Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-30
Copy Boy Testifies that He Saw
Several Blood Spots Along Turn
pike Where Crime Committed.
STORY COMES AS A SURPRISE
Prosecution Will Call Seven or Eight
Witnesses in Refutstion.
PAUL BEArTIE is UNCoNFUsED
Lttornev Unable to Make Him Change
Story of Confession.
DEFENDANT TO TAKE THE STAND
Attorncy Announces that He VIII Tell
story of Night OF the Murder
Of His wife 10 the Jury
In Court.

CliEsTERFIELD. Va, Aug. IA boy,
talking swiftly, but celarly, revealed on the
witness stand today to the surprise OF
both defense and prosecution in the uial
OF Henry Clay Beattie, jr.. for wire muir
der. that he had observed several blood
spits along Midlothian turnpike where
the crime occurred Hitherto it had been
presumed no blood spot except the one
near the place where Mrs. Beattie is sup
posed to have been slain existed.
Alexander Robertson was the boy and
what he told the jury unexpectedly in
response TO a question from counsel for
the defense entirely upset the plan OF the
commonwealth to rest its case today Pros
ecutor Wendenberg announced that 1t
would be necessary for him to call at least
seven or eight witnesses to controvert
the boys testimony.
On direct examination by Prosecutor
NVendenberg. when the latter was seeking
to show where the boy found certain
Yellow hairpin similar to that worn by
Mrs. Beattie, Robertson referred to its
distance from the first blood spot"
We're there two blood spots?' asked
Harry NJ. smith jr., counsel for the de-
tense. In apparent surprise, and the boy
not only told OF a second blood spot but
Of several smaller spots near it.
Testimony Aids Defense.
The revelation concerning the presence
Of more than one bloodspot is in line with
the contention Of the defense that all blood
on the road oozed from the car in which
Beattie alleges his wife was shot. The
prosecutions theory has been that the
large bloodspot in the road at the pace
where Mrs. Beattie is alleged to have been
killed resulted from a murder committed
outside the machine and not in the seat,
as Henry Beattie alleges. The prosecu-
tion has pointed out by witnesses and its
statements concerning the murder that no
blood was found on either running board
of the car and that the dust pan under
meath the car would nave caught any blood
that trickIed through the front part of the
machine from the seat and that all the
blood visible had hardened on the floor Of
the car Just beneath the steering wheel.
Robertson was summoned as u witness
by the prosecution only for the purpose of
testif,tug that he had found hairpin. but
his testimony an a result of the questions
of counsel for the defense soon established
that he would be an important witness
for the defense and he subsequently, will
be called II necessary. In the meantime
the prosecution Will gather over night wit
nesses to show that many people looked
70 rother bloodspots and found none
The prosecution announced just before
adjournment OF court at 4:S0 o'clock today
that after the Introduction OF several wit
nesses along this line tomorrow 1t would
rest it's case.
Carries Copy for Brother.
The Robertson boy, a brother of one a
reported on one Of the Richmond news
papers, has been employed about the court
room In carrying his brothers manuscript
from the court house to q telegraph office
nerby and when he had finished In the wit
ness chair, he grabbed several sheets OF
matter writeen by his brother about his
own testimony and dashed TO the impfov-
ised telegraph office In a barn about
seventy yards away.
Hency C. Beattie, Jr., the accused, and
aPul ID. Beattie, his cousin, whO yesterday
on the witness stand. told OF an alleged
confession by Henry concerning the muir
der. were confined In separate cells In Ches-
terrified county Jail tonight. Paul hitherto
had been kept in confinement in Richmond
in default OF bond, but today after he fin-
ished ON the witness stand, Judge Watson
suddenly ordered his retention in jail here.
Paul Beatties story OF yesterday was not
shaken in the cross-examination by ooun-