The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-22

is a tiny one-story red brick and white
\ portlcoed, vineclad building, ancient
| in years as the great trees that tower
aboyeit. AS store house in Reyolu-
Itionary times 1t stood as the center of
bitter fight between continentals
under Gen. Baron Won steuben and
Gen. Tarieton heading a British force:
The Kings soldiers put torch 70 the
building, but its'thick old walls re-
NAMED standingand for decades aft
erward the dignlfed lawyers and
judges attended by their black body
servants in their chaise or astride
their lively thoroughbred mounts
came clustering to its broad lawns
under the big trees on court days.
The last famous murder trial held
there was in the early fifties, when
Thomas Richie, Father of the Demo
cratic party in Virginia" killed James
pheasant in so particularly vicious q
duel that it was regarded as requiring.
a .trial" even in those days Of the full
recognition of the code.
Now the court house stands far on
\ the modern roads Of travel in the
\ heart u bfoad plantations as Of old,
iiIsa4d 4Hs g6R poffttffkAs 81 the old lash
|litSaheI&f Rdges,s one 81 ahte-belluH days
Of fee Instruction time which
]. decorate the interior will probably.
!. look down in sharp and severe amaze;
ment at the big squad of reporters
]. Keeling off copy ieverishly and the
!. dasSIng messengers rushing away
] with it, while the din. and click Of half
a hundred telegraph instruments
sound under the trees, outside the
i white latticed windows. ID
General Curiosity:
Even bH lhd ietn Hsouthern gentle-
men hal qhdsh oseftto contemplate
, curiously the stringing OF countless
. wires to the very door of the latticed
court house that has slept so long IN
Its memories. The old decrepit hunt
ing dogs that have made the cot
!, house" lawn a rendezvous for years
/, have disconsolately departed before
, the innovation frought by the modern
r murder trial, and through the gratings
} Of the creper embowered lookup 50
pretty in its exterior that an artist
3 would long to make a rural studio Of
elit the big wide eyes Of grtnning negro
, prisoners stare like children at the
many strangers that have found thel'
I way to the old court house since Beat
4 tie was indicted.
: Beattle will be taken by Sheriff
s Gill from the Richmond county jail IN
: an automobile. when he will have al
J. eighteen mile ride to the Chesterfield
a court house. Two deputy sheriffs will
9 also be IN the party, While 1t Is fully
9 believed that the public has made "
It's mind to let the law take its course
i that 1t is willing to abide peacefully b'
i the verdict, it is not forgotten by the
o officials that Beattie's wife was
. daughter of one of the oldest and mos
Il honored families in Virginia and Mary
land. Her youth, her goodness, hel
prettiness and her ancestry have mad
9 the pity of her murder most poig
nant reality in these Southern CON
munitles where chIyalrous and ten
der regard for womanhood and moth
erhood is also as real today as trad
ton ever declared It to be in time
aeone so that II the evidence shall g
bitterly against Beattie there may b
full need before the trial is over 70
an augmented force to secure his pei
sonal protection. Beulah Binford an
Paul Beattie will not be brought owe
to the court house until after the jur'
is chosen. This Il Is predicted wi
take all of a week. VI
No Room for Spectators.
The pubic generally will have n
opportunity to witness the trial, for s
small is the court room that .whe
Judge clerk and other court officers
lawyers, prisoner, jury reporters an
venlremen are all within there vi
not be space sufficient left for q liyln
skeleton to wedge inside. Il
Judge william "A Watson who wi
preside, sitting Ia a worn horsehai
chair that was there when the BATH
Of the wilderness was aging furlionppl Y
ilys d few miles beyond, IS only ailittdl
more than forty ysars old modeF
man Nj thought and disposltloni VI