Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-22
ALEXANDRIA, VA, SATURDAY EVENING. JULY % 1911.
ANOTHER ARREST PENDING IN BEATT|E
MURDER CASE. SHOT GUN IDENTIFIED.

he said, gave him 81 to pay for ths
gun. and five cents to pay for the
cartridges which he bought later.
Here the extreme nervousness OF the
boy overcame him again He asked
that he be allowed to lie down, and col
lapsed before the coroner could adjourn
the bearing. He was unable to walk.
Two officers carried him into the Low,
ing parlor and placed him on couch.
Meantime the accused man, who had
fixed q baleful eye on the witness as
be related his story, smiled cynically.
Coroner Loving recessed the inquest
in order that Paul Beattie might be
restored to consciousness.
BEATTIE DECLARES INNOCENCE.
The aged father bowed in fearless
grief at the Beattie home, bolstered up
his faith in his son when he received a
message from the boy in the Richmond
Jail.
Father: There is no truth in the
story OF Paul Beattie that I had him
buy that guu," was the message the
prisoner sent bis father by Douglass
Beattie, his elder brother, who visited
him today. Beattie intends to stand
by the story he has told since the
tragedy.
At a conference OF lawyers for the
prosecution, it was decided to withhold
from the inquest all but the testimony
which is absolutely necessary. The
long string Of witnesses which detec-
tives have secured, will not be called
until the actual trial.
1--WE have no desire to lay our case
open to the defense" declared L. 0.
Wendenburg, special prosecutor,
Wendenburg, however, said that the
county would call NJ. w. Einstein, the
pawnbroker who Paul Beattie says sold
him the single e-bsrrelled shotgun. Elm
stein, according to Wendenburg, will
positively identify the gun which was
found along the road where the killing
was done, as the weapon which he sold
10 Paul and Henry Clay Beattie, jr.
He will point out two steel pins, with
which splinter from the stock had
been replaced, and on which he re-
members he scratched his finger as be
was handing the gun over to Beattie.
The police today questioned the wife
and mother-in-law OF Paul Beattie and
proved to their satisfaction that Paul
was at home and asleep when the
crime was committed.
Richmond, Va, July 22.-Light-
hearted and debonair, Henry Clay
Baattie, jr., today sat in the Richmond
Jail, smoked his eternal cigarette, and
laid plans for defending himself of the
charge OF wife murder. Over in the
pretty Beattie home in Manchester,
the father Of the man arrested for the
murder OF his young wife senderly
cared for the FIVE weeks old grandson
the only member of the family now
left with him. The baby's mother
was shot to death, and its father was
in Jail.
The aged father, banker, business
man and respected citizen, has been
the person most affected by the dra-
ma;ic denouement arranged by the
police out of the Beattie murder mys-
terry. The son has never been shaken
out OF his role OF calm indifference, but
the father has aged ten years in the
last four days.
Not since Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as
founded New York with the history of
her life, has there been told story
that surpasses the tale OF love and death
told by Beulah Binford, the petite,
seventeen year old Other Woman in
the case. For four years she has been
intimately connected with the life OF
the young scion Of the South who to-
day languished in the Richmond Jail.
She testified that when she was barely
fifteen she mothered boy, the son OF
Beattie. Prior to that time she said
Beattie gave her money for an educa.
ton at st. Mary's School, Alexandria.
In voice low with suppressed
emotion, the girl told OF agreeing to
leave Richmond when Beattie was
married. Four weeks ago, she said,
she met the husband in Norfolk by
accident. Then the old longing seized
her, and she came to Richmond. For
four weeks prior to the murder OF Mrs.
Beattie, she testified that she had been
meeting Bea,tie in various hotels and
rooming houses. She declared she
had arranged to set up home of her
own in Richmond, so that she could be
! near Beattie, AID testified that the bus
band had given her SO as the first in
stallment on purchase Of furniture for
it.
The whole secret OF Beulah Binford's
wrecked life trembled from her lips
when, IN answer to the demand, DC
you love Henry Beattie?" she exclaim
ed:
Rather than see him 60 to The
electric chair, ! would confess that
killed his wife myself"
A gnawing conscience, and the In
sistence of woman, developed the ~