The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-13
Bcnt,ic's Account of Shouting.

to one side. The man said: You had
better run over me-" or 'Afhy the he'll
don't YOU run over meT"
Beattie replied Il ought to have
zone t-you have the whole road"
Beattie leaned forward and put In tho
| clutch
| stop. or III shoot YOU" said the
mana bearded highwayman. raising
single barreled shot gun Beattie
! ala not believe he would really shoot
and started the car AS the car moved
forward the man. standing on the left.
hred point blank At Mrs Beattie-sit-
| ing on That side OF the car. She fell
over behind her husband. Stopping the
car. Beattie jumped for the man,
"rest"d the gun from him as he ran
| of into the bushes. and threw the wea-
| pom into the tonneau. After sounding
his horn for help. and getting no
answer. he started the car, holding the
body OF his wife with hts left arm
/ One stop was made 10 hx the lamps
and few moments later the car raced
| up the drive at the Owen home. Beat
| tie holding the dead body and driving
with one hand My God she's dead.
My God. shes dead" he cried
! seurch for Gun.
| Thomas z. owen. uncle OF the MUIR
dered woman, and brother OF Ben T.
Owen. Secretary of Governor Mann.
was sitting on hts lawn with DR. VIII
| bur Mercer. a neighbor who had been
called 10 prescribe for Mrs. owen.
! They started forward AT the cry DR..
Mercer carried the body into the house
at once realizing that help was beyond
human aid Henry Beattle had
! bloody scratch across his nose. which
, lie said he had received in his On.
| counter with the highwayman He
CURED no medical attention MaCls-
trate W. "A Jacob. neighbor. Was the
! hrst official on the ground, and County
Coroner j. g Loving was at once call
ed Beattie told his story calmly and
without confusion. lie walked TO the
| motor car as though to get the gun.
| and expressed surprise that II was not
there. 1t must have joited out, he
said. The rear doors had been taken
| of for repairs. making this not i'm
| probable. He urged that parties go out
and hunt for the gun. Coroner Loving
and Magistrate Jacob sped back along
the road Douglas Beattie. a brother
OF the accused. heard in South Rich
mond that some one had been held up
and shot He summoned DR.. Herbert
| Mann. and himself hurried to tn owen
| home with hts father. Douglas drove
! the blood stained car with county Of
hcers Flynn and farrell. staining his
own clothes with the blood OF his sis
ter in-law from the pools in the N-e
her assailant. II. c Beettie, ST.. walk
ed about the lawn at the owen place,
| the picture of despair His strong
face was deeply lined. showing much
more emotion than the son.
Beattie Coolest Man There.
Henry Beattie, Jr.. refused opiates,
| but took a swallow OF whiskcy some
| one pressed upon him. He talked OF
| the gun and seemed anxious that II
| should be found To q reporter for
Tho Times Dispatch he told what he
had already told Mr. owen and DR.
Mercer about an attack by a bearded
| highwayman. In talking II over he
seemed uncertain in the dim light
| whether his assailant had been white
or colored. though the beard suggest
ed white man To a reporters in
| curry as to the best way to get back
to Richmond at that hour, young Beat
tie courteously replied that his own
motor car would soon be back. and
that he would see that those who de-
sired TO return 10 the city were &C
commodated. Later Henry Beattie
| himself went with his brother and
| others back along the turnpike In the
same blood-stained car to locate the
| spot at which the shooting took place,
| II was unmistakab stain of
blood eighteen inches by two feet.
marked the centre of the road.
| Thomas E. Owen notified the Rich
| mond police. and mounted officers un-
der Sergeant Sowell were sent 10 the
scene.
Wren Doubts story.
Detective Sergeant Thomas j. Wren
was on duty that night at the FIRST
Police Station. and drove out at once.
| the first detective to arrive on the
| ground He admits that WITHIN en-
| hour after his arrival he had formed a
u.l,t
been shaken, but which later develop
ments have only tended to confirm
Searching parties on foot. on horse
hack and In motor cars secured the
roads for miles around for the high
| wayman Bloodhounds were suggest
! ed Deputy Sheriff Webb Sydnor, OF
Henrico county. agreed to come AT
once with his dogs Ben r. wen
thought of the finely trained dogs at
the State Penitentiary farm. He call
ed IN Luther L. Scherer. claim agent
of the Chesapeake and ONO Railway
and head OF It's secret service force.
Mr.. Scherer took hold with visor.
The telephone lire to Goochland was
closed for the night but orders We're
sent over the railroad wires. An en-
CINE and caboose were cut from
freight train at Gladstone, and brought
to the State Farm. where the dogs
were secured. ard the special raced to
Main street station with right Of way
over everything
Dogs Find No Trnil.
Mr.. Scherer, Major James D. Patton
and John Alsop were waiting with
high powered motor car. and BY sun
rise the dogs were shifting the bloody
spot on the Midlothian Road. officers
Wren and FARRELL had roped OFF the
space to give the dogs fair show, but
they found no trail. Faithfully they
| worked. both the State dogs and those
of Henrico county, in ever increasing
circles The only semblance of a trail
was from the blood spot to stump in
| the bushes a dozen feet away and
back again. Detective Sergeant wilt.
shire. of the Richmond force, came out
| to aid in the case. Scherer, Wren and
| Wiltshire. all old hands. who had
worked together many times put their
u d. Las az aal.s had ., a.