The Washington herald., 1911-09-04

out over the twenty miles of sandy roads,
only to learn that there was nothing
whatever to the report. Beattie himself
smiled out at them frc m his cell window.
After his rehearsal, he had/been taken
out for a walk around the prison green
and was feeling ht.
He spent the day quietly at reading
the newspapers and listening to the
hymn singing of a dozen or more happy
black ragamuffirs Who occupy cells near
him. What he coulGE't eat of the espe-
cial meats brought him lie distributed
among them. They are all hoping he
gets off.
The jurors read. talked, and wrote let
ters in a dOrmitory-llke room in a little
country hCtel-christened by NOrtherners
the Ritz-CarltOn-a short distance from
the courthouse, where they have been
kept in confinement since the beginning
of the trial. Several chose the Bible as
their literature.
1t develOpA tonight that Carl Kastel-
berg, a witness who was put on the
stand Saturday by the defense, may be
called back by the State and made to
tell a story that will be terribly damaging
to Beatte
Saw BeattIe Dash By.
swore that he was driving on the Midlo-
THAN pike on the fatal night with a
chance acquaintance-a woman-and that
it was mis- halted car. not Beattie's, that
several boy witnesses saw. The State s
detectives to-day learned that Kastelberg
said to a garage owner named Daniels
upon returning from his ride:
Il saw the queerest thing tonight I
ever encountered on a road. yOunS
fellow tore past me. going about fifty
miles an hour. with a woman in his
machine so drunk she had fallen down
behind him
II Kastelberg repeats this on the stand
it will support the States contention
that Eeattie. after Staying hfs wife. sat
upon her body as he drove home.
Through some new evidence discovered
yesterday ami to-day the prosecution
still shows that under the very noses of
the Jail officials here Henry Beattie and
Beulah Binford the other woman.
daily exchanged messages. and perhaps
framed up a story that they might
tell when they get upon the witness
stand.
Negro Boys ns MessenGers.
It appears that when Beattie and the
young woman were in the city Jail they
were on separate floors. But on Beulah' s
floor. every night. were kept two little
negro boys. who in daytime were sent
downstairs 10 Henry's corridor. The de-
tectives have discovered that they acted
as messengers and carried many notes
between the two.
These lads may be called as witnesses.
as we'll as former ''trusty" named Null
Cahey, who. when arrested several days
ago. was found to have several letters
which the two gave him to exchange.
The clubs. hotels, and parks about
Richmond again buzzed with gossip and
speculation about the great trial The
almost unanimous opinion was that under
the CrOss-eXaminatiOn Of Wendenberg-
who is going at him with a brutal fierce
ness-Henry Clay Beattie will go TO
pieces and that his story Of the high
wayman will be completely rlddled.
When the defense began its side OF the
case and started to throw some discredit
upon Paul Beattie-who declared that he
had bought the gun for Henry and that
Henry has confessed TO the latter-many
persons thought the boy had fighting
chance But so weak was the rest of
the defense that scarcely any one will
now grant him even that.