The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-06
Blood Couldn't Drip Through

C. H. Oliver, who said he was famil- far with the construction of automo piles, contradlcted testimony of auto mobile experts that the Beattie car, by it's construction, was impervious to the dripping of blood through it to the ground except in two places, where blood was not visible.
 R. B. Allport, an automobile expert who examined the Beattie car, corrob- orated Oliver's statement. Allport also declared the steering gear of the Beat tie car was such that it could not be driven with one hand at 40 or 50 miles an hour, as the accused yesterday testi fled Mrs. Paul Beattie then took the stand
 Do you remember Paul being brought home in an automobile at any time during the week preceding the murder?'
 "Yes; about sso on Thursday night"
 "Who was with him?"
 As near as I can tell, young man"
 Do you know who he wasp
 No"
 Where was he when you saw him?"
 He got out of the machine and fixed the front lights It looked like Henry Beattie to me"
 Did you know Henry Beattie be- fore ?"
 Yes"
 Where were you?"
 Tn the front window of my room."
 How long had Paul been out that night?"
 About 20 or 25 minutes"
 Tell about it.
 "A telephone message came that some one wanted to speak to Paul, asking him to meet him at Short and Main streets When did you see this machine again?"
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 Same machineg' Yes" W. T. Lindsey. R. " Johnson. H. R.. Blunt. R. P. billiard, Gregory Fisher and l. J. Kay testified to Paul Beattes good reputation
 Was Not kastelberger's Car
 Roland Lassiter. who came from a dance at Bon Air, with other boys, on the Midlothian turnpike. declared on the witness stand that the car he saw in the road with the man in front and the wom- an on the running board was not the car Of Charles H. Kastelberg. He said he was l familiar with Kastelberg's machine and knew Kastelberg also, but he saw neither on the road that night. | D. A. Dunlop. timekeeper at the Bfl9ee, testified that Paul Beattie was at wur,. | ten hours from ' o'clock on the morning of Saturday, July 15. A witness for the | defense had declared Paul bought the gun at a pawn shop in the morning whereas his own story was that he pur- i chased it in the evening. | pr. H. P Mann described the condition of Paul at the coroners inquest as z 1 hysterical spell, or nervous breakdown | This was intended to refute the charge of the defense that Paul was "faking' at the time 1 Henry B. Owen, brother of the deaf woman. was next on the stand. IIenry c. Clay, Jr., has testified sait | Prosecutor Wendenburg, that he haf no gauntlets Do you remember his hay l ing any?"
 "On Wednesday after the murder | Douglas Beatte. Henry and I were to gether, and something went wrong on tho car and Henry looked into it. He wa: asked by Douglas where his gauntlet were and he said In the garage
 Did you see Henry c. Beatte on tn, night of July IS when he left the gar age?"
 "Yes, he left about 7:45 o'clock" 1 "Did you see Paul and Henry at thy latter's home on Wednesday night aftel the murder?"
 "Yes. They were alone on the porch Later I saw them in the dining room together
 It was at this meeting that Paul hat testified as to the alleged confession b, tIfied that he was not alone with Pau that night on the veranda. After the baby was born do yol