Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-07-30
WEALTHY SONS
ARE INVOLVED
HENRY CLAY BEATTIE NOT TIE
ONLY MAN WHO WOOED PREF
TY BEULAH BINFORD.
SHE WILL PROVE ALlBI
BinfOrd Girl Called On Louise Beattie
Before Her Marriage to
Affinity.

Richmond, July 29.-This proud old
town is beginning to tremble over
the "Beattie Case" It's consequences
social at least-have gone far be-
You'd the incarceration of Henry Clay
family on the charge of numbering
his wife, Louise Owen Beattie, the
staid daughter of an even older and
more prominent family
Other gay sons are now involved
new situation arises. 1t became
known today that Beulah Binford, the
flashing, pretty little girl for the
love of whom Beattie is said to have
killed his wife, will have to depend, to
prove her own guiltlessness of the
shooting, on an alibi And the alibi
is this:
She was motor riding at the very
moment of the Staying with young
man, himself married and married to
a girl of a family which ranks high
er than either the Beatties or Owens.
So this question arises: viii Beu-
lab Binford, victim of an early mis-
placed love, keep quiet and shield the
unnamed young man, whose name will
bring still others of this type, marri-
ed or engaged, into the case? Or
will she save her only little pink and
white self and tell everything she
knows and let them all go to disgrave
Was she a normal Southern girl,
With an inbred veneration for fame
and family name, she would go to the
electric chair or to the stake if ne
cessary before she opened her lips.
But she is not. Her family has been
But she is not Her family training
has been against her. She has no
pride of ancestory and she knows,
though her years number only seven
teen, and other Southern girls are
children at that age, that she was on
ly the plaything of these rich and
proud youths And SO the unnamed
rich young man of family and his
companions, who likewise have made
love to Beulah Binford, are awaiting
with mental agony her decision.
Here is one thing told for the first
time. Beulah Binford, when she heard
that Henry Beattie was to marry went
directly to Louise Owen.
They were women of far distance
types. Louise would not have MOTTO
ed Beulah on the streets. Beulah
would not have dared to address
Louise. But now she dared anything.
Henry is mine," she exclaimed
passionately. Il have given myself
to him. Perhaps you don't know that.
Perhaps you don't know that he was
the father of my baby that's dead.
He's mine, l say, and you shall not
have him.
The gently reared Louise Owen was
Just as brave. mo, he's mine," she
said. Il am going to be his wife
You are Beulah Binford, aren't you?
| know OF you. | am sorry for you.
my dear. | am sorry for your baby
that's dead, and | am going to do ev-
eIything l can for you, but Henry
shall not be yours"
The proud Miss Owen-dread the
subject as she might-went personal
ly to the older Beattie and with tears
of sympathy in her eyd pleaded the
cause of the girl. Beu1 had SUI
tered, she said, Beulah Should have
something. The old merchant allow
ed himself to be won over. He gave !
Louise O';en $500.
Louise, with her own hands, give it
to Beulah Binford and wished her
weH. And Beulah went back again
into the obscurity that had covered
FER since SIZE had gone away Just be-
IRE the birth of her baby.
Ihat was how Louise Owen spent
'ne OF the last days of her engage
h2ert. 1t was with the knowledge of
I'll thls that she began her honey.
Hc'fn. within tie last few DAYS r.
g become .srowr to TIE state that
fsi'a's to ;rta CT ~e1 basy. W.,
80 e4iougs.t slould aaye been pleas.