The Washington times., 1911-08-10
LEGAL MACHINERY
SET IN MOTION TO
|. |ND|CT BEATT|E
Grand Jury Will Begin Its
Sessions Next
Monday.
BEULAH BINFORD
MAY NOT TESTIFY
Girl Is Offered Home In Future
BY Kind-Hearted
Women.
By JAMES E. BREADY.

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. lO-LegaI
machinery is actively in motion pre-
paratory to the Indictment and trial of
Henry c. Bea1tie. Notices to grand
5urymen to appear at the Chesterfield
court mouse Monday morning at II
o clock were sent out today. and Sheriff
Gill has been provided with a list of
sixteen names which will constitute the
first venire from which the jury to try
Beattie will be obtained
Uncertainty prevails whether Beulah
lBtnford will be a witness before the
grand jury. L. o. Wendenburg says it
Is unnecessary, and that she will not
be taken from the Henrico county Jail
until the trial On the other hand,
Commonwealth Attorney Gregory thinks
the girl ought to testify before the grand
Jury II Paul Beattie is taken before 1t,
as he will beyond doubt Two detec-
tives will be the other witnesses.
Is Offered Home.
The names of the first venire for the
petit jury are being guarded with great
care by Clerk Philip Cogbil and Sheriff
GIL.
Paul Beattie in an interview at the
Jail this morning, showed resentment at
in for an awful grilling at the hands Of
the defense.
II may not be a genius he said, but
shall not suffer on the stand. because 1
shall keep my head and tell the truth
Two kind-hearted women have offered
BeulEh Binford a home. One woman lives
in New York city, the other in q Mary
land town mot far from Baltimore"
The names of the women are withheld
by the three persons who know them,
Luther L. Scherer. county detective,
George FARRELL OF Chesterfield county,
and Beulah Binford herself.
The names Of these women will never
be revealed II we can help it," said Mr..
FARRELL today. When Beulah Binford
has endured the agony OF examination
and cross-examination at the trial, and
her sorrowful past has once more been
exposed to the eyes of millions of news |
paper readers. she then will sink out
of the glaring light of notoriety If |
she can. 1t is her wish. 1t Is the wish |
of her friends here"
Girl Is Impressed.
Mr. Sherer echoes Jarrelrs statement
1.-The girl is so young" said he. re
member that she is only seventeen, that
II given half a chance she may yet live
a happy life. She will go. if she follows
our advice, to live with one or other
of these good women who wish to take
her into their families, and who will
ignore the past and treat her like a
To tell the world where she
will go would spoil the experiment at
the start"
BeuIah Binford, herself, has been
deeply impressed by the offers made
made her, for the first time in days,
possibly IN years, seriously consider
her future.
Il would really like to go to live in u
good hCme," she said today. Il never
have known what it is like. Perhaps il
I lived many years in the home of good
women such as these seem to be, the
world might then forget the past. do
shall decide to live. They write about
the same way and say they will treat
me as If l were of their own Tiesh ana
blood. / am going to ask Mr.. Jarreli
then maybe can make-u my mind
more easily"
Prefers Jail to Stares.
Wherever the Binford girl goes and
whatever her lot, she will not be
|
nent is otherwise. When she discussed
going to live with the women offering
her a home she spoke soberly and seri-
ously, but when she had finished speak
Ing she did not remain pondering her
fate. Instead she broke out into .
song and gayly informed other inmates .
Of Henrico county Jail that she had .
rings on her fingers and bells on her .
toes.
1t was learned from Mr.. farrell to- .
lay that Beulah Binford might have .
been passing the time between the in .
Iuest and the trial at his house instead .
II the jail had Beulah herself not de- :
,ided In favor of the jail -
"She told me and Mr.. Scherer," said :
farrell" that she thought there kould be :
ever people staring at her If she were :
It the jail / took her into my home :
tight after the murder of Mrs. Beattie :
vas committed and would have been
willing to have had her live with us
n the interim between inquest and trial,
md Mrs. FARRELL feels the same way ..
bout it, .