New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-27

Scherer said some one IN the crowd got
in tho left seat Of the car and that he
placed himself in front Of the machine
where the man was supposed to be stand
INK. He continued:
Mr. Beattic [ said at the time, your
wife couldn't have been shot from this
point He then said the man must have
been 10 thc left. about six feet from the
car.
We made, at tni- time. close eXsmina-
ton Of the car. There was blood on the
foctboard In the front end Of the car. This
blood spot wac about eighteen inches long
There also was a great deal of blood on
the right seat Of the car. We We're trying
{" find how the blood had gotten on the
road. | raised tho plank an the bottom OF
rhe car and there was no indication Of the
blood going below the footboards.
| couldn't see any signs Of blood under
the car and Sergeant Wiltshire crawled
underneath and observed the grease pan.
No blood had gotten out there Mr.. Beatue
vas with us and agreed that no blood had
gotten out or been In the pan After look
ing over the car / asked Mr. Beatue II ne
could give me an explanation Of how the
blood got on the road. de said ne could
rot. but I believe
That's not proper" interjected counsel
for the defence.
At about this time resumed Scherer,
needing the objection "Beatte or some
one else suggested that the blood might
have go-ten on the road when Mrs. Beattie
fell from the car But on the side on
which the blood was Mrs. Beattie could
not have fallen, as an extra tire and the
brakes would have restrained her"
Was there anything said" asked Prose
cutter Wendenberg. during any Of your
conversations with Beatue about Beulah
Binford?"
There was" answered Scherer.
Tell US about IT,"
II asked Beattie n he had written Beulah
BinforG before ne had gotten back from
Norfolk I asked IL he was not assisting
Beulah Binford, or giving her money
toward buying furniture. He said he had
not I asked II were not true that he
was out with Bet o. Binford the night
before the murder Re stated ne was out
with Reulah the mig , before the murder,
I think. until between L and I o'clock /
asked about being out with her at other
times and he said that he had been.
Counsel for the defence moved % strike
ont any testimony about rt-otions between
Peulah Blnford and Beattie before the lat
tiers marriage and after hushed silence
Judge Watson ruled that If the jury had
a. right TO accept leSt4iioHN "''7 '-'N
relationg Of Beattie with Beulah Binford at
The time Of the homicide. the jury hao
right 10 question about those relations lot
q period twelve months anterior.
Il asked" continued Scherer III II was
rot Il fact that Beulah Binford had made
Seattle bury the child supposed TO be- his
IN fact. / asked him # he was not the
father Of Beulah Binfords child lie adj
,ni-ted it. and said. too, that his wife knew
he had paid the expenses Of the child's fu-
neral"
Earlier in the day the jury. Al the re-
oueyt NJ Prosecutor Wendsnberg. examined
the Beat.ie car carefully, as it stood on the
lawn outside Of the courtroom. Several OF
the iurymen particularly Inspected the por-
lion Of tho car underneath the seat. where
the prosecution .S "a grease pan "ouIu
,.tch IN, dripuinC blood.