The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-08-31

ana the spectators We're late. Work
horses. with bony humps kicking
nightly. toiled along ana 20, there
at last BY noon tho place was filled
right up. Few stood on the outside.
however.
The Commonwealth set out at once
10 It's task of squelching the sixteen
year-o boy who held un the whole
court on Tuesday and caused some
thinY of sensation by relating the
discovery OF second blood spot in
the Midlthian Pike. Several Richmond
motor cars were stalled, and thern
was some trouble getting the wit.
>nesses to the courthouse. After
time the swing began. however. and
then Alex was mashed. The little boy
certainly believed all he said, but hav-
Ing bloody visions and a Sherlock
Holmes turn OF mind, he saw more
than was really there. The prosecu-
tion clearly and conclusively showed
by dozen witaesses. including an
uncle OF the dead girl. the pre-, ideut
OF the State Penitentiary Board the
chief detective IN charge of the case,
the county coroner and several auto
mobile owners. that no such second
spot could have been in the road. No
BODY had seen any blood except at
the scene of the murder. They went
specially to find 1t, but completely
failed to do SO. II II had been there
1t would surely not have escaped them.
passed two or three small puddles Of
water In the road. He was abso-
iuteiy certain that they were not
blood. Apparently he believed these
were what Ii, de A,ex had seen.
The point was Of great Importance.
Inc Commonwealth is contending that
pi0od could not In any way have got
ten out of the automobile, and that
therefore when Mrs. Beattie was killed
she was in the road and not in the
car as her husband has stated BY
means of the second spot near the
place where Henry Beattie declared he
stopped to Ak his lights when he was
racing home with the body of his dead
vile the defense hoped TO prove that
blood did in fact drip through the
machine. To do this 1t had two little
boys. But theState took no chances
With SO vital Issue at stake. and
this is why 1t brought UP a new cloud
of witnesses. The dispute seems set
tied Not only this. but careful in
spection failed TO show that a single
drop of blood had come from the car
after it got back to the Owen home
with the body OF the girl. Thomas
Owen, an uncle of Mrs. Benttle, seemed
quite positive as TO this. Having seen
one or two blood spotson the front
porch. he wiped these out and then
went to the lawn for the special pur-
pose of finding others and removing
them. He found none
state Rests ItH Case.
On the day before Henry Beattic's
best man was on the stand. a reluctant
witness for either side; now come the
dead girls maid OF honor. Miss Louise
Reams. Her testimony was brief She
Inspected the hairpin found in the road
near the scene of the murder and de
clarcd II was OF a kind worn by Louise
Owen Beattie up to the time of her
death.
The Importance OF this lay entirely
!nessociation with other things. The
fact that hairpin similar to a million
others in the world was an isolated
fact not very impressive. But taken
In connection with certain other mat
ters. and particularly the grit in the
murdered girls hair, it was held by
the State to bu Important. in that IL !
tended to establish the prosecutions
contention that Mrs. Beattie was In
the road when killed. Later in the
day the court definitely excluded this
evidence. and the nairpin now ceases
ID figure in the case. AT the same time
the court directed that nothing con-
hounds at tn scene OF the murder be
allowed to get before the Jury.
The Commonwealth rests Its case"
The long-awaited words came from
the States end of the bar fifteen min
utes after noon. Motions touching the
admissibility OF certain evidence were
argued. Judge and counsel retiring.
The defense then began. Paul Bea,tie
taking the stand first. as previously
described.
Impeachment of Tailey.
Impeachment of j. c. Talley the
man who says he heard Mrs Beattie
scream before she was killed, but did
not hear her husband cry for help or
blow his horn, as he described, con-
sumed much time. Talley, a lighting
man, by his own frank admission often
In court for defending myself" and
"as likely as not often to be there
again for the same reason" Is evil
IDENTIFY something of a ne!ghborhood
terror. He is a small man, but his
very name seems to make some OF the
pike dwellers quake. He has his
friends and foes. Yesterday was the
day of the latter; the Commonwealth
announces that the former will have
an inning later. Effort was made by
the defense to prove that Talley had
general reputation for untruthfuIness
Three or four witnesses testified to
this effect, one OF them glancing nerv-
ously over his shoulder to see if Talley
was anywhere around Another clear
ly had an animus.
Didn't you have difficulty with
TalIey once?" asked Mr.. Wendenburg
OF this man.
We'll. you might say he tried to
Kill me-"
Wasn't it because you insulted his
wifeg"
No"
The lawyer was insistent. but the
court ruled out further questions on
this point.
Still third, ont william Pemberton,
proved himself a genuine circus at
traction He. too. had expressed his
opinion of Talley.