El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-30
bEATT|E'S COUSIN
RECALLED To
STAND TWICE
Continued from page l.,

| tNOnlAEuCu L1O1d page It
to Paul Beattie, "if on SATURDAY after
| the coroner's inquest you did not get
| into an automo bile?"
'I did"
was this man (Baker) in the ma
chine"
Yes"
did you state then that you were
| going to tell all about the case be-
cause your uncle Henry had held your
grandmother in a room once and made
her sign away everything?''
81 made no such statement"
Paul was excused and Baker was
asked what Beattie said in the ma
chine
Paul said" replied Baker, that he
intended to tell everything he knew
about the case because his uncle Henry
had made his motherinlaw or grand
mother, don't know which. sign some
papers"
1t was the second time that the de-
fence had used witness to impeach
the veracity Of Paul Beattie.
Baker. minute later in cross ex-
animation, denied that he had men
toned "motherinlaw"
w. R. Rowland, quarryman. said
on the witness stand today that he saw
a bearded man with a shotgun on the
afternoon before the murder. Rowland
lives near the scene OF the tragedy.
New Witness I'm Case.
An auburn haired boy, talking swift
1y but clearly, revealed on the witness
stand yesterday to the surprise of both
defence and prosecution that he had
observed several blood spots along
Midlothian turnpike, where the crime
occurred.
Hitherto 1t had been presumed no
blood spots except one near the place
where Mrs. Beattie is supposed to have
succumbed, existed
Alexander Robertson was the boy, ana
what he told the jury Unexpectedly in
response to a question from counsel
for the defence entirely upset the
plan of the commonwealth to rest its
case Prosecutor Wendenburg an
nounced 1t would be necessary for him
to now call at least seven or eight
witnesses to controvert the boys tes-
timony.
On direct examination by prosecutor
Wendenburg when the latter was seek
ing to show where the boy found a
certain yellow hairpin similar to that
worn by Mrs. Beattie. Robertson re-
ferred to it's distance from "the first
blood spot"
Were there two blood spots?s' asked
defence in apparent surprise. The boy
then, told Of a second blood spot and
OF several other smaller spots near it
The revelation concerning the pres
ence of more than one blood spot is In
line with the contention of the defence
that all blood on the road oozed from
the car in which Beattie alleges HIS
wife was shot The prosecutions the
DRY has been that the large blood spot
In "a Of urho
Beattie Is alleged to have been killed
resulted from a murder committed
outside the machine and not in the seat
as Henry alleges
The prosecution has pointed out by
witnesses 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 hardened on the floor
of the car just beneath the steering
wheel
Witness Proves Boomerang.
Robertson was summoned as wit
ness by the prosecution only for the
purpose of stating that he had found
a hairpin, but his testimony on cross
examination proved that he would be an
importan witness for the defence and
he may be called by that side. In the
meantime the prosecution will gather
witnesses to show that many people
looked for other blood spots and found
none.
The Robertson boy, brother of re-
porter on one of the Richmond papers,
has been employed about the courtroom
in carrying his brothers manuscript
from the courthouse to telegraph Of
flee nearby and as he finished in the
witness chair, he grabbed several
sheets Of matter written by his brother
about his own testimony and dashed to
the improvised telegraph office In a
barn. rs yards away.
Henry Clay Beattie, jr.. the accused,
and Paul D. Beattie, his cousin who
yesterday on the witness stand told of
an alleged confession by Henry con-
corning the murder. were confined in
separate cells in Chesterfield county
Jail last night.
Paul hitherto had been kept in con-
finement in Richmond in default of
bond, but after he finished on the wit
ness stand, judge Watson suddenly or
dered his retention in jail here.
1t Is apparent that the defence In
tends to refute Paul's feStfmonv nv