The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-21
WOMAN GR|LLED
BY DETECTIVES
IN BEATT|E CASE.
Beattie Lik e w Use Ex-
amined, Lut Officers
Cannot Shake Him.
EXPECT ARREST
AFTER INQUEST
Whirlwind Trip to Coroner's
Home Ends With Statement
That Clue May Lead to Iden-
tity of Murderer-Still I'm
able to Trace Owner
ship of Gun.

Abandoning all other lines OF In
curry, detectives engaged in tracing
the murderer OF Mrs. Henry Clay
beattie' Jr, who was shot on the Mid
lothian Turnpike fve miles from,
Richmond shortly before midnisht On
tuesday. devoted their efforts yester-
day to a rigid cross-exanination O.,
her husband, and a minute examtna-
ton OF his past life. Beattie was
under the grill for hours by the do
tectives at the home of County Cor
oner j. G. Loving, but whatever re-
suits the officers obtained they kept
to themselves.
All Depends OH inquest
No warrant was sworn out and there
has been no Arrest. The coroner's
inquest begins this morning at
10 o'clock at the home of Dr. Low
ing. and detectives working on tho
case went so far as to express the
belief last night that an arrest would
follow the verdict of the coroner's
jury.
The close cross-questioning of
Beattie yesterday afternoon at the
Loving home followed a similar cross
examination OF Miss Beulah Binford,
described by detectives as the woman
in the case"
Beattie's nerve did not fail him
under the fire OF the detectives ana
in the main he stuck to his original
| story. Details were not given. but
detectives asserted that there had
been no confession, and that no war
| rant had been Issued
Cannot Get Trail of Gun.
! Futile efforts were again made to
| trace the ownership of the gun found
| by the railway track and believed to
have been that with which the muir
"a -
| were run down, and one or two are
| still to be traced, a report late last
night not yet verified being to the
effect that man named Lonnie Page
had recently sold such a gun second
| hand. But the detectives have turned
from the gun to more general cir
cumstances surrounding the crime.
Yesterday morning before 10 o'clock
! Special Agent Scherer, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway. drove up to
his office at Eighth and Main Streets
In taNicab with Miss Beulah Bin
ford, who was closely yelled. Del
tectives Wren and Wiltshire and Spe-
ctal Detective W. G. Baldwin. of tho
Baldwin Agency, were called in and
the woman CLOSELY examined. The
officials gave out nothing, but adj
n'itted that she had known Beattiei
| we'll and that very recently she had
been riding with him in his car at
night-in fact, on some of the very
! nights during the past few weeks
when Beattie tells of having gone to-
the Owen home. where his wife wasi
staying to give her and his Ave-
| weeks old baby airing.
What Health Records Show.
| Records In the office OF the Board of
Health show under date of July .. 1917
death certificate of infant boy
| born In North Carolina on July "a, 1909
Its name being given in the certificate
as Henry c. Beattie Trout. and it's age
| eleven months and sixteen days. Henry
C. Beattie. Jr.. of Manchester. is put in
| the record as Its father. with Miss
Beulah Binford, OF Virginia. as the
mother. The child died OF cholera in
! fantum. and was attended by DR.. B.
! NJ. Rosebro, and buried in Shockoe Hill
| Cemetery. special notice having been
! taken of the funeral 2s the first In
| Richmond in which all the attending
party went to the burying ground In
motor cars The certificate was is
sued on information furnished by Mol
lie T. Trout. of 400 West Marshall
Street, who had adopted the infant.
| All day Miss Bnford was kept at
the office OF Special Agent Scherer and
- ~ times examined by de-
tectives access to her was otherwiss
denied. About o'clock last night Mr..
! Scherer took her away in a taNicab.
! The officers later refused to state
| where she was, but stated that she was
under guard and would be produced ~
a material witness al the inquest this
morning
Conference at Coroner's.
! Without stopping for lunch the do
tectiVes after a two-hour conference
| with Miss Binford went from the Of
| flee of Mr.. Scherer 10 the homo OF Dr.
| Loving In Swansboro. where a further
! conference was held with tie county
! authorities, the telephone and many
motor cars being Kept in action 4
| telephone message was sent to Young
! Beattie at his home in South Richmond,
asking him to come to the Owen hons
near Forest Hin. From there he was
| taken in q motor ear TO DIR, Lovings
| where many officers detectives and
! others had gathered. Detectives Wren/
! Wiltshire Baldwin and Scherer. WV
! Coroner Loving and Commonwealth.
! Attorney Gregory took Beattie to ons
corner OF the ward and seated on tho
| grass held q prolonged conference The
! gun was passed them and handed about
| Beattie several times swapping the
/ lock in an absent minded way, He
! showed no apprehension and Kept g.
nerve that ali described as remarkabie
| considering his experiences OF tho
| pas; few DAYS,
chief OF Police Werner Captain Is.
! s. Wright. County Policemen Flynn
and farrell. md others were at The
| Loving place. and were AT tirGes ques-
| toned by the officers Ben y. Owen
and Thomas L. Owen uacies OF ths
| murdered woman, were sent FOR and