Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-09-05
DEATTIE GIVES
A WEIRD STORY
GREWSOME TALE or TRAGEDY
TOLD BY WITNESS.
DAY OF Great SOLEMNITY
Met Binford Girl in 1007-Scnt Her
To SCho0l-paid Funeral EN-
pcnscS of Their child.


crowded and stufY court room, Henry
Clay Boattie Jr,, indicted for the mur-
der Of his wife, battled for his life
today. This evening shadows were
all that interrupted a vigorous exam
ination by the commonwealth, Judge
Watson ending the ordeal by adjourn
| ing court until tomorrow, when Pros
ecutor l.. O. Wendenberg will con-
| finue his questions
! A lone figure was young Beattie in
| the crowd that surrounded him on
all sides even the windows and trees
! commanding the court room filed
with staring faces. And the prisoner
sat for hours, his manner cool and
collected, unfolding details Of his re-
latlons with Beuah ninford II years
old, for whom the prosecution alleged
Beattic killed his bride Of year.
Not only the ordeals of the four
years before his marriage, and those
that preceded the homicide, but the
grewsome tale of the alleged attack
T by the highwayman, the witness ride
to the owen home at nfty-fivo miles
an hour with the lifelcss, bloody
body of his wife in the machine be-
side him, was given to the jury in all
It's horrible details.
The prisoner, by request Of the
| prosecution, stood mp fun length and
donned the blood-stained coat that
he wore the night Of the murder and
attempted to explain why the blood
/ had not blacked certain portions of
the garment Of his wife, II she re-
clined against him in the way de-
scribed. The clothes Of the dead wo-
man were burned just before the ar
rest of Beattie, and as more than once
there was reason to refer to them,
Prosecutor Wendenburg exclaimed:
81 wish to God we had them here"
1t was a day Of extreme solemnity
In the court room. The accused man
sat IN an arm chair, his head resting
/ in one hand, while with the other he
rubbed a knotted handkerchief over
his pale and perspirlng face. In the
bar sat his brother, Douglas, and his
white haired father.
Nov, I understand, Mr. Reattie,"
said Prosecutor Wendenburg. that
you met Beulah Binford in August,
1907 When did your Illicit relation
with her Begin"
About two weeks after 7 met her"
And continued how long,"
Until she went to Washington IN
the fall Of 1908"
when did you send her to
| schOol?"
THE same fall Can | explain?"
"Yes."
Her people were going to send
her to school. They all thought |
would help them. which / did, not to
give her an education, for my bene-
fit, but to get her out of the way
What do you mean by to get her
out of the way"
81 mean that l wasn't educating
/ her because | liked her"
Couldn't you get her away in any
other way?' insisted Mr.. Wenden-
berg. Did she have that influence
over you that you had to send her
away"
| "No"
"Then your relations were contin-
ued for some time when She was Il
years old ?"
yes"
Wasn't that a violation of the law
concerning young girls2"
The prisoner did not answer. ami
his counsel objected that he was on
trial for only one offense. The court
/ permitted the prisoner TO say that he
/ didn't know his action was against
/ the law "if the girl ran about town"
"Now, when the child was b rn. IT
was named after YOU, wasn't it?"
"Yes, it was named Henry Clay"
"And when the child died you
| bought the casket?'
81 was in the store when the fu-
neral director had the bill. told
/ him the child had been adopted by
Mrs. Crout, and he said she wouldn't
| pay it, but would turn IT over 10 the
city as my child and I naturally did
not want that to happen and I paid
the bill thinking that would be the
/ last of it."
did you write to Mrs Rinford to
sign a paper in reference to the
! adoption of the child and II she did
not you would wash your hands Of
| the matter?"
! 81 can't remember writing t. I
thought / had washed my hands Of
the matter when | was in the lawyers
| office"
The prosecutor produced the letter
and asked: Did you write that let
ter?"
II did"
Mr. Wendenberg read:
Mrs. Binford You can sign the
| enclosed with your name and address
! Please do so at once. as this is the
last time ! will monkey with this
business When you have answered.
| call me up"
"Dld the letter refer to the adoption
Of the child?"
From the contents OF the letter.
z think II does. but when the child was
born, there were papers TO sign. and
| may have made reference to that"
Did you have any other transac-
tions with Mrs. Binford about the
child?"
| Il don't think so.''