The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-07-27

Mr.. Wendenburg read a letter dated
Manchester Station. 1880 A NJ. July
Beattie's dry goods store and adj
dressed TO Mrs. r. r. Fisher on the
500 block or West Main Street. The
letter said: Dear Kid.-Pay this ten
you an itemized bill, and what you
are to pay each week. Don't get Irena.
to call me any more. Someone will
get wise. With oceans OF love brim-
ming with kisses, Yours,
do you not now love Mr.. Beattie Pc
evasive.
Mr.. Beattie would go to electric chair
for killing his wife, you would con-
fess that you killed her to save him 2"
II did
relations with Mr.. Beattie were sever
ed sometime before he was married pc
asked Attorney Smith.
II did"
Witness told of an accidental meet
ing with Beattie in Norfolk.
Beattie did not want her to come
to Richmond and protested against
the move.
Asked if she had not made all re-
cent advances, witness replied in the
affirmative.
Chief of Police Werner at this june
ture called Coroner Loving from the
inquiry and held a whispered CONVEX
satiOn.
Harry Beattie is seated beside Mr..
Smith and two seats from his father.
| He has his coat off and is nonchal-
| emily smoking a cigarette.
Witness has not been combining her
| attentions TO Beattie alone, according
| to witness.
Miss Binford was here excused.
Coroner Loving asked that Miss
| BinfOrd bc kept under surveillance.
] I'lx-nra in ssIn
DIR. Herbert Mann took the chair.
| He was called to the owen home
Tuesday night. He said:
About IL o'clock Tuesday night
| Douglas Beattie 'phoned me of the
shooting. My informant did not know
/ the circumstances. l went to Mr..
/ owens house. Upon arrival l was
met by DIR. Mercer. who told me that
services were not needed. 1 saw Har-
! ry Beattie, Jr., and noticed that his
face was bloody. and it appeared that
his nose was broken"
DR.. Mann here described Mrs. Beat
ties wound. 1t follows:
"A clean cut wound about the size
of half dollar between eye and nose,
and slightly below level of eye and
almost almost perfectly round. Tissues
could see down in the opening three
or four inches. Direction of opening
was backward and slightly to oppO-
site. Course of opening was slightly.
but very slightly. upward"
WAS the wound of such a nature
death?"
II think So"
Were there any powder marks on
her face?"
NO"
We're there any indications that the
shot had scattered?"
Witness said that there was a
slightly fractured bone about the right
temple, as well as some swelling.
Witness knew nothing of wadding
being taken from the wounds.
May Stuart here took the stand.
She lives at 321 Mayo Street She
has been knowing Beattie for some
time. When ST e last saw Beattie
July Il. 1911, he was with Miss Bin
since the last of May. Beattie and
Miss Binford engaged a room on sew
eral occasions.
This concluded May Stuart's depo-
sition.
w. NJ. Burton, who works at the
State Farm, was introduced. but his
evidence had no bearing on the case
and he was dismissed.
B. i. Layne, trainer OF the State
Farm bloodhounds, was called.
Layne brought four dogs to scene
of crime early Wednesday morning
IF the track of a man was made.
say IL o'clock at night. what would
be the action OF the dogs a few hours
later-what is their reliability for
taking up the tracks Of a man a short
time after?"
They are invariably reliable"
Layne started at the pool Of blood
and circled the scene about mile in
radius. The dogs laid off" to find a
trail. but were unsuccessful, the
beasts returning every few minutes to
the blood spot.
Would there have been any trou-
Die in taking up the trail only u few
hours old2"
Il don't think So"
Layne's experience with blood
mounds date back a period Of sixty
days.
Burton, upon being recalled. said
he thought there was slight chance
of trailing tracks made in the dust
Sergeant Thomas j. Wren was here
called. Witness has been on force
thlrty-one years. Witness was on duty
at First Police Station last Tuesday
night. He had just gotten into bed
when he got a call from the station
sergeant. He was put into communi-
cation with Thomas Owen, who an
peared greatly perturbed. He said a
wanted to know where he could GET
bloodhounds. Sergeant Wren got in
touch with Major Werner, who told
MN TO so at once to the scene OF the
crime.
witness reached the Owen home at
1915 o'clock Tuesday midnight.
Scherer's dogs, or those from the
State Farm, were given preference. as
Deputy Sheriff Web Sydnor's dogs had
not had any work" to do for five or
six months.
Scherer arrived with his dogs
shortly after o'clock
Dogs circled around but could find
no trail" said witness Il said. This
looks bad; the others agreed with
Witness told of inability to identify
the gun.
In answer to question witness said
that as far as tracks were concerned
there were none for the dogs to
take"
No one was allowed to traverse the
spot where the murder occurred. Sew
eraI pedestrians were stopped by wit
ness.
Sergeant Jack Wiltshire supplant-
ed Sergeant Wren on the stand Wit
ness has been on force sixteen wears
witness went out to scene of murder
about II o'clock the next day. Wit
ness talked with Beattie and then
went to the scene of the crime. Blood
spot measured two feet by eighteen