The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-27
WEB T|GHTENs
ABOUT BEA11|E
SO Tight is the skein Drawn Around
Him That He May be Forced
to Take Stand Him
self.
DISGUSTING STORY TOLD
Detective Calls Spade Spade
When He coldiy Gives His
Story Of the
Liason.
DISGUSTING STORY TOLD
lGate City Leased wire Service

CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE,
Va, Aug. 2s.-Narrower than the con-
fines of the little cell that encom-
passes Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., to-
night draw the gradually Tightening
threads OF the net of circumstantiai
evidence that may send him TO the
electric chair for the brutal Staying
OF his young wife
So tight did the tangling skein
draw today that Beattie may be
forced 10 take the witness stand in
desperate effort TO tear away the
bonds which the prosecution is stead
ay wearing TO draw hin to his death.
II was 2 sordid story of love, wreck
ed lives, debauchery, blood money
and murder that showed in flashes
and hints through the testimony TAX
en- in the little Chesterfield court
house today. Every word added
link 10 the chain OF circumstantial
evidence against the prisoner
The two big points made by the
prosecution today corroborated over
and over again the evidence which
established TO practical certainty
that for ten minutes before Louise
Owen Beattie was shot TO death, she
stooa on the running board of her
husbands machine at the dark, wood
Swallowed spot on the lonely Midloth-
ian pike. Half dozen boy witnesses
for the defense tried in vain to dis
credit the story They were return
ing from a summer resort dance and
they saw a couple which they almost
certainly identified as Beattie and
his Ill fated wife.
Beattie has sworn that he made no
stop until his automobile was halted
by the assassin.
Then the prosecution began its
foundation for the motive for the
crime-the liason between Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr, and Beulah Binford,
his child paramour. In cold, unfeel-
ing tones the detective calling a
SPADE a spade, L. L. Scherer related
the story of Beattie's intimacy with
the II year old wanton. as he said
Beattie told ii 70 him.
Striped Of the slightest glamor OF
romance, the story was revolving in
It's baroness. Through the maze Of
an unhoiy love Scherer led the jury
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farmers with their simple old fash
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