Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-31

cred why the man was carrying a
gun"
On cross examination Holland stuck
to his story and added the informa-
ton that he thought he had seen the
same man about year ago in the
South Richmand police station among
others arraigned on suspicion of hav-
ing robbed Southern Railway cars.
At the making of this point, Young
Beattie should have been much pleas
ed. Hitherto he has smiled and pat
ted his counsel upon the back, but
now, for some ineNplicable reason he
seemed to go all to pieces. His face
lost its color and flush. He buried
his head in his hands beside a small
travelling bag he had on the desk in
front Of him. He wept SO bitterly that
his shoulders heaved and the tears
streamed between his fingers. This
placing of a strange armed man a
couple miles from the scene Of the
tragedy five hours before it occurred
was the best point the defense made
though it was not very strong one.
4 The only other reasonable point was
then they made it appear that Paul
Beattie (who previously told of hav-
ing bought the brass tackled gun for
Henry and Henry's haying confess
ing the Staying to him) was influence
ed to make his statement by prejudice
against the rich members of the fami-
ly.
w. T. Baker, chauffer, said he had
carried Paul to Jail in his car after
the Coroners inquest in July and that
he had overheard Paul say to some
others in the machine:
"Well, I am going to tell everything
l know about this affair because
Uncle Henry (the defendants father)
locked my grandmother in a room
once and made her sign away to him
all her property
Paul, himself called as witness
him admit this, denied that he had
said any such thing. Paul has made
a splendid impression upon the jury
and has shown himself to be anything
but the dullard he was suppose. Ii;
be before he took the stand.
A third point which the defense
strove to make was that there had
been other cases along the Midlothian
turnpike where men along the lonely
road with shotguns had become angry
when motors came close upon them
and threatened to shoot the drivers.
Herbert Richardson, chauffeur,
and Carroll Montague, his employer,
said that one night-though this was
over year ago at a point fifteen
miles from the scene Of the Beattie
tragedy man had attempted to
shoot them. He could not have been
a dangerous man, however, for he
said they pacified him by giving him a
ride in the machine.
1t was dull, dreary day out in old
Chesterfield with constant downpour
of rain through the leaves of the great
oaks and sycamores, slim attendance
and not a single thrill unless the
quarryman's story might be consider
ed one. No other witnesses apart from
those already described, said anything
of great interest of Importance.
Miss Louise Reams, a bridesmaid of
Louise Owen, when she became Mrs.
Clay Beattie Jr., identified yellow
hairpin found at the scene of the
crime
The nearly a dozen witnesses were
called to deny trifling points made
yesterday by a boy witness to the eff
feet that there had been two large
blood stains in the road instead of
one. After this the state rested it's
case
Besides the one intelligent witness,
telling of the strange man with the
gum" the defense presented another,
Eugene Henshaw, straggly bearded,
incohereIt old farmer, who proudly
declared that he was a Mormon. His
story, instead of helping that of the
quarrymen, spoiled the defense's
plans. Henshaw saw man, he said,
six feet tall and strange to the re-
gion near the scene of the crime. But
cross examination brought out that
this man was about sixty years old.
had a gray stubble of beard, instead
of a sandy one described by Holland,
and anyhow Henshaw had not seen
him until day after the tragedy. He
was apparently a tramp resting by
the roadside.
Most of the remaining time was con-
sumed by the defense trying to des-
troy the character of one Sam" Talley
who, when called by the State, said
he had heard on the fatal night first
a woman scream, then a shot, then
the sound of an automobile racing