The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-09-12

Tortant details. when Hill Carter, Of
the defence, lmmediately applied for
new trial.
Judge Watson told how the young
man has stained his own life and that
of the community in which he lived
by his sordid acts When the trial was
begun, said Judge Watson, he had
hoped that Virginia might be cleared
of the crime for which not only the
State felt shame, but which the entire
country deprecated. He had hoped
that counsel would prove the Defend
ant innocent, but the evidence he re-
gretted to note was all-convincing and
overwhelming.
To Die November q.
ssThe court in this trial." said Judge
Watson, has endeavored in all its de-
cisions to lean toward the side of the
prisoner and in it's charge to the jury,
as we'll, attempted to give him the
benefit of every doubt and every op-
portunity to establish his innocence.
The rulings mostly have been lot on
matters of law, but on small questions
Of fact.
'You have had a fair and impartial
trial, Mr.. Beattie, and the jury has
done what it considers it's duty. There
fore, you have been convicted of mur-
der in the first degree, and on Novem-
ber "a, between the hours of sunrise
and sunset, you must forfeit your life
to the community. May God have
mercy on your soul.''
'NIy Cod" Exclaims Judge.
A moment later by the side of his
father and his brother, Douglas, their
heads bowed in grief, walked young
Beattie in the darkness toward his
cell a hundred yards away. But the
drama of the day was not over. A
sharp report and q flash rent the
blackness outside.
my God," exclaimed Judge Watson
as through his mind fitted the same
thought that startled hundreds around
him.
But it was not another tragedy. The
prisoner was seen walking calmly on.
The detonation was an unusually
heavy charge Of a photographers
flash light. :
Tears in Solitude.
The crowd fingered at the Jail and
peered into the cell illuminated by a
single lamp. On n-the bed with his head
in his hands sat Beattie, his father
and brother beside him. Jailer Cog
bill sent the curious away. Only a
few saw the prisoner break down and
weep in the solitude of the cell.
An hour later the hamlet was de-
serted. A few hundred yards away
from the stone wall in a small hotel, 12
men gathered their belongings in sill
ence and one by one, they drove away
into the darkness to their simple
homes, from which, for a fortnight,
they had been absent.
Beulah Binford's Role
Beulah Binford, the girl of the un-
derworld, the "girl in the case,"
whose relations with young Beattie
furnished a damaging feature Of the
prosecutions case, did not figure as
witness at the trial. Neither side
was willing to call her. When releas-
ed from jail, where she had been held
as possible witness, she disappeared
and later turned up in New York,
where she was posing for motion pic
lures at Staten Island and nursing
! theatrical ambitions.
Smiths Plea for Beattie.
| Step by step during today arguments
Attorney Henry M. Smith, Jr., asso-
ciate counsel for the defence had en-
deavored to show that Beattie's story
was entirely compatible with his ac-
tions and the testimony before. the
jury. He reviewed the evidence to
indicate the danger Of circumstantial
evidence.
Attorney Wendenburg showed the
shirt that the prisoner had worn and
stated that if the wife's lifeless body
had lain against this shirt there would
) be blood stains upon it. He referred
! to the clothes as mute testimony to
the prisoners guilt. He ridiculed the
idea of a bearded unknown giant
! highwayman and laughed at the idea
of this little STRIPPING of 15S pounds
! (Beattie) disarming a man such as
described. Mr.. Wendenburg said that