Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-11-25

his arrest as possible motive for the .-.urder of his wife spent the fatal day tossing feverishly upon sick bed. The young woman suffered from an attsi ;h from appendicitis some time ago ant on the return of the symptoms recent ly, s1e Ws obliged to have the ap- pendiX removed as precautiOn against serious developments.
 The girl was removed from the home of friends with whom she has been living, to private hospital ill the Bronx. The operation was t1 have been performed today, but oil Wednesday the young woman said to the attend ng surgeon:
 'I can't be operated on on Friday. Henry Clay Beattie is going to die on that day, and I know that l should die too, if I should go to the operating room."
 The date of the operation was then postponed until Monday next.
 The girl sent out for newspapers today and manifested an eager inter- est in the news of Beattie's eXecu- tioD Despite Beattie's confession, the young woman told friends that she still believed him innocent.
 They made him confess," she cried. Henry Clay wouldn't have done it otherwise. The real murderer of Mrs. Becttie is still at large"
 Beattie was aroused from a toss ing, fitful sleep at 5:3O this morning and donned white linen shirt, opened "" shape at the neck and cut off at the elbows, pair of light colored flannel trousers, turned up at the bottom and black silk stock .ngs with low shoes.
 To the lsst guard on duty he said Goodbye Frank, and good luck to you. I wish you would say that Goa will bless everyone that sympathized with me- Then he gripped the keep er's land and began praying with his clergymen. They arose after fifteen minutes, with one on each side of him reading the bible and giving h;r, words of cheer Another keeper brought in a cup of coffee, which the boy drank
 It was said-and perhaps true that this contained a merciful opia . which is usually given to a condemned man nearing death to dull his agony.
 Meanwhile the twelve witnesses of the execution had been escorted from the prison office to the de tn chamber in the basement of uae building Au- tomobiles containing the newspaper correspondents pulled up in front of the prison. A few white men and women drove along in horse carriages. \ couple of hundred curious folk, black and white, lined up on the sid = walks and waited in a slashing ra II for they knew nst what.
 After g. final handshake with his minister, Young Beattie at 7:19 o'clo K started on his short twenty-foot wa X from his cell to the death chamber. The clergymen, with heads bowed anl prayers on their lips, preceded him. Two guards i..eld his sarms lightly, but apparently he needed no assistance.
 In a corner of the room, di gona.- ly from where he entered, sat the twelve witnesses. They were in dar,e- ness because the only light shining was one over the chairs of the pr.son physicians.
 At the door ue guards relaxed their clasp and each minister patted far..- we'll upon the boys shoulder, t,. !. stepped back nd out.
 Beattie walked steadily forward for few feet, then caught sight of the chair and-whether it was from brav- cry or from an opiate none could tell - stopped for an instant, smiled in the direction of the doctors and witness ses |, nd seated Himself m the open chair with it's ghastly arm and leg ciutching devices. He did not smi again h.s lips made no movement either of prayer or farewell, his left hani seemed to clutch the chair arm fiercely, while the right extended III Imp fas on over it's end.
 At 1920, just minute after he had left his cell, he been strapped fast in the chair and the electro-rO:i