The Washington times., 1911-09-07

Il
us 1t possible to conceive It, gentle
men? He left his innocent wife witt
this tender child hanging on her bosom
| for this Beulah Binford, this woman
graced to walk through the streets o.
the Christian community Of Man
| chester.
Gentlemen. there is your motive.
"If that were not all, who had a
the child died, paid the burial expenses
| Who wrote that letter signed honey
Who sid I send oceans of lover Who
! left his wife downcast, forsaken-for-
saken for this scarlet woman
chase OF the gun and the purpose
| for which It was bought. He charac-
| terized the witness Neblitt as a poor.
unfortunate creature Overwhelmed in
| mire of contradictions, discredited,
| and proven a liar."
Attacks Beattie.
Beattie himself was the next target.
81 hope to God gentlemen that I
shall never see a character as black
as wicked, as foul as Henry c. Beat
ties, clad and clothed in the blakest
crime that the world has ever known.
Yet they come into court and swear
that he was as white as snow.
Paul Beattie. this poor relative, Is
a white lamb in comparison! Wit
ter :'s What does he do? He comes and
tell a good story. He makes a clean
breast Of the whole matter. Nobody
can be found outside of the Beattie
family who can say one word against
Paul Beattie's character. He is ar
rested.
A serious thing, gentlemen, and
every member Of the Beattie family
come to this court and try. to rob him
OF his characterize place him beneath
the sod for this crime But Paul Beat
tie is unscattered. He Is safe. He
stands today an honest man. Henry
Beattie had a purpose to do all he
could to destroy Paul when he asked
him to buy that gun, and to prove
fasten the crime on Paul, Ionlyaskyou
to remember what Douglas Beattie
said, I would have destroyed the evil
dence Of the crime, II had had the
chance.
Refers to Mrs. Owen.
Judge Gregory drew a vivid word
picture OF the scene of the crime. and
continued:
One lonely woman, shrouded in the
deepest black Of mourning, came here,
gentlemen, to uphold her lovely daugh-
ter. You could see that II was tearing
her heart out to disclose to you one cir
any man Of you who remembers his
own mother. She tells you that Henrik
c. Beattie's actions to his young wife
were not all they ought to be. She
sin her daughter had showed her. Can
you remember this. gentlemen, and still
believe in this mans innocence?
Judge Gregory concluded by referring
to the prisoners cold-bloodedness and
his getting drunk on the night of the
homicide altar rafmTnfnO
After his Introductory plea for Beat
tie, Mr.. Carter said:
Let me call your attention to the
testimony that has been given, not BY
cution has claimed, but by others"
Mr.. Carter then called the attention of
the jury to the high character and po-
sttion Of those who had testified to the
character OF the prisoner.
Defends Beattie.
Gentlemen" continued Mr.. Carter,
here is man who is accused of MUIR
dering the mother Of his own child,
with whom he had no cause to quar-
rel, and with whom ne was on the 4
most affectionate terms. l ask you
II lit is possible to believe this. 1t is
fnconceivable, 1t is unbelievable.
1T is contrary to all conceivable ideas
" soy AIob pcdC0dDl6
quiet young man whose life shows no
disposition toward brutality or cruelty
to have taken her out there on the road
you will recollect he bought her candy
on that ride-and to have deliberately
taken her life.
ITO believe that Of him you must
believe that the men who have come
derstood him.
Hot on the trail for hours last night
of an alleged eyewitness of the death
of Mrs. Louise owen Beattie, the prose
cutIon thought for a time it would ask
that the case be reopened this morning.
But efforts to get the evidence in time
have been fruitless. To locate this eye
witness, man, and a woman, said to
have been with him, the long distance
telephone between Richmond and Chi
cago buzzed all night,
Luther L. Scherer was busy talking
with detectives at the Great Northern
Hotel in Chicago.
The sought for man could not have
been brought to the trial scene in time
to testify, but his woman companion
or companions are Richmond residents,
and, II their identity can be discovered,
they can be rushed out in an hour by
automobile.
Poor Chance of Success.
Chances Of locating the witness in
Richmond were regarded as remote,
owing to the few hours which were
available, but the effort thus to clinch
the case against Beattie was most
earnest.
The hunt for the man involved In
the matter went on for two days in
North Carolina before he was found
to have gone from there to Chicago.
At the Great Northern Hotel in that
city man of the name given was
found registered yesterday afternoon.
He had Informed the hotel that he
came from this part of the country,
but he then left the hotel bound on
business, and up TO an early hour this
had not returned to his room.
The tip as to his being an eyewit-
ness together with the girl or girls
with him came to the Commonwealth
IN a letter from out of town. 1t was
not an anonymous letter, and the
wealth will not divulge, is said to be
found on investigation to be a highly
reputable citizen. The writer of the |
letter says the man told him Of seeing |
an automobile stop at the scene of the |
crime. He heard a quarrel between
the man and woman in the car, and |
then saw the man club the woman |
with the stock of gun. The sound |
Of shot followed, and after few |
minutes the automobile drove away.
Story Is Believed True.
The story is believed to be true 1t |
may be that the tale of girl or girls |
being present with the man is not so,
but it is confidently held that there was
IN actual eyewitness Of the homicide. |