New-York tribune., 1916-07-14
Children See Broker Shot
by Wife Buried from
Silent Home.
DEAD MANS NAME
NOT ONCE USED
"GIad Funeral Is Over" Says
Accused Woman-Lawyer
Can't Hurry Case.

Christof Beutinger, who on Tuesday
morning was shot and instantly killed
by his wife, Margaret Beutinger, was
buried yesterday afternoon from his
home on Hillcrest Road, Caldwell, N. j..
1t was a funeral at which not one tear
was shed. Nowhere in the prayers or
the reading was any mention made Of
the man who lay dead.
Five little children, their eyes bright
with curiosity, were lifted one by one
to the level of the coffin to look upon
the face of their father, a bullet wound
on its forehead. In the big, silent
room with It's funeral wreathes and
weight of gloom, the five looked small
and pitiable, little homesick aliens in
an unknown country of sorrow and
! tragedy. The eldest was only eight
years old.
"Thou hast set our iniquites before
u.s." droned the solemn voice Of the
minister. "Who knoweth the power Of
Thine anger?"
Mother Insisted on Honor.
In her cell in the Essex County Jail
at Newark, Mrs. Beutinger, imprisoned
on the charge OF numbering her hus-
band, had determined that her chill
dren should thus honor the man who,
| according to her own statement, had
made her life miserable for years.
She had insisted that their mourning
should be complete, even TO the tiny,
ack-bordered handkerchiefs they car
ried in stiff, unsccustomed little
hands.
"He was their father" she had said.
"Some day my babies may judge me
for my action in ending an unendura-
Bile horror. Even from them ! want
no more sympathy than is fair Let
them 90 TO the funeral and remember
their father as kindly as they can"
So the frightened little procession
had come into the room that was
almost empty. And if it had not been
| for the presence of the five children
who, it is said had sometimes feared
Christof Beutinger, he would have
gone almost unattended TO his grave
! Besides them at the funeral were only
the minister who conducted the cere-
mony. the lawyer for the defence, the
] housekeeper, the gardener and two men
and two women who had come IRON
New York and who refused to make
their identity known.
Dead Man Never Mentioned.
The services were simple. The most
significant thing about them was the
failure of the Rev. John Z. Klein
pastor of the German Evangelical
| Lutheran Church, Of Orange, to men,
ton the name of the dead man at any
time or to refer to him Ia. his prayers
"Be with these little children who
have been afflicted" he prayed. III 1t
be Thy will, restore their mother TO
| them soon"
The room, darkened by the thunder
storm outside, was Frightened by
flashes of tightening as the children
stood about the coffin. Three-year-ol q
Billy, the baby, hid his scared little
face in the neck of Mrs. Eugene Graf,
the housekeeper. Then he lifted 1t
again.
"Hush. darling; he's asleep
answered Mrs. Graf. AS she carried
the child from the room the boy looked
back over her shoulder, his puzzled
ewes fixed upon his father. The other
children. older and more awed. were
quiet, and made no display of emotion
A little knot of curious busybodies,
inevitably drawn by a tragedy, stood
unheeding the rain to watch the conn
carried to the hearse. They were
buzzing over details of the crime with
relish as the funeral procession passed
them, and they did not disperse until
the last car was out of sight.
The interment was in Prospect Hill
Cemetery, hardly half mile from the
Peutinger home. Here the five chill
dren stood in the rain while the coffin
was lowered into the grave. Billy,
apparently frightened for the first
tine, slipped his hand into that of
Walter G. Brandley, his mothers az