The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-21
BEATT|E IS SERENE !. ON EVE OF HIS TRIAL State Is Eager to Secure
 Justice WITNESSES ARE READY
Parents of Beattie ard of His Dead Wife Expected to Be Present at Trial = Also "The
 Other Woman"

Richmond, Va, August 20.-Cnless death in the family of the presiding judge inter- feres, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., will be ar raigned tomorrow morning in the little courthouse at Chesterfield, Va, charged with the murder of his young wife, inc victim of the motor car tragedy near Richmond. on the night of July IS last.
 Serene and smiling, Beatte lay dewn in his cell here tonight prepared for the ordeal. The commonwealth has it's vii nesses at hand and is eager to go to trial, and unless some legal obstacle is inter posed by the defense or death claims N. T. Tinsley, the aged father-n-law of Judge Walter A. Watson of the Chester field circuit court. indications are that the selection of jury to trS Beattie for his life will be under way before noon to- morrow.
 The aged Mr., Tinsley has been critically ill for several days, and Judge Watson was unable to leave his bedside tonight, And if tue end comes before the conven-
 ing of coudt tomorrow, adjournment of the case may be necessary.
 More than 60 witnesses have been sub poenaed by the commonwealth. and it is planned to have a majority of them on hand when Beattie is arragned Among them will be Paul eBattle, the cousin who swore before the coroner that he pur- chased a shotgun for Henry. He and the defendant will be taken from the Henri co county jail here in automobiles early tomorrow morning and removed to the tiny jail at Chesterfield, there to await the proceedings. Beulah Binford, the r. year-old girl who figures prominently as the "other woman in the case" probably will be a witness at some time during the trial, but it is not likely that she will be taken to Chesterfield tomorrow In iail as a material witness, she is cheerful AS ever. confident of Beattie's acquittal
 Henry Clay Beattie, Sr. the merchant father of the prisoner, is expected to be in court tomorrow, although he did not put in an appearance when the in- dictment was returned against his boy last week. He has been an almost daily visitor at the jail however, and 1t was understood tonight that he hopes to fol- low the trial as closely as possible and to lend his moral and fittherly support to Beattie at all times.
 None of Beattie's wife's family-the Owens-have signified their intention of being in court at the arraignment but 1t Is more than likely that the mother and father, Mir and Mrs. R. V. Owen, now residents of Dover, Del, will be called as witnesses, as the case pro- gresses. The father was on his way to Richmond on the night of the murder and was confronted at Washington with newspaper headlines telling of his daugh- ter's death.
 The defense has not disclosed the num- Der of witnesses 1t will summon, nor the outline of the case 1t hopes to present in Beatties behalf An insanity plea has been suggested, but this has been gen eraly discredited. The popular belief is that his lawyers will rely on the fact that no one saw the crime committed and attempt to break down Paul Beattie's story that he purchased the gun for the prisoner.
 Beattie is now 26 years old his wife was 23 She left behind her a fiveweek's old baby, now In the care of the Owen family.