Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-22
WILL TRY 70 suDsrANrlArE
HussANo's STONY or TRAGEDY
Witnesses . Testify That They hsard
Calls for Help From Seattle After
Shots Wsrs Fired State Claims
s.attis PINNED to o.ssrt Wife for
Miss Binford.


jurymen were subject to peremptory
challenge by the defense. and 1t was
said that all OF these challenges would
be exercised. The sherin today 10 sum-
monins additional veniremen.
The defense will summon twenty
nine witnesses. five Of them women. A
majority Of those summoned are for
mer associates or former fellow em-
ployers Of Paul Beattie. held as q ma
terial witness in the case, and thru
them the defense will try to break
down Paul's story OF having purchased
the single barreled shotgun for Henry
three days before the murder.
..54s4 Outline Of Defense.
Several persons who lived near the
scene Of the crime will be called to tes-
tify to having heard calls for help and
the sounding Of q motor horn. The
story Of the prisoner is that his wife
was shot at his side by mysterious
bearded man in the road and that he
(Henry) called for aid.
Others to be called In the defend
ants behalf are young women who liv-.
ed near Beattie and his wife during
their short married life. They will be
asked to support Henry's statements
that their home life was all that It
should have been and that quarrels be-
tween them were unknown.
Many Thrills Expected.
II Is expected that the trial will pro-
.duce testimony a. sensational 40 has
ever been given since the Harry Thaw
case In New York. and many ar1sto-
cratic families Of Virginia are await
ing the revelations with great anxiety.
The hrst intimation OF the tragedy
came on the night Of July - when
BeAttie drove his auto mp to his home.
holding ID. his- arms kis brfdeofs = year
with their two eWeeles' old baby safe in
the bottom Of the tonneau. The wife
had been killed by charge Of shot fir
ed at close range.
Beattie declared that as they were
driving down dark part Of the Mid
lothian turnpike an unknown man had
sprung from the roadside and stopped
them. He had made few profane re-
marks about the rights Of the road, and
then. when Beattie Jumped from the
car to grapple with him, had raised
his gun and fred. Beattie said he had
chased him . few rods, not suspecting
that his wife wal. injured, and returned
To dnd her dead
Evidence Against Dsattis.
The story was doubted and the In
vestigations OF the prosecutor almost
at once began to develop evidence
against the young husband. The gun,
found near the scene Of the crime. was
identified by . storekeeper in Rich
mond as one he had sold to Paul Beat
tie. cousin Of the prisoner. Paul ad-
mitted that he had given the gun to his
cousin, tho the latter denies that he
has ever seen It.
It IL also alleged on the evidences Of
the doctors. that the charge that
struck Mrs. Beattie had been fred
from within foot or two Of her head
and not from distance Of several feet.
But the most startling evidence that
the state will present IL tho revelation
that young Beattie has been leading .
double life, caused by infatuation with
Beulah Binford. . girl Of II. whom he
had known since he was 13, They have
q son aged years. The girl was pres
ent at the Beattie wedding, and then
left town ct Beattie's instance, under
. promise never to, return. She came
back few weeks before the tra9edy.s
however. and Beattie had been stated.
to have been seen In her company.,T The
state will ofIer evidence that they had
even planned to engage Z nat III Rich
mond whore she might live and bo
near him.
osnsations % Come.
This. the prosecutor declares, fur.
nished the motive for the crime. It
10 not alleged that Beattie himself mr.
ed the shot, but that he and Paul
Beattie engaged some third man to do