The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-27

| Mosely was then dismissed
STORY CORROBORATED.
w. B. Sydnor another boy of the
party who said he was no relative of
testified yesterday, corroborated Nose
| ly's story, adding that the woman he
saw standing on the running board
wore a brown raincoat or buster.
Previous testimony established that
Mrs. Beattie was attired similarly on
the night of the murder.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., listened in
| tently to the declarations of the boys.
| leaning over the bench while he ner-
vously fingered some paper.
| All the youngsters were we'll dressed
and between the ages of IS and al,
sons of some of the best known
families Of Virginia. Each bore up
practically the same story in answer
to profusion of questions from both
sides.
| Rolan Lassiter. who followed Mosely
| and Sydnor on the stand, said he was
running his fathers car and was quite
| familiar with the various makes OF
machines. He declared the lone car
with the woman on its running board
and man somewhat obscured by the
hood was a Buick similar to the Beat
| tie automobile.
/ The prisoner continuously prompted
Harry NJ. Smith. Jr., his counsel, par
ticularly directing a line of question
ing which might indicate that the
boys machines were running too fast
to remember stores or buildings alons
the road by which the youths claim Il
| have later located the scene of the
murder as identical with the position
of the single machine they passed or
the road.
would you know the buildings yor
/ 10 A. -.
ing" asked Mr. Smith.
Sure. if the buildings were there,
snapped young Lassiter.
NEEDED NO HELP.
J. L. Paschall, II years old, WHIT
drove the second car of boys, said HI
slowed his machine to A speed o.
three or four miles an hour, stopped
and asked the man and woman. seem
ingly indifferently If they needed help
but that the answer was mo-"
Paschall admitted on cross exami
nation that some of the other boys o.
the party were present in the ONCE o
Detective l. L Scherer to whom h,
recited his statement about the lon,
automobile and that the other boy
heard him make the statement. Tn
prisoner chuckled and whispered to hi
counsel at this point and gave the i'm
preston that PaschalPs remarks es
tablished the origin of the severa
but inspired by the prosecution.
Mr.. Wendenburg insisted that it wa
necessary for the jury to inspect tn
car to complete a part of the testimon,
: already given. Objections were ex
changed by counsel and prosecution
at the manner of inspection. Judg
Watson finally ruled that the jur.
make a careful inspection withou
} suggestion or argument by the lawyer
of either side.
While waiting for the car, w.
Brown, stereotyper, who found nea
the scene of the murder a loaded car
fridge on the Sunday following tn
: Tuesday night when the crime wa
committed, was called to the stand.
Brown said he wrote his name o,
: the shell and turned it over to Detec
: tive Scherer. The cartridge was pro
: duced. The witness determined tn
, point of his find as "A feet from tn
) blood spots on the road.
II "You don't know who dropped tn
shell % asked Mr.. Smith for the de
: Tense. cit might have been left Their
: on Saturday night for all you know ?'
II don't know who dropped it Q