The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-08-30
PROSECUTION IN
bEA1T|E CASE
RESTED At NOON
Defense Began the Intro6ss
tion Of Its Evidence I'm
! mediately Afterward
COMM0nWEAlTH'S. WITNESS
DROPPED BOMB SHELL IN CASE
Incidentally Brought Out Fact That
More Than One Pool of Blood Ex.
listed in. the Pike Near the Scene
Of tho Murder.

listed in the Pike Near the Scene
of tho Murder.
Chesterfield. Va. Aug. 30-The
prosecution rested its case at noon
against Henry Clay Beattle. Jr.. un-
der Indictment for the murder of his
wife, and the defense began the in
PRODUCTION Of its witnesses.
Before any witnesses for the de-
tense were called the court recessed
for few minutes to permit the de-
fendant's counsel to argue a point
before Judge Watson in the absence
Of the jury concerning the striking
out of certain evidence introduced by
tho prosecution.
Today the prosecution produced
fourteen witnesses. mostly county de-
tectives, to controvert the testimony
OF young Alexander Robertson as to
the presence Of more than one blood
spot on the Midlothian turnpike
where Mrs. Beattie was killed.
The state had contended that the
big blood spot, where the murder
occurred was not caused by blood
dripping from the machine in which
the husband alleged his wife was
seated when shot, declaring that no
blood whatever could have oozed
through the bottom of the car and
the grease drip pan beneath. 1t was
detail In the case, but by concen-
trating attention on the single spot
of blood the commonwealth intended
to show that the woman was murder
ed In different manner from that
described by the husband.
The defense announced early in the
day that 1t would call Paul Beattie
to the stand again.
night by the commonwealth to COM
bat the testimony by 16-year-old Alex
ander Robertson that he had seen on
the Midlothian turnpike blood spots
other than the pool of blood where
Mrs. .Beattie Is alleged to have been
killed by her husband.
The significance of the lads decla-
ration is that II it should be proven
that there were many blood spots on
the road, it would support the con-
tention Of the defense that the first
pool Of blood dripped from the ma
chine from the bleeding woman, who
was alleged by Beattie to have been
shot while in the front seat.
The Sensation.
? An auburn haired boy, talking swift
ly, but clearly. revealed on the wit
ness stand yesterday to the surprise
of both the defense and the prosecu-
ton that he had observed several
blood spots along the Midlothian turn
pike where the crime occurred. Hith-
erto 1t had been presumed no blood
spot except one near the place where
Mrs. Battle Is supposed to have sue
cumbed, existed. Alexander Robert
son was the boy and when he told the
jury unexpectedly in response to g
question from counsel for the defense
entirely upset the plan Of the COM
monwealth to rest its case yesterday
Prosecutor Wendenburg announced
that it would be necessary for him
now to call at least seven or eight
witnesses to controvert the boys tes-
timony.
On direct examination by Prosecu-
tor Wendenburg, when the latter was
seeking to show where the boy found
q certain yellow hairpin similar to
that worn by Mrs. Beattie, Robertson
referred to it's distance from "the first
blood spot"
Were there two blood spots ?'
asked Harry NJ. Smith, Jr., counsel
for the defense in apparent surprise
and the boy not only told of second
blood spot but Of several other small
er spots near it.
The revelation concerning the pres
ence Of more than one blood spot is
In line with the contention Of the de-
fense that. all blood on the road oozed
from the car in which Beattie alleges
his wife was shot. The prosecutions q
theory has been that the large blood
spot ON the road at the place where
1fB. Beattie is alleged to have been
killed resulted from murder COM
mitted outside the machine and not
in the seat as Henry alleges.
The. prosecution has pointed out by
witnesses and its statements concern
ing the murder that no blood was
found on either running board of the
car and that the dust pan underneath
the car would have caught any blood
that trickled through the front part
Of the machine from the seat and
that all the blood visible had har-
dened on the floor of the car Just be-
meath the steering wheel.
Robertson was summoned as q wit
ness by the prosecution only for the
purpose Of stating that he had found
q hari pin. but his testimony as a re-
suit of the questions Of the counsel
for the defense soon established that
he would be an important witness for
the defense and he subsequently will
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