Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-09-06
ALL TESTIMONY
is BEFORE JURY
Beattie Says He Is Confident
He Convinced the Men
of His Innocence.
LAWYERS IN ARGUMENT
Begin Summing Up Their
Case Tomorrow When Judge
Will Deliver Charge.

Special By United Press Wire.
Chesterfield Court House, Va,
Sept. 6.-TLe unemOtianal stoicI5m
OF Henry Clay Bear-ie, Jr., Iapsed
today as the young man sat in his
cell here. u would like TO see my
youngster," he said I haven't
seen him since they put me in here.
Today was the first time the faith
eriy instince was expressed by the
young prisoner. II feel sure" he
said, that my appearance on the
stand and my testimony convinced
the jury Of my innocence.
With all the testimony against
him in the hands Of the jury, Beattie
was locked up while lawyers wrestled
in a technical legal argument to in
fluence the charge of Judge Watson,
who went to Richmond today to
meet the lawyers.
Over in Richmond Jail Beulah
BinfOrd, the youthful sweetheart Of
the accused man, wept bitter tears
Of disappointment because she was
not allowed to tell her story to the
jury and morbid spectators.
The real beginning of the end for
Beattie's fight for life will come to-
morrow when lawyers viii open
their argument.
Il will have dinner at home with
father and brother and sister Sun
day" said the prisoner. 4 have no
doubt that the verdict will be in by
Saturday night. I watched the jury
as closely as they watched me, and
I am certain that they believe my
story and will set me free. I have
made arrangements for a family din
ner on Sunday to celebrate my re-
lease"
In Richmond the detectives for
the prosecution continued their ef-
forts to secure additional testimony,
although the case closed last night.
A possibility of q re-opening of the
case of a mis-trial is always before
them, and they are not to be caught
unprepared. They are fighting
against the release of either Beulah
Binford or Paul Beattie from Rich
mond jail, although Judge Wat-Sa
declared he would set them free as
soon as it became apparent they
would not testify.
/ There is no court at Chesterfield
/ Cross Roads. InsteGd, the lawyers foi
/ the commonwealth and the a.ss''..ss; !. /
meet with ) Yassae
bers Of the supreme court In Ricfluoue
to argue the matter Of the JUDI 4
charge to the Jury. Under the Virginia
practice, before the court charges tho
jury in a capital case both sides are
given an opportunity TO urge upon him
certain clauses in his instructions, the
argument in no sense being binding
upon the court, but merely advisory
The completion Of testimony came
suddenly TO an end when Henry Owen.
q brother of the woman who was nur-
dered, the last witness for the prosecu-
ton In rebuttal. took the stand, This
was the final surprise launched at
Beatties defense by Louis Wenden-
burg, common We wealth's prosecutor. AT
ter be had denied the story Of Henry
Beattte that up to the end his wife and
be had never exchanged q cross word,
Wendenburg announced that the pros
ecution rested its rebuttaL The de
fense had no surrebuttal 10 make, and
the ten days of evidence taking were
thus brought abruptly to an end.
This final effort TO bring Henry Beat
tie to punishment for the crime of
wife murder was quite the most dis
astrous Of all that had passed over hls
head. No great sensation was sprung.
but bit by bit the story that the pris-
oner had himself told on the stand and
that favorable witnesses had sought to
substantiate for him was torn down by
an oyerw helming weight of evidence
in rebutSaL The Anal question that
had been propounded to Beattie when
he resumed the stand for few min
utes TO have his cross examination
completed remains unanswered and.
above all other questions at issue the
most fraught With significance.
How did the gun bought by Paul
Beattie three days before the murder
happen to be in the hands Of the man
who shot your wife, and how do you
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