The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-17

Police announced late this at
noon that several witnesses have
been located In the neighborhood
of the Symmonds street home,
who heard shot fired around
noon time Friday. One party fixed
the time as about 12:45, while 9TH
ers declared that they heard the
explosion at 1920. 81
This is considered by the au-
thOrities as most important evil
dence, since 1t is upon the time
element that the force of an alibis
will hinge. At the inquest Eichel-
man testified that he was at the
Danish restaurant at 1880, and
that it took him about IL minutes
to walk there from his home.
Rumors of a confession having
been made to the police by the
husband, which gained increasing
momentum as the day wore on,
have been branded by the police
as groundless. EicheIman now on
advice of counsel refuses to an
swer any questions.
HI. BENJAMIN Eichelman, who was
taken into custody Saturday night im-
mediately after a coroner's jury had
recommended that he be held on a
charge of numbering his wife, was ar
raigned in municipal court this morn
ing before Judge John c. Slater, and
through his attorney, Alfred L. Drury,
entered formal plea of not guilty.
The court set the case for preliminary
hearing next Saturday morning at 8
a. m. As
The arrest of Eichelman, who is
foreman of the tool and die room at
the American Brass company, and
member Of one of the oldest families
in the city, came as distinct sur
prise following the sensational -testi-
mony introduced at the inquest.
The inquest, which it was generally
believed would be simply formal i'm
curry into the facts surrounding the
finding of his wife's body with a bull
let hole through the heart shortly af-
ter l p. m. Friday, took an unusual
turn under the barrage of questions
laid down by Morris Barnett, district
attorney. The story told by the hus-
band, and other witnesses differed on
several important facts.
Will Ask for Bail.
Immediately after Eichelman, his
father, Henry Eichelman, his counsel
and Sheriff Fred Pabst, had returned
to the county Jail, where the husband
has been held since Saturday, Attor-
ney Drury intimated that an attempt
would be made today to have bail
fixed.
Armed with transcript of the tes-
timony taken at the inquest Attorney
Drury plans to go to Racine and lay
the facts before Judge e. B. Belden,
who as circuit judge, has bail juris-
diction in a case of first degree MUIR
der.
The courtroom was crowded with
curious spectators craning their necks
for sight of the accused man. 1t
was necessary to take the party
through a side entrance into the room.
Eichelman appeared freshly shaved IN
a neat fitting suit and seemed to have
been greatly refreshed by nights
rest. Beside him stood his father,
who was the first person to be noti-
fed of the tragedy by the husband
after finding the body, and who ne !
been almost constantly by his sons
side since that time.
Less than two minutes was requlr-
ed to go through the court fornali-
ties. No word was spoken by either
father or son. AS soon as the date
for the hearing had been set the party
filed back to the jail.
IInusuaI Procedure
After viewing on Sunday for the
last time the body of his wife, whom
he is accused of staying, Eichelman
spent the remainder of the day ut the
home of his father at 800 Exchange
street. He was accompanied by Sher-
Tiff Fred Pabst. Four times, while
standing over the coffin, the husband
was on the verge of complete collapse.
At the Exchange street home he
spent most of the time sleeping, the
sheriff sitting by his side out on the
sun porch. He was in company with
his father, and his two sisters, Mrs,
Edward Peterson, and. Irene Eichel-
man. Edward Peterson was there for
short time before leaving on the
11:S7 train with the body for Cutler,
Wisconsin, the dead woman's old
home, where she will be buried.
| An unusual procedure was allowed
at the county Jail Saturday night,
when Eichelmax,s brother-in-law, Ed
ward Peterson, was granted permits
sion to spend the night in the same
| cell with the man accused of first de-
gree murder.
Refuses to Talk.
Shortly after his return to the
county Jail at p. m. last night from
his family home, E;chelman was tax
en- over to police headquarters to be
questioned by Thad Logan, chief OF
police. He announced that he would
make no answers to any questions
Previously he had been willing to talk
i !Chief Logan stated that the reason
he was kept at the county jail rather
than in the city Jail was because OF
the congested condition of the four
cells in which all prisoners taken
into custody over the weekend were
lodged. The chief added that it is
customary to. keep prisoners, charged
with serious offenses, at the county
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