Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-21

/ Verdict Is Apparently hours =" aS-
/ Investigation shows Woman's Con-
nection With siorv-Web of Circum-
stantial Evidence is Woven : Full
Details.
Especial Correspondence
Richmond, Va, July 21 -Beattie
under arrest four o'clock charged with
murder Of wife
Richmond, Va. July 2l.- Henry
Clay Baattir, husband Of t6o murdered
woman, faced the coroner's jury at
1920 aud for more than an hour and
a half he was given grllling. Beattle
did not hesitate once. and told the
same story that b. did At the time of
the shooting. ouiy Celebrating It - he
went into details. Mt once did the
efforts Of the com n9nwealth shake
him or have the least effect in upset
ting his story. He was cool and
self-posseased at every Turn. Beat
tie was still on the stand at , o'clock.
A detective let fall q tip this afternoon
which is to the effect that 3 rural letter
carrier passed the spot fifteen minutes
before the shooting took place and
says that Beattie was tinkering with the
machine and that Mrs. Beatte was
standing on the roadside. Policeman
JerrolI, of the county, says that he
will swear out a warrant for the arrest
OF Beattie charging him with murder
whatever may be the verdict Of the
jury. A verdict is apparently some
hours away.
Richmond Va, July 21.-Vir"
ginia' $ murder mystery today resolved
itself into the old, old story OF two
women and man.
When six members Of d corouer's 5
Jury crowded into the little parlor Of
Coroner Loving's h"me to probe the
tklilng of the beautiful Young wife OF
Henry Clay Beattr, the arisrocratc
civil rar soci.ly Of the Old Dominion
waited breath for the urrloseting OF
Beatlie sk kelelon. And the uncloseting
caruc. Detective / J Scherer pre-
i;cted an arrest at the close OF the in-
quest
T1dAv llr rol,cc brought hrrl' the
tr-,.t. II The strcEu us work they lave
,t,u.. ~ :, He'ry 1:iv Bcatlir i ought
hcme hum tl't, L-t J1y-r"!t his
murti, red wife hcr ,hot-pierrcd lead
in his bloody lap. They went back
four years to find the woman. and
found Beulah Binford, brunette
beauty, school-day sweetheart OF
Beattie, and, according to the Henry
county records, mother of Beattie's 8
first born, now dead.
While Henry Clay Beattie, in bis
fathers home last night cuddled his
motherless FIVE weeks old son, the
Other Woman was in the custody Of a
half score OF strong armed men, on the
farm of L. J. Scherer, chief OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad detec-
tinues, nine miles from Richmond. AT
ter the Other Woman was put through
a rigorous third-degree hy Scherer and
the public officials yesterday, she was
spirited away from Richmond in u
speeding automobile, far from Beattie.
Despite the potent caste feeling oil
the Virginia aristocracy, the first
families remembered today when they
spoke of the wedding OF Henry Clay
Beattie but few months ago, OF the
mysteriously yelled woman who th en-
appeared, 1t has been generally known
since Beattie's marriage that there was
AnotherW oman, who appeared, heavily
yelled like a wrath, at the wedding
feast and from her dark rear pew oi
the little church in Manchester, in.
spired a dread fear that the banns
would be forbidden. The police today
named Beulah Biniord as the woman.
Under yesterday sweating the police
declared today that the Other Woman
admitted that she was the mother oi
Beattie' dead son, born July "a, 1909,
: and that she had been lately paid
money by the scion OF the south to keer
her away frouRichmond. She returned
three weeks ago, and on two occasion:
lust prior to the killing of Mrs, Beat
tie, she was seen, according TO Chief Of
Police Werner, in Beattie's automobile
which carried the latter's wife to hel
death.
, Detective Scherer, who has led the
scattered chase for Mrs. Beattie'
slayer, deemed the Other Woman the
handspring Of the case. He spirited
her away last night to have her on
hand as the leading witness at today !;
inquest, aud TO confront her with
Beattie. In her he processes to see the
motive of the killing.
They point out that she left town
shortly before Beattie's weddiug, that
she returned for short time to wit,
ness that event, and she returned the
last time after TIE birth OF the five
weeks old infant that last night cried
himself to sleep longing for his murd'
cred mother.
Today the police bent all their
efforts toward proving the o~nershlE
of the shotgun found in the road from
the scene OF the tragedy to the Beattle
homo. Upon this clue the police
realize they must base their ultimate
solution of the mystery.
The commonwealth attorney OF
Chesterfield county declared Today thai
he expected the inquest to bring torth
evidence enough to warrant 40 I'm
mediate arrest and subsequent indict-