Jefferson-Tuscaloosa County AlArchives News.....Mrs. Beck Held For Jury Hearing December 6, 1945
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Birmingham Age Herald December 6, 1945
Mrs. Tennie Beck, 36, 312 Avenue T Pratt City, was bound over to the Jefferson 
County Grand Jury under $2,000 bond after preliminary hearing yesterday 
afternoon before Judge G. C. Boner in Felonies Court on a murder charge filed 
against her after the fatal stabbing Nov. 10 of her husband at their home.

Louis Merkl, 59, 1200 Third Street, Pratt City, who is also charged with the 
slaying of Beck, waived preliminary hearing and was held for the Grand Jury 
under $2,000 bond. 
Mrs. Beck did not testify at yesterday's hearing. Police Officer C. A. 
Vildibill testified that Mrs. Beck told him that she had stabbed her husband 
with a pocket knife. Merkl, the officer quoted Mrs. Beck as saying, was at the 
Beck home at the time but had no part in the fatal stabbing. Officer Vildibill 
futher testified that Beck, in a statement made before his death at a local 
hospital, told him that his wife had cut him with a hatchet and that Merkl had 
stabbed him with a knife.    

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