Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-22
Detectives After Person Who Fired
Shot.
PRISONER UNMOVED.
Paul Beattie Regains His Composure
After Night in City Home-BInford
Girl was Expelled From st. Mary's.
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hlclmOuQ, Va, JulS "a. DeteS-
tives are working on some important
clue, declining to let the newspapers
in, but it is known that another arrest
is impending and that the person ar
rested will be charged with having
fred the shot and with having come
back to the city, or q good part OF the
way, in the machine which brought
Henry Beattie aud his dead wife back.
Coroners jury did not resume till
l O'Clock.
Henry Beattie charged with wife
murder, lpent a quiet and resttui
night in the city jail. and this morn
ing was as cool and self.possessed as
any man who had never heard Of the
crime. He insists On complete and
emphathic denial Of the story told by
Paul Beattie, his cousin, to the effect
i that Paul Beattie had bought the gun
for Henry Beattie while with him last
Friday. Henry Beattie says he knows
nothing of this, but the detectives have
signed statement from Paul Beattie to
this effect. Henry Beattie md Paul
Beattie we're chums.
Paul Beattie is being detained in GUS
tody as a witness IN the case and last
nigh. he was ylaced at the city home,
where he was given careful medical at
tention. He was complete wreck and
lunatic last night following placing him
in custody. He appears to be all right
this morning and was seated on the
front porch of the city home reading
tile papers which carry full accounts of
the murder and his arrest and that Of
his cousin.
Beulah Binford, the woman in the
case declared on the stand yesterday
that she had said sthat # it would do
Henry Beattie any good she would 20
on the stand and swear that she had
killed his wife.
CoRoNER's INQUEST TODAY.
Richmond, July 22.-The authorities
were very nervous when the inquest
convened at one O'Clock and an extra
guard of Richmond police were hurri.d
to the home Of Coroner Loving. Tne
same crowd of morbidly curious who
yesterday crowded the Loving lawn
were on hand today, augmented by
scores of others.
However Coroner Loving today
barred the crowd from about the rails
OF the broad veranda where the jury
sat. Ropes were strung and patrol
of officers kept the crowd fifty feet
distant.
The police evidently expected
trouble with the crowd, for when
Beattie arrived some twenty uniformed
policemen and as many more plain
clothes scattered among tie spectators
and crushed the slightest attempt at
demonstration.
Under heavy guard Beattie ar
rived in an automobile from the Rich
dlond jail just as bis father and brother
move into the Loving yard. The
stricken father threw his arms arouud
his accused sons neck and kissed him
tenderly. Beattie smiled indifferently
and puffed steadily on his eyer-preseut
cigarette.
With set, calm faces, father and son
walked on the porch and seated them
selves side by side before the jury
Mandy Alexander, the negress who
first saw the gun after the killing
was called. She said she found the
weapon lying between the railroad
tracks on the road. Here it developed
that splinter broken from the stock
of the gun had been lost since yester-
days hearing. The gun had been in
the custody Of Chief Of Detectives Nc
Hahon, and he declarea he had made
vain search for the splinter. The pros
eeution was badly worried by its loss,
as it contained the steel pins upon
which Weinstetn, the pa ynbroker, ex-
pected to base his Identification of the
weapon.
. Paul Beattie followed the negress on
the stand. The boy had been brought
over from the city hospital and was
still in highly nervous condition. He
vas seated in the witness chair not
three feet from his accused cousin, and
his right hand shook so that he could
scarcely raise it, as he took the oath.
He identified the gun and said he had
bought it at Weinstein's pawn shop.
Then he declared bis cousin called him
up on The phone and asked him to get
the gun for him,
He described going to the pawnshop
10 Henry's auto, with his cousin, and
said Henry ualted around the corner