to his atten-
ton. and invariably he took refuge in
a trite expression, II don't remember
He declared on cross examination that
he heard no noise of a scuffle or any
thing else in the room at the time he
went up there except that of the clok-
ing and gagging he had told about be-
fore.
The Landlady's Story.
Mrs. Ari1ett said when Beers came to
her desk on that afternoon he told her
they might need the room all night.
or only until train time. He asked
for prices and took the cheapest room
offered. She corroborated the bell boys
statements as far as she was expected
to know of his whereabo detailing
again his returning to the desk for a
key to the radiator to turn on the heat,