New Britain herald., 1916-07-13
TEARS AND SOBS
 IN NEWARK JAIL
Woman Who Shot Husband Is
 Visited by Her Children

Newark, July 13-Tears aplenty flowed in the Essex county jail when Margaret, eight years old, and Marie,
 five, were admitted to a cell to see their mother, Mrs. Margaret Claire Beutinger who the day before had
 shot and killeed their father Christo- pher Beuting ger, wealthy coal operator, Walter G. Brandley, the young wom- ans counsel, and the keepers turned away and pretended to be busy doing something else while the sobbing con- tinued
 Mrs. Beutinger does not care rap what the law does with her," said her attorney, "but her whole care is for her five children. I do not know yet what l can do, but I am going to
 see if she cannot be released on bail
 so that she may care for the children,
 who are now in the custody of the family servants"
 Margaret and Marie were with their
 mother in her cell for an hour or
 more, and when they left all three
 were merry and laughing, so their call is believed to have done their mother
 much good.
 As Mrs. Beutinger is under a charge of murder she cannot be ad-
 mitted to bail, and the case ordinarily would have to await the action of the Grand Jury that convenes in Septem-
 Der. But such unusual sym pathy has
 been aroused for her that an effort
 may be made to reduce the charge to
 a crime of less degree, one admitting her to bail.
 The five children, of whom Mar iS RpIfjn- ger country home in Caldwell, in the care of Mrs. Eugene Graf, the house. keeper, and of the other employees. The bedroom in which Mrs. Beutinger killed her husband, follinwing months of abuse, was locked and no one was permitted to enter.
 Tell of His Abuse. Confirmation of Mrs. Beutinger's story of the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her wealthy husband was given yesterday by Dr. E. I. Ives of Little Falls Soon after the Beutinger family purchased the Caldwell home Mrs. Beutinger was beaten by her husband Mrs. Graf said, and not wishing her neighbors to know of her humiliation, Mrs. Beutinger asked
 Mrs. Graf to obtain a physician not
 a resident of Caldwell. Mrs. Grafr called Dr. Ives to the house.
 "On that occasion I found that Mrs. Beutinger had been severely beaten and I attended her for many bruises and abrasions," he said. She told me her husband had beaten her with his fists and had tried to choke her.
 After that Mrs. Beutinger was a caller almost every week at my office i'll Little Falls. She also came to have new bruises and cuts and scratches at tended and always said her husband had beaten her. Once she told me she knew her husband was going to kill her some day, and once she told me she believed he was insane. that the war had caused him to lose his mind"
 Mrs. Graf and the other employees informed Mr. Brandley that Beutin- ger was in the habit of striking his wife and otherwise abusing her for no apparent reason. They believed that he was such an ardent German sympathizer that his mind had been turned. Before attacking his wife, they said, he frequently prefaced the blows with some such remark as "You English woman or You're English. They said he always exhibited uncon- trollable anger against anything Eng lfSh, and they believed his hatred for his wife was engendered by the fact that she was English.
 Women Friends Call.
 A dozen or more women friends of | Mrs. Beutinger living in Caldwell and | in New Rochelle, Mount Vernon and | Yonkers, called at the jail to see Mrs. l Beutinger, but under a rule they were not admitted. They wished to ex press their sympathy for her and 8 willingness to aid her in her trouble. Mrs. Beutinger had lived in New Ro- chelle, Mount Vernon and Yonkers before going to Caldwell and the wo- men who called at the jail had known her in those places.
 Mrs. Beutinger said she had moved from each of those places after being humiliated by her husbands actions with other women and by his abuse of her. Although only twenty-seven years old. she had borne him seven children, two of whom died and she said to her attorney yesterday that she believed she deserved better treat n, epf hipo