The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-23
B|NFORD WOMAN
 DESERTS BEATT|E
Developments In Sensation al Murder Case Take
 Interesting Turn

Richmond, Va, August 22.-If Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., is acquitted of wife murder, preferred against him by the commonwealth, there will be no further friendship between him and Beulah Binford, the girl for whose love the prosecution charges that the crime was committed. Sitting in her cell this aft ernoon, on the eve of the resumption of the case at Chesterfield courthouse tomorrow, she not only expressed the hope that whoever Is guilty will be convicted" but added that she was afraid of Beattie and could never be his. friend again. It was the frankest interview she has granted since her arrest as a material witness more than a month ago
 q hope that Henry is innocent" said the girl. Once I would have gone through fire at his word. but now l would be afraid to go on the street with him after dark. If he comes clear of the murder charge, I hope never to see him again. Most of all l want to get away from Richmond, where know people will follow me on the streets. I know absolutely nothing about the murder; I do not even recall that Henry ever mentioned his wife's name to me-"
 Beattie spent quiet day in pail, re- fusing to see anyone except his young sister, Hazel, and an aunt He will be taken to Chesterfield tomorrow, where the task of completing the jury will be taken up again at noon. Paul Beattie, his cousin, who has sworn that he pur- chased the gun with which Mrs. Beattie was shot, lounged in the jail corridor, refusing to discuss the case.
 Always pictured heretofore as ex- pressing absolute confidence of Beat ties acquittal, the statements made by te Binford girl this afternoon Indicated for the first time that she had deserted him. She keeps pictures and cuts or him in a scrap book in her cell, but she repeated time and again as she talked that she considered herself a mere onlooker in the case and was keeping a record of events and diary as souvenirs.
 She riff CHI has summoned venire or 90 men and the prediction is that the jury to try Beattie for his life will De complete before adjournment tomorrow. The commonwealth has completed the list of witnesses which now totals more than I5.
 For the first time since his arrest more than a month ago on charge Of wire ,urdere there was made public today the list of witnesses who will be called in the defense of Beattie, who pleaded not guilty when arraigned yesterday. It had icen long known that the prosecution LaG summoned more than e witnesses but not until today was there given any inking of the defenses plans.
 The list shows that Beattie's lawyers have summoned 29 witnesses, five of them yemen A majority of those summoned are former associates or former fellow employees of Paul Beattie, held as ma- terial witness in the case. Through them tine defense will try to break down the cousin, Pauls, story of having purchased the single barrel shotgun for Henry, three days before the murder.
 Sey eral persons who live near the scene of the crime vii be called to testify Of caring calls for help and the sounding Of a motor horn. The story of the pris- oner is that his wife was shot at his side by a mysterious bearded man In the road and that he QIenry) called for aio