The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-08-29
PAUL BEATTIE
JARS DEFENSE
His Testimony Held a Prac-
tical Confession.
YOUTH MANIFESTS RELIEF.

Gives DETAILS OF Conversation ne
Had With His Accused courln the
Day After the Murder Of Ire Lat
ter's Wlfe--Mother Of the Victim
and Mrs. Bnford Also Called to
the stand--Revlew Of tbs Testi-
mony In the Famous Case.
Chesterfield G. H., Va, Aug. 2g.-
Paul Beattie was on the witness
stand to give testimony against his
first cousin, Henry C. Beattie, Jr., on
trial for wife murder. Louis Wen.
denburg, commonwealth prosecutor,
addressed a question to him.
when you saw Henry the next
day after the murder, what did he
say to you, IL anything?" was the
query.
"The next day l saw Henry, he
was sitting on the porch drinking a
bottle of beer. ! told him things
looked black and was socry for
him. I wish to God had not done
It, Paul. he said. though know she
never loved me, and she married me
only for my money. I'd give O mil.
lion dollars to have this thing un.
done. | wonder how those detectives
found out there was No. shot In
the gun?"
Henry Beattie had been listening
to the previous preliminary testi.
mony of his cousin with the flicker
OF tolerant smile about the corners
of his mouth. When this speech was
given his eyes suddenly dilated so
that all the white showed, his fingers
clutched and the nails bit into the
palms of his hands. 1t was evident
that neither the boys father nor his
lawyers had expected anything like
this straight from the lips of Paul
Beattie.
voice OF the prosecutor broke the
intense silence in the courtroom.
"What else did he say to you at that
time?"
81 said to him., I'm sorry you got
me into this business, Henry He
answered quickly: You're not in
half as bad fix as am and then
when | started to go away he grab
bed me and spoke to me hurriedly:
Paul. said he, 7 want you TO stick
by me. You will never regret It. You
wouldn't go back on me, would you?
You keep your mouth shut about all
this and stick BY me- Then ! said
to him: 4 won't stick anywhere; IL
they come after me, III tell them all
l know"
Thus it was done. By these words
from the lips of the hatchot-faced
youth Of 81 the commemorative at
torneys drove into q case tnat has
been up TO this minute purely one Of
circumstantal evidence, a lever Of
fact. practical confession.
BY his own wards Paul Beattie
later confessed the torture of the Sc.
cret which had been tearing at him
since he told the first meager bit OF 1t
at his preliminary hearing three
weeks ago. The youths relief at be-
Ing able to unburden was manifested.
Mrs. X. V. Owen, a pathetic figure
in black, also testified against he:
son-in-law. Through maze OF ques.
tions 1t developed that Beattie had
not Invited Mrs. Owen to ride with
her daughter on the night of the
murder, although II had been his GUS
tom to do so. The weeping mother
declared that when Henry Beattic
brought to her thea blood-soaka I'D body
OF her murdered daughter she cried
TO him: "Who could have been so
cruel as to kill our angei girl?"
Shaking her head, she said he made
no reply.
Mrs. Claudia Blnford, mother of
17-year'old Beulah Binford, was next
called. She said she became ac-
quainted with Beattie through her
daughter Beulah, four years ago.
"The Illicit relations began then"
she said. when she was 13 years
old they continued for several weeks
and were broken of when we sent
Beulah away to school. We wanted
TO send her TO the house of correc-
tion, but Father Edward interceded
for her. Henry Beattie furnished the
money. She stayed at school three
weeks, and when she came back she
renewed her relations with Beattle. A
year later, in 1909, a child was born
to her. lit died last year." The child's
name, she added, was Henry Clay
Blnford.