Evening journal., 1911-09-04
BEATTIE AS
A WITNESS
Defendant Starts With TeSti-
mOny in Effort to Free
Himself
TELLS OF RELATIONS
WITH BINFORD GIRL
Br The united Press.

BY The United Press.
CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE,
Va. Sept. 4.--Immediately after court
convened today Chief Counsel Smith
for the defense called Henry Clay
Beattie. Jr.. to the witness stand to
begin his supreme ordeal in his nght
against the chair.
Smith did not begin his examination
Immediately. however, and while tho
accused man sat in the witness chair.
recalled the father. Henry Clay Beat
tie. sr., to arise in his place and refute
certain statements made by Paul Beat
tie about the confession Henry was
said to have made on the night OF tho
murder OF his Wife.
Beattle Gazed nj Jury.
Wetting his lips with glass OF wa
ter. Beattie sat silent gazing at the
jury within few feet OF him, wnilo
smith waited for the court room 10
quiet after the quick murinur Of emo
tion that marked Beattie's appear
anco subsided.
Beattie gave his name and age and
business.
Have you ever been a confident or
| Paul Beattie?" he WAS asked.
"No.n he answered, quickly.
"Has he been an intimate OF yours7'
NO. The only time I've seen Paul
in the last year was when he came
over to the store 20 get money. And
then he was never left without watch
ing"
socrets?"
"No."
How long have you known Beulah
Binford?"
Since August. 1907
"Were you introduced to her2'
mo" And the prisoner related that
/ Beulah Binford and Henrietta Pitmanl
had held up his automobile in the
street and asked him TO take them for
a ride.
Henrietta Pitman was there but
she did not go for "a ride with us, he
said.
What was Beulah Binford's general
reputation at that timer
A Girl OF the Town.
J "She was girl, running HDout
} town with anybody that had money
How long did your relations viii
, Bculah Binford continues?
( Until the fall of 1908"
Beattio said that az that time Beu-
1ah had gone TO Washington. This
was "a short trip before Beulah's child
was born. Beattie related that tho
Binfords had demanded money from
him following the birth of the child.
lie declined TO pay and was finally
forced 10 because they hired a law
yer.
After that I was the laughing stock
Of the town" he added.
"All the boys guyed me for being
so easy" he continued with q smile.
'Did you think that you were the
fat'tr of that chis1?'
"No. Boulah Binford swore at tho
inquest / was not It's father
Beattie sat calmly as he told tho
story of his 17-year-old sweetheart.
sacrificing her reputation in his ef-
fort to clear himself Smith tried TO
interrupt his examination 10 call G.
III. Kastelberg. who had In the mean
while been found. but Prosecutor
Wendenberg refused TO allow 1t.
Il don't want anything 70 interrupt
this investigations said the prose-
cutor.
you broke of your relations with
Beulah Binford in 190S?'
"Yes."
when we're you married?'
"In 1910"
"How did you regard Beulah Bin
ford when you were running with
her2"
simply as a woman Of the town. y
Beattie declared he had loved his
wife for a year prior to the marriage.
Il never said a cross word to her,
or she to me. he added. "No one cam
contradict that. I never knew any rea-l
son for being unhappy in any way.
told her all about my relations with
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