The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-08
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day mornings TO Ak clock He saw
Paul Bcattie standing with n single
harrcied gun in the door of the con-
crete house Paul put it down after
breaking IL. and went over and talk
cd with him. When Neble;t saw that
Paul denied having the gun after Sat
urday night he came forward volun-
tarily and told what he knew. You
saw him hcrc--a straightforward,
honest looking man of integrity and
intelligence. There is positive state
mcnt about which this witness cannot
be mistaken. They have brought three
or four men here who say they were
on the bridge at the time Mr.. Neblett
drove w, and they did not sec Paul
with a gun. You saw their manner on
The stand and must Judge them for
yourselves.
They remembered a matter two
months old-could tell what log Paul
telo and had the same remarkapie
memory The negro boy who was said
to he sitting by Paul WAS never put
on tho stand. The LEADING citizens OF
Manchester have testified to Nchletts
character 1t is a principle Of common
sense as we'll as OF law that affirmative
testimony is stronger than negative
testimony. What /. man sees is strong
or than what he didn't see. If you have
reasonable doubt on that point that
IS enough to determine the case in our
favor
Hcnry's own Statement.
lis there anything unreasonable or
improbable in the statement Henry
Beattie made that enables YOU to say
heyor reasonable doubt that II was
"a falsehood? lie describes the man he
IN ct IiGnShAw
three times the week of this murder
he saw a strange looking man on that
road Mr.. Holland saw man with a
gun on July is coming in that d.
rection only a few hours before the
woman was shot. Whether he had
stolen the gun from some place
Beattie bought do not know. Is it our
duty to prove our story by the pro-
duction OF the guilty party? The court
tells you no. Unhappily for our client.
In their heads and everything that did
not fit that theory was discarded II
we had had one tenth OF the outside
hclP--if we had had skilled detectives
have built case Gibraltar would have
seemed pigmy by its side.
These skilful detectives have t4ld
us that that blood spot could not have
come from any drippirGs from the
motor car. They seem TO believe that
he took her out and killed her in the
road and left her blood there They
crawled about and looked under that
detective ard as witness and as coun-
sci. said that the blood could not have
gotten out OF there-he said he had
called Beattie's attention TO II.
Had Charge of Machine.
They have had possession OF the
machine from that day 10 this, yet we
put on four experts who served with
out fee. Mr. Gordon testified that blood
could have run down from the seat
to the gasoiene tank and brake band
and thence to the ground. Mr.. Mon
tague told OF examining blood stains
on the tank-streaks Of blood which
had run down both sides of the tank
10 the road There is conflict. but
doubt-a material doubt--about how
that blood ran. that is conclusive in
this case
What ABOUT the two Robertson
another Puddle? 1t won't 10 q say
they brought witnesses who say there
was no second blood spot there; they
n merfy ais not s sse The boys
where the machine had stood while
Henry fixed his lights on that wild ride
nome. The men were honest no doubt
but they were in automobiles and went
rSht over IL The boys were on bicycles
and the eyes of the young are keen OF
sight and vision One OF the detec-
tives seems TO have known all about
th ines blood spots MI Wnkeheld has
there was a second and that he could
not account for Il, II We had had that
able corps of detectives we would have
had Wakefield here long before we
did
sam Talley, the Fighter.
y" hat about Sam Tallcy, The Com
monwealth seems to have dropped him.
] am little chary OF tackling him inv
fully or him he whips them. He was
ar;ni n"i that the OUTSIDE hello. for
winch my friend Judge Gregory is
SO thankful, drummed up He heard a
woman scream. then gun shot and
machine so off He says he wanted
to keep out. II anybody wanted 10
KEEP out do you think he would have
to!d SchereE' something favorable 10
MS side? WASH, that certain wav
to get IN it? When Saunders. Wells
and Lcatte weAt up the roal. what d:d
Ealley tell them? Tint nc had heard
a shot a hollering and horn blowing,
but had paid no attention TO IL. sam
was good witness for us before he
was too much interviewed
A colored woman says she pickcC
up the gun on a railway sill somewhere
Her first estimate was six feet from
the road. Pettigrew picked UP n piece
OF the gun about There he had see,
the man and woman. about four wards
from the edge OF the road. He says :.
49, ~ NiVhl Sl'i. lie also
me rut of an automobile as close /,
the edge OF tho road as any one coulC
drive wiltshire says the place Mnnd,
showed him was twenty feet from IN,
road. The effort is being made by III,
commonwealth TO show that this gui
was twenty feet from where mo ant,
passed--that II was Impossible for i
10 have tolted out as mas been de-
scribed. The evidence shows tina, i
road
Mr.. Montague, an experienced MAJ
with motor cars. said Buick car Jolt
hadly and that going at nfty miles n,