Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-11-24
Condemned Man Takes Heart
breaking Leave of Father,
Sister and Brother and Stoi-
caIly Awaits End
HE WILL CONFESS IF
GUILTY SAY MINISTERS
Having Made His Peace With
God, They Believe He Will
Not Go to Death With Lie on.
Lips,

GiHCt
[By Morning Journal Special Leased wire,1 ,
Richmond. Va, Nov. 2S.-laklAe |
a pathetic leave of his Immediate |
family, Henry clay Beattie, jra to-
night made ready to take the hnai
plunge into the unknown. Tomor-
row. before the sun IL an hour high,
he will have paid tine penalty De
manded by the law for the murder
of his young wife last July. There
Is nothing to Indicate that Governor
Mann will act to stay the hand of
justice.
For a few moments today Beattie
broke down. This was when he TOOK
leave of his father and brother'
douglas. When the parting came
the son laid his head on his tather
breast and sobbed eonvulsively' one
arm was flung across the fathers
shoulder. the other mana srippeu
that of his brother.
But he recovered quickly, The Tor
titude of the elder Beattie had more
to do with the recovery than the
soothing offices Of the Rev. Benjamin
Dennis, who has labored WITH the
doomed prisoner With spartan SELL
control. the father kept his emotions
| in check, although the tears racea
down his checks and his lips twltehea
nathetieally. No words were spoken,
hut the Young Wife murderer must
have felt the stern repression OF nus
parent for his sobs were suihsiea
and he staightened up.
"Good-bye," he said and turned
away. Neither father nor brother
trusted TO reply. but made their way
from the pententiary, When the\
enter 1t again it will be to claim th'
body of their kinsman.
Hazel. the 1S-year oll sister of th'
prisoner, and his two aunts drove t'
the state prison in dosed carriag'
in the middle of the afternoon Ihes
were in the death chamber trlii'
more than an hour. When the!
emerged Hazel was on the verge 0
collapse. while all three were violent
lv agitated, and the eyes of each wer'
red with weeping.
Their entrance and departure wer
observed by a morbid crowd or sew
, , eral hundred persons gathered to VIII
ness the rumored visit of Beulal
Binford to the prison, the repor
nroved to be untrue, he girl whos
subtle power over yong Beattie
said TO have driven Inn to the XIII
: ing of his wife having been discover
ed in New York.
only his minister was with Beatti
q today, the Rev. MIR. lennis' Key
= John ]. Fix, the young mans forme
|, nastor. was so worn ouib by lahors an
the emotional strain le has under
! gone that he did not )ut IN an ap
o pearance. He Is saing all NJ
v energy for tomorrow s lawn when n
d fully expects the eondmned man
n confess, provided he i guilty.
(. The day was spent prayer say
" for the time occupied by the rare
-e wells OF the family. Ieattie rs sal
k 10 have declared his complete cor
t, version and to have n faar that n
n peace was made with tod.
h He told his spiritua ADVISERS thi
tt he faced the hereafter with suprem
confidence.
oy The sustained nerv of the cor
u demnea man is the wnderment an
n oamiration OF his gHrds. Follow
ing the pathetic far"ehs oe'moe
d himself and the membrs OF ms IAN
-. ilv in which he broh down con
iu nietelv. he disclosed sub quick al
i comnlete reversion tohis placid o
meanor that 1t occasioeo tne uliiio
ostonishment. The deth watch ia
,ool,ed forward to a throwing mgr
M When under the rulesol tle prs
" tights were ordered OF AT Civ
peattie showed every eidence OF pr
naration to spend diet ana res
Oh full period before he fsu'''i''o''''
Ns' the death chair. a., -,
Ia The prison authorihs WIN ms
a. non the family remcing the bo'
"a within a few hours ait II - iasu =
EAR In the mortuary roomWhlon ao'e, a,
hs the death chamber. W"'
ter believed the body migt De e'''o'n
ed ana kept in the peiten'lais us
TN arrangements could bteompis.eo :.
d. the funeral. but It's peiiei v
ms quickly dispelled. 10 a.
The While the funeral piahs'
on. have been made. non,have ye. pe
in made known. it is kndn ttia' neae
nee viii rest in the familplot IN Mau,
cemetery within
IND grave of his dead Wi. , !,
Try, paattie will be ken from
inc nea'.'u .,,o.os shortIvlfter o'clo
uea'h or,ing ,he warden
ng. ,,,ontiarv. towing out
all Wv m, ~, ~ bimhe warrant I
he - ~. death. Within =
am. e,,.. after that solemn obs
lies nao'ns !. oornleted. sattie will ho
be ~ s,s ,ol, ~ ufe,or the murf
of his wife.