Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-11-24

HdNS tdhSu CudfSe Ol Ihe DOuy LOlOG- row morning.
 The last act of the tragedy will be. gin at , o'clock tomorrow morning. when Beattie will be aWakened-if he has slept indeed through his last night of life by the arrival in his death chamber of his two spiritual advisers, the Rev. J. J. Fix, and the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Dennis. They win pray with him until short time be- fore seven o'clock, when his break fast will be served. Just at z the twelve witnesses of his execution will be summoned and will march in the room where sits the electric chair, tests that will make sure it is alright.
 Then, at about 7:20, with the clergy men preceding him, he will be led to his fate.
 Experiments made today by tho guards who are assigned to strap him into the chair, show that they can do their work in fifty seconds, and thar the electrician can send enough elec- tricity into his body to shock him into insensibility in one second and to end hih life within two minutes.
 As~sson as the doctors say life is extinct the body will be turned over to an undertaken who will be pres ent in another part of the prison with Douglas Beattie, the brother. It will be taken then or at some later time no one knows when-to Maury ceme- tery in South Richmond and laid ill the burial plot alongside that of the wife he killed. The Owen family, rels tives of the slain bride, are. said to have interposed no objection to this. They are religious folks and believe that if Henry makes true re- pentance of his sin, he will spiritual ly be saved.
 As to his personal possessions Young Beattie is reported to have said today that he wants his valuable dia mond pin to go to h:s sister, HaZel. to be made into ring, and that if his father cared to have things done st,, shot his bride-should be sold and the money devoted towards the repay ment of part of the sum the elder Beattie spent during the trial.
 Beattie's last fu1l day upon earth beg for him at 7:30 this morning, when he arose and breakfasted. He had just fin. shed a couple of cigar cites after this when his two minis ters arrived. First they talked, then prayed, with the boy kneeling upon tse hard concrete of his cell between them. Those who saw this state like the ministers previously have Gkne-that he was apparently sin cere in his declaration of ia tn in the eternal.
 As the ministers departed about 10:30 his father talked with him for short while; then his brother and sis ter, Douglas and Hazel, called oa him. He was :lone at luncheon anl his guards say he ate heartily, and then two elderly aunts called and a;~ ter few words with him, kissed him goodbye. He did not seem part.cul- arly moved by them.
 While all this was going on Rich mond was buzzing with talk of the last S. scene in the Beattie case. It was gossip how he would be the thirty-seventh victim of the electric clair since its installation four years ago. Of the th.rty-seven he will only be the sixth white man. The first white man, named Gilbert, was T youth of only 23, just like Beattie. He went to the chair numbed and speech less from fright.
 Then t-ere was a rumor, believed generally, but matter of fact un- founded-that Beulah Binford, the girl for whose sake it was charged he committed the crime was back il. Richmond, "just so as to be near him." But telegraphic injuries prov ed that Beulah, with anot CT name and another mode of life, was in Nov