The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-08
tice him. I just happened to see him
F.there."
Both Sides Res, in Beattie Case.

= CheSterneId Court house, sept. o.
With unexpected brevity both the COM
monwealth and the defense in the trial
of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, indicted
for the murder of his wife, closed the
evidence in the case shorty after 6
O'Clock tonight. Judge Watson
stretched his arms YEARLY, yaWned
audibly|a and with sigh Of relief an
nounced that court would adjourn un-
til Thursday n.crning, tomorrow, to
BE devoted to argument Of couhse!
with the court as to the instructions
to be given the jury before the argu-
ment proper is begun on Thursday.
When court adjourned tonight Beu-
.lah Binford, the 'girl in the case," al
fege5 by the prosecution to have been
the motive for the murder by BeatJle
of his young wife, still was IN jail
without having uttered a single word
of testimony. Scarcely an hour nad
passed in the II days of testimony
when her name was not on the lips OF
witnesses or counsel for either side.
Feared Her Testimony.
Admittedly fearing that she would
scrupuIously avoid injuring the case
of her former companion at any cost,
though statements and intervleWers
galore had Fortified the prosecution
with what it regarded as all necessary
information, the commonwealth did
not put her on the stand.
eve have proved that she was the
motive for the crime" said Prosecu-
tor Wendenburg tonight, without
hearing her testimony as our witness,
and the admissions of the prisoner
himself have told the jury enough"
Another figure, Paul Beattie, cousin
of the accused, whose confession con-
cerning the purchase of shotgun for
Henry four days before the homicide
led to the building of the case for
'sttAe prosecution, likewise was kept in
Jail, but both he and the BinTord girl
ARE likely to be released tomorrow.
Judge Watson explained his attitude
toward her continued Imprisonment
by saying in the court room yesterday
that unless the girl was to be put on
the witness stand: he wished "to. turn
her loose.''
Came Suddenly.
The closing of the case was sudden.
Harry NJ. Smith and Mill Garter, at
torneys for the defense, first announc-
ed that they had few witnesses for
the sur-rebuttal, but if the common
wealth would agree to rest its case
they would do likewise. The agree
ment was accepted, and Judge Wat
son arranged to meet counsel for both
sides in Richmond tomorrow in con-
ference concerning Instructions to be
given to the jury. The prisoner will
be- kept in confinement in the jail at
Chesterfield and the jury also will re-
main in the hamlet.
The taking of evidence today was
along no we'll connected line, the pros
ecution, after completing it's short
cross examination Of the prisoner,
taking up scattered points in the ev!-
dence. From one feature of the case
to s1ether the prosecution SKINNED in
its efforts to corroborate certain points !
in the case it had built up previously,
but most conspicuous was the direct
attack on the testimony of the pris-
oner.
One Important Question.
The single question of importance
that the prosecution put to the accus-
ed in its brief cross-examination ear
ly today was the one on which the
has been basing prac-
ideally it's whole case against him. The
prosecution wanted to know how it !
that a gun, admittedly pur-
chased by a cousin Of Henry Clay
Beattie, JG., and identified by witnesses
for the defense as having been pur-
chased on the Saturday before the
murder, came to be in the hands of
the very highwayman who killed Mrs.
Beattie on the Midlothian turnpike
four days later.
The prisoner answered simply that
he knew nothing OF the purchase of
any gun by Paul and did not see the;
weapon till it was raised by the lone
The prosecution here
rested the examination and thereupon
began the Introduction of witnesses
to discredit the testimony of the &C.
cused.
To Discredit Prisoner.
The attack, it was evident, was con-