The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1911-08-26
TT|E JURY FULL
Taking of Testimony Began
This Morning.
KIFE'S UNCLE FIRST WITNESS
Nine of the Twelve Jurymep Who
Will Decide the Fate of the Al
legged Wife Slayer Are Lean
and Bronzed Farmers.

Chesterfield Courthouse. Va, Aug.
2i.-Thc jury which will decide
whether Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, OF
Richmond. shall go to the electric
chair, convicted Of wife murder, was
completed in battered old Chester
field courthouse.
The battle for human life began al
10 o'clock this morning. to which
hour the court had adjourned. The
commonwealth then called its first
witness.
The prisoner was locked up for
the night in the small jail here, and
was not returned to the Richmond
jail during the night Ills grayhaired
father embraced him and journeyed
home in a dusty public conveyance
surrounded by the curious throng.
Made up almost entirely Of lean,
brOnzo-faced farmers, the jury, as
completed, follows the lines indicated
by Mondays selections. The names
of the twelve men. as they remain
after the defense exercised its four
peremptory challenges on the panel OF
sixteen, are as follows:
No. IN. w. Farley, quarryman,
thirty-scyen years old.
No. 2-E. l.. Wilson. farmer, thirty
eight years old.
No. "a. l.. Fetteron, contractor,
thirty-four years old.
No. 4-Irying l.. Bass. Jr., farmer.
thirty years old.
No. 5-V W. Fuqua, farmer, twen-
ty-seyen years old.
No. G-W. L. Burgess, farmer, ffty-
two years old.
No. IN. T. Purdie, farmer, twen-
ty.seyon years old
No. S-M. c. Robinson, farmer.
forty-four years old.
No. 9-Thomas a. Hancock. farm
er, thirty-seyon years old
No. 1O-Lewis Robertson. farmer,
forty.four years old.
No. 11-W p. Rocks, farmer, forty
eight years old.
No. 12-M +. Blankenship. assist
ant superintendent Of a silk mill,
thirty.eIght years old.
Nine OF the iurymen are farmers.
and all have declared themselves as
not opposed to capital punishment.
Beattie Aids In Selection.
Beattie conferred earnestly with his
lawyers and studied intently the faces
in the full panel Of sixteen men be
fore the defense decided on its ellmin-
ations. Then, after a moment OF
whispered conversation with II. NJ.
Smith, Jr., his chief counsel, the pris-
oner nodded his head and the clerk
announced that the names Of four
farmers selected on Monday were
dropped from the list.
In charging the jurors, who will be
kept during the trial at an old tav-
ern near the courthouse, Judge Walter
4. Watson simply set forth the law OF
as applicable to homicide. As
the indictment covers all degrees
from the first degree to involuntary
he explained that the
defendant might be found guilty ac-
cordingly.
III you fnd him guilty Of murder In
the first degree" said the court, you
shall say so and nothing more, in
which event the punishment shall be
death, but If you find him guilty Of
murder in the second degree you shall
say so, and shall fix his punishment
by confinement in the penitentiary at
not less than five no more than eigh-
Ieen years"
After citing the penalty for lesser
degrees Of manslaughter, the court
concluded with the words that IF you
and the prisoner not guilty of any OF
the offenses charged you shall say so
and no more"
Thomas owen. an uncle Of Mrs.
Boattie, TO whose home Henry
brought the body with a tale OF
bearded highwayman firing into his
automobile from the roadway, was the
first witness called for the common
wealth this morning