Show I WIFE Will TESTIFY fOR HER HUSBAND Mrs Mis Beach to Take Stand Today Today Today To To- day and Swear That It Was Wasa a Negro and Not F. F 0 O. B Beach ach Who Slashed Her Throat PROSECUTIONS PROSECUTION'S EVIDENCE PURELY CIRCUMSTANTIAL None of Witnesses Could Give Details of Assault on Woman at South Carolina Resort That Resulted in Scandal A A A IKEN S. S C C. Cf Feb 4 4 With the thet t examination n of eight witnesses the tho prosecution l practically finished late Inte today the construction of its circumstantial circumstantial cir cir- case casc against Frederick 0 Bead Beach of or New York Vork charged ed with attacking nl- nl tacking his wife Two or three minor witnesses probably will vill be introduced early earh- tomorrow Mrs Airs Mis Beach will ill 1 take lake tl e t the he stand to to- orrow to testify that it was a negro and not her husband who vho slashed her throat thront at the thc Beach winter home borne here la last t February Not one of of the witnesses whose evidence evi I I dence consumed the trials trial's first day could give details of the assault Four members of the Wyman Vyman family across tho street told of ot a series of at screams from different crent parts of the Beach pr premises about 93 o'clock on the night flIght of February 26 6 l two wo of rif f them testifying that the tho d dying ng- ng echo of the thelast thelast thelast last scream m was wa quickly quick followed b by loud rapping on a 3 door und and the this sound of ot a n mans man's voice olce exclaiming r l itS Beach ca h let ale In fa Ia Aw A y 4 Miss ti t f m d' d tI it site slie hie was a In her b bed bi Jn n the front room of her home nome wh when n she heard two screams Sh She went vent to the open window and tried to locate the source o of the cream Seeing no on one she returned to bed and In a few Cew minutes she heard two more screams This time she site saw sa a aman aman aman man come down the street treet from tho the di direction direction direction di- di of ot the Beach home homo When hen she ho shouted to him to stop that noise nelse or sho would call the police pollee she said theman the tho thoman man broke broko into a run You had better run rUI and run fast tast was ras her parting shot at the thc retreating figure could not whether Miss Wyman Vyman fa say the man was white or black She said tho suit ho he wore was not rca real JI light ht or real black After Miss Wyman returned to bed I again she says she heard a third series of or screams from the direction of oC tho the thoD I I D Beach ach home X Negro Kro Servant Hacked Pearl Pear Hampton a nc negro ro servant who was employed at the home of J J. J W W. J. J Lyons Jons ons adjoining the thc Beach cottage at atthe atthe attl tl the e of orthe the assault testified that I tho time Lyons Lons were gl giving ng a dinner party that nl night ht and that Mr tr and Mrs Beach were not present Sho She started to leave tho the house shortly after 0 o'clock she said and was attacked b by bya a n man near the fence separating the thc I two houses She was knocked down Screaming she returned to tho kitchen i reporting the thc occurrence to two other I servants She Sho said the they accompanied her away asay from the place by another exit Tho Tho wo woman nan was unable to tell teU whether her a assailant was a a. white whiteman whiteman whiteman man or a negro Sho She said he wore a n adark adark dark gray suit BUIt or overcoat Sheriff FInIs Find Footprints Footprint The last witness of or the tue da day was Sheriff H H. L- L LHoward Howard chief of or POlice of Aileen at the time Ho lie told of or summoned to tho the B Kvach ach home about ut an nn hour lr after the aM assault was supposed oll to lo h hit have occurred To him Beach Bench re reIn related re- re In hated led th the same story that ho he told toM tim tho others lIe He said aid he did not see Mrs Beach neach An examination he said aid disclosed disclosed dis dis- closed l e evidences of a n struggle In the tho side yard There he ho found earrings combs and hairpins afterwards Identified Iden Iden- titled as belonging to Mrs Irs Beach Douch and anda a bloody fence picket which ho lie sui sail said had boon been torn of oft ocr the tho fence separating t the lie Beach and IJ Lyons premises The defense then brought out the tho fact tact that the case caso against ag Beach Deach was wa worked up lJ by a it detective named Baughn Baughin who was as employed b by the town counsel Prosecutor Gunter Guntor established b by the same sanie witness tho time alleged fact that an another another nn- nn other detective named flamed Post was put on the case by Beach Dench before Baughn came Mr r Mrs Taken Note Mr 1011 MiSs Beach Bench was tho ho most conspicuous figure figuro In the tho courtroom toda today toda Sho She sat through h the two long sessions takIng taking taking tak tak- ing an occasional noto note from the tho testimony tes tes- and chatting with her hem husband and friends who surrounded her J A Jury of or countrymen will decide the the- guilt or Innocence of the wealthy New Yorker Seven Se of or them arc farmer turin farm er or ors one a merchant anti and the others cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton mill operatives Both sides aides expressed expressed ex- ex pressed confidence tonight that the case would go t to tho he Jur Jury tomorrow |