The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-27
,AMBERG, S. c., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1911.
HELD FOR MURDER.
Young Beattie Sent to Henrico Coun-
ty Jail.

Richmond, Va, July 22.-Accused
by the coroner's jury of the murder
of his wife, young Henry Clay Beat
tie, Jr., tonight is in the Henrico
county Jail in this city, still smoking
cigarettes. He calmly insists upon
the truth of the story he told last
Tuesday night, when he drove his
automobile into Richmond from the
Midlothian turnpike, holding the
blood-stained body of his dead wife
in his arms. Seventeen-year-old
Beulah. Binford, the pretty little girl
whose relations with Beattie are be-
lieved to have led to the tragedy,
and Paul D. Beattie, cousin of the ac-
cused, who testified at the coroner's
inquest to-day that he bought for
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., the shotgun
with which the killing was done, are
held in jail as witnesses, the police
refusing to release them except un-
der heavy bonds.
Public Aroused.
Public feeling has been so aroused
by the developments in the tragedy
that the authorities were afraid to
keep Beattie in the Chesterfield
county jail after the coroner's jury
this afternoon returned it's verdict
placing the crime upon him.
Rearresting the young man on the
charge of murder, the police hurried
him into Richmond. Before Magis-
trate Jacobs, he waived the prelimi-
nary examination and he was COM
mitted to jail to await the action of
the grand jury.
In other cells in, the same prison
Paul Beattie and Beulah Binford were
locked up.
The inquest proceedings this afterz
noon were sensational in the ex-
treme. The hearing yesterday after
noon, eliminating in the arrest of
Beattie on the charge, the public has
been expecting the police to make for
two days, excited popular feeling to
such a pitch that the police reserves
were ordered out to maintain order
to-day. The crowd surged about and
muttered, but there was no attempt
to harm the prisoner or interfere
with the proceedings.
Cousin Exhausted.
Paul Beattie, exhausted. from the
commissions which seized him when
arrested yesterday, was the chief wit
ness before the inquest to-day. While
telling how, at Henry Beattie's re-
quest and with money furnished by
the latter, he bought the gun with
which Mrs. Louis Bette was killed,
the witness tainted. Physicians were
summoned and he was revived after
Is minutes.
The cousins testimony, forming
the missing link of the chain of cir
cumstantial evidence forged by the
detectives satisfied the jury. At 1855
to-day a verdict was returned to the
effect that Mrs. :Beattie's death re-
suited from a gunshot wound fired
by her husband.
Tells of the Gun.
'It looks like the one I bought. I
bought it last Saturday afternoon.
'''The crime occurred on Tuesday
night of this week. said Mr.. Wen
denburg. "You mean that you
bought this gun on the Saturday pre-
vious to that?"
Eyes, last Saturday."
"Well, tell all about it-how did
you come to buy it,"
Tells the Story.
my cousin, Henry Beattie, called
me up one afternoon and asked me
to meet him at Short and Main
streets and I met him there, and he
asked me to get him shotgun. He
did not tell me what for, and l did
not think there was any harm in
buying it. I went over to Beattie's
store on Saturday night and told him
I had picked out one, and he came
over in his automobile on Saturday
night and got it. We left the Beattie
store at 10 o'clock Saturday night.
He stopped the car on Sixth street,
this side of Broad, to fix the lights,
and asked me to 20 on over to the