Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-09-10
BEATTIE SAYS HE
 WILL DIE CAME INTERVIEWERS AT CHESTER. FIELD JAIL TAEk TO CONDEMN ED BOY CONCERNING HIS
 FUTURE
MORE LEGAL BATTLES
Paul Says he Will Not Go On Stage Henry Clay Wants Removal to Rich
 mOnd Jail.

Chesterfield Court House, Va, Sept.
 9.@Through a blue haze of cigarette
 smoke at the window of his little cell
 in the old colonial jail here, Henry
 Clay Beattie Jr., who yesterday was
 condemned to die for having slain his
 young wife on the Midlothian Turn
 pike on the night of July IS, this af-
 ternoon talked quite frankly about his affairs
 T am far from a dead one yet" he said as he grinned in a man to man
 fashion at his interview, There's they send me to the electric chair think Pll get a new trial in another county and with an up 10 date jury I'll be acquitted.
 The rich young man was more in terested in dispatches from New York telling of that city,s protest against Beulah Binford's stage appearance, than he was in his own fate, apparent ly. He asked to be shown the local papers containing these dispatches and not until he had read them through would he go on and discuss his own predicament.
 I'll tell you, old boy, ." said to the interviewer fellows up against it when he is to be tlied by bunch of country men from the back woods like those that tried me. l never had a chance from the begin ming. They get married young; bring up big families; work around their farms What do they know about a city or citys life? What do they know about how easy it is for a young fellow nowadays to get mixed up with a girl like Beulah Binford? In a city --you newspaper men from the North all know this-it's almost impossible for a chap with a little bit of money and a motor car to avoid any mix-up with these women. He can't help it. Isn't that right?
 That's what they got me on-this Beulah stuff," went on the condemned man just as casually as though he were telling why he had been struck out in baseball game. These far mers back here don't understand, that's all.
 q want to say again that l an in nocent and that any jury of up to date young men or residents of live city even of Richmond-Would have ire ed me-
 By the way, fellows" Beattie add ed, q see lot of talk in the papers about the possibility of me trying to end my own life. That's all rot. Be- lieye me, if l finally get close to the chair, I am going there like a man. No suicide for mine!
 You have all said in your articles that I was game. We'll, I am going to be game right through to the finish, whatever it is.'
 Despite his declaration that he would not try to kill himself, he was guarded constantly last night and to- day by two officers who watched his every movement. At the same time two men with loaded rifles walked as outside the little jail. There has not been a. murmur of possibih- ty that the citizens of Chesterfield county might decide to take the exc cution of the law into their own hands, but the officials were taking no chances.
 Beattie sent word to his father, brother and sister that he preferred that they should stay away from the jail today. explaining that they would only suffer if they came out here. He said nothing about any possi ble suffering of his own. Beattie's only worry was that he was obliged to stay in this little jail out here. He wants to be transferred to Richmond where he can hear the occasional honk of motor horn or the rattle of trolley car in front of the city jail.
 Henry c. Beattie ST., when ap-