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Show BEACH IS ON STAND Testifies in Own Behalf Be-half Mrs. Beach to Relate Story of Attack Aiken, s c . Feb t. -Frederick O I Beacb took the witness stand in his i own defense shortly afier court con : vened today in the case in which Beach Is charged with assaulting hit) wife wiib murderous intent It was thought Mrs Beach, who aG-serts aG-serts that her husband is iunot ent would follow him on the stand. Both the accused and his wife have Stead llv maintained since Mrs. Beach was attacked on the lawu of the family s vflltiier residence here laBt winter that (he guilty person was a negro who seized Mrs Beach as she l"ft the house to give her dogs an ainnc Beach on taking the stand said that he was 57 years old, that he was a property owner at Aiken and had been spending the winters here for seventeen v ears. "When did you marry Mrs Beacb '" asked Congressman Bvrnes, of his, counsel. "NoTember M, 1899." "Have you auy children"" Yes. two." "Where w-ere oti living In Febru-! ary, 191:"" "I had rented my house In Hood's I Lane 10 Mrs Lyons, and my wife and : l were living In the cottage adjoining It." "Did vou have an,- guests on Febru. ary 2C" "Yes. .Miss Holllns She arrived 'be dav before " "Did you have any other guests foi supper that night?" 'No " "What did vou do after supper?" Beach Tells Story. ' The three of us, we went Into tho sitting room fronting on Hood Lane. .Miss Hollins retired about 10 minutes after nine. My wife and I continued reading. Suddenly we heard a scream My wife excla'nic 1 My, whafs that"' I told her I though. It was some negroes quarreling Then we beard another from the direction of the Dyons place. Then ir wife said she thought she kou'u go to beck but that she would put the doz? out first Then she- went out with .t now dogs, closing the ..itting room dot& behind her A minute later 1 heard her scream. I ian out of the front dnofr and saw my wife leaning against a post at the corrter or the , port h I had got about a quarter oi 'the wa down the path when a negro darted past me from the bushes and out of the front gate I coind havo Intercepted him. but I rushed to the assistance of my wife. My thought when I beanl her s reitii was that she had found dead or dying the v o man we had beard scre:imin' a l 'minutes before ' W hen I reached my wife, she exclaimed. ex-claimed. 'He lias done Bomethlne dreadful to mo ' I carried her onto the porch opened the screen door and laid her down Inside. Then I saw the cut in her throat, ami r al b.ed for the tirst time what bad happened 1 rushed upstairs obtained obtain-ed mv Kun ind went out Into Hood'B lane In search for the ar-sailant I returned in a shoit lime and found ; the door had slammed to I knocked vigorously and Miss Holllns came to 'the door" and asked who was there I before opening it I replied. 'It's me, I Beach Let me in ' Called Physician. Beach said that he left the house soon again to telephone to Dr Hall, .his physician. He met the two Wymans, doctors who lived across the street, coming in He telephoned Dr. Hall irom the Vlken club and then returned to his wife's sule When Dr. Hall arrived and began st win-' up the wound in her throat, he said he held heT hand because 'it was iron painful and she held on to me." He said that he did not remain in her room during the night because Miss Hollins was there with her. but he declared she Bent for him several limes during ihe night The witness then began a long narrative nar-rative bearing on his efforts to bring hia wife's assailant to Justice He Mi he asked that night what was befne done and was lold by his Triend Ed Smith "not to worry, as he would I , caught before morning " He said that ho telegraphed for a detective ihe next dav Mrs Beach Testifies. Mrs Beach followed her husband on the stand to tell her itory She wore a brown skirt and a low-necked v bite shirtwaist Her plain black bat t but rested strangely with her face, flushed with excitement i Mrs Beacb Corroborated the narrative nar-rative tfier husband related. she -aid the negro had attacked her from behind by laying his bands on her shoulders and forciug her to her W. knees. She said she was too terrified Br , to scream after the negro had struck K. her on the sld of the head wjth a K ' heavy stick After she screamed sh h heard the door slam and saw the m- ' negro run as her husband came to W. ! help her. W I |