The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-10

! they were ready with n free-handed
hospitality that excited tho wonder.
Ment OF visitors from distant States
unused to the ways of Virginia. Even
tho plow-boy on tho road did his mod.
est best and many an unwilling team
| was prodded into clump of bushes
to let an automobile get BY the easier
| Much has been said and written abour
! the picturesque setting for the trial
and 1T has not been exaggerated. The
! ancient little courthouse. almost smoth
ered beneath towering trees. proba bly,
has no counterpart in the whole coun
try. Everything was primitive here
| except the people. At the old well on
the green greet lawyers. Judges and
! lesser men had to drink straight from
tho hoary oaken bucket Black nam
miles. with prodigious hams and home
made pies and tasteless lemonade.
nnally almost put the neighborhood
| MOTEL out OF business. Now and then
medicine man. with his wares. his
minstrel troupe and his Munchausen
tales, came by. lust as he has been do
ing FOR a half-century. At dinner
hour the lawn resembled nothing more
than picnic ground. with groups of
men ana boys squatting on the grass,
munchins sandwiches and welding pop
bottles 1t was the one hour of relax
alton In the day of intense strain.
All Look Up 10 Judge.
In this land the judge Is a sovereien.
II was striking 10 see the Difference
PAID 10 SO young q man, and spoke
volumes for his worth The whole
county seems to look TO him for the
inal word settling any dispute When
he speaks all are satisfied and eo ina,
ways, as II both sides had won every.
thins. How he does 1t nobody knows
me hne courtesy OF the old Virginia,
IS evident III every act. There is kind
~ regard for every man, great or Iii
tie' and yet not e trace of laxtty. The
little court is as dgnifed and as i'm
pFessiVe as II It We're being held In the
S wansart ci5y's marble chambers. OF his
wonderful grasp OF the law and IN.
e!earness and force OF his Rulings
enough has already been said Judge
ats ons name cannot be overlooked
after
Now that II Is all over. It NAV ns
admitted that suspicion. ever ready for
q Nleum pointed to the Jury from the
very start. Crazy stories got abroad
ana grew from lip to lip. There were.
IN all, Ave complete and separate ex
plantations of why il would he ,n,nos
siole to secure q conviction from the
twelve men then sitting in the boy
1t even went so far that names We're
mentioned. At this juncture II is hard
~ necessary TO say that the suspicion
was without the shadow OF a founde
ton. The men who passed indgr,e,,,
on Henry Beattie were all sturdy, hon
EST, God-fearins countrymen. deter
1 mined TO 10 only as the law ana Avi
dence required. With painstakinr care
they went to the task and gave IN
nome and fireside during many uncon,.
ols days that they might serve
me state Beattie. man of the world
had TO face the stern morality OF tha
farmer here. Within the court scan.
dalous tales OF a dssolute life were
spread at length before them. Through
II all they sat unsmil!ne. beginning
ana ending each day with hymns an5
! prayer When time came to decide
the tate OF tho man at the bar. they
did 1t with their own minds and CON
sciences. waiting not for lewva-s -
| ten them Ihat e do When Henry
! Beattie left the stand last Tuesday
morning the verdict then and there
tool, shape
! The rest argument and all. amounted
to little There was no division, not
even long disagreement to give the
stories substance. The jury could
| nave returned in five minutes. but
tarried nearly an hour as a concession
to appearances. The hrst ballot wa.
! unanimous.
| Two Great Lawyers.
AS legal battle the trial viii have
few equals. While Carter ana
Gregory ably represented the opposing
sides, the former win particular ef
rect II was TO Smith and Wendenbure
that the honors went. The measure Of
arms between these two was a spec.
tacle none will forget.
While the country is singing tho
"sil-deserved praise of the brilliant
prosecutor. the rema rkable work OF
! AIT Smith will not be overlooked. The
states attorney had ell the odds In
ms favor; Smith none Yet for more
IMAM three hours he spoke and pleaded
With mastery art for the life ~ thr
| BOY beside him No greater address
Has ever oeen heard in a Virginia
court 80 fhr from suffering loss II
, Uoh through the loss OF his cass.
! Mt Smith has won higher pIone IN
his profession than he even h.ld ~.
lore lie had 10 lose With nj.
client and this evidence he could boua
lor little or nothing In snits NJ :,
All ne went scmely into the feht c,a
so spiend!dly massed his strength ana
so aaFoitly patched the pieces or hts
weak case together that before he
was through many had begun 10 teer
mat ne would sweep the jury off ire
"s; however much IT had ALREADY
nu. Wenaenhurg was yet 10 be
heard The bitter, laundering elol
! quence Of the prosecutor viii sta
UNIQUE In the criminal annals 81 Ills
state Nothing Ike 1t had ever hsn,
heard before. and II win be long he.
io'e II Is heard again. Under his
merciless hammerng the defense - +,
ies' went down with a crash ~
eea,uo eVer auailed in his life n wos
AZ this moment No nend incerrats
was worse than he If this roaring III
to'ney spoke truth wenaerh7,. a..
I hnal words pioturinr the n,o,h.n,e
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