The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-07-28
.BEATTIE OUT
Of CAR
WIFE WAS STANDING BY HIS
SIDE.-DECLINED ASSIS-
SISTANCE
FROM A PASSING CAR

Richmond, Va, July 27-The names
Of eight young men who saw the
Beattie car standing on the Midlo-
THAN Turnpike, where the murder
was committed a few minutes later,
have been given to the detectives, and
all of the men will be called upon to
testify when the trial takes place,
presumably next month, at the Ches-
terfield county court house.
There had been dance at Bon Air.
Among those who attended were eight
young men from this city. They went
up and returned in an automobile.
About two miles above the Belt
Line crossing the party passed an
other machine standing on the road
side. The machine was at the very
place where the killing subsequently
took place. The returning party pass
ed the standing car between 10:3O and
IL o'clock.
The young men saw a man stand
| ing in front of the car. A woman
| was standing in the road beside him.
The man had his face turned away.
Neither of the side lights was burning,
and the front lights were burning
l 1xv i,
| tinguished.
| Mr. Pascal reduced the speed of his
car and asked the man standing by
| the motion1ess machine if he needed
assistance. The man replied that he
did not. He did not turn his head
to reply. He said that he was putting
| water in his radiator.
| His reply occasioned some comment
among the young men in PascaPs car,
as they knew there was no spring on
the road. The nearest we'll is about
half miles from the scene of the
murder
Mr.. Pascal and his friends con
tinued on their journey back to Rich.
mond. They passed no other car
Before they reached town Mrs. Beat
tie had been murdered. Consequently
the car in which Henry Beattie, Jr.
and his young wife had ridden UP
the turnpike must have been on the
road before the young men passed
From Bon Air to Richmond Mr.. Pascal
and his friends passed only the one
car.
Another long interview took place
in the Henrico Jail today between
Detectives Scherer, Wren, Wiltshire
and FARRELL and Beaulah Binford, the
woman IN the Beattie murder case.
The girl talked with great freedom
of her relations with Henry Beattie
Jr., and though not giving the off
GERS any evidence upon which q new
line of investigation can be pursued
disclosed many valuable details
! hitherto unknown to them-whicf
strengthens the web wound around
young Beattie.
Following the interview with the
Binford girl the detectives had
short talk with Paul Beattie. Pau
} remained mistaken in the statement
that he had bought the shotgun fol
his cousin by request, and had turned
! it over with three cartridges to him.
w. G. Baldwin, head of the Baldwin
, Detective Agency, said this morning
in commenting on the Beattie mur
der:
s'There is no third person in thi
case. Henry Beattie murdered hi
wife without any direct assistance.
: believe that he carried that gun t.
: the scene of the crime before he wen
!, there with his wife. He realized tha
> he could not hide it effectively in tn
. car, for he knew it was the custom
4 one of the Owen men, uncles Of Mrs
Beattie, to come out and either sit Il
or lean over the automobile whn
hisl wife was getting ready to joil
! him, and if the gun had been in tn
automobile the uncle would have seel