The Washington herald., 1911-09-05

| when he was obliged to confess thai
afterward. washing his hands Of the
| whole thing" he voluntarily sought
Beulah out at Norfolk, and when she
went back to Richmond soon afterward
| took her about from one resort to an.
other, buying drinks.
Met Girl After Marriage.
Isn't it true that after you were mar.
ried-in fact. after baby was born-you
would see Beulah every Monday, Thurs
| day, and Saturday night"
! We'll. they were my nights away from
bone" he replied.
You mean, you gave those nights to
! Beulah: the others to your wife Were
YOU not with Beulah those nights OF
the week preceding the homicide? Did
you not start the very week of the homi-
| eide by being with Beulah on Monday
night, the very night before your wife
| wds murderer"
Il was with Beulah those nights: yes" "
Beattie showed no shame, no regret
! He and Beulah had driven out to the
res' rvOir,' a dark bit of country beyond
/ town. which was a favorite spot OF
| theirs.
After this came his denial OF having
met Paul. his cousin. on the Thursday
night before the Staying, although he ad-
mitted having been with Paul on Satur-
| day night-the night the cousin says he
turned over the gun.
Il saw no gum" he said. Il never
got one. Why, after the time Paul says
he gave 1t to me, l hailed a policeman
and asked him TO ride with US Would
l have done that II had a gun in the
ma chine?'
Again Says He FOrEetH.
Beattie was trapped in a contradic-
tion here. Previously he had said he
couldn't see the highwayman when the
latter stepped behind his machine, be-
cause ii carried only a small red light
there. Now he said the reason he
hailed the policeman was because he
placed one of his bright side lights on
the rear. that Saturday night, and
wanted to know If il was legal. This
bright side light was on the rear the
night of the murder. Asked to explain
the contradiction. he said he forgot"
diary kept by Beulah, containing
many loving entries concerning Henry
was produced. but was ruled out by the
judge. Then Prosecutor Wendenberg
got down to the actual time and place
of the killing.
Didn't you stop to turn your ma
chine a. a place called The Look?" he
asked; so called because it is the high
est point on the pike. and one can see
machines coming in either direction for
miles"
Beattie said that was the place he
stopped, but he had no particular rea-
son for doing so.
IF. as you Say, the highwayman
IN hn In Nf
within a distance of 100 feet, and you
had your gas lamp going and stopped
within ten feet of him for fear you'd run
him down. why couldn't you tell whether
he was black or white?''
Il don't know" he replied. Il wasn't
looking for any one. He appeared sud
denly. cursed me for nearly running
him down, and then SHOT as I prepared
to start again"
Beattie admitted that he didn't notice
the gun in the mans hand when the
lamps first shone upon him. He didn't
see it until the stranger raised it and
fired. He said his wife must have been
looking directly at the assassin. He was
bent over his brakes.
And yet she didn't scream. seeing a
gun pointed at you or herself?" de-
manded Wendenberg.
Il suppose Beattie answered coolly,
with the situation" This was an eX-
cellent answer, but the next story was
a bad one. He volunteered: The man
had the gun pointed low, first, as though
at me. 1 Was lower than my wife. I
saw him raise it before he fired to the
level of her. head"
why should he fire at her instead of
you? What could be his motive in raIs-
ing his gum
BeattIe in Bad "HoIe."
The defendant wriggled out Of a
tight situation by replying: IT thought
maybe he was going to. fire into the afr
to scare me-" Then he went on to tell
how he had jumped from the car, the
man had struck him with the gun.
scratching his nose; he had wrestled the
weapon away from the other and tossed
IL. into the rear of his car, whereupon
the highwayman had fed.
You say you weigh 135 pounds and
the assassin nearly 200, and you took the
gun away from this bearded giant?"
Yes, SIR"
did you or he throw away the shell
which had been fired?'
II didn't-and I didn't see him do So
How does 1t happen that a shell was
found seventy-one feet away from the
blood spot marking the scene of the
crime?"
"I don't know" was Beattie's best an
swer.
Why he stopped when he saw the
stranger land didn't see gum; why he
Jumped at the man instead OF first car
ing for his wife; why, after getting the
mans gun. he didn't capture the assas-
sin himself-all these were questions
which the boy couldn't answer, although !
he tried to- and gave fairly plausible |
explanations OF each. He went through |
all this grilling without a tremor.
shows How He Drove Car.
Led down at last to the manner In |
which he supported his wife's body on |
the race home to her uncle's house. he |
calmly illustrated by placing his arm |
about the waist of a tiny bara-lArRed |