Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-23
GIRL FOR LOVE OF WHOM MRS
BEArTiE WAS MURDERED
MAY ATTEND FUNERAL.
FAMILY FEARS MISS eiNFoRp
WILL CREATE A SCENE
Keeps in Hiding and Police Start
ssarch-Sacrament Administered to
seattis in Hi. cell-Retains Iron
Nsrvs on Eve Of Exscution-Twsive
to Witness Elsctrocution.

love or WhOm Henry clay Bealtle, JE
is alleged to have killed his wife, is said
to have appeared here today. Denial
is made by the police that this is so
but several persons are said to have
recognized her on the street.
1t is said the Beattie family are
afraid the girl will make scene at
the civil funeral which is to follow
Beatties execution tomorrow morning.
Search for her is being made.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., awoke at
the usual time this morning on what
by law was the last day of his life.
Tomorrow shortly after daylight. in
the electric chair, he Wilt expiate the
murder of his young wife. There were
no signs Of breakdown this morning.
The prisoner dressed with the same
fastidious care that he has taken ever
since he entered the state penitentiary
and the death cell.
Sacrament Administered.
Henry Clay Beattie. the youthful
wife Murderer, yesterday received the
sacrament of the Lords Supper. He
professed religion and told his spiritual
advisers that he faced the unknown
with equanimity Altho Beattie is sub
dued in demeanor. the wonderful
nerve that thus far has sustained the
condemned man has not deserted him
The sacrament was administered
with all due solemnity in the death cell
Of the penitentiary yesterday afternoon
Rev. John Fix, the Presbyterian minis
ter, who has labored with Beattie since
his condemnation, officiated. assisted
by Rev Benjamin Dennis. The only
other person present was the prisoners
aged and broken hearted father. The
vigilance Of the death watch was not
relaxed during the ceremony, altho tbs
guards Withdrew to the corridor.
iron Nerve Not Broken.
Report that Beatties iron nerve
had broken have been disproved
During the desperate efforts made fol
a new trial and for a reprieve at the
hands of the governor. the high ten
sion under which the convicted man
labored stretched his nerves at taut as
piano wires. Naturally he was irascible
and given to sudden fits Of anger, but
these have disappeared.
That Beattie now is resigned to his
fate is proved by remark to his
guard yesterday when the suggestion
was made that the governor might
grant reprieve at the eleventh hour
Let us get it over with, Beattie is de-
clared to have said. If it has to be
the sooner it is ended the better.
The elder Beattie within the last
few hours has paid a secret visit to
Governor Mann in final effort to gain
- -, s,,ko
availing.
Witnesses Invited.
Invita- tons have been sent to the
twelve witnesses who will compose
the jury In the death chamber Fri
day morning. Under the law the wit
nesses must present themselves at the
prison before o'clock on that morning
Shortly thereafter Beattie will be led
from his cell to the chair. Within ten
minutes at the most. the jury will be
trooping from the chamber of death.
The same mails that bore the invi-
tations to the witnesses brought more
than 100 letters to Governor Mann
Some of the writer's commended his
policy for interference with the
mandate Of the law. Others hyster-
icaily called upon him to intervene. To
none Of these was any attention paid.
Beattie spent the day in reading.
While much of his reading is of re-
ligious nature he maintains still his
keen interest in the daily newspapers
HIS appetite. so say his guards. is
excellent and he displays no abnor-
mality, either mentally or physically
Unless there is sudden break down
Beattie will walk to his doom una
dashed and unafraid