Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-09-05
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lions that had previously existed be-
tween you and Beulah Binford?"
"She certainly did. l made a clean
breast of it about the child and ALL"
Did she know of your trip to Nor
folk last April, where you met Beulah
Binford?'
Beattie was silent for an instant and
then replied in a low voice:
"She knew l was going to Norfolk,
but she did not know I met Beulah
there" He quickly volunteered that
he had not gone to Norfolk with the
express purpose of seeing the girl; his
meeting had been purely accidental.
The lawyer then led Beattle to a
comprehensive denial of every detail
given by his cousin Paul Of the alleged
purchasing Of the shotgun at Henry's
instance and Of the ride together to
the ~pawnshop to get the gun on the
Saturday night before the murder.
At the end Of six hours on the wit
ness stand Beattle found himself
shared by the relentless cross exami-
nation. lie was sitting clad in a coat
despatched with the blood of the wife
whom he Is charged with having mur-
dered. The examiner had insisted that
he put it on. By him was a shirt, also
bloOdstained. Before him stood Louis
Wendenburg, commemorative prose
cutor, driving at him question after
question relating to those blood stains.
Young Beattie faltered for the first
time. His nerve had been unusual,
his answers up to that time ready al
most to the point of ~glibness. But at
this critical point he could not lift his
to meet those of the questtoner,
his tongue clicked against dry lips.
And just when the prisoner was
doundering at his worst Judge Wat |
son announced that court stood ad-
journed, the cross examination of the
witness to be continued. Had there
been any sports present they would
have said that Beattie was saved by
the gong.
The climax came Unexpectedly. In
the little closed space not more than
feet wide, where the dense jam
hat had filed the courtroom parted
give the witness room to place his
'eet, bits of grewsome drama were
spilled while all In the courtroom held
heir breath.
Beattie had endeavored to indicate
the prosecutor just how he had held
the body Of his wife after she had been
Ehot by the hiRhwayman who he says
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left hand and indicated with his right
hand the motion of manipulating the
steering wheel Of an automobile.
There, take that little boy" com
handed Wendenburg, and show the
jury by using his body how you sup
ported your wife after she had been
shot"
A barefooted little farmers boy, who
had been acting as copy runner for the
reporters, drew hastily away from the
young man in the chair as he stretched
out his hand to seize him. Then the
impulse to be the center of all eyes
overcame the lads timidity and he al
lowed Beattie to encircle his waist
with his arm. Beattie's left hand
spread out across his back just above
the buttons OF his cut down trousers,
$50 that is how you supported our
wife's body after she was shot ! ask
you now to look at the left sleeve Of
this shirt, which you wore on the night
of the murder. and tell me if you see
any blood on It,"
Wendenburg passed the shirt u. to
Beattie. The witness touched the gar
ment gingerly, and as be turned It we
and over the muscles Of his cheeks
kept pulsing, pulsing, He found no
blood on the left sleeve.
"Now look on the left breast and the
left shoulder OF that jacket" the prose
cutor commanded, land point out to
the jury the blood spots that were
made when your wife's head fell
against you as you have indicated"
Beattie craned his neck to look at the
shoulder and sleeve. There were no
dark stains there, although n could
be seen in the middle Of his back and
another on the tail Of the coat at the
back.