The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-09-05

OF that shirt and point out TO me any
blood SPOT that was made when her
head touched your shoulder" Again
the witness paved the bloody relic
uncertainty. There was no blood on
the shoulder.
81 think may have had my coat
on when the murder occurred" Beat.
tie finally managed to say. ~ am
not sure whether It was on then or
whether | put 1t on later when / got
out to light my lamps 'l
Wendenburg directed Sheriff Gill to
dive into the old jacket Bea.tie had
worn on the night his wife was slain.
While tho sheriff was rumrhaglns
Beattie wiped his forehead with a
handkerchief that was rolled up into
a hard ball. He reached eagerly for
y glass OF water Then wAen the
lrown Jacket was handed to MIN he
stood up divested himself of his neat
blue serge jacket and put on the
other.
Now look on the left breast and
the left shoulder of that jacket" Wen
denburg commanded, "and point out
to the jury the blood spots that were
made when your wife's head fell
against you, as you have said" Beat
tie craned his neck to look at the
shoulder and sleeve. There were no
dark stains there. although one could
be seen ip the,midde of the back and
;aHother near The tail OF the coat at
the back. t0.p tst 3 ~ p y p
The cross-questioner then wanted
to have Beattie show the jury just
how he had disposed of his wifes
body in the car after he had returned
from graphing with the highwayman
and had started his machine home.
ward. ,.,p.n, t.J In, me t,r
Illustrates Wife's Position.
81 found my wife's body lying over
tho left seat with her head in my
seat to the. right" Beattie said. 81
laid her Eody so that her feet were
hanging out over the left running
board. The middle of the body was
on the left seat and my left arm was
around hers SHer head wasg hanging
oyer in hor lap like that he's said,
1llustFatingf the position. 4 ~
"You are sure her head was hang
ing over in her lap?" Wendenburg
was getting ready to clinch this point.
"Yes, sure. and my left arm was
around her waist as drove with my
right hand"
"If it should appear in evidence in
this case that there was not n bit of
blood on the front of your wife's
dress would you still say that her
head was hanging in her lap?"
IF you will let me put you over
two chairs, Mr.. Wendenburg, will
show you what | mean" Beattio an
swered in evasion. The prosecutor
said that he would not
Another difficult tack for Beattie
to follow was that steered by Wen
denburg when he questioned the
young man minutely upon the relative
distances between the car and the
bearded assailant who had stepped so
suddenly from the side of the road
First he wanted to know how brightly
the lamps were shining on the car
that night Beattie thoug It not
brightly enough to reveal any object
in the road more than a few yards
ahead.
Beattie said that be had not seen
the man with the grn until he was
within six feet in front of the car to
the right. From the ditch to the
middle of the road which yon were
travelling is over II feet. How does
It happen that you did not see the
man step to the middle of the road?"
81 don't know. guess I was not ex-
pecting him"
Why He Stopped Car.
When did you first see the gun
in the mans hands?" After the car
stopped stopped because | thought
| was going to run over him.
The witness could not answer salts
factorily why It was that with the
margin Of tho road left to him he had
not run past the Intruder. Nor could