Show BfllTLER MURDER CASE What the Line of Defense Will Be BEAD MANS COMPLAINT I TH DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS It Is Shown to the Herald by Attorney Attor-ney Winters Vain Search Forte For-te Fourth Suspect At the preliminary examination ot the Buetler murder suspects on Thurs day morning Elvln Mitchell No2 will put in a defense through his attorney at-torney J M Hamilton while both John i Rice No 1 and Mrs Harriet Buetler will waive their rights to an Immediate hearing Attorney Hamilton has forsaken Rice after a more careful inquiry into the merits of his case The attorney who arose at the inquest to remove the I prejudice produced by the demeanor I of Rice on that occasion has practically prac-tically admitted his belief that No1 is implicated He believes Mitchell to be innocent of direct connection an opinion opin-ion shared by more than one person and forecast in the Herald of yesterday yester-day I is also quite possible that under advice of counsel Mitchell will not surrender his secret thus lessening lessen-ing the chance of convicting Rice unless un-less the other man is forthcoming I was expected throughout yesterday that another arrest would be booked by the police at any moment but for some reason best understood by the department depart-ment the expected event did not occur oc-cur The remains of Buetler were buried on Sunday evening Edgar E inters in-ters who acted as attorney for the deceased de-ceased in the matter of drawing divorce di-vorce papers has shown The Herald the draft of Che application in which Buetler alleged but one fault in his wife She is charged therein with habitual hab-itual drunkenness and attendant foul language to the plaintiff This document docu-ment was drawn on Feb 15 and on that I day the umbrella mender paid the attorney torney a fee of 750 and asked for time to scrape together the balance Mi Winters says that Buetler was In poor circumstances and actually had accumulated accu-mulated little money On the Wednesday Wed-nesday preceding the murder Buetler called on his niece Miss Bessie Buet ler at lOS Third street where she is employed as a domestic and asked her for some money for which she had been indebted to him I was to have been put toward the payment of fees for his divorce he explained She promised to bring the money to his place the same evening and performed the errand About one year ago Attorney inters in-ters defended Buetler in the police court of this city He was at that time charged with assaulting an Italian Ital-ian with a hatchet I appeared that Buetler then occupied one end of a small frame house just opposite the Knutsford on the southeast corner ot State and Third South The Italian in question rented the other end He was in the habit of entering his rooms rather late in the evening and playing some musical instrument Buetler objected ob-jected but the disturbance was not abated whereupon the old Swiss broke into his neighbors apartments and struck him with the instrument named in the complaint Buetler paid a fine for this exhibition of temper He wa then engaged in mending tinware i Mr Winters says that his client was never afraid of Harriett Beutler a represented by so many persons What he dreaded was contact with her when the woman was in beastly states of I intoxication When he separated from her Beutler came to Winters and I I sought his advice a to the disposition of some household furnishings a portion i I por-tion of which belonged to the wife He was advised to allow her to have all of I and respected the admonition j This was all of Scullers stock when he left the woman now charged with being the cause of his destruction and i his former counsel does not think that I I he gathered together anything since that time tme Beutlers manner would led observant observ-ant persons to suspect that he was jealously guarding something which he feared might be taken from him When this impression was deepened by the display of a very handsome gold watch and chain which he always wore knaves might not be amiss informing in-forming evilminded conclusions That such suspicions induced the thought of robbing the old man is no more i i doubted They may explain the singular I i 1 singu-lar conduct of the man who accosted i j the restaurant keeper on South Temple I Tem-ple street which has already been described de-scribed in The Herald More information about this Individual Individ-ual was secured yesterday and the police po-lice are of the opinion that he is the I muchwanted partner in the crime i The suspect wa about five feet four I inches in height solidly put up round full face and was dressed partly in a I gray coat wearing upon his head a broadbrim white felt hat and was I I perhaps 21 years of age He excited the curiosity of the restaurant keeper j by his low demeanor There was all sorts of disrespect in the tone he ali when inquiring for the umbrella I mender Say you cant tell me where I an old guy named Beutler lives around here I want to see him Then he was directed to a place further up the street and loafed away upon his quest No person answering such a description descrip-tion has been met in the city since i eetd r W enm the murder but the department Is alive Ito I-to the importance of apprehending I someone who answers the bUI There I is now a theory extant that the men I i ldat W who did the strangling did not leave l the scene by way of South Temple I but went back through the vacant lot I behind the Cave Less credence is beIng be-Ing placed in the story that the two men whom the Holts saw were the ones who did the murder In other respects there are no new developments develop-ments of the mystery |