The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1904, Page 3

NEL CURSED MOTHER Witness Testifies “that She Heard the Young Woman ~ Who Was Afterward Mur- dered Swear at Terrible Rate. 3 x o ie BLOOD FOUND ON TOM’S FINGERS. His Room, Too, Had Bloodstains and Many Exhibits Stained with Gore Are Produced in Court To-Day. ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 15,—The Sechtel murder trial’ was continued to- day. There was another big crowd in and around the court. At a signal from Capt. Schaadt, their lawyer, the Bechtels walked into the main court-room in single file. Martha led the procession, followed in turn by Mrs. Bechtel, Mrs. Brobst, Mrs. Davis, and John and Charles Bechtel. Mrs, Miller was recalled by the de- fense this moraing, She testified there were, wagon in the = alley back of «the and tracks made by horses’ hoofs, Mrs, Mil- Jer also testified that Mabel and her mother often quarrelled. Once, when they had a fight, Mabel cufsed her mother at a frightful rate. It was xo distressing that Mrs. Miller wept tell- ing Mabel she didn’t treat her mother dutiful: Wagon Tracks Not Material, Taken in hand again by the prosecu- tion, Mrs. Miller admitted the wagon tracks in the back alley might have been made by wagons that passed through the day before and not by the yearriage that Mrs.‘ Bechtel alleges brought home Mabel’s corpse, ‘The District-Attorney asked Mrs. Mil- Jer if she had ever heard Mebel and Mrs, Bechtel quarrel about her assoctat- ing with Wiescnberg, when she was en- &aged to Eeksteln, Mrs, Miller an- Swered: “I didn’t hear them quarrel about that subject, but Mrs. Hechtel ‘often spoke to me it, deplorin; Mabel's conduct. ‘She sald ‘to me ‘Wiesenberg’s attentions couldn't be honorable; that he didn't want to mar- Py Mabel.” Mrs. Lizzie Meand, a young woman who lives next door. to the Bechtels on the west side, was the ES Prepossessing | MRS. BECHTEL, ON TRIAL ? AS ACCESSORY TO MURDE. pext witness. The first Mrs, Mean knew of the tragédy was when she was “roused that Tuesday morning by Mrs. Bechtel’s screams about 6.45. She went pyer for two minutes and was told Mabel was dead. irs. Bechtel asked her to send for tie girls, Brobst, at the ‘ilk mis ee Door Open, Mrs. Meand, under direct questionin, testified that ‘she lieard the front door ef the Bechtel houss opw.ed and cl twice soon midnignt of the fatal Tu y mi Oct. 27, ‘he first Was about 12,35 and’ the second e time, Mrs. clock beside eet. ieee ia . Meand sal ind 1 o'clock that morn- Was awake she heard a bai tals had eeven’ do Mrs. Meand was quietly positive and gave her testimony directly. Its tonc wa: friendly: fo the Bechtels und Mrs. Bechtel cried while it was deliv- / ered. Walter Hartzell, a young man of « tend ‘her funeral. ‘ that Men about twenty-two,’ who lives with his rister, Mrs, Meand, {nr the house next door to the Bechtel's, said be got home fet 945 Monday night with four friends and they played cards Hartzell _re- mained up until 12.90 and -just before he went to bed he heard the back door °f the Bechtel house opened and closed, ‘he orizinal story of Mrs, Bechtel, to which she has persistently adhered, is that she saw the carriage in which she alleges Mubel's hody was brought home At 12.15, although Hartzell said he was in the back vard just about that time and neither saw nor heard a carriage, Mrs. Bechtel céntinued to weep while Hartzell testified. Exhibits Smeared with Blood. Dr. F. B, Scheiver, Coroner of Lehigh County, testified he was called to the Bechtel house Tuesday morning, Oct. 27, and arrived about 7.45, He described at Jength the wounds he found, His statement showed that Mabel Bechtel was murdered in a manner inexpressi- bly brutal. ©. Did you know Tom Bechtel? A, Yes, Q. Did you camine him? A. Yes, Dr, Eschbaych and I examined him Very carefully {n the lockup at mid- night_on Wednesday. Q. What did you And? A, We found traces of blood on his fingers; on every one of his fingers and one thumb, ‘We found the blood ugder the nails, ‘Tom was greatly excited and his heart beat very rapidly, a The Coroner “identified the bloody clothes taken from the pody of the girl, He was then called upon to identify the blood-stained bedclothing found. in ‘Tom's room, the sheets and the pillow- cases. In the wash-basket the Coroner said he stained, aprons ‘and other bloody th! ‘The District-Attorney blood-stained — | freshly broken The oroner recognized {t as the instrument, the officers found in the Bechtel peta Lawyer Schnadt an got close to the Coror amining All articles Bechtel remained in her £8" Blood in ‘Tom's Roo ‘The District-Attorney then question the Coroner about the finding of blood stains in the spare room and Tom’ toom on the second floor of the Bechtel aouxe, Phe attorney for the defense objected th the witness using the term blood stains unless he were very sure they ins, replied the Coroner, He said the blood stains were all oyer the carpet. wi hboards and rt et, Tho first day, Tuesday, there was in the spare room a blood-stained ingrain ‘The next day there was in tho closet on the third fluor, Cup dt profuced a board and @ lather’s hatchet, like the one in evi- dence, and had Coroner Schelver strike the board witi it several times squarely and obliquely, The ‘Coroner testiried’ that the ext. nal appearance of the wounds on. the Eirl's head which catised the fractured skull corresponded ¢ marks hewha made ‘on the board. 4 eo to an eltrt to erove tine 0 an effort to prove “Tom" Bechtel committed suicide aot |, Assistant because he tind killed ister, but -because he was not permitted to at- at was caren eet ved grea ith of Mabel, i it that grief over th ‘To Cure Grip in Two Dayn. CZAR TO FORCE (GIRL SHOT DOWN . FLEET THROUGH Determined to Have His War-|Margaret Nevils- Dying in Hos- ships Pass Through Darda- nelles and Will Press Turkey for Consent. BERLIN, Jan. 15.—That Russia has applied to Turkey for permission to send her, Black Sea fleet through the Dardanelles is confirmed authoritatively here, andit is also asserted that Russia will renew the application and press for Turkish consent. Germany’s attitude, as at the time the four unarmed Russlan torpedo boat destroyers passed through the straits, September, 1902, 1s that she has no con- d}eern in the matter. The British Government is believed here to have identified itself more fully week by week with the Japanese posi- tion, until now Great Britain is almost Qs deeply committed as Japan, The position in which Great Britain now stands, according to the view taken of the situation here, brought about by public opinion and by the feeling that Russia would yield-if only a firm al titude were shown, has impressed and 1s impressing the Russian statesmen. The readiness with which the United States associated herself with Japan in pressing for the signature of the com- mercial treaties with China is another fact contributory to the feeling in St. Petersburg that this As not the moment to fight. The decision for war or peace now rests with the Czar's advisers, and symptoms are visible here that the de- cision will be peace, by largely admit- ting Japan's demands. s ‘The views of the British editors, par- tially derived from the Foreign Office in London, are looked upon hero not only as significant, but as also being part of a great diplomatic game against Russia, and in that sense are somewhat discounted. ' The skill Japan has shown through- out the negotiations excites admiration at thé German Foreign Office. BMAP Sinn i ENGUAND HAS NOT WARNED RUSSIA. LONDON, \Jan, 15.—The report pub- lished in the United States by a news agency to the effect that the Britixh Government had notified Japan that any attempt of the Russian Black Sea fleet to pass the Dardansiles would be checked by decisive action is untrue. Foreign Secretary Lansdowne to-day expressed disbelief that Russia had any intention of trying to send a flect through the Dardandiles, adding that it would be an obvious breach of treaty in which Great Britan could not possi- bly acquiesce. peaedeee HELD ON CRIMINAL CHARGE. ;| Dr. Ormsby Charged with Pertorm- ing Criminal Operation, Dr. Robert Ormsby, forty-nix years old, of No. 111 East Twenty-cighth street, was arraigned in Morrisania Court to-day, charged with performing an illegal opefation on Sadie Rosen- é.ithal, nineteen years old, of No. 929 East One Hundred and Fifty-second atreet. She is a patient, at Lebanon Hospital. District-Attorney Ker- nochan representéd the prosecution. Dr. Ormsby was feleased in $3,000 ball for further examination Tuesday next. hs —a | COHEN IS MAYOR’S MARSHAL, Mayor McClellan Appoints Worker in Keenan's Dintrict, Mayor McClellan to-day sppointe: Solomon Cohen Mayor's Marshal. Cohen is an active Heutenant in the Sixteenth Assembly District, of which City Chamberlain Patrick Keenan is leader, It was through the instrumentality of the City Chamberlain that Cohen re- ceived his appointment, 4 ——____ LOOKING FOR TWO LUST Boys, ‘The local police have been asked by Charles H. Thomas, of the Savoy ‘Then- tre. in this city, to look for Ray L. Sanderson’ and Id Warner, of Fitchbure, Mass, who ai ‘ that Several "days gor ‘The boys . ys years of ago and ran away friends ar heir ree i | Si re . mi N BY ER FIANCE pital from Wounds Inflicted by William Carpenter, Who Fired Three Times. a SOUTH NORWALK. Conn., Jan. 15.— Miss Margaret Nevils, one of South Norwaik’s prettiest girls, is dying in the South Norwalk Hospital from bullet wounds inflicted by her flance, William Carpenter, of Stamford. Her mother had obected to the marriage of the couple on account of thelr youth and he asked her to elope. They were walking along the street Jast’ night. Those who noticed them just before the shooting said that Car- penter appeared to be pleading with the girl, She kept slowly shaking her head in response to his questions, “I am going to ask you to do as I say for the last time,” he said in a low voice that was quivering wtih suppressed emotion, “I want you to think carefully before you answer, for on your word depends more than you may realize." jazed up into his fe w st Al vit wi with SALEM, N. that the body of Anna Newkirk may be found in the creek here the ico wai to~ scoured the woods and thickets young man,/a stranger Mr. cided on account of the storm to re- main at the neighbor's house. found Wednesday that she had not ap- peared the night before at the neigh- bor’s. out finding trace of her. SEARCH CREEK FR ILS BODY |Break Ice and Drag Stream for Anna Newkirk, Who Disap- peared After Quarrel with Her Sweetheart. LEFT HOME DURING STORM, LIGHTLY CLAD. aid She Was Going to Visit a Neighbor, but Did Not Do So, and Has Net Since Been Seen. nas J., Jan. 15.—In the hope broken and the bottom dragged lay, bOtyso far without success. Searching © partes from ridge, accompanied by dogs, for les around in vain for some trace of the young woman who disappeared after a quarrel with her sweetheart. It {s thought that Miss Newkirk killed herself in despair after the quar- rel, and her grandfather, with whom she lived, 1s almost frantic. ewkirk was twenty years old. whg are among the most sub- neighbors a For some time, say. as been attentive to the girl. Bince emed melancholy. then the young woman has At times she went about the house as if in a dream, She told her grandfather Tuesday night she fas going to a neighbor's, only a few eps away. She had on a tea gown. Ithough it was snowing heavily she put on no wraps but a fieecy shawl and a crocheted wool head-dress, and even left her overshoes behind, She had no money. She did not returfi that night, but Ridgway thought she had de- He Mr. Ridgway on Wednesday Isited every one in the vicinity to hom the girl might have gone, with- sougnt for in ‘The young man wi herder to question him as to when last he had seen Miss Newkirk. Although it smile. She had notethe slight-|he had been seen in the neighborhood piclon that he intended to harm |on Wednesday after the girl's disap- her, For a full minute she looked into | pearance he could not be found. his eyes as though searching his mind for some hint of what he intended to do if she answered in the negative. Thought Mother Knew B, Then she slowly shook her head, at the seme time saying: “I think my mother knows what Is best. I shall do as she says," Carpenter drew a revolver, “Oh, Will, what are you going to cried the girl, The: young man took quick aim and fired. ‘The bullet entered her stomach, and as she lurched forward Carpenter quickly fired again, The second bullet entered her left lung. A third shot rang out, but this time the young m: aim was not so good and the bi tore its way through the girl's cheek, She sank unconscious to the sidewalk, Ran Into Policem: Carpenter stood a moment irresolute, ‘Then he turned and fled, crossing a v: cant lot to another street. There he ran into the arms of a policeman. Miss Neyils was taken to the hos- pital. As soon as she recovered con- sciousness Carpenter was taken to her bedside for the purpose of identification, Remorse had evercome him completel: and he stood before the girl with tears coursing down his cheeks, Miss ,Nevils looked up at him and faintly nodded her head as the police- man asked if Carpenter was the man who had shot her. FRANCE THREATENS TO KAME BISHOPS Curt Note to Pope Pius States that Selections Made.for Va- cant Sees Will Be Announced if Not Approved. ROME, Jan, 15.—The French Govern- ment has presented the Vatican with a note, in the nature of an ultimatum, regarding the appointment of bishops to five vacant French sees, substantially saying that elther the Pope must ap- prove the selections of the French Gov- ernment or they will be announced of- fictally without the approbation of the Holy Bee. dor" ‘is Arms, D In au st w D Bi re Ne At mi sll day, being five days overdue. Capt. boat that all on that the damage to his vessel was but NORDLAND IN PORT AT LAST Captain Explains that Red Star Liner Broke an Eccentric Strap on Her Engine 500 Miles Out of Queenstown. PHILADAELPHIA, Jan. 15.—The Red Star line steamship Noordland, Liver- pool for Philadelphia, passed in the elaware Breakwater at 10.03 o'clock to- The de- Y¥, a8 reported by Capt. Roberts, was ue to the breaking of an eccentric rap on the engine. The captain said the accident occurred hen the Noordland was about five hundred miles out from Queenstown. She was experiencing heavy weather, and during the severe pitching the strap snapped. The big steamship was hove to for two days for repairs, and later proceeded under “headway repairs.”” uring the time the vessel was in a dis- abled condition she fell in with the ritish steamship Cornishman, which @ailed from Liverpool on Dec. 31 for ‘ortland, Me. This“Was on Jan, 3. Capt, Roberts signalled that the oordiand was unmanageable, but did not ask for aid from the Cornishman. t this time the repairs.wero almost completed, and on the following day the NoordJand proceeded at about two- thirds speed. There are 239 pas: sel, and during the time required to rs on the ves- ake the necessary repairs there was practically, no exciten @1t. Roberts signailed to the pilot- board are well and ight. 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