Smyrna times., 1911-07-26
.BEATTIE MURDER CASE IS
NOT SO EXCITING TO DOVER
PARTIES NOT KNOWN THERE
NOR NEVER VISITED DOVER
r. v. Owen, Father of Mrs. Beattie
Had Only Lived in Dover About
Year-State Interested in Case

Nothing is known in Dover of the
past life of either Mr.. or Mrs. H.
G.. Beattie, Jr., of Richmond, Va.
While she was the daughter of Rich
ard V, Owens of that town she had
never visited Dover. Her father
came to Delaware about a year ago
and took a position with the Dover
Lumber and Milling Company as
head estimator. Shortly after his
arrival one of his sons, Robert V. |
Owens, Jr., also came to Dover and |
was employed with his father in the |
mill. Later the younger Owens |
married young woman from Virgil
MIA and he with her moved to Dover
and are keeping house. AS soon as
the father of the murdered woman
received a message of his daughters
sad death he left on the midnight
train Tuesday for Richmond. The
rest of the family followed the next
daV and have not as yet returned.
Believed a Hired Assassin Did Shooting
The arrest of H. C. Beattie, Jr.,
for wife murder is given in full on
our third page. Out of the tangled
skein of evidence in the Beattie
murder case the police have develop
ed some significant new ramifca-
tions. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr. the
husband accused of numbering his
wife, is still indifferently calm and
his denial of killing cannot be shaken.
Detectives, however, developed i'm
poftant discrepancies in the con-
fession made by Paul Beattie, the
accused mans cousin. Policeman
G. c. Green corroborated a portion
of Paul's statement and employees
at Weinstein's pawnshop, where the
gun that did the killing was bought,
contradict other parts. That Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., financed and plan
ned three -cornered conspiracy that
resulted in the murder of his wife,
Louise Owens Beattie, was the belief
expressed by the police at work on
! the case yesterday. The three
members of the triangular murder
plot which the police have built in
theory are: Henry Clay Beattie,
the husband; Paul D. Beattie, his
. cousin, who bought the gun; hired
4 assassin who did the actual shooting.
! This is the way the police argue.
: Henry Beattie's story of the killing
has been disproved in essential points.
q Paul Beattie's story has been founC
n inaccurate. These two men coulC
= not sit at ease in Richmond Jail to
n day if they alone knew of the kill
q ing. The police are certain ther,
was another man.
Beulah Binford Relates Sad Story
N Beulah Binford, the other woman
in the case, has made a sworn state
m ment which the officers will not max
public, but which, IT. is intimated
a greatly strengthens the evidence i
% the hands of the Commonwealth an
~ makes the case against Henry Beat
A. tie complete in every detail. Thoug
;s the sorrow of her haby's death ha
n long since passed, Beulah Binfor
n gave expression in her cell to he
A. love for the child, who. christene
n Henry Clay Beattie, would hav
70 been two years old yesterday, whic
q was also the seventeenth birthday Q
: the girl, who on Friday last bare
10 everything in her life and opened tn
IN way to the electric chair for tn
IA man with whom she has maintaine
NJ intimate relations since he
"a thirteenth year. 81 firmly believ
al Henry Beattie to be innocent of tn
> charge of numbering his wife," sh
a said to a reporter. Speaking of he
,w life and her being cast off by he
20 family she said: 81 never had
q chance, not even when was a littl
ut girl. I've always been shove
down, down. Everytime l tried I
work somebody came and dragged u
old stories and now, oh, how l wis
l were dead, for all my happiness
Be over. If / had had a father lil
other girls, I'd have been all righ
When / was thirteen years old faith,
at got divorce and mother didn wal
ne me around~home, and then / m,
OK Harry and afterward things wei
't. wrong. Then / tried-Oh tried
'st hard to be good. l got a job 1
us bookkeeper at Norfolk, but someboC
ne recognized me and told and / had
N, leave. ! was turned out of tn
ae school started to go to because
om 1l it and every job got lost, becau
III the world won't t give a girl achance.
lbs Mrs. A. D. Parry to Address W.C.T.
IN, The Smyrna w. C. t. U. vi
ar hold public meeting in Asbu
be Church Monday evening. July 81,
ry- 8 o'clock. Mrs. A. D. Parry wi
If be the speaker Of the evening. Mu
ical program. All invited.