The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-05-22
Gertrude Brick, Now Is, in Municipal Court
Before Judge Slater Tells of Relations
With Fred Beckman.
Testimony All Three Statutory Charges is Entered
at One Time; Barnett for State and
Stephenson for Defense

as to the three separate charges
should be entered at one time. He
said that his plea in bar as to the
question of former Jeopardy would be
submitted later on the bastardy charge.
Gertrude Brick told the same story
which has already been given: that
on Caster Monday, April Z, 1929, while
she was nursemaid in the home OF
Fred Beckman, attending to his little
boy and his little girl, and while she
was sixteen years of age, he attacked
her. He came into the kitchen in the
afternoon about three o'clock, while
his wife was out and while she, Ger
trude, was giving the baby something
to eat, put his arm about her and
forcefully impelled her into another
room where she said tEo assault took
place. She said that on Saturday of
the same week he again assaulted her,
forcing her, and said, whats the
use of living if you can't have fun
once in a WHILE"
Gertrude said that she did not re-
alize the significance of what had hap
pened until the following January she
gave birth to a child, little girl, now
living. She testified that she had in
innate relations with no other man
or boy, that she was not married, and
had never been married and that Frea
Beckman was a married man. nef
mother Mrs. JGsn Brzfcs testitsd
STAT 4 %li9 child was gtxn to her
daNFhterG Gelsrude, on Januasy 8, 1923
and iat she now has charge ~ it.
High School Girls on Stand.
The defense attorney did not cross
examine the witness at any length,
contenting himself with asking the
girl if Beckman had given her any
thing or promised her anything prior
to making the alleged assault.
Gertrude answered 4no.p She said
he promised her a ring but that was
afterwards, and that he had given
her some medicine to take about a
week later when she complained to
him of headache.
you did not agree to the relation
and he forced you against your will,
is that your statement?" asked Mr..
Stephenson.
The girl said that it was.
"Under that testimony" said the de-
Tense attorney across the table to the
prosecutor, "your seduction charge
will not stand up"
Two girls of about the same age
as Gertrude, took the stand and testi-
fed that they saw Gertrude Brick
at the Beckman home on Easter Sum
day, April 16, 1922. Gertrude Gott-
valid, 618 Huron street, told the court
that she knew the other Gertrude,
Gertrude Brick, simply as a nurse
girl at the Beckman home. She said
that on Easter Sunday, 1922, she was
living block from the Beckman home
at GIT Pomeroy street. She and Lydia
Arndt went over to see friend Of
theirs, Agnes Deiniger, who lived next
door to Beckman's. The two girls
stopped in front of the Beckman home,
saw Gertrude on the porch with
Dorothy and Fritzie, the Beckman
children, and heard her say something
to Fritzie about his Easter things.
Lydia Arndt, the next witness called
to the stand, nearly collapsed on tho
way in terror of the court and the
ordeal She sobbed profusely for a
moment, then collected herself, and
soon gave as direct testimony as her
friend who had just left the stand.
She also said thata she had seen
Gertrude at the Beckman home on
Easter Sunday.
Mrs. Anna Molter, AGA Grover street,
said that She had seen Gertrude at
the Beckmari home the Saturday be-
fore Easter and the Monday following
Easter, 1922. Gertrude asked her on
Monday if the children had liked the
Easter baskets they had been given,
the children referring to some small
relatives of Mrs. Molter.
George Stevens, clerk of the circuit
court, was called as witness for the
defense, after the state had closed its
brief case, and was called upon to
produce the records in the trial of the
state VS.. Frederick Beckman in cir
cult court, the information on two
counts, charging assault on April II
and April %, the judges charge to the
jury, the jury verdict and other mat
tiers, pertaining to the trial. Stevens
testified that Frederick Beckman, the
defendant today, was the same person
who was on trial in March. The
documents were read into the record
in this case at the request Of Judge
Slater.
The law in the ease will be argued
this afternoon.