The Washington times., 1911-08-26
NEW WITNESSES
DAMAGE CASE Of
ACCUSED YOUTH
Boy Testihes as to Make of
Automobile He Saw
on Pike.
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After the calling of Mrs. Binford-
she was not put on the stand imme-
diately-the case halted a few min
utes While the blood-stained automo-
bile was ordered brought up to the
court house.
Attorney L. o. Wendenburg said he
wanted the jury instructed to look
under the car and see if there was
any blood spots on the undersidej
whittier blood coaId have leaked
through, having first taken the floor
but was overruled. While the car
was awaited-it is stored some dis
tance from the court house-W. A.
Brown identified shell found on the
glocd spot. The witness found the
shecl himself.
This shell which Paul Beattie will
swear to as one of the three bought by
him for Harry Beattie, was found In
the woods away from the pike. Here,
the Commonwealth says, eBatue flung
1t when he had no further use for II,
because one shell, it alleges, had done
what Beattie they claim, had planned
to 90.
Crowd Gathers About Car.
When MIR. ErowE had finished. the
jury was taken out to see the machine.
Judge Watson warned the crowd not
to gather around the machine, but in
stantly a thousand persons were at
hand.
Sheriff Gill had big job keeping them
back
Beattie looked and acted as though
the inspection of the car by the jury
was of no special interest to him He
fused from one side of the car to the
other, and felt of the hot radiator with
tn critical touch of an owner. HIS
finger punched at the right front tire
torney Smith, said: This machine has
gone all to thunder. 1t is all smashed
up. Why don't they take some care OF
IL over at Loveing' ST.
While the jury inspected the car. the
crowd, after its first surge forward,
stood back twenty-five or thirty feet
from the machine. All were hushed
and no voice was raised above whis.
per. May stood with barred heads, and
this and the silence made the scene
quiet country churchyard. The crowd
remained respectful Throughout the liz
spection, which lasted nearly naf al
hour.
Beattie Inspects Machine.
While the jurors clambercd in and out
Of the car, looking at 1t critically
Beattie went over every inch of the
machine. He was more interested, ap'
parently, in the fact that 1t had not
been properly taken care Of than that /,
was the most gruesome and awful wit
nes he had to fear in this fight he il
making for his life.
He did not forget for a single second
that he was Henry c. Beattie. jr., ex'
Joy rider. man about town. owner ol
one Of the fastest machines in Rlch'
mond, the pretty boy that could choose
any girl he saw that looked good to hin
as his companion in his now famous JOY
rides. As he stepped in front OF g
young EeWspaper woman IN the crowd
he lifted his hat with the manner Of q
al hiYOSalf
same air lie would have assumed at q
SATURDAY. afternoon tea on a country
club porch.
Ry the side of the crowd like two
statues carver from granite, stood Beat
ties father and brother. The old mai.
face never tinChed muscle
Allows Beattie to Smoke.
''Is there any objection to my smok-
ing?" asked the youth. speaking tc
Judge Watson. Apparently realizing
the young mans longing-for Judge
Watson is a smoker himself, the pre-
siding officer gave his permission and
the young man pulled from his pocket
q gold cigarette case from which ht
extracted a cigarette and placed Il
between mis- lips where it remained
unlighted.
The jurymen made as close an in
spection of the car as Mr. Wenden.
blood on the floor.
They peered at the bloody cushion o.
the right hand seat and, raising this
cushion, looked at the blood beneath
They climbed under the car and saw
for themselves that no blood could have
leaked through into the road, making
the blood puddle in the Midlothian pike
They lifted up the flooring and gazec
at the dust pan, all as desired by coun
sci for the Commonwealth. They were
grave and serious at their task: II
seemed nothing like a joke to them
and they looked as If they were seek
ipf ret the utmost 'n'0rna0on '"e' '0"'>
Al Ito court recessed for luncheon un
tM f:lo or 2:20.
The evidence given yesterday was un
expectedly damaging TO Beattle. There
had come for the first time the testimony
as to the bloody fingers prints on th'
gUr. This was followed by the testi
mony of Magistrate w. A. Jacob, whc
corroborated Detective Jarrells state
ment about the gun, and who further
riddled Beattie's own account Of tht
homicide. Then, too. came the testi
mony OF Roland L. Sydnor. who identi
fed Beattie in all but absolutely poSitiv,
terms as at the scene of the crime a
7:30 on the evening of the murder, stand
ing by his car and bending over a wheel
II was at this time, the State says
hind tho stump. Mr.. Sydnor was fol
lowed by A. K. Briggs, who saw late
in the evening an automobile standinI
where the blood puddle was discovered
and a young man out of the car and
young woman standing on Its runnin,
board. Nor was this all. The Stat
called J. c. Talley, a farmer, livinj
about 600 yards south of the scene o
the crime.
Tslley said: Il heard 4 woman scream
then heard a gun fired. In about fiv
minutes more, ! heard an automobil
move off; l heard nothing else, but be
fore l heard the gun shot, l heard al
automobile coming down the road. Tn
scream came from where l saw tn
blood puddle the next day"
Didn't Mention Screams.
II is noteworthy that in all the &C
counts Beattie gave the night of tn
murder and in the early morning o
the next day he never mentioned hi
wtfe's screaming. Further testimon
that Mrs. Louise owen Beattie sup
posedly gave one horrible scream o
agony before she was shot to death wa
.yfven by Thomas Shebberson, a colore
farmer, living about 200 yards back Il
the woods from the road Il heard
woman scream" said Shebberson. The
I heard a gun go OF and an auto
mobile drive away.
In Beattie's account of how his Wit
was shot, as he told It to Magistrat
Jacob, there was an interesting state
fnent that after he had wrested the gu
from the stranger, who then ran on
Beattie yelled for help and gave a lou
alarm with his automobile horn. Non
OF the witnesses living near the seen