Evening journal., 1911-11-24
BEATTIE DIES;
CONFESSES CRIME
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cold in death down tsairs. No word
about the funeral arrangements was
vouchsafed at the prison following his
visit.
The family made the most determin-
ed efforts to keep the details Of the
funeral secret.
Beatties body was removed from the
penitentiary in an undertaker's wagon
belonging to b. II. Morrisette Of Man
chester, the suburb in which is the
handsome Beattie residence.
No slip I'm Execution.
The execution was conducted with
the precision Of a military drill. The
protection which the commonwealth
threw about such scenes was never
better maintained and the only official
announcement was that Beattie met
the end at 7.23 o'clock There was no
announcement as TO the exact time the
current was applied, when It was
turned Off, or other details Of that
nature. AS far as the commonwealth
Of Virginia is concerned, Henry Clay
Beattie, Jr., died at 723 paying the
forfeit that the commonwealth de-
mands. IL is understood that this was
the time when the heavy current of
electricity struck and stilled the heart
Of the youth, who brutaHy fired a shot
gun into the face of his baby's mother.
The newspapers in Virginia. are pro-
hibited by law from publishing more
than the mere fact that Beattie was
executed according to mandate Of the
jury and court.
The Rev. Benjamin Dennis who
spent all Of yesterday afternoon with
Beattie in his cell, said today that he
was to have conference with the
dead mans father later in the day and
that after the conference he might
have a statement to make as to what
Beattie had told him before he died.
The execution took place Just three
minutes from the time Beattie stop.
ped into the death cell until Dr. W
T. Oppenheimer, prison surgeon, an
nounced that it was all over.
Beatile Calm at the End.
by side with Beattie from the cell TO
the death chamber, a precaution which
proved unnecessary. for the con-
demncd man remained calm. Directly
behind them came the Rev j. j. Fix
and the Rev Benjamin Dennis. DR.
Oppeuheimer followed
After a night Of untroublcd slum-
Der. Beattio awokc to gaze from his
barred window on a sodden. soaking
world. But impending death within
and deep gloom without failed TO
shake his iron nerve. He prayed for
time with his spiritual advisers tho
Rev DR. J. J. Fix and the Rev Benja-
min Dennis. Then came the last
guard OF the death watch with the
word that all was ready.
Untaltering in step and mion, Beat
tie took from the hands of the Rev
Mr. Fix. his little Bible. stepped be-
tween the two ministers and began
the march to death. Across littl,
corridor the strange procession stoot
In the threshold OF the room of death
The musty windowlcss room was n
utter darkness a moment before. Jus
as the condemned man stepped TO III
door. a blazing. reflected light burs
forth from a cluster of incandescen
globes Immediately above the clums
polished oak chair with its grim fit
tings
The lights threw a circle of weir,
illumination about the engine of dealt
that intensified the darkness OF th
remainder of tho room. Only the in
flexible. grim chair, stood in the glar
/ ing outline
Across the room in solid darkness
sat a dozen men on little wicke
chairs. They were the official wit