The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-06
MANY DENY BEATTIE'S STORY
STATE OFFERS wren EVIDENCE
~ REBITTAL AND CLOSES.
Lawyers Wiii ONer suggestions for In.
structiOns To-day, Make Arguments
Tomorrow. and the Jury VIII on
friday Hold the Fate of the Accused.

CHESTERFIELD CorRr House.. Va, Sept.
5.-All the evidence in the Beattie cas-,
il now in
On Thursday morning al o'clock the
lawyers will begin summing up and be-
fore the Adjournment cf court on that
day the jury will have retired to deter.
mine the issue of lite or death
Tomorrow tn. 81 will he no court SOS
sion AT Chesterfield Cross Roads. In
stead the lawyers will meet with Judge
watson in the Chambers uf the supreme
Court in Richmond 20 argue the matter
"t tho Judges charge ~ the jury Under
Virginia practice before the court charges
the jury in "A capital case both sides have
an opportunity Ia urge him Ia include
certain clauses in his instructions
I The completion of the testimony came
suddenly at 6:3o o clock this evening when
Henry Owen, n brother Of the woman
who was murdered. the last witness for
the prosecution in rebuttal. left the stand.
After Owen had denied the story of Henry
! Beatte that even TO the end his wife and
! he had never exchanged CROSS words
| Wendenhurg announced that the prose-
cution rested its rebuttal. The defence
had no surrebuttal TO make and the ten
days of evidence taking was ended.
This final dav III the prosecution :
effort TO bring Henry Beattie to punish
ment for the crime OF wife murder was
quite the most disastrous of all that had
passed over his head No great sensation
was sprung, but bit by bit the story tina;
| the prisoner had told on the stand yester-
! 1at. hot g., al. l.. A
sought to substantiate for him was torn
down by an overwhelming weight of evi-
dence in rebuttal. The final question
that had been propounded TO Beattie
when he resumed the stand for few
minutes this morning to have his cross
| examination completed remains un-
| answered and is above all other questions
at issue the most fraught with signiticance
How did the gun bought by Paul
| Beattie three days before the murder
| happen 10 be in the hands of the man who
shot your wife. and how do you ac cunt
FOR the fact that in every detail of the
shooting it is always the gun bought by
| Paul Beattie that Is i'll evidence?" was the
last question that Wendenhurg shot at
Henry Beattie before he left the stand
Bea,tie's answer. nor has his counsel
accounted for 4 except TO put on wit
nesses to say that Paul Beatties reputa-
! tion for truth and veracity is bad
BY constant reiteration Henry Beattie
sought to establish the fact both in his
direct and cross examination of Monday
| that on the certain Thursday night when
Paul says Henry met him with his ma
| chine and requested him to buy Il second
hand shot gun he had not seen his cousin
Paul and did not go to tho several places
where Paul in his evidence has said they
went Henry Beattle made a fla. and
| positive denial of his cousins story in
| this respect. even though Wendcnhu &
gave him the hint that there would he
| plenty of witnesses to rebut him
The Commemorative prosecutor made
good his hint with the opening Of court
this morning by placing on the stand
| the first Of long string Of witnesses
| TO dsprove every step in the denial Of
| the prisoner First one Of Beattie's =
| own friends testified 70 having heard
Henry maze an engagement over the
telephone in a candy store 10 meat soma
one al certain hour on that Thursday
night Then came the other Young
men TO say that they had seen Henry
Beattie drive up in his car a. Short and
Main streets. Richmond, and take Paul
Beattle in the machine with him Even
a Syrian candy shop keeper who suffered
with nervousness helped to max. this
point stronger.
Paul Reatte had said that after Henr,
had taken him IN the car they had driven
to Mctvoy saloon and there had a drink
of beer Out of several who had been at
the saloon on that night Wendenburg
picked thr"" to 60 on the stand and swear
that they had -.en the two cousins there.
as Paul had said they We're and that
they had driven awav together.
! Then the inexorabla hammering nj tho
| prisoner positive denial was carried
! further. Paul Eeatte'- mother-in- law
was called to testify that on the Thurs
| day night IN question she was called to
/ the 'elephCn, by voiC.. that said Henry
/ Beattie was speaking and that III. yoic"
/ requested her 10 summon Paul To the re-
c"lver Paul Beatties wifn confirmed the
! fact of tn" telephone call on that Thurs
day night \ policeman told Of having
seen the two young men together by the
machine when they had stopped to fix
the tail lamp AT a certain spot on his beat
! WendenDurE traced Paul and his cousin
! Henry III each others company from tho
! time Paul received the summons by tele-
phone untl his mother law looked
out Of tho window of the house where he
lives and saw him stepping out of a ma
chine in which another young man whom
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