The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-06


1t seems after all the BeattIe top
Is really black, and mat the yellow
winch excited Roland Sydnors ire he
longs only to the cover pulled over the
top when the latter is down.
Attack on NcbIctt.
The attack on Neb.ett. who had ssld
he saw Paul Beattie standing in the
door of cement house on Mnyo's
Island with a shotgun in his hands on
the Sunday morning before the murder
occupied much of the day. and was
chiefly victory for the prosecution
though it's witnesses here did not
create as good an Impression as in the
matter of the Thursday night meet
ing.
AS day Waterman on the bridge Paul
Beattie began his work about o'clock
on the morning in question. The
might watchman, whom he relieved.
an honest looking freshman with an
honest. rolling brogue. saw him come
on duty and at that time Paul had
IN his hand nothing more dangerous
than a rolled up newspaper So far
as the night watchman knew there
was no gun in the cement house either
though he admitted that one might
nave been concealed there without his
knowledge. At all events Paul carried
no gun with him to work. and appar
mouse without the KNOWLEDGE OF the
man on guard between the time the
weapon was delivered and the TINA
ne reported for duty the next morn
ing. The night watchman on tho
island itself. Paul's own father-in-
Jaw. mad also seen him come walking
straight across the bridge and he had
no gun. ~ '"'
one after another. four other mo,
now appeared and declared thai tbey
had witnessed Neblett's arrival nm.
poSite the cement house and his a.
parture, and that during ali this Tim.
"ui beatue never once entered tho
mouse. For the most part he sal IN
los 'aikins with n ncsrS and did nor
go forward to speak to Neblett
a., we utter has stated While Neh-
iett was anywhere within the neis,h
1orhood the four men never loo, 60.
vi -, raul The boy had a pistol st',c,s
~ MS MP pocket but no shotgun
WIS anywhere about The fou. -
teiy certain as to this. WI, \.
,ha 20 some other details. however,
80; ulHered widely, thnugh nj, war.
san,a upon the same scene a, m.
m,,ch e Ihere was, for instance
SAT an IN as to how long t.lui
~. Smith After Them.
ir. smith ridiculed rho ,a
M could so clearly remor.h at
- I'oent many weeks old ,o.''
W. mH!rh they had no idea az ,ee,,,..
soi,ct, Two or three days AFRO Iio
20 discredi: some of them
ana you not shot at by an oe,o
one OF the four. ne asked
witness replied with viro me the
peen arrested for sboo,i nav"
,oa ing ~ poker and I paid nv sras
"a you want to know a." "'
s.''cr went into an elabor,,o ~.
hiiption OF the mornings events re
~ pictured Paul on the log wiz
Then Paul gets up and walks mo-,
me T, lie arch bridge and sits by
neck Zen a Dig bug bites Paul on tho
80. and takes n chew of tnhacn.,
neck" 'iTs u On Paul's
which side of your mouth doc
sac ,,A me chew of tobacco outerP..
MT Smith. endeavoring to tes, ,ho
m.ehesss memory still further r.
sW.r was later waived without gil an
Despite these incidents the attack o,
fur,has rieo much weight, anu was
iuFtner accentuated when a warm ~
sonal friend of the man took the stara
ana ny his manner clearly ind,c.,.d
maj ne believed the defense's witness
nau MADE mistake. In fact. ne SAID
Neniett did not even know pan, ~,
sight and had got him to point W.
BOY out to him on the court green =
Day or two ago
Mystery Deepens
NSstery simply deepened when II
came to the kastelberg affair. Thu
witness
biair. Jr.' one of the Bon Air dancers
VINO came down the Midlothian pike
very short time before the murder nc
Cured Blair was travelling In the
nrst car-Roland Lassiter's-that left
hoh AIR between 1915 and lo:3n p. NJ.
on the way back to Richmond. Just
on the other side Of the pump referred
oS hasteioerg the car passed an
automobile standing on the right side
OF the road. 1t was a maroon-coIored
Knox. with nickel-plated lamps. In
'front.' OF IT was a man stoopinr over
silBhtly. and on the left running board
stood a woman. Blair did not notice
the number of the machine, but took
II TO be the Dill Knox he had seen in
garage day or two before This
is the number OF KastelberC's car. A.
ne went on down the road Blair .,w
no other automobile. He stretched
out on the seat and chatted with a
TREND and II there was any other
party on the pike he failed to observ.
1t.
soon afterward came Roland Lassi.
Ter himself TO the stand and declared
that ne knew both kastelberg and his
Dig Knox car. but had seen neither on
me road that night, though lie t-av-
cleo In the same automobile with Blair.
| instead of that he had Noticed tarthg
inns way on the pike-near the scene
Oh the mnrder-a standing yellow top
car resembling Beatties, with a wo-
man also upon the running board and
a man In front This woman had on
no nat, bnt long tan coat. such as
MIS- Beattie wore Kasteihergs COM
panion was dressed In white with u
mushroom hat Lassiter was not will
ing TO dispute Blair whose reputation
| Tor truth he warmly commanded hui