The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-09

ou MS nose. MINK or IL, crushing
blow DEALT by giant welding a
heavy gun innicting n slight scratch
on the nose. And witnesses ten that
this young mans face was covered
with blood. wouldn't any man in the
world have taken his pocket hand
kerchief and wiped that blood off his
face? No, he didn't dare wipe of
that blood. for he wanted to say:
There Is where this giant struck aid
felled me-
Attorney Wendenburg requested
Sheriff Gill to procure the gun. the
shirt and the suit worn by Beattie the
night OF the murder, While Sheriff
GIN was getting the articles FOR ex-
hibition. Attorney NVendenburg gave a
detailed account of Beattie's descrip-
ton Of how his wite's head had fallen
over on hts shoulder when the shot
was fred. and how, after he had
grappled with the ASSASSIN he had re-
turned TO the machine, and found the
/ body lying In the bottom OF the auto
mobile.
Attorney wendenburg then tore
Beattie's story to shreads, showing
how 1t was impossible for HIS wire
10 have collapsed as Beattie had said
declaring that the husbands coat ana
! shirt would have been stained by the
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head. Holding high above his head
the shirt which Beattie wore. Attorney
/ WendenbUrg continued:
! Shirt a Mute Witness.
This piece Of white cloth which
! has been made up as a shirt Is a bet
/ ter witness than any living being.
! This shirt is "A witness that cannot
! tell lie n witness that cannot com
NIT perjury. Do you see any blood
stains on the shoulder OF this shirt
/ DO you see any blood stains on the
sleeves? Do you see any blood stains
on the chest3 No, you cannot FOR this
| shirt Is witness that tells beyond
q doubt that no bleeding head rested
| upon that mans shoulder. or arm or
| chest That bleeding head rfrh blood
| gushing forth In big STRAIN did no,
rest on this man.
| Why was a lie necessary. gentle
men? Why did that husband have
| to tell 3 lie, II his story was true
| But see, here is big blood stain on
| the bottom of the back or the shirt,
/ That stain might show that this hus-
band sat in TIE seat which was brim-
ming with the blood OF his wife. But
then. gentlemen. 1t might also show
that after ha threw her body across
/ the seats like a meal sack he sat upon
! her face.
That vas what this man did after
he had slain The woman he had sworn
| to shield ana protect, And they ask
You why he procured a single barrsied
| second hand shotgun with which &c
kill his wife: why he didn't get y
pistol which would have been SO easy
TO conceal. Suppose he had killed he,
with single barrel shotgun. wouldn'
they have asked him. Why didn't The
lad ls{ =.
! charge In the ether barrel
! And why second hand gum C;ep-
tlemen. this is the cheapest murder
have ever known. A second handle
gun And then remember that Til:
loving. devoted husband bought hi,
wife fifteen cents worth or cady. Il
he had wanted pound Of candy a:
he said he did. why didn't he buy
four OF the fifteen ceng boxes. WneI
he wanted gun he went down it
his pocket and dug up "a for 1t. "11eI
he wanted cartridges he bought live
cents worth Of shells.
Wore Discarded Suit.
There Is q label inside the pocket
Of this coat which he wore that night
which shows he bought II In March
1908, an old, Worn. good for nothing
suit that long before had been dis
carded. No, he couldn't afford K
stain new suit with the blood OF his
young wife. Why did he wear thi:
old, discarded suit that night II hi
did not know he was going to have
n bloody transa ction? Then, just be.
fore he took her out on the roat
alone in the silence and darkness he
bought fifteen cents worth OF candy
to send her into eternity rejoicing.
After the murder was done, ;
, pool Of blood was found In the roaC
and he tells you that blood leak ..
through the machine in the few sec
onds before he started on that wiki
|; dash homeward. That pool Of blood
Ola not run through the machine.
was formed while young and beau
tiful head lay there Ia the dirt ant
dust. bleeding.
Two boys have told you Of nndin,
= spray Of blood miles down the .'oa'
. from the scene OF tho crime ant
, YOU are told that where the spra
was found the blood dripped through
tho machine While the husband va
fixing the lights, / tell you that au
tomobils did not bleed. II It hal
!. there would have been drippiugs I,
show where the machine went afte
: il left the pool OF blood at the spo
! where tho murder was committed
: And II that machine bled why dldn'
, II stood for an hour and halle
=, 'Remem Der that when he was asI.
ed why he didn't stop in front c
4 sime OF the houses beside the Ioa
on his way to TEN Owens HOUSE. an,
, call for help. he replied that he We
hrrrying to The Owen homo becaus
1 he knew doctor was there, n docto
/ for the wife he said he didn't know
was dead when he also has said h
/ thought every bona in her back WA
broken, she was so limp.
Innocent Endangered.
Then he tells the yarn about tn
. bearded assassin. Oh, 1 thank God
. gentlemen. that some Chesterfiel
farmer with a beard walking ou
late that night. did not mud tho CUR
And tho story he told put 1t on an
bearded man who might have fouu
, the gan that night. FIes said first II
thought 1t was a negro and then wtcl
he was reminded that few negroe
have boards he said 1t might hav
y been white man. He threw tina
. crime In the pathway OF tramps.
; And when he was driving home h
threw that gun on the railroad trA,.k,
) the pathway OF tramps When tn
searching party returned with tn
straw hat which had been lost in tn
road and run over no said he hope,
to God they would find a name in II
What good would 1t have done hin
had they found a name in that stray
hat whe nhe had already said tn
bearded assassin wore a dark sloucl
hat?
Can anybody doubt DR.. Mann No
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