The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-08-27
EVIDENCE NOW
AGAINST BEATTIE
WITNESSES TELL OF SEEING THE
PRISONER AND DEAD WIFE
ON LONELY ROAD.
Bes,:ie, Fingers Twitchins Nervousiy,
Directs c-unseI in Line Of Question
inJ-The 5eatte Car Practically
Identified.

Chesterfield Court House, va, Aug.
26-Henry Clay Beattie's trial for wife
murder was resumed at 1875 o'clock
this morning. Court officials were late
in arriving because of muddy roads.
The courtroom was crowded with
spectators.
Young Beattie, seated beside his
father. eagerly read this mornings pa
pers' verbatim account of the testi-
mony.
AS he took his seat, Judge Watson
rapped sharply, appealing to Virginia
gentlemen present to keep their
coats on in Difference to ladies pres
ent.
Night of Tragedy.
q. K Moseley, aged IS, one of the
high school boys who claimed on the
night of the tragedy to have passed
machine similar to that in which Be-
attic and wife were supposed to have
ridden, was the first witness. Briggs
was a member of a party attending
dance at Bon Air, who were return
ing to Richmond in machines on the
night of the tragedy.
Saw Mrs. Beattie.
did you pass machine on the
way to Riehmond?" Mosely was asked
by the prosecution.
Eyes; one with lady and man in
it was standing STILL"
what was the man doing?"
"Fooling with the hood"
"Did you offer assistance?"
Eyes; we asked if we could do any,
thing for them. They said No."
where was the lady?"
Standing on the left running
board"
The defense took the witness, Hill
Carter asking if he remembered the
exact hour.
Scene of BIoodspots.
"'Vhen you later visited the scene
of bloodspots, was it near where you
remember seeing the machine stopped
that night?"
"Yes; somewhere around there"
w. B. Snyder, another boy of the
party, corroborated the Moseley story,
adding that the woman standing on
the running board wore brown rain
coat or duster.
Mrs. Beattie's Coat.
Previous testimony established that
Mrs. Beattie was attired similarly on
the night of the murder.
Beattie listened intently to the dec
larations of the boys, leaning over the
bench while he nervously fingered
sonfe papers. All the youngsters told
practically the same story in answer
to .Iestions from both sides.
Rola Lassiter, following Mosely and
Snyder, said he was running his faith
ers car, and was familiar with vari-
csu makes of machines. He declared
the lone car with the woman on the
obscured by the hood was of a make
similar to the Beattie auto
F. B. Adams's Testimony.
The mornings testimony developed
that F. B. Adams, one of the boys
returning from the Bon Air dance, in
another conveyance alone, saw a man
unaccompanied, standing by the ma
chine near the scene where the mur-
der three hours later was committed
This was in line with the common
wealth's idea that Beattie placed the
gun in the bushes nearby so it would
be available when he was ready for
the deed of which he stands accused
The prisoner continually prompted
Attorney Smith, his counsel, particu-
larly directing line of questioning
which might indicate that the boys
machine was running too fast to re-
member stores or buildings along the
road by which the youths claimed to
have later located the scene of the
murder as identical with the position
Z of the machine they passed.
Girls Mother r Testifies.
]. L. Paschall, II years of ago, who
drove the. second car of boys. said he
slowed the machine to a speed of three
or four miles an hour. and asked the
man and woman if they needed help.
The answer was mo"
When Mrs. Binford, mother of Beu-
Slah Binford, was suddenly called by
the prosecution, there was a stir in
the courtroom. She was attired in ?
white flannel suit and wore a white