Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-05
Found No Blood Stains.

Found No Blood Stains.
relic uncertainty. There was no blood on
the shoulder.
II think I may have had my coat on
when the murder occurred, Boattic final
iy managed to say. II am not sure
whether il was on then or whether | put
Il on later, when | got out to light my
lamps
Wendenhurg directed Sheriff Gin to dive
into the old cardboard box that was sit
ting by the stenographers desk and bring
from il the jacket Reattie had worn on
the night his wife was slain. While the
sheriff was rummagirE Beattie wiped MS
forehead with a handkerchief. He reach
ed for a glass Of water. Then. when the
brown Jacket was handed to him. he
stood up. Invested himself of his neat
blue serge jacket and put on the other.
Now look on the left breast and the
left shoulder Of that jacket. the prose-
cutor commanded and point out to the
Jury the blood spots that were made
when your wife's head fell against you,
as You have indicated.
Reattie GRAINED his neck to look at the
shoulder and sleeve. There were no dark
stains there. although one could be seen
in the middle Of the back. and another
near the tail of the coat at the back.
Disposition of Body.
have Beattie show the jury just how he
had disposed of his wife's body in the
car after he had returned from graphing
with the highwayman and had started
his machine homeward.
Il found my Wife'S body lying over the
left seat with her head in my seat to the
lut1 Hovs HSyNr On
that her feet were hanging out over the
left running board. The middle of her
body was on the left seat, and my left
arm was around her..
Here the prisoner bent himself double
in illustrating Her head was hanging
over in her lap. like that" he said.
You're sure her head was hanging over
in her lap?" Wendenburg asked
He was getting ready to clinch this
point.
Yes. sure; and my left arm was around
her waist as l drove with my right"
IF it should appear in evidence in this
case that there was not one bit or blood
on the front of your wife's dress. would
you still say that her head was hanging
over her lap?"
IF you will let me put you over two
chairs, Mr.. Wendenburg. I Will show You
what 1 mean" Beattie answered, in eva
sion.
The prosecutor said that he would not.
Another difficult task for Beattie to fol-
low was that steered by Wendenburg,
when he questioned the young man MI
nutely upon the relative distances be-
tween the car and the bearded assaflant
who had stepped SO suddenly from the
side of the road. First he wanted to
know how brightly the lamps were shin
ing on the car that night. Beattie
thought they were not shining brightly
enough to reveal any object in the road
more than a few yards ahead. Beattie
said that he had not seen the man with
the gun until he was within six feet In
front of the car to the right
I NotsExpecting Highwayman.
'.From the ditch to the middle OF the
road which you were travelling Is over
eleven feet. How does 1t happen that
YOU did not see the man step to the mid
die of the rOad?'
It don't know; I guess was not ex-
pecting him."
When did you first see the gun in the
mans hand?
cause l thought l was going to run over
him.
And SO you didn't notice the gun until
after the car stopped? Where did he gel
the gun from?'
Beattie said that he didn't know. II
was not until the man raised the CUR
and pointed it at him that he saw It
The witness could not answer satisfacto
rily why 1t was that with a good margin
of the road still left to him he had no,
plain why, when he stopped suddenly
over to release the clutch and start the
machine. the gun, which. he says, haG
been covering him. should have sWunt
up and to the right SO that his wife re
ceived the charge designed for him. An
9th inf
right here
Wife Did Not Scream.
He asked Beattie what his wife hat
said when she saw the gun pointed al
him. Had she screamed? No, Mrs. Beat
tie had just sat still. uttering not {
sound.
The prosecutor was merciless in uncov-
erng the sordid facts about Beattie's
relations with the girl whom he had
first seen when she was just one month
past thirteen, and in short dresses,
I'm the few months before your wife
died were not Your nights with Beulaf
Binford Mondays, Thursdays and Satur'
days?' the prosecutor demanded.
Beattie tried TO evade by saying thai
these were the nights he was not with
his wife, but Wendenburg got him t.
confirm the fact that on the Thursday
murdered he had spent the night with his
mistress.
Isn't it a fact that you were in love
with this woman
Decidedly not" Beattie returned, con
temptuouSly.
Wendenburg produced a little yellow
covered diary, and asked Beattie if he
had ever read it. 1t was Beulah Bin.
fords diary OF her affair with Beatt!e
and the last entry in 1t was on the nigh,
before Mrs. Beattie was murdered. The
witness said that he might have glanced
through il carelessly, but that he remem
bered nothing of its contents. Wenden
burg made hard fight to get the diary
into evidence, but the court ruled that ii
was only by putting the Bnford girl or
80.
Others Helping Beulah.
Now. isn't IT a fact. Henry Beattie
that while your wife was mothering your
child YOU were preparing TO furnish &
fiat for this girl?" Wendenburg asked
after he had had Beattie identify a letter
in which he told Beulah Binford Away.
TO get receipt from the furniture mar
upon the monthly payments which Beat
tie himself would meet.
NO one could furnish a lat on So
Beattie answered spunkily, mentionin,
the iustallment sum quoted in the letter
But Wendenburg was insiStent
Finally Beattie said that he was help
ing, but others were doing il. too. HI
did not specify, except to say 'othe
friends
What did you mean by signing thi
letter Oceans Of love. trimming witt
kisses? Was that way man woult
address a woman If he did not love herr
oh. that meant nothing at ALL" Beat
tie answered. with an airy wave of hi
hand. I've said that TO other girls
thousand times.