The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-05

rummaging Beattie wiped his forehead
with handkerchief that was rolled up
into hard ball He reached eagerly for
a glass Of water Then when the brown
jacket was handed to him he stood up,
d,vested himself of his blue serge JACKIE
and put on the other.
Now. look on the left breast and the
left shoulder of that jacket" Wenden-
burg commanded and point ont to the
Jury the blood spots that we're made
when your wife's head fell against you
"a YOU have Indicated
Bea ttie craned his neck TO look at the
should and sleeve. There were no dark
stains there. although one could be seen
in the middle Of his back and another
near the tail Of the coat at the back
The cross -questioner then wanted to
have Beatte show the jury just how he
had disposed his wife's body in the car
after he had returned from graphing
with the highwayman and had started
his machine homeward.
TELLS HOW BODY LAY.
Il found my wife, body lying over the
left seat with her head in my seat to the
right" Beattie said. Il laid her body
so that her feet were hanging out over
the left running board. The middle
Of her body was on the left seat and my
left arm was around her Here the pris.
oner bent himself double in illustrating
Her head was hanging over in her lap
like that" hs said.
You're sure her head was hanging
over in her lsp;" Wendenburg was get
ting ready to clnch this point.
Yes sure. and my left arm was around
her waist s drove with nv right
IF il should appear in evidence in this
case tha, there was not one bit of blood
on the front Of your wife's dress would
you still say that her head was hanging
over her lap?"
IF you will let me put you over two
chairs, Mr.. Wendenburg. vii! show you
what mean" Beattie answered. The
prosecutor said that he would not.
Another difficul, tack for Beattia to
follow was tina, steered by Wendenburg
when he questioned the young man min
utelv upon the relative distances between
the car and the bearded assaiant who
had stepped 80 suddenly from the side
Of. the road. First ne wanted TO know
how brightly the lamps were shining on
the car that night. Beatle thought not
brightly enough to reveal any object in
the road more than a few yards ahead
MIX Up OF DISTANCES.
Beattie said that he had not seen the
man with the gun until he was within
six feet in front of the car to the right,
From the ditch to the middle OF the
road which you were travelling is over
eleven feet. Now does il happen tnat
YOU did not see the man step to the mid
die of The road2" the prosecutor asked
Il don't know | guess | was not ex
pecting him."
When did YOU first see the gun in the
man hand
cause ! thought was going to run over
him.
And so you didn't notice the gun until
after the car stopped? Where did he
get the gun from" Reattie said that ne
didn't know II was not until the man
The witness could not answer salts
factoriy why II was that with good
margin of the road still left TO him he
had not run past the intruder. Neither
could he explain why when he stopped
suddenly over to release his clutch aud
start the machine the gun, which he says
had been covering him. should have
swung up and TO the right so that his
wife received the charge designed for
, him
Another point was scored by the Prose
rutor right here. He asked Beattie wha
his wife had said when she saw the gun
pointed at hun. Had she screamed,
! No. Mrs Beatt,e had Just sat STILL utter
! ing not sound.
| Beattie wa asked how much he weighed
and how tall he was. He answered tha /
| he weighed 1876 and was feet inches
And You have described this assassin :
being feet tall and very powerful. yet
You say that after you wrested the gun
| away from him you found yourself on the
ground and he was running away" Such
was the circumstance. Beattie answered
! Yet he had not begun to run away
until after you had jumped out Of the
ma achine wrested the gun from him and
were lying on the ground?'
NO, he did not begin to run until then
AS TO BErLAH BINPoRp.
The Prosecutor was merciless in un.
covering Beattie's relations with the
girl whom he had first seen when she
was just one month past l3 and in short
dresses. After making the witness tel
how he had been forced into settlemen,
by lawyer hired by Beulah Binford !
mother after the birth Of the girls chilo
he wanted to know if Beattie had not
written letter To Mrs Binford concern.
ing the signing by her Of papers of adop
tion for the child after woman had beer
found tu take the infant in. Beattlt
refused to admit having written such
n letter until Wendenhurg handed t.
him for Identification a letter in which
mother sign the necessary document.
and swore that this ls the last time