The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-01
"IAV INNOCENT" DECLARES
BEATTIE JUST BEFORE DEATH

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OF his wife. With a stoicism that wor
the admiration of his guards, young
! Beattie took his place in the death
chair and without a showing of weak
ness met his end. Beattie did not con,
fess, but left a sealed message with
his attending minister, the contents of
which have not been made public. The
last words of the doomed man were:
4 am innocent"
For a few brief moments Yesterday
Beattie brokedown and it was feared
his remarkable nerves and stoicism
We're about to desert him. This was
when he took leave of his father and
brother Douglas. When the parting
came, the son laid his head on his
fathers breast and sobbed convulsive-
ly, One arm was flung across his
fathers shoulders, the other hand grip
ped the hand of his brother.
But he recovered quickly. The for
titude of the elder Beattie had more to
do with the recovery than the soothing
OF Rev. Benjamin Fix, who has labored
with the doomed prisoner. With spar
tan self control, the father kept his
emotions in check, although the tears
raced down his cheeks and his lips
twitched pathetically. No words were
spoken but the young wife murderer
must have felt the stern repression of
his parent, for his sobs were strangled
and he Strengthened up
Good bye" he said and turned
away. Neither father nor brother
trusted to make reply but made their
way from the pen. When they enter
again it will be to claim the body of
their kinsman
Hazel, the 1Syear-old sister of the
prisoner and his two aunts, drove to |
the states prison in a closed carriage
in the middle of yesterday afternoon.
They were in the death chamber a /
trifle more than an hour. When they /
emerged, Hazel was on the verge of /
collapse while all three were violently
agitated and the eyes of each were red
and puffed with weeping.
The entrance and departure was OBJ
served by morbid crowd of several
hundred persons gathered to witness II
the rumored visit of Beulah Binford to Ii
the prison. The report proved to be
untrue. the girl whose subtle power
over young Beetle is said to have l.
driven him to the killing of his wife, II
having been discovered in New York. 4
Only one minister labored with Beattie It
Yesterday. Rev. John J. Fix, the young
mans former pastor was so worn out II
Dy his labors and the emotional strain II
he has undergone that he did not put la
IN an appearance. Ii
Yesterday was spent in prayers, save II
or the time occupied by the farewells S
If the family. Beattie is said to have Is
leclared his complete conversion ard
o have no fear that his peace was 10
made with God He told his spiritual Iii
adviser that he faced the hereafter n
With supreme confidence. III
The sustained nerve of the condemn.
ID man is the wonder an dadmiration
# his guards. Following the pathetic
between himself and the o
MEMBERS of his family in which he
rokedown completely, he disclosed
uch a quick and complete reversion
his placid demeanor that it occasion N
d the utmost astonishment. The
cath watch had looked forward to II
arrowing night. When, under the
ules of the prison, lights were ordered
ut at o'clock, Beattie showed every
vidence of preparation to spend
uiet and restful period before he is So
lmmoned to the death chair to
The priso nauthorities will insist sa
pom the family removing the body al
thin few hours after it is laid ont m
the mortuary room which adioins &c
le death chamber It was at first be- G.
eyed that the body might be embalm. th
and kept in the pen until arrange ca
ents could be completed for the fun by
al but this belief quickly was dis CT
slled. Of
While the funeral plans, if any, have Sc
zen made, have not yet been an
it is generally understood that D.
eattie's body will be placed in the
mily lot in Maury cemetery, only a Ac
lie or so from his home. It will be
obably early in the morning by the
overing light of lanterns, in order to
cape the morbid crowds that are SUI