The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-06
BEATTIE SROWSNO
DISTRESS IN JAIL
CONTINUED From First

as If he were ready to pay an afternoon
call.
The pictures on this page are unlike
the photograph of Beattie which APP
pears in page group in another sec
ton of The Times Dispatch to-day
Those printed heretofore are boyish
the Henry Beattie in the county jail
! is more like man.
Preparing FOR Trial.
One week from tomorrow Henry
Beattie VIII face a grand jury in the
Che terfeld Circuit Court The case
OF the Commonwealth is ready, and
attorneys for the prosecution will ask
for an immediate trial Whether the
defense Will secure any delay at all is
problematical Certainly there will he
no postponement save for good cause
and no such cause has as yet been
presented.
Detectives for the State are round
ing off their case by securing written
statements from all of their material
witnesses. most Of whom nave been
previously examined orally. Special
Agent Scherer in charge OF the case,
brings to bear on 1t the business train
ing OF railroad man of experience
and with the aid OF his assistants
every step in the case has been re-
The leather portfolio of the chief de-
tective will be material aid to the
attorneys for the Commonwealth when
the case comes to trial
One material point was brought out
by the close examination of witnesses
Yesterday. The women who attended
to the body of Mrs. 3aattie when it
was brought back 10 the Owen house
on the night OF the shooting state that
much sand was found In her hair
The detectives decline to state who
the women are who have given this
deposition. but ii may be presumed
| that they are near neighhors of the
/ owen family who were called in in
tho emergency to aid in preparing the
body.
Tho statement of Undertaken Nor
rissett has been in the hands OF the
| detectives for some time. and they
! have declined TO make il public. Ap-
iparently the only point which the de
tccttves failed to cover in their exam
inauon of the case was the clothes
worn by Mrs. Heattic. Mr. Scherer went
: to the house during the night and
asked for them. and was told that the
women who undressed the body had
burned them on account of their hor-
ribly Bloody condition II was not hint
ed in any way that these women were
attempting TO destroy evidence. They
had burned the clothes as the quickest
means of getting rid of unsishtiy OBJ
The signihcance of The new evidence
regarding sand and dirt in the hIir of
/ the murdered woman lies In the fact
that Henry Beattie has stated that she
was shot while seated in the motor
'fI. ne SanI seems TO pear out the
detectives theory that she was shot on
the ground, or possibly on the running
board of the car. and fell outward
into the road
First Henson to Doubt.
The statement of detectives that the
blood srot on the ground could not
nave come from a body in the car first
nunctured the story told by Beattie.
Examination of his clothes, OF the
bloody car. and many other Incidents
which have come To the ears of tho
detectives. have served TO strengthen
thcir view that Mrs Ecattie was shot
standing In the road and that her
body was laid across two seats and
that her husband either sat on the
body itself or on the edge of his seat
in front Of 1T on his drive back to rho
owen home. The seat of Mr. Bcattie's
trousers and the lower part of his
shirt were soaked with blood. while
me BODY and sleeves We're only spat-
splotch Of blood In tho middle of
ne, back of the coat has not been ex-
rreparations for the trial are going
| forward rapidly at Chesterfield Court
mouse he Jail is being whitewashed
ana painted the courthouse spruced
nF. and the hotel prepared for the
huslest time in Its history.
soon TO Move Prisoners
, HccorulhS to tho present program
me prisoner and the two witnesses
n ~, under bond Will be turned over
| house on tho morning OF the grand
| July term. August IL IT Will be for
| me sheriff and Judge Watson 10 de-
| tefm.ne where they will be kept until
.he DAY set for tho trial. II a week
| o. more elapses between tho grand
I,rnly meeting and trial. they will be
| brought back either to the Henrico or
me Richmond City Jail for safekeep-
/ ing Tho officers DO not fear that the
| pitGple of Chesterfield will offer any
/, Vloience They are content to leave
ths case 10 the courts for trial, but
! u Is believed that there would be less
| tNnens" in guarding the prisoners in
Richmond TAIL than In employing ex.
lJra deputies TO guard the prison at the
| ne9terbeld Courthouse. That course
1 VII DC necessary when the trial proper
mdae for tents for the guards and de-