New-York tribune., 1911-09-06
Saw kestIeberg in His Car.

John d. Blair. one of the boys who came
/ from a dance at Bon Air on the night OF
! the murder. corrobcrated Charles II.
/ KestleherS's testimony that II was he who
( the boys saw with woman on the run
ming board of Il machine that had stopped
on the road
/ James Rafter. a night watchman on
/ Mayo's Bridge relieved by Paul Beattie at
II o'clock every morning. testified that on
/ the Sunday morning when F.. ". Nebiitt
! said he saw Paul with a gun in the cement
house he saw no gun there. IF 1t was
/ there / would have seen the gun said
Rafter.
| Several other witnesses confirmed Raj
4 ters testimony.
William Sharp testified that Nebltt did
rot know Paul Bcattie when he saw him,
because a few DAYS ago in the court
house ward he had asked him to point
cut Paul 10 him.
Mrs p Il. Nolan who lives next door
TO Paul Beattie, testified that she saw
| Faul come home in a machine with an
ether man on the Thursday night before
the murder The rorches of their homes
adion. she said and Paul bade her good
evening" when he entered the gate.
! Prosecutor Wendenburg during the recess
| at 1l0 o'clock said that the prosecution
would not call Beulah Birford as witness
unless their case assumed more desperate
aspect than It now presented.
I'VE are well aware that Beulah and
Henry have been IN communication with
each other" he said, while she has been
I'm jail, and we hesitate TO put her on the
stand because we know she will try TO help
out the prisoner: and II she denies the va
rious things as 20 which We would want her
to testify she would no longer he our wit
ness. and we would not be able 10 cross
examine her. on the other hand. the de
fence. on its direct examination of her in
such event, would be able practically TO
fashion her Testimony 10 suit their own
case"
After court reconvened G. s. Oliver and
T. g. Abort who said they were familiar
with tie construction OF automobiles, con
trsdicted testimony OF automobile experts
that the Beattie car by its construction
was impervious to the dripping of blood
through Il 10 the ground except In two
places where blood was not visible. Alport
also declared that the steering gear OF tho
Peattie car was such that II could not he
driven with orc hand AZ forty or ffty miles
an hour. as the accused Yesterday testified.
Mrs. Paul Reattie Testifies.
Mrs Paul Eeattie. who then took the
stand remembered Paul being brought
home in an automobile about e:60 o'clock
on Thursday night preceding the murder
| hv a Young man who looked like Henry g.
Tor Inad M
twenty or twenty-five minutes. and went in
response to message to meet him at
Short and Main streets.
- telephonA message came and some ons
wanted to speak to Paul, asking him 10
meet him ~ Short and Main streets"
When did YOU see this machine again."
Saturday night
Same machine"
Yes"
w r. LINDSAY. r. V. johnson. n. "
! Blunt ". - Dillsrd. Gregory Fisher and
! l. ] Kay testified tn Paul Beatties good
reputation.
Roland Lassiter. vino came from dance
at Bon Air with other boys on the Mid
lothian turnpike. declared on the witness
stand that the car he saw in the road with
the man IN front and the woman on the
running board was not the car of Charles
| H. KestieberS.
| ID. A. Dunlop timekeeper al Mavo's bridge
! testified that Paul Beatte was AT work ten
| hours, from o'clock on the morning OF
/ Saturday July 15 4 witness for the de-
| fence had declared that Paul bought the
gun at a pawnshop In the morning, whereas
1 his own story was that ne purchased II
\ in the evening
| Henry Y. owen, q brother Of the dead
woman. was next on the stand
Paul and Prisoner Alone.
Henry G. Beattie, ir has testified. :"
! said Prosecutor Wendenburg that he had
no gsuntlets DO you remember his having
| any,"
| "On Wednesday after the murder Doug
| las Beattie, Henry and | were together
| and something was hot on the car when
! Henry looked into 1t. lie was asked bx