Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-29

it nor had his white haired father, MOI
his brother, Douglas, who sat beside
him. They raised palmleaf fans to
their faces. None could tell what
tears they shed, what emotions they
expressed, behind those screens. Only
Henry himself failed to relax. He
remained rigid, unmoving with his
pale face and his clinched fists and
his staring eyes directed straight be-
fore him.
But that was all there was in Paul
Beattie's story to cause breaths to
jerk inward, bodies to tauten in amaz-
ed shock. The calm, quiet lawyer for
the State of Virginia asked very
soon:
"And so you say he gave you mes
sage to deliver did he, Paul?'
Eyes sir-that night he gave me a
message
"And what was it?"
"He said: Go to her (Beulah Bin
ford) and tell her that if she calls me
up, or opens her mouth or says any
thing about this affair III kill her
if it takes me one hundred years.
First the confession of the killing,
and then the admission that it was
Beulah Binford. Surely the State was
damning Henry Clay Beattie more and
more. Only one thing was lacking.
That soon came.
"And did you deliver that message,
Paul?"
He delivered it, the boy said. He
went Beulah Binford's house. But
there were others about They dared
not talk. So he took her for short
walk on the street to tell her what
Henry had said.
"And what did she say?"
"Why she said: I reckon Henry
Cav will marry men after this"
Right then, in the opinion of all
hearers. the State of Virginia might
have rested its case-right then,
when the young defendant tried to
stare again, but showed only plain
fright: when half the jurors sat
tightening their horny hands in dull
anger. When half the spectators
whispered of the electric chair.
It was the big moment came sud-
denly and unexpectedly. But OF
course the law doesn't recognize big
moments and will go on with prosy
corroborative witnesses to back up the
cousins story.
Paul Beattie went upon the stand
in unexpectedly calm fashion, clad
smartly in a blue serge suit and ap-
parently with his weak nerves under
full command. He identified the gun
he had bought for his cousin and told
how he had come to buy 1t.
Henry called him up, he said, on
Thursday, July 10, (the tragedy was
on the following Tuesday night and
asked him to meet him. They had
couple of mint-juleps together. Then
the rich youth, after taking the poor
one for a short automobile ride, re-
quested him to purchase a second
hand single barrel shotgun, giving
him four dollars Paul, on Saturday
afternoon went to one Weinstein's
pawnshop and looked over what wea-
pons the pledgeman had. The best
of several shown him was one with
little brass tacks driven into the
stock. (These three tacks, inciden-
tally may send Henry Clay Beattie to
the chair for only by them-yet GER
tainly by them-was the gun 1dentl-
fled when found thrown away not tar
from the scene of the killing0
Paul left the gun wrapped up in the
shop until Saturday evening, when
Henry drove in from South Richmond
in his motor and halting the car
half block away from the shop, ne
sent Paul to get it. He placed IT, the
cousin under the rear seat. Also ne
accented from Paul three shells the
poorer boy had got at his request.
Henry then said to me-, went on
tho Witness 81 want you to do me
the favor of calling up a lady, II you
can do it where no one will hear you,
, He gave me a telephone number and
said should ask for Mrs. Il. l.
Fisher Ga name by which Beulah Bin
ford was then known and tell her
that I'll be around in a few minutes.
T did 50 and Beulah Binford said: All
right.
Paul Beattie then sWore that ut
heard of the Staying of mis- cousin
wife ON Wednesday morning, July IL
the morning after it happened. The
following evening, Thursday, ne went
~ Henry's house in South Richmond
10 condole with him. On the porch ne
met Henry and Henry's father.
81 was about to speak to them when