The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-22
Other Woman In
 Case Is Only Y
 And Mother Too
Beaulah Binford in Telling Her Love for Man Who Wrecked Her Life, Says She Would Confess to Killing Beatt;e's Wife Rather Than See Him Go fO Electric Chair
Especial from United Press., :,


 Richmond, Va, July 22-Lightheart-
 ed and debonair, Henry Clay Beattie,
 Jr.. today sat in the Richmond jail,
 smoked his cigarette and laid plans
 for defending himself of the charge of
 wife murder. Over in the pretty Beat
 tle nome, in Manchester, the father of the man arrested for the murder of ms young wife, tenderly cared for his | flve- -weeks-old grandson = the onlv member of the family now left with nlm. The baby's mother was shot to death and its father was in jail. The aged father, banker, business man and respected citiben, has been the person most affected by the dra- matlc denouement arranged by the po- ice as a result of the Beattie murder mystery. He has never been shaken out of his role of calm indifference. put his father has aged in years in the last few days.
 ed New York with the history of her life has there been told a story that surpaSses the tale of love and death l told by Beaulah Binford, the petite IT. year-old other woman in the case.
 For four years she has been inti- nlately connected with the life of the | young scion of the south who, today, ianguished in Richmond jail She tes- t1f1ed that when she was barely 15 she mothered boy, the son of Beattie. Prior to that time she said Beattie gave her money for an education at St. Mary's school, Alexandria. Tn a voice low with suppressed emotion the girl told of agreeing to leave Rich nond when Beattie was married. Four weeks ago, she said, she met the hus- oand in Norfolk, by accident. Then he old longing seized her and she 'ame to Richmond. For four weeks, orlor to the murder of Mrs Beattie, ns Beatt1e in various hotels and room ng houses. She declared she had ar anged to set up a home of her own n Richmond so that she could be near seattle and testifeid that the husband ad given her $10 as the first install nent on purchase of furniture. The whole secret of Beaulah's wreck d life trembled on her lips, when, in nsWer to a question, Do you still we Henry Beattie?" she exclaimed.
 Rather than see him go to the elec TIC chair l would confess that I kill his wife myself
 An aching conscience and the insist nee or a woman developed the infor- fl at1on that resulted in Beattie's dra- a. at1c arrest yesterday Paul Beattie. = le accused mans cousin. had told his 2, Ire that he had bought the shotgun SS Iln WnIcn MrS. Beatt1e was killed - lie d1d@not tell her, however until w " s conscience had driven him to the II, ,rge of nervous hysteria. Ill III Because his conscience cried out. he al Id his wife of the link in the chain o' evldence which the police were forg g against his cousin I1 L Mrs. Beattie and Paul Beattie's con- ?, fence persuaded him to tell the story n:
 the police. Then the man col oi osed He recovered slightly at the +h y hospitol today and was able to Ir ril ke the witness stand at the inquest oi will probably be the only witness led when the hearing convsnes this w ernoon.
 The 17-year-old "other woman con- tied nothing of the intimate rela- ns with young Beattie. Within the r | few weeks, she said, she had vis- Rr d number of houses in Richmond of company with the young husband Ste j, had gone automobiling with him am least twice. dnr .lr m Monday night, when the police avf I'm the young husband and father ha, 3 absent from his home until nearly nro VII the next morning. she testified of