Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-07
EYE WITNESS
 ID BEATTIE MURDER
aoaHfaaed from age l

He told me, people WOHIQ DeIcNc mn and would say that a poor farm Hand was liar. After little ia \ he told me to come to his fathers store the next day and see him. l went there and he gave me money ! Prosecutor Wendenberg said the let fer named eAe exact amount Of moaeB f#a bought ne suit of clothes, and a railroad ticket too -fthe name of the place where the writer sent him letter eronb -I hung around Richmond and south Richmond for a couple of days until heard they were going 10 ar rest Henry Clay Beattie IT, then went away. did moi intend 10 teil anybody about this, but my conscience gof so working and so write You this letter.
 The first thing Prosecutor HendeR= berg did upon receiving 5his missi2e @as 10 send ouf Detectives JaFrel and Wiltshire to the farm of tle man for whom aae writer worked on July ls- Tbe farmer said. Yes, had 0 man named working for me. Ei4 disappeared on July f9 Tie aigae before I had sent him out 10 look for Host COW and he never came pack. . This statement in Wendenberg opin- ion, positively removes the writer from the bug class. Then the Pro- secutor wired to the town from which the letter was sent and inquired of the authorities if they knew of man bearing the name signed to the let =ar. He got reply that such man had recently come to the town. Therc= aBon he teIegraphed to the authori- ties to hold the stranger and also dl- rected firm of attorneys in the town ta examine him and if his story was sane and plausible to rush him to Chesterfield Court House as soon as possible.
 There is possibility of course, that the letter may amount to nothing whatever, that it may have been the construction of brain over wrought by following the qualifications of the Beattie case But it proves genuine the State will sometime tomorrow ask Judge Watson to hold up the argu- ments of counsel to the jury and hear the testimony of this vital witness. Prosecutor Wendenberg tonight be- lieves the missive is sincere. All along the State has wondered how it was that fracture of Mrs Louise Beattie was found above her right forehead. This would be accounted for by rhe writer's statement that Beattie struck his wife with the gun before shooting.
 Also States witnesses have testified that there was dirt ond grit found in the young woman's hair This would be explained by the farm hands story that she was lying on the road when the fatal shot was fired There was early today widely circulated report that Beulah Binford was to be in- dicted and placed upon trial as an accessory before the fact, in the mur- der of Beauties wife. The State had a report that indicated she knew the crime was 10 be committed and therefore she was likely to face the electric chair after a separate trial of her own. But the report proved groundless.
 1t is likely that the girl will be re leased from custody tomorrow or neN day and also Paul Beattie, the cousin who swore he bought the gun fo1 Henry may be liberated at the same time. Both are held merely as wit nesses. Beulah has announced tha she is going to head for Broadway New York, as soon as she is free.
 The only legal move made toda of the State against Young Beattl i was the argument of counsel on bot sides as to what instructions Judg Watson should give the jurors. Thi was made in private here in Richmon' Each side presented twenty or thirt instructions and argued why eac should be given. The defenses chic
 reQuest was that the entire testimon
 of Paul Beattie, about buying the gu
 and Henry's confession, be disregard
 ed by the jury. The States mai
 demand was that the jurors be tol
 that the circumstantial evidence ad : duced in the case was quite enoug if they believed it, to allow them t