The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-22
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back OF the car and found my VITA
mao fallen over on the bottom OF tho
car picked her UP. resting her
across the two seats. and triad 10 feel
her pulse and heart. but / was SO cx
cited couldn't tell whether they were
beating or not. l called for assls,anc.
ana blew my horn. No ono came. so I
started back 20 the Owon home.
about half way back the front
tights went out either from fast run
ning or from getting water In Tho
tanks Jumped gu, ana looked in
my coat for match. and found # uhe
eoap on the rear seat Ut the lamps
| and ran down to the owen place"
Severe Cross-Exnminntion.
lhen began three hours O, m,pu;a
r,oss-eH.n!naton. every statement Mr..
beatt!e had made being taken nm -,
tcrn ami subjected 10 searchln.. s "y :"
my Judge G:"cory began.
row long was the struggle bc,wA.,
you and the alleged assaiiamt?" ha
y should say couple o. ,n.ny,os.
onsM'ied Bcat,ie IT was barsiv
When ran uo u him =. bit
! h,ct, Wv ana srappied IN, gun ani ELI
HOY far did you run"
Half the length ~ ~ :,
1
raPbed Tor the gun. feeling Iesnar,,.
IN rulled 4; from MIN"
'ue explained tina: ne was la,
As forward in the car with hi, -
-" ,"e brake when the gun wo-g Area
MI 30. viheh Is ".cr> taken D: his nor
in f..!oh IN running the car and
:" L9''''hs forward Ter the brake rs
3n'S stop coming back. nc ,zsar,-d
Wa To I!Sht the lam ls--D-ob,bi,
| ~ minutes lie had then zone No.
''olF half way 10 tho Owen house
IA answer 10 questions. Beattie sam
| nag oeen to the place several ,yrnes
s'hee and seen the roa!
Yes was just lookInp s,-.
aAead, not on either side partlcu,a,fx.
"endenhnrg Takes n iiand.
/ MT Wendenburg here took ~, ,ho
summation, ana brought from ths
! N'.heSs the statement thnt he saw M
.enIVie on the return trip. which was
'uHcn at Tying pace The car was
.uii''nE VIDE open. Going back to tho
; ho nr' .Mendenburg wanted to know
nov iaf away he was when first SEQ,
@pout twenty-five feet" said Boar.
| We When | stopped the car no W.,
on the left side OF it, IN line win
me glass front and lve or six feet out
from the running board"
Wen then" Mr.. Wendenburg con-
unned why didn't you go on about
| -, - GU cleared him I've
let ne was not in front Of you. but
hVe feet on one side when YOU stons
PED, What did you stop for?"
stopped so short" answered Beet
it, that had TO change the gear
BEFORE starting He must have jumped
PACK out Of the way. didn't notice
me gun until he pointed it at me-
Mheh ne said. Stop or I'll shoot
what did your wife say?"
Nothing
the man and suppose she was looking
| at him in the same way"
What did your wife do?"
She didn't do anything She made
no outcry at all ! suppose she left
! II TO me TO manage"
beatie did not recall whether tho
/ night was particularly cool. His vito
I did not say anything about tnrnin,s
PACK because she was chilled He did
( not remember when he took his coot
OH When he looked for IL he wented
TO get matches TO light the lamps. ana
then 1T was on the back seat OF thn
car. Beattie said he did nothing to
AID his wife a the time of the shot.
but jumped for her assailant. md
| dead S'hs
How is 1t possible for a gun to
have struck YOU as you have descrjh.
ed?'' he was asked
! Beatti took the gun and Illustrated
/ saying that there We're some things
I no man could answer. He thought hia
assailant was man with face fu,l
! OF beard but could not tell his ae,,
| 1t might have been "A long shave the
man needed.
DO you mean to ten us that this
1 man threw UP gun and killed your
/ wire without provocation?" he was
asked
Other people have been Shot Mt
around here in motor cars withomt
provocation," was the reply.
| After many further questions .nin,.
over ana over the same ground in min.
utest detail Mr.. Smith protestai INA.
thus was the first time in. his experience
as lawyer that a coroner's inol.est
was third degree
never saw such gruallinr at m
inquest in my life" he asserted "rbn
detectives have had him and gone ov,-
all this. The evident purpose is not +,
elicit information. but M .rely :, 20,
my client into trouble"
The coroner ruled that counsel couls
| object TO any question Beatti. ey.
pressed his willingness - an.nvAr 10
everything. Mr. Wendenbure explained
that as he was the only eyewI.nno,
tho minutest details were OF ,n,nnr
lance. whether some one els. was n
be involved in the case or not.
MT. Smith objected to his c,,ar,.
cigarette as not proper on the witnn..
stand. and the examination proceedoh
as to the position OF Mrs Bnat.I.
In the car after the shooting. thu n,t.-
ness said he found her with bnr ~,
toward the wheel lying down On Nv
moor doubled AID. He pulled her ma