Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-26
WEAVING NET
ABOUT BFATT|f
If PAUL BEATTIE STANDS FIRM
THAT HE BOUGHT Gun CASE
WILL BE COMPLETE.
TRIAL AGAINST BOY
Testimony Brought Out Which Estab-
lished Fact That Man Resembling
Beattie Was Seen at Place.
lBy J.. .I..O'NeilD.

Chesterfield Court House, Va, Aug.
see the making or breaking of the
case against Henry Clay Beattie Jr.,
charged with having shot TO death his
wife because of his love for Beulah
Binford younger and prettier girl.
Paul Beattie, his cousin, is to take
the witness stand and upon his testi-
mony rests all the hope Of the prose
cution for a conviction. For ii was
Paul who first turned suspicion on
Henry by admitting that "a few days
before the tragedy he had bought a
shotgun for the other Beattie, the very
gun in fact With which the killing was
done.
If Paul sticks 10 his story, he can
not be shaken, if the Jurors believe
him the state need not 20 much fur
Their. The sending OF Henry Bcattie
to the electric chair will be practically
certain. If Paul is broken down, very
likely enough doubt will be raised in
the jurors minds to allow them to
free the defendant. Paul is not bright
like Henry. he is of die "ppar branch
of the family without muc Iucation
Also he has epileptic fit7 at times
The states fear is that Ifdlfv Smith
the keen lawyer for the de- sHse, may
tangle him up or make him contradict
himself. If he gets through his story
alright things will look very dark for
Henry.
Today the prosecution brought out a
lot of the most damaging sort of tes-
timony. One thing was declaration
that man exactly resembling the
rich young defendant was seen at the
spot where the killing occurred early
on the evening of the crime. This fits
in with the states charge that Beattie
hid his shotgun behind stump al
that point and later stopped there on
pretense of fixing his automobile
while his wife was with him.
Another point made against the boy
had seen a man and a woman, re-
sembling Beattie and his wife with a
halted automobile at the spot of the
killing and within a few minutes of
the time it occurred. With these two
things established, the proving of the
purchase and delivery of the gun by
Paul will about complete the case.
Rowland Sydner, a middle aged
dairyman, was the most important
witness. He said: 81 was walking
along the Midlothian turnpike early in
the evening of July Is and a machine
went passed me, then turned and ran
back of me and then passed me again.
1t went up to the place where the Ia
dy's body afterwards was found. A
young man in brown suit was driv
ing it. When he got to that spot he
got out. What he did | don't know,
ut-that-Clooking at some clothing
shown him), was the kind of a suit he
wore, and his automobile was gray
with a yellow top, just like the one
out here in the court yard (Beattie's) J"
His story could not be shaken.
A terrific thunderstorm here
brought proceedings to a close for an
hour, the din being so loud that the
witnesses could not be heard TIE
spectators and officials went out on
the porch and watched the rain that
was almost a cloudburst. Young Beat
tie was glad to get such an oppor-
tunity to puff cigarettes. He stood at
cousin, Paul, but he did not speak to
him. He merely glanced sneeringly
at the other youth
j. c. Tally, farmer living near the
scene of the Shaving, added to the
scene of the Staying, added to the
heard a woman scream that night" he
declared. "Then | heard the bang OF
gun. A few minutes afterwards
heard an automobile racing past my
place, that was all"
This contradicts the defendants
story that after a highwayman haf
Rilled his wife he (Beattie) called fol
help and sounded his horn, hoping t,
attract the attention of those Twins
nearest.