The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-29

Saturday Of the "? ?ek preceding that in
which Mrs Beattie was murdered.
Tell tho jury hou,you came to buy il.
Prosecutor Wendcnburg commanded
"On the Thursday evening before the
murder. after I had gone To bed. Henry
Beatte telephoned to my house" he
said. and told me to meet him NJ the
corner of Short 'and:Maln streets; he had
something very important {, tell me.
dressed and Joined him when he showed
up in his aut omohilc' ffteen minutes later
We vent {, MCEvoy's ,saloon and had n
bottle &C beer. He asked me If I would
buy him,a second hand. shot gun single
barre He'd.
Il asked him what he .waptnd it for
and he said Never mind what wan,
it for Will yon buy it, | told him
would HeNhen igave mo one g. and two
81 bills and he,a gave me- five cents
,and told me tos5uv three shells for tho
CUR Then he lskei m" If when | got
home would call up Mrs X +. Fisher
e name which Nel'ah S.nford assumed
on occasions, and tell her that he would
be r ght a puad .l:!her house for his wlte's
dress'
TEILs<or TYING rHI GrN
Paul wen; on TO detail how or the
Satu, iav folio wing he hal gone 10 Vein.
stein ra "nsh, v, and had picked ou, the
sno;vln 1t ha,LI couple of brass hes ded
tack, in t>ie grip G,tock AMI he had ripped
his iinsers on TN I'm when he picked up
the Gun These .a'hs are on the grip
e;oci; of the gun r~<Idencc.
The witness told h,Nv the gun had been
broken down and wri pprd III n bundle
with his name writt0r Oh III" paper
ThS. nirhnwhen'rh ste r" o; Henry Clay
.Beattie. Sr. was closed Paul met Henry
Berttie. Jr outei'!" the ,Storc. and in he
lattnrs uia 'hlrc the" want over 10 the
pawnshor IN DO waT'ovcr Paul gav'
his cousin the ih~ao yellow sholls.
loaded with No q shot. which ls had
purch sod accp~dngEo latter iirec .
tons
Throughout all tbs testimony the
witness kept his back t:csolu,ely against
the prisoner He seor:"d to be exercis-
ing his memory To lts uttermosJ in re-
calling unirNportant dNalls even down
to the names o. tho sire cts through which
his wealthy cousins car had passed
on the night wnen he call was made for
the shot gun .at he'pawnsnop.
"Wnen did vni near that the muir
der had been committed" Wcrdenb,irS
asked.
"Ihe next day"
Did you sen Henry Beattie that day?"
Yes. When Invent over there TO see him
shook his head at rneS when he saw me
and though, 10y that het meant me not
not
Here Harry Smith. Beattie's chief
counsel. was on his feett object TO any
statement of what the witness though.
Judge Watson sustained 'fhm.
1HPFAT TO BELLA HtBINFoRD
~
said want you to do afavor for me.
Go to such and such an address (the
witness named streeN and number and
asa for Beulah Binford. When you see
her give her this messsigeQfor me: Tell
Beuah biniord that if she opens her
mouth about this thing willtkill her if II
takes me a hundred years to>do it,"
This was the first intimation the .pris-
oner mad cf the full blow that Paul was
about 10 deliver Before he could collect
revelation came tvmblng foruh.
Il went to thar address and when told
Beulah Blnford fhe message Henry had
given me she smiled and said; Now
reckon Henry will marry me WREN this
Is all over
This ,n,dmissahle testimony was in
the ears of the jurors before JudgeWatson
could stopit The court soiemnly warned
them thai they. must disregard any state
ment not made IN the presence of the
defendant and re- told them to forget that
speech os Beulah Binfords,
The neyy day-that was the second
day after the murder, said Paul. Henry
called me IN the phone and wanted me
TO come over and ;eil him wha, Bculah
had said when | delivered mis- MESA ge
I went over and tol 4 him what she had
said"
orr COMES CONFESSION.
= Here IL was ,ha- Paul Beaitia quoted
the confession Of Henry wherein, accord
la, huF he
crims might bc undon" and cursed the
detectives for their discovery Of the bird
shct
"On THURSDAY night, the second nigh,
afrcr the murder when got homo Henry
called me on h" phone and asked mo il
hEd been summon"d 10 III" Coroner :
inniest PAD continued after tho excite
men: had somewhat ahated When
told him | had not ho chuckled and hung
up the phuro withou' another word
Take tho witness for cross-examina-
ton" WenGenburg then SAID
Tta Commonwealth prosecutor had
timed N" dosing Of n" direct eNamina-
ton to follow IS puicklr ?fter tho big point
IN tsVis ;ss iinOnF "a pre- Cilca bl" In
LAWYERS for IN" def nc" "cr" still oN their
feet and Cr1Ting for = straw when the Wit.
ness was pu. in their herds lhoy had
their heads together fnr iiv" minutes and
thenHharrv Smith picked up tn" volume
OF testimony 'aken q IA" toroners in
oue.,t and asked Paul If he kn.N that he
had given more than fifty typewrit'er
pages Of testimony a. that examination
Witness didn't know how many page;
there were.
And in all that testim sy you made
no mention Of this alleged confession OF
Henry Beattie How was that sir"
WANTED TO SAVE HIM,
Because" said the witness simply
.nobody asked me about il, and besides
WANTED 20 keep it back as long as could
did not want to tell on my own flesh anc
blood knew that my testimony woulc
be GamaGing 10 him,
Smith harried the witness more along
this line insisting to know why il was
that he had not repeated word OF tbs
alleged conversations with his cousin
which were SO discriminating, at tbs
Coroners Investigation
The yellow checked boy in the witnes.
chair tried ioebly TO defend himself ther
he broke out in voice trembling witt
emotion Il was i'll all that day | wa
id with the worry of what | knew and m,
mind was in a terrible state You know
thai And and ! couldn't bring myself
t, toll Il In