The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-10
Looks to Supreme Court
to Give Him New
Lease on Life.
SOME REMARKABLE
FEATURES OF TRIAL
In Wonderrnent People Water
Youthful Murderer, Who Seems
to Know No Real Human
Feeing-Much syrnpa-
thy for Family of
Prisoner.
by yosEpH r.. GEIsIvepa


From the shadow of death. HENRI
Beatte. condemned wife -murd erer, stiil 1
smiles his defiance to the world and
Still sneerinsiy, with calm assurance
asserts that his day of vindicatton ana
vengeance will yet dawn.
Through night that to a sentteni
being must have brought torture be.
yond endurance, the strange boy. with.
the brand of foul crime upon his brops
slept peacefully as an innocent beba 4
Whlie his gray-haired father, broken In
BODY and spirit crept miserably back
TO his shattered home. the aon.
who has wreaked the fearful ruin.
smoked n last cigarette and then oud-
died comfortably and half-contentedly
In the jail cell cot Behind the ona
lay the wreck of life of toll ana good
deeds; before the other, blasted. spread
only the memory of life that might
nave been. Differently they stood Id
acts and In consequences old ago and
innocence bearing upon bent and sink
Ing shoulders the burden of woe and
oesrndation that youth and guilt, with
O shrus, cast of. The normal mind
struck blank. impassab BILE barrier hare,
When tho morning had come again
many turned impulsively with pity to
the lonely prisoner and in wonderment
ana lost understanding beheld not a
crushed and helpless thing. but the
same cheerful, well-groomed dandy
VINO mad smiled when q trembling Judge
named his last day upon this earth.
Bcattic Riddle.
AZ Is waste of time spent on this
riddle. Beattie, most celebrated OF
modern criminals. is after all an ana.
onfonism, thing unique among his
Kind. reversion to type of thous-
ana years ago-unless he Is one of thu
worlds great actors. Like an amoeh,.
ne moves hand or foot .when
touched but not henrt, for there hs
lacks. He seeing about as richly en-.
oowed with nerves and human feeling
as Jelly fish. The limit was reached
and passed in that twilight SCENE ~
tragedy. when the blanohed and sufrers
ing faces OF the prisoners father ana
brother blotted out all tho rest exc4nt
the half-1aunty stare of him resnon-
sioie Tor all this woe. Until then nifty
and sorrow for the boy had stirrod
many breast which yet believed anc,
declared him guilty: but then and
mere PITY and sorrow were rudely
shoeked TO death For the other two
and for tho young girl who waited n,
anguish at home for the terrible naws
an unhounded sympathy has swent ths
whole State, but for Henry Beatt.s
himself little is left now. Scorufully
ne threw It back upon those who wouId
nave onered 1t. laughed 1t away. s.tuse ,
1t with his own hand
Wants to Come nnck In Cstv
Little wonder after all then that ba
should have jumped briakly from he'd
ana cheerfully greeted the morning
sun after his night OF doom He said
he slept we'll and looked 1t Th, dir
cles under his eyes had not gone hun
were no deeper. ana the tawbone
muscle was working busily as usual
rev people were on the green when
ne Looked out through the grated VIM
40" OIL his cell. Chesterfeld's day of
unenvinble fame had passed ana
inc village was all but deserted Tho
small Jail. with Its noted prisoner and
d oozen minor Offenders, was the moss
densely populated section OF the neigh,
borhood Two or three newsnanar ~
sun fingered around. catching up thu
ioose ends here and there Tho anc,er,
battered vehicles and rawboned heasta
mat Tor weeks had enjoyed the ona
unusual event of their lives. wera ha.
ing dragged and pounded back to ohu.
won Inc trampled lawn was Begin
ning to look Its old peaoeful cal,
again. The courthouse snddenIv -,
membered Its hundred years of 40.
and In an instant shriveied into a ,tny
Fed-bricked cracked relic. cornfeIds
ana pastures spread all about and cat
tie beloved from the distance All
me glamour had gone. 1t was a tyntoaI
seohto' deadly-dull country scene again
ilenry Beattie looked upon It and lil,ed
IL not He yearned for the hum ~
many voices and for the clatter,ne
city streets. although he might NOT set
1907 upon them. II hope they will
tsEe back 10 the Henrico Jail soon"
he said. longingly In fact. the r..
mainder of his stay in the Chester.
held prison will in all likelihood be
BRIEF There are no more efficient
ohicers In the State, but the building
itself is none too secure ProbabIy
within week. Beattie Will he brought
TO Richmond. Twenty days b.fora he
Is executed ne will be taken 10 the
penitentiary
Little Chance Here.
But according to tho prisoner he will
never he executed IT am not q dead
man yet" he declared. The Supreme
Court VIII put everything right again.
The verdict was very unjust Tns
Beatt;e Is building his house on shift
ing sands There is little hope OF d &
successful appeal and practically nons
of executive clcmency. Tho trial
fudge. as indicated yesterday haa
dealt with him with fair and merct-
full hand and little ground has been
left on which To base a plea to the
higher court Counsel have already
proven themselves good fahters
against heavy odds. and al tha
strength OF desperation viii be- pus