Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-30
speoinl bu United Freq EYtrs.

Special b. United Press Wirs.
Chesterfield Court, House, Aug.
30:-The first gun of the defense
in the battle for the life Of Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., was fred today
1t was directed against the wall of
damaging evidence erected by Paul
Beattie, cousin of the accused.
After the prosecution had closed
its case and Judge Watson had held
a half hours conference with the
lawyers, the Judge announced that
he had sustained motion by the
defense to strike out ell testimony
regarding the hair pin found at the
scene Of the crime. He also sus-
tanned motion to strike out all evil
dence as to the action Of the blood
hounds.
Paul Beattie Called Again.
The defense opened its case by re
calling Paul Beattie.
Did you have a gun, single bar
rel shot gun on the Saturday before
the murder?"
NO"
Did you have a gun in your pos
session at any period between the
time you bought the gun and the
night of the murder?"
NO"
Here Smith called G. w Booth.
Look at that mani" shouted
Smith, calling Pauls attention to
Booth. Didn't you tell him on the
bridge that you did not believe your
cousin Henry killed his wife2
Didn't you tell him Henry loved his
Wife,"
mo, never talked with that man
about the crime or anything else. -
Smith Says He Did.
Paul was then excused. Smith i'm
mediately called Booth himself to
the stand The witness declared
that he had talked with Paul about
the crime on Wednesday after the
killing, and that Paul had said that
he did not believe that his cousin
killed his wife because ne loved her
Under cross examination Booth
admitted that he was a life long
friend of Henry Beattie.
The defense asked that the re-
mainder of the witnesses be called
in order that they might find out
whether all those subpoened were
there. While this was being done
the jury was excused for recess.
This morning the state summon
ed a dozen detectives IN an attempt to
disproYe the store told by the Rob
ertson boy yesterday that there was
more than one spot of blood in the
road near the scene Of the murder
of Mrs. Henry Clay Beattie on the
night of July 18. With this testi-
mony the state plans to rest its case.
Beulah Binford, the pretty seven
teen year old sweetheart of the ac-
cused man, if she takes the stand at
all, will be called in rebuttal. But
the lawyers for the state are afraid
of her as a witness.
Undaunted By rain or mud the us
ual crowd of morbidly curious per-
sons was on hand to watch the grim
battle.
Court convened about three-quar-
ters of an hour late, with Prosecutor
Wentenberg still absent on account
of the bad condition of the road
which has stalled many automobiles.
While waiting for the prosecutor,
the court called an swore the wit
nesses- for the defense. Smith eX-
cused many Of the witnesses he had
subpoened, declaring that certain
phases of the case which the defense
had expected to meet had not been
touched on by the prosecution"
Miss Louise Reeves, a friend Of
the murdered woman and maid of
honor at the wedding of Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr, was the first witness
called today by the prosecution. She
was asked as to the kind of hair
pins worn by the murdered woman
at the time of her death. She iden-
titled the hair pins found at the
scene OF the crime as being of the
same kind as those worn by the dead
girl.
On the cross examination Miss
Reeves admitted that thousands of
women wore the same kind of pin.
Chief Counsel Smith for the de-
fense announced that he wished TO
had been left in the Richmond Jail
and an officer was despatched to
bring him to the court house.
Wentenberg then called Detective
George FARRELL in an attempt to re
fute the story told by Alexander
Robertson. The detective declared
that he had searched the entire Mid
lothian turnpike on the night of the
tragedy and for three days after
ward and had found no blood spots
except at the scene Of the crime.
Cross examination of farrell failed
to shake his story. Wentenberg then
recalled L. L. Scherer, who had also
gone over the road carefully on the
three nights after the killing, and
had found blood spots only at the
scene of the crime. The detective
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