The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-02
new WITNESS
IN BEATTlE CASE
He Is Summoned By Defense
to Take the Stand.
SENSATION NISANTICIPATED


the Fatal Night He Had Passed
7eattle In His Automobile, Had
Recognized Beattle and Had Seen
Woman and Another Man In the
Car Besides Beattie Hlmssf--Prls-
oner's Brother Makes Admissions.
Chesterfield c. H., Va, Sept. q
It became known In a fortuitous
fashion that Henry Clay Beatties
lawyers have found a man who was
automobiling on the Midlothian turn
pike on the night Of the murder in
company OF a woman. This man 10
said to have been seen cranking his
machine at a spot not far from the
pool of blood that afterwards marked
the location of the Staying of Mrs.
Beattie Several young men who
happened TO be on a lark on the
night of July 1S and who returned
along the turnpike just about the
hour when the homicide took place,
have testified for the prosecution
that in the vicinity afterwards estab.
llshed as that where the murder oc-
cured, they saw a machine closely
resembling Henry Beattie's; that
woman was standing on the left.hand
running beard when they passed and
that man was by the hood of the
automobile tinkerlng with the en-
gine.
The prosecution has shown by in.
ference that the young Richmond
Joy riders saw Henry Beattn stand
ing by the hood Of his machine while
his wife was on the running board.
Through the newly discovered wit
ness the defense will attempt TO
prove th1t II was not Beattle aud his
wife that the automobiling pG-ty saw.
but this witness and the woman who
was his companion.
II also became known that should
this witness be forced through sub
pena to take the stand for the de-
fense, some high explosives ror Beat
ties case might be touched OF by
commonwealth cross.examination
In the fist place the witness has
reasons for not wanting TO be
brought into the case; only the most
assiduous efforts by Beattie's law
yers have uncovered his name and
knowledge of the facts he is said 10
possess. far more serious reason
why this unknown should have to be
handled with gloves by the defense
is said 20 be that should he be asked
by commonwealth attorneys he would
testify that, aside from being mis-
taken for Beattie on the night Of tho
murder, he had passed Belttie In
his automobile and had recognized
Beattie, and that he had seen a wom-
an and another man in the car be
s'des Beattie himself. No mint of
the second man in the machine with
Beattie and his wife on the night
that Mrs. Beattie was murdered. has
been whispered since Investigations
began. Beattle has declared that he
rode alone with his wife and that she
vas shot by pedestrian from the
roadside.
The name of the new witness 10
Joseph Casselberg of Richmond.
The most important feature of the
case. so Tar as II was heard by the
jury, was the surprising admissions
of Douglass Beattie, brother of the
prisoner, when he stated under cross.
examination that had he known that
the charge OF murder was to be made
against his brother Henry, following
the conoaer's inquest, he would have
destroyed all the evidence possible to
be used against Henry while il still
remained in his power to do so.
When Wendenburg took lold OF
Douglas he asked him why he had
ordered the front seat cushions of
Henry's machine TO be washed on the
day following the homicide. Witness
replied that il was because they were
all bloodstained. The attorney want
ed to knew why II was that he had
ordered the left-hand seat cushion to
washed and not the right. III | had
had time to wash out the other seat
It would have been done" Douglas
answered The whole darned ma.
chine would have been washed"
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