Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-22
BEATT|E PLEADS
NOT GUILTY
YOUTHFUL PRISONER. ACCUSED
OF WIFE MURDEDR. ON TRIAL
FOR HIS LIFE.
He EMBRACES FATHER
Twelve Jurors Selected Yesterday
POstpOnement Was Not Grant
ed BY Court.

Richmond, Va, Aug. 21-A youth
accused OF Staying a tenderly natur-
ed high born girl-wife was placed on
trial in the little court house today.
He has admitted his love for the "wo-
man that came between and he en-
tered the Chesterfield court house to-
day fresh from the fond embrace of
his white haired father. The boy
pleaded not guilty and the trial of
Henry Clay Beattie il, Oh the charge
of numbering his wife, Louise Owen
Beattie, was Oh. The first days work
OF the trial showed good results for
when adjournment was taken this ey-
ening, twelve jurors had been select
ed. Four more yet must be chosen.
Then four of the sixteen will be
cordance with the law and the custom,
leaving the usual dozen. The ad-
journment was taken over until We'd
nesday to give time for the summon
ing of another panel of talismen. Lit
tie delay is expected and a verdict is
probable in a week
Reattie was brought over to Ches-
terrified from Richmond in an auto
mobile. AS he passed from that city
along many points of IT, country
roads and as he entered a,erfield
many people waved a greet;.~ and he
acknowledged the salute every time
with fearlessness. One of his friends,
an insurance broker, asked Beattie
as the cars slowed down for a cross
ing:
Henry, how about taking out a
policy for 100000"
MAKE It 100000 and you are on"
replied the boy with smile
Yet, at last when the lad caught
sight of his old father, waiting for him
at the door of the court house, tears
came into his eyes.
ooh, dad" he exclaimed and kissed
the aged mans cheek and frightened
his arm around his neck like a
frightened child. For a full minute
the two were oblivious to gaping spec
tators and clicking cameras.
Then the sons mood took another
term. He pulled himself together and
jauntily puffed a cigarette. He greet
ed his elder brother, Douglas, who
had also awaited him. They comment
ed wonderingly upon the costume
climaxed by the blue silk slippers of
a girl writer from Cleveland, whose
duplicate in smartness old Chester
field certainly had never beheld. Judge
Watson soon arrived, the benchman
in the case.
Then Sheriff Gill fine old veteran,
who was in the fore front of Pick
ett's charge at Gettysburg, called the
case. Beattie's attorneys Harry Smith
and Hill Carter, used every argu-
ment at their command for post
ponement. Commemorative Attor-
ney Gregory, and Counsellor Lewis
Wendenburg opposed them. The judge
decided that the trial must 60 on at
once.
The examination of jurors began.
There was no evasion. Not one man
endeavored to dodge. 1t was a splen-
did spectacle of civic righteousness,
the way every talisman said Eyes"
He was willing to try the case to dis
regard newspaper stories he had read
and to render verdict on the true
evidence
The getting of the remainder of the
jury will be very easy down here,
where men hold high their devotion
to their state.
Beuah Binford, "the woman in the
case" was not brought out from
Richmond today, nor was Paul Beat
tie, the cousin, who bought the shot
gun with which the fatal shot is said
TO have been fired