Evening journal., 1911-09-09
BEATTIE STILL
HOPES FOR LIFE
fConrinued From First Pagel

disturbed place for sleep last night,
he showed no trace Of it, The cynical
smile curied just a little deeper, and
the eyelids dropped just a trife low
er. But no trace OF the awful visions
that must have people his dreams in
the little iron cell I'm Chesterfield
Court House JAIL as the most red
harvest moon cast its beams through
the bars with splendor, were appar-
ent
None Of the horror of the death
spectre that must have ,stalked in the
bar-shadowed semi-darkness was de-
picted in the face Of the calm eyed
youth.
There was evidently no thought OF
the trusting young mother, brutany
shot down OIL a pleasure ride; no
thought Of the food OF blood in which
he wallowed as he carried home the
dripping body in his automobiles; no
thought of the little motherless child
soon to be made fatherless by the
convulsive grip OF the death chair.
The morning papers we're his most
important thought
Beattie Has Not Lost HOPE.
Today Beattie expressed the same
calm confidence that he held through
out the trial
IT have not yet lost hone" he de-
clared. "If that jury had given their
verdict solely on the evidence relaf-
ing to my wlfe's murder and had fol-
lowed the instructions Of the Court
closely. / would have been acquitted
beyond doubt But they we're impressed
by the story of my relations with
Beulah Binford and they convicted me
solelyo on that point had admitted my
relations with the girl and without re-
gard to the testimony as to the MUIR
der, they convicted me. But / hope
that the Court of Appeals will look at
the matter In a different light"
II was determined today that Beat
tie would be allowed TO stay in Ches-
terfield jail for at least another twen-
ty-four hours.
Rumors of a possible attempt at
suicide resulted in the placing of
double guard at the jail with a special
sentinel at the door Of the accused
mans cell But the calm cynical atti-
tude Of the prisoner belied all thought
of suicide
Within day or two. Beattie will be
brought to Richmond, where he will
] be placed I'm a death cell in murder
| ers' row at the state penitentiary.
! There he will settle down for the sew
enty-six days Of waiting for death.
Black Friday for Beattie.
II proved a Black Friday for Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr In three minutes less
than an hour the Chesterfield County
Jury returned a verdict against him Of
murder in the first degree.
In the pallid fiickering Of Kerosene
lamps I'm the little old courtroom the
wife-slayer stood up 10 receive his
death sentence, his face very white,
his large eyes luminous with terror
but his voice steady as he declared he
had nothing to say why the Judgment
of the court should not be passed upon
him.
He was sentenced TO be electrocutet
on Nov. "a next, in the State peniten
tiary, Oregon Hill. Richmond.
jury Prays for Guidance.
The scene I'm the jury room prior tC
I the verdict was most dramatic. The
twelve Virginia farmers knelt al dusl
in the obscurity Of the small room
praying fervently that they might pass
/, judgment Alright Grimly determined
they arose a moment later and ST.
I lently one by one recorded a unani-
nous verdict Of guilty. Later twelve
voices, instead of the usual one OF
the foreman, spoke the single WORD
j guilty"
While the jury was out the most un-
concerned man in court seemed. foi
while. to be Beattie. He sat in ths
bar reading a newspaper The crowC
seemed excitedly nervous. After few
minutes, however. the fortitude of the
accused broke and he raised his news
, paper over his eyes, and those stand
ing close to him could observe his
twitching lips as II he were utterinl
prayer. His aged father beside hin
likewise bent forward reverently anC
q besought Divine aid.
Then came to Beattie the terrible
D climax-the verdict.
r Prosecutors Plunging Words.
{ Extraordinary were all the features
r OF the last day of Beattie's trial Hi
p conviction followed closely on one o
o the most forcible and stinginl
|, speeches to which an accused mur
e derer has ever been forced TO listen
I, Louis /. Wendenburg, the special pro
= secutor, who made t. not only hell
4 the jury and the spectators fascinat
I, ed. but young Beattie. himself sa
: with dilated eyes that never once ceas
{ ed staring at the man who was con
e vincing the jury that he was the mur
= derer.
= Toward the end of Wendenburg'
e address Beattie's confidence was plain
d ~ shattered. He whispered now an
y again to his father His speech wa
% interrupted by gulpings. Even a
/ he turned TO speak his eyes rename
q fixed on his prosecutor in a gaze oh
n viously filled with Mortified fascina
q ton. It was as If the young mar
y scarcely past his first youth. were lis
y tening to a doctor telling him that h
N soon must die OF a fatal malady.
n let him 90 free" Wendenburg ha
~ thundered, "let him so free; let tn
,s murderer 60 unpublished and the stat
fails in its duty to guarantee the %
"a curity of our lives. Let him 90 FIRE
10 and you will place a black hand on y
M escutcheon of Virginia for all etc
,r nifty. Let him go free and then go
~ the graves of the other wife murderer
e -Cluverius of Richmond, McCue,
m Charlottesville and Peter Phillips--ai
apologize to them for the just nunis
ment that they received.
Let him go free and go and kne
at the grave of this pure young 81
who was slaughtered, and answer
her for the baby whose little ham
now reach vainly for its mothers fal
ir white breast
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