The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-31

|ights?" was tn tierst question Attor-
new Smith for the defendant, put to
the witnesses.
Yes" answered Paul Beattie.
Didn't you tell the pawnbrokcr
you wanted a gun to work a watch
on Mayo's BRIDGE"
No"
Did you have Il gun, a s%ingle-bar-
relied shotgun, on Mayo's bridge Sat-
urday?"
Did you have a gun in your pos
session at any period between the
time you bought the single-barreled
gun and the night of the murder?"
No
Here Smith called Witness. Booth
to the stand. esI
Look at that man." said Smith,
calling Paul Beattie's attention to
Booth. Didn't you tell him on the
bridge that you did not believe that
your cousin Henry killed his wife,;
Didn't you tell him Henry loved his
wife,"
No answered Beattie, 81 never
talked with that mar about this
crime or anything else"
Paul was then excused. Smith
then Immediately called Booth him
self to the witness stand. Booth de-
clared that he had talked about the
crime with Paul on the Wednesday
after the killing.
Il said to him." he declared.
What do o think of Henry now?'
lie told me he didn't think Henry had
committed the crime and that Henry
had told him he loved his wife"
Under cross examination, Booth
admitted that he was a lifelong
friend Of Henry Beattie.
TELLS OF NEW BLOOD SPOTS.
Chesterfield Courthouse, Va.-An
auburn haired boy talking swiftly but
clearly, revealed on the witness stand
to the surprise of both defense and
prosecution the trial of Henry Clay
beattie, Jr.s for wife murder. that he
had observed several blood spots
along the turnpike where the crime
occurred. Hitherto it had been pre-
sumedi that no blood spots, except
those near the place where Mrs. Beat
tie is supposed to have been killed,
existed.
Alexander Robinson, was the boy
and what he told the jury, in re-
Spouse to a question from counsel
for the defense, entirely upset the
plan OF the commonwealth to rest its
case. Prosecutor Wendenburg an
nounced that it would be necessary
for him now to call at least seven or
eight witnesses to c%ontrovert the
boys testimony. On direct examina-
tom by the prosecutor, when the lat
ter was seeking to show a certain
yellow hair pin, similar to that worn
by Mrs. Beattie, Robinson referred to
its distance from the first blood spot,
Were there two blood spots?"
asked Harry NJ. Smith, .Jr., counsel
for the defense, in apparent surprise.
The boy not only told of a second
blood spot, but of several smaller
spots near it. The revelation of the
presence OF more than one blood spot.
is in line with the contention of the
defense, that all blood on the road
oozed from the car in which Beattie
alleges his wife was shot. The prose-
cution's theory has been that the
large blood spot in the road at the
place where Mrs. Beattie is alleged
to have been killed, resulted in a
murder committed outside the ma
chine, and not in the seat, as Henry
alleges. The prosecution has point
edl out by witnesses and in it's state
ment, concerning the murder, that
no blood was found on either RUM
ing board of the car, and that the
dust pan would lave caught any
blood that trickled = through the
front part of the machine from the
seat, and all the blood visible had
hardened on the floor of the car
just beneath the steering wheel.