Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-31
Witness Tss4ifiss That Hs Saw Pau'
.With Gun Day After Hs Claims to
l.H.v, Delivered Il 70 Henry esattis
-psfsnss Tries 70 Prove Gun was
Sold at Later oats.

that he h80 only yeSte1ooS 6ASe ~
inforn,atlon to counsel for tho defense
and declared he had told no one else
about 1t until 2 few days ago. when ne
kold his wife, and J. G. Saunders.
Net 70 Plead insanity.
Harry Smith. Jr.. counsel for Henry
Clay. Beattie, Jr. today put an end to
rumors that ultimately insanity would
be offered as . defense for the pris-
oner by making a definite announce
ment that under no circumstances
would such plea be entered.
David Weinstein, son OF the pawn
broker from whom Paul Beattie pur-
chased the shot gun. was the first Wit
ness for the defense today.
paul Beattie testified that you took
the gun apart into three pieces and
wrapped it up In a paper and put MS
name on it. What do you say aoou'
it?" asked Attorney Smith.
II did not take 1t apart. 1t was q
very old fashioned gun and I didn't
know how
9ejd Dsattie the Gun.
Witness said he sold the gun to Pau
Beattie Saturday. saying he was
watchnsan ana wanted to use the gun
where he worked. Weinstein saio he
fir.t met Paul Beattie a week before
that tlme. when! he came to his sscre
3 TO buy = pistol. something they did not
have.
pSui Bsattis had previously testified
that the only time he had entered The
pawn shop before was to borrow dol
lar ana got 1t. The witness denied
having loaned him dollar and added
that paul had been in the pawn shop
four or five times.
Admits hs Was Mixed.
ON cross examination Mr.. Wenden-
burg. for the state, asked:
..Do you remember on the Saturday
after the homicide coming to the hos
pital where Paul Beattie was and
telling myself and others that you sold
the gun at 10 o'clock the previous
Saturday morning?"
eyes"
..Do you remember my saying to you
that Paul Beattie was at work Satur-
day morning and that he didn't come
IN until 4 or S o'clock?'
II 5remember something like that"
And you said you were mistaken"
YES, I thought so at the time, but
there were others at the store at the
time I did sell 1t and asked them"
$50 you couldn't keep this thing
straight In your memory and had to
depend ;op some one else?"
Yes"
witness in answer to questions ad-
initted that after showing Paul Beat
tie some guns he waited on other peo-
pie, leaving a brother to complete the
salS.
Doy Of ~ . Witness.
Jacob Weinstein, boy II years old
brother Of David, followed him on the
stand. Jacob remembered Paul Beat
tie buying the gun and thought it was
after 2 p. IN. when the purchase was
made. He said he heard Paul tell David
a'he wanted the gun for a watchman
4 on the bridge. The boy denied that
4 the eun had been taken apart and de-
clared that Paul Beattie said he took
lit apart Paul was wrong. Jacob said
I he wrote Paul Beattie's name on the
package.
AT the request Of the attorney the
hoy teied to take the gun apart but
could not do 30.
cereeborativs Testimony.
Testimony corroborative Of the story
told by Henri Clay Beattie's Jr., that
beafded highwayman killed his wife
with . shot gun, was introduced by the
defensoN In the Beattie trial yesterday
afserno0n when W. r. Holland, who
lives III the vicinity Of the Midlothian
turnpike where the murder occurred
decl6red he had seen . bearded man
with . shot gun there about five hours
before the. auto tragedy.
II Was the first move Of the defense
after the prosecution rested its case to
Besides Hollands statement concern
ing q man with q shotgun, Eugene
J. .fJonshaw,a Q farmer who travels the
!. midlothian turnpike daily, testified he
saw = strange appearing man prowling
q around on three different days before
the miIr4e9.
ss lt SO reported the prosecution Is
reaAymW3aon it, time for rebuttal ar
srtyeA 10 put on the stand the man who
y pass - aJo1g the railroad tracks where
y HoIJaud said he saw man with q
Sbhoe tun ana that the new witness will
sjtN ~ NaS squirrel hunting that day.
ssss. csils Many Witnesses.
TIE AQeense summoned many wit.
i etdes the testimony regard
3 - ~ eefded man. expert testimony
p tntzo ncsd as to tho bouncing
\ n - q IN automobile similar to
&&sssSe4z sNSsvess. shy sReattie thereby ac-
s. Sslil for the joltins out from the
4 y e shotgun placed in rear