Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-09-02
Testified to Affection Shown
Young Wife by Prisoner
and the Grief He Dis
played After Her Death.
NEW WITNESS MAY
HELP THE EDEFENSE
Man Expected to Come For
ward and Testify That
Woman Seen by Boys Was
Not Mrs. Beattie.


Chesterheld Court House, Va. Sept,
l1.-Douglas Beattte, brother sof
Henry Clay Beattie. Jr.. indicted for
Wlle murder admitted on the witness
stand To-Day That he would not have
rendered the assistance he did to the s
detectives IN running the Inflated
automoDlle to and from and about the
scene OF the crime II he had known
tney would lay the crime against my
DiT, Tha n,,4n 49,. "a, "a, &
washed or cleaned the car that verv
might. : =
The prosecution drew th,s from
cross examination and by III questions
sought to lay q charge az destrnvinr
evidence upon DouRlax for havine
some blood washed from the machine
before the authorities seized It. ''s
Detective Scherer said the hndins
of the hair under q seat cushion -indi.
Gated the cushion was nm ana waa 4,
lime with the prosecution's theory th.t
the woman's head was conceaIed m.
Ider the seat on the prisoner,s trin -
the owen home irnmeliiateIv. sffer' tha
tragedy. J, ~
4 "a sensation, was creatad hv r.r,.
THAT ID the examination, a. ths Iaentfia
car by the prosecrtinn,s. vttnsssSs ~.
'|mediatelv follov1Inr 4 aimiinr eysrsfns.
Ition by witnesses for The descnsa ~
expert discovered few strands of hsir
Thought to be fr,pm TIA he.a - Mr.
ilIouise owen Beattie. 7Thn hsir ~.
clotted In the blood IN the lover Yrnnf
mart Of the car. Detactfvea Tar tha
prosec,ltion immediataly went ia con.
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"'s''ess = q ou"o'
A mysterious message to Harry M.
Smith, council for the defense, in-
lterrupted the trial for q half hour and
resulted In the discovery OF witness
in Richmond to account for the soil
ltary car, the woman on its running
board and the man In front OF It, which
q group OF boys early In the trial said
they saw on the night OF the murder
and described as resembling the
j prisoner and his WIFE
i The prosecution had built up It's
case with the theory that Mrs. Beattia
was shot not while sitting II the ma.
Ichine beside her husband as the later
alleged. but as she was standing either
Ion the running hoard or n the road
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