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Close of the Trial.

Chesterfield Courthouse Sept. B Court reconvened at 2:45 o'clock. MT. Wendenburg began his address as follows:
 "I wish to congratulate the jury upon listening to crime born in iniquity- It is about to end. l hope the verdict will be the amen of the women of this commonwealth not the women of the kind among whom this accused has mingled but the good women of all Virginia.
 "I can hear the shriek that went up on the Midlothian Pike leaving two theories. One as 'the defense of a man whose wit nesses have been heard, and the other is the prosecutions array all over brutish crime.
 By the story of the accused you can convict him. He tells us at first a strange man stepp ed in front of the machine That's where the fool in him be gun. He forgot his story to bt ---------
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HEuLAH IN LIMELIGHT.
Loses Out In Vaudeville But Posed
 for Moving Pictures.

New York, Sept. S.-The local theatrical promoter who brought Beu- lah Binford to this city to exploit ner on the stage has abandoned the idea.
 'l'v made up my mind to pass the girf up," he said this afternoon.
 The promoter declared certain Richmond lawyers had interested hlm in the girl as theatrical venture. He said they mad one of their clerks conduct negotiations aud they were to get a percentage of the firms earnings.
 The Binford girl posed for motion pictures this afternoon on Staten ls- land.
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1.33 tons, the 1910 final yield anq l.. Al tons, the average yield for the past five years. The quality is 90. $ Der cent, compared with 92.5 per cent last year and ten year average of 91.1 per cent.
 Apples: Condition 56.2 per cent of a normal, compard with 53.9 per cent on Aug. 1, 46.S per cent in 1910 anu
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Sept. < Twelve Virginia far mers knelt at dusk tonight in the obscurity of the small jury room of the Chesterfield Court house, praying fervently that they might pass judgment alright on Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for the murder of his wife. Grimly determined they arose a moment later and silently one by one recorded a unanimous verdict of ''gailty.'
 Pausing in solemn 5ontemp- lation for 58 minutes. weighing carefully the meaning of their decision and once more on bend cd knees, beseeching divine as- sistance that they might not err, they filed into the hushed still- ness of a crowded courtroom and with startling suddenness twelve voices, instead of the usual one of the foreman, spoke the single word guilty It was almost shout.
 The spectre Of death which stalked Midlothian Turnpike on July 18 last when the life af Mrs. Louise Owen Beattie was taken away with the single re- port of a shotgun. stared hard at the young husband, ready to claim it's victim 5y elcctrocution on Friday, November 2i, next, but the prisoner returned the gaze, unswerving and unafraiG.
 The court of appeals to be sure will be asked to grant q writ of error and a new trial.
 Young Beailie coguizant of the legal weapons yet at his disposal. did not surrender. [n- stead he consoed his hroke n down father, white haired and wrinkled, and eomforted him as he whispered "I haven't lost yet, father
 Unusual as has been the tragedy and the gruesome stage where it occurred, the tweiN Q jurymen did not hesitate to ad- init to their friends that they stood in judgment not only over the cold blooded murderer, but upon his marital infidelity as well. It perhaps was the dra- matic climax of Virginia justice, which, in the last half centufA has swiftly sent to death such famous murderers as Cluverius, Phillipps, and McCue.
 At the close of powerful ad dress by L. 0. Wendenburg, the voluntary assistant of the com monwealth in the case, the sus- pense was felt not alone in the courtroom. but in Richmond, where thousands of people awaited the outcome.
 
 The jury had for eleven days heard evidence, for two days speeches, but the words of Wen denburg rang in their ears as they left the courtroom to find their verdict.
 Let that man go free" he cried. What. let that man go free?, why, the motherhood of Virginia, the womanhood of this nation will shudder in terror as the security of it's life is threat ened. Let this man go free2 the man who basked in the de graded sunshine of another woman while at his home young wife nursed his child Gentlemen, l merely ask you il
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tliS lldllC Oi juoilNe tO up Nbul duty"
 In vivid detail the prosecutor pictured the wife as she started on her innocent journey into the cool air of a summer night. The jury saw again in their minds the automobile in which she rode beside her husband; how Beattie stepped into the dark ness of the thicket, found the Isihotgun which he had earlier concealed and deliberately slew his wife
 , The desperate ride home with Ia bleeding and lifeless body crushed into small space in the front part of the machine, the husband coldly sitting against the blood covered head of Nhis wife, were graphically detailed to the jury. Only passing at tention was given by MT. Wen .denburg to the purchase of the .gun by Paul Beattic, a cousin .of the accused. The defense had claimed, he said, that on Paul's story alone was built the case of the prosecution, but he held aloft the bloodstained clothing of the prisoner "as mute evi- dence of the crime" and asked do you want any other evil .dence"
 Blood flecked the lower fringe of the shirt in deep black blots {; not a mark cn either sleeve of shirt or coat.
 The prisoner had declared he had held his wife with one hand and steered the car with the other, but the absence of blood lon the arms, the prosecutor de clared. gave the lie to his story.
 Not alone with the clothing did the prosecutor disentangle what he termed "the cheapest fabrication of the cheapest murder" but he shouted shame at the prisoner for his relations with a mere slip of a girl, from the age of 13 until within his own married life, and held her forth as the motive for the |crime.
 And the prisoner admits it was his passion" said MT. Wen denburQ.
 Yes, it was passion; but pas sion born of the devil; and pas sion that sent to death his wife so he might continue his vicious pleasure"
 Mir. Wendenburg concluded his address a few minutes after 500 D. m.
 A brief respite was given the jury and at 5::2S o'clock it be- gan gan consideration of tho ease
 For 58 minutes they were together, a jury of simple far mers, who each morning sang hymns and strove to forget the story of dissipation with its Filthy characters us related day after day on the witness stand What had been generally pre- dicted was true their minds were well made up before they left the courtroom.
 w. l.. Burgess, a square iawee man with an earnest face, was elected foreman. They balloted and it was no surprise that they afterwards declared, that al voted alike. They prayed thai they might not take a life 1T vain and they opened their con sciences to one another for near
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HALF MILLION
 IN INCREASES
AssEssoRTy COMPLETE REPORT
 SHOWING INCREASES la E PAST YEAR.
improvements Have Been Numerous But Increased Assessments Have
 Been Few in Proportion.

Almost ha4f a million dclIars more of assessable property is shown in the biennial report of Tax Asses sor Rnbe Gillian this year than ill the report of year previous. or to ba exact the sum of s41S,74O is the sum of the increase.
 The report Is in actual figures, as follows:
 City ...$4.SSs.12 s5.O15.23O si32.l1o County 1.b44,070 HAS, ,S9O 104, ,S26 Per. =. 2,22o.7eo 2.4op,57O 1S1. .saO
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had in stern voice, declared that all rulings of the court were on comparatively unimportant detail and in no way could have influenced the verdict. A stay l of execution was granted, how ever, to give counsel an opportu- nifty to apply for writ of error, when the court of appeals meets in November.
 Judge Watson delivered an impressive speech to the prison CT. He told how the young man had stained his own life and that of the community in which he lived by his sordid acts. When the trial first began, sail Judge Watson, he had hoped that Vir- ginia might be cleared of the lcrime for which not only the state felt shame, but which the entire country deprecated. He had hoped counsel ;go.ld prove the defendant innocent, but the evidence, he regretted to note, was all convincing and over whelming.
 "The court in this trial" said Judge Watson, "has endeavored in all it's decisions to lean to- ward the side of the prisoner and in its charge to the jury as we'll, attempted to give the ben lift of every doubt and every op- portunity to establish his in- nocence. The rulings mostly have been not on matters of law, but on small questions of fact.
 You have had fair and inn partial trial, MT. Beattie and the jury has done what it con- siders it's duty. Therefore you have been convicted Of murder in the first degree and on No yember 24, between the hours of sunrise and sunset you must forfeit your life to the commu- nity.
 May God have mercy on ycur soul"
 A moment later by the side of his father and his brother, their heads bowed in grief, walked young Beattie in the darkness toward his cell a hundred yards away, but the drama of the day vas not over. A sharp report and a flash rent the thick black ness outside.
 My Godl" exclaimed Judge Watson as through his mind flit- tered the same thought that startled hundreds round them, but it was not another tragedy. The prisoner was seen walking calmly on. The detonation was an unusually heavy charge of a photographers flashlight.
 The crowd fingered at the jail and peered into the cell, illum- mated by single lamp. On the bed, with his head in his hands sat Beattie, his father and his brother with him. Jailor Coghill sent the couriers away. Only g few saw the prisoner break down and weep in the solitude of the cell. 'Sirs
 An hour later the hamlet was Ideserted. A few hundred yards away from the jail in small notel twelve men gathered their belongings in silence and one by one they drove away into the darkness to their homes.
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MASTERFUL PLEA OF PROSECUTOR WENDENBJRG SWANS THE JURY AND CONVINCES THE JURORS THAT THERE IS NO DOUBT OF THE GUILT OF THE ACCUSED STAY OF 30 DAYS GRANTED
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Washington, D. C., Sert s.-ofn- cial forecast for Arkansas; Probably fair Saturday and Sunday.
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FAST TRAIN DlTcHED.
Three Cars Overturned But No Pas
 sengers Hurt.

SGV8CtS tfhFts
 Anniston. Ala, Sept. S-The BirTn- ingham special. fast passenger train on the Southern Railway between New York and Birmingham. Sia., via. Atlanta. was derailed just south of tnis city eaify this afternoon Three cars were overturned but none of the passengers were injured. despite the fact that the train was going 40 miles an hour.
 party party of New York capitalists. en route to Birmingham left here thls evening in box cars for Birmingham. Trains are being detoured via Rome, IGa.
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JURY FINDS HIM GUILTY AFTER ONLY 5S MINUTES CELEBRATION OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND JUDGE WATSON SENTENCES HIM TO BE ELECTRO CUTED ON NOVEMBER 24.
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HENRY CLAY bEATTIE IS
 GUILTY OF WIFE MURDER

Fly an hour so they might go
 back to the courtroom firmly convinced of their duty and of lone mind.
 In the courtroom sat Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., the sporting
 page of newspaper spread be- fore him, but he did not read
 long. He folded the paper and concealed his face in it.l TT who sat near the boy of iron nerve observed a twitching of
 his lips as though moving in prayer as he sat with closed eyes awaiting the return of the jury. ,He raised his head for a moment, dropped the paper again and began reading. Then he whispered a few words to his father and brother. It was for them he felt and to them he lcounselled cheerfulness. It was nearly dark in tho courtroom when the jury re- turned. Three oil lamps gave meagre lustre to the scene. Sun Iset's red rays still streake6 through the windows. On every | sill rested a telegraph instru- |ment and operators tensely waited for the announcement of the verdict. A thick mass of faces rising in an incline to the shabby ceiling stared at the jury linen. Famous iurists looked down from flyspecked paintings. In the minds of the gaping lcrowd remained the thought of powerful speech of the prosecu- tor and his denunciation of the man "who exchanged the glow lof virtue for passions feeble ta- pers.'
 The court asked the prisoner to rise. He drew himself up calmly and waited.
 Have you gentlemen agreed on verdict ?' asked Judge Wat son.
 We have" said Foreman Burgess.
 The prisoner had confidently expected hung jury" The court requested the audience nol to manifest its approval or dis lapproval whatever the verdict
 And what is your verdictY asked Judge Watson turning again to Foreman Burgess.
 Guilty answered Burgess, but his voice was swelled by the shout of eleven others. Unversed in law and the forms of a murder trail, the liurymen had not specified what degree of murder.
 Asked what degree, MT. Bur ! ness answered simply guilty as
 indicted"
 Under Virginia practice mur-
 der is presumed to be second degree unless otherwise speci-
 fled.
 It was encumbent upon the liury to fix the degree, so Judge Watson advised the jurymen
 to confer again on the point and
 seven minutes later they return
 ed, this time with the verdict oi
 murder in the first degree. The prisoner stood erect anC
 motiQnless. His face. in coloi la yellowish green throughout tho
 day was immobile.
 sie Tie light light Of lamp lamp east east ldreary shadow on his upturneC
 chin as he faced the jury. Hi
 eyelids sagged, but did no
 blink. In steady gaze he held hi eyes on the faces of the twelve
 men who had pronounced hi! punishment, as if to penetrat, Itheir minds and determine tn
 treason why. It was not re lsentful expression, however, ant lwhen the court asked if the pris loner had anything to say h. l answered, 'I have nothing tC 1say." and sat down.
 1 The perfunctory motions fo'
 a new trial were made by coun sel for the defense.
 I The unusual grantings of per mission even to argue the poin ,r,re donioI nr TrIn~e N Nafcoc
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25
MANS MEMORY IS RESTORED
With Restoration Power of Speech
Also Returns and Scattered
Family Reunited.

Denver, Colt is four years since
the motherless boys of Jeremiah War
wick were placed in an institution IN
this city. For time WARWICK visited
his sons, aged at that time eight and
five years, respectively, and then his
visits ceased. There was no provision
for the boys and no relatives could be
found The children we're finally
placed in a home for dependent chill
dren.
A few days ago jeremiah Warwick,
a mental wreck, whose memory was
entirely gone, was operated on at
hospital here and a tumor removed
from his brain. Memory and the pow
er of speech, which he had also lost,
came back to him gradually, and the
other day he inquired for his boys, re-
garding whom his mind had been
blank for more than three years.
A search of state institutions re-
suited in bringing father and sons to-
gether.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25

physical inconvenience. There is some
thing the matter with my throat. 1t
becomes peculiarly dry, with a parch-
ing dryness, when l am compelled to
talk long. l am going to Philadelphia
to consult a specialist in day or
two"
That he did, and the surgeons dis
covered that an excrescence had grown
upon the tongue. 1t was removed al
most Immediately. But IN a little while
the malignant growth reappeared, and
then it was that the senator knew he
was doomed He went to his home
and died soon after from the effects OF
this trouble, somewhat similar to the
disease which caused the death OF
General Grant He had, indeed,
spoken prophetically when he said
that he was apprehensive that the
speech in which he attacked Senator
Malone would be his last in the fed
eral senate.
copyright, 1910, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25
OUELLED A MUT1NY

handy a brace Of souvenirs for my
ktddies at home as anything that
could get in Calcutta. With the two
elephants, one under each arm, we
went into the street again and on our
way to the steamer.
I'VE noticed that every time we met
a little brown Cingalese on the street
he would PROSTATE before us, or along
side of us and salaam for all he was
worth We laughed bit about it, but
really thought little about the salaam-
ing, although it did seem a bit queer
all the way to the wharf. On the
wharf the whole blooming lot of ma
tives fell down as we passed through
on the way to the Parisiana.
'It was about a month or so later,
when we were going through the In
dian ocean toward the Red Sea that
some trouble broke out among the
Cingalese on board because one Of our
boys had accidentally jOstled a bit of
mutton that hung forward on deck for
the native mess. OF course we all
know that it is a serious thing for Eu-
ropean hands to touch the food Of the
Mohammedan and we knew that it
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25
Jenator Benjamin Harvey Hill Predict
ed That His Attack on Malone
Would Be His Last
Speech.

With the possible exception of Alex
tnder H. Stephens, vice-president of
The cOnfederacy, no other statesman of
The south who entered congress during
the reconstruction era so greatly in
Lerested both members of congress and
visitors to the capitol as did old Ben
lamin Harvey Hill of Georgia First
as representative and then as SEN
ator, he was especially conspicuous be-
cause he was the member of the state
convention Of Georgia in 1861 who
earnestly opposed the proposed seces-
sion of that state. After Georgia Sc
ceded, however, Mr.. Hill gave his
earnest support to the cause and be-
came member of the confederate SEN
ate, where he met George G. Vest of
Missouri, who served as a confederate
senator before he became a United
States senator from Missouri. Vete-
ran members of congress of the seven
lies and early eighties who remember
I'd John G. Calhoun thought they de-
tected a strong physical resemblance
between Senator Hill and Calhoun, at
least in the contour of the features,
the heavy over-hanging eyebrows and
the stifly brushed hair
Undoubtedly the greatest speech
that Senator Hill delivered during his
congressional carer, which began in
1875, and ended seven years later, was
that in which he vigorously attacked
Senator William Malone of Virginia
Tor his unexpected alliance with the
Republicans, a move that brought
about a tie, instead of the slight Dem
Ocratic majority which had been an
.icipated.
Senator Hill sat in the front row, on
The aisle, of the Democratic side. Sen
ator Malone had been allotted a seat
at the end Of the row upon the Repub-
lican side Therefore it was possible
for Senator Hill to face Senator Ma
hone without changing his seat or
even stepping from his desk to the
aisle, and through the delivery of his
castigation of the befrilled man
from the Old Dominion, the Georgian
took advantage Of this position to drive
home his sentences of damnatiOn of
Mahone's course in the senate.
Senator Hill began with a voice
that never seemed more powerful to
the packed galleries and the body of
Ehe senate. It was of vast volume, a
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25

would be hard to pacify the Cingalese
on board after their mutton had been
spoiled for them through contact with
the hands of unbelievers.
There was a great hullabaloo on
the forward deck Just as came out of
the forepeak, and the whole pack of
brown fellows set upon me as the
nearest and handiest man on which
TO wreak their vengeance. In times
like these native chaps are not re-
sponsible. practically running amuck.
and they swung bars and clubs right
and left / ducked back into the fore
peak, intending to get my belongings
and make a break for amidships,
where would have the protection of
the officers, who were armed.
When I came out again, carrying
my two elephants under my arms. the
Cingalese made for me again. Then,
as they saw the little white elephants
they suddenly dropped their bars and
clubs and every man Of them dropped
fiat on deck and salaamed as If their
lives depended on it. | was lucky
enough to remember the salaaming In
Calcutta and I flashed the elephants
which l had later found out had
caused the respect of the city natives
during our walk through Calcutta. The
native sailors squirmed around and
around on their stomachs to make
sure that they would face me and the
elephants as they salaamed and the
rebellion on board the Parisiana was
successfully put down without blood
shed"
The two little white elephants re-
NAMED in a conspicuous place in the
main saloon on the freighter in case
of further emergency, but their serv-
ices were not again required on the
voyage.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-01-25
FIND NEW USE FOR ALCOHOL
Prof. Hill of London Invents Appa-
ratus for Use In Treatment CT
Pneumonia Cases.

I.ondon-Prof Leonard Erskine
Hill of the London hospital has in
vented an apparatus for use in the
treatment of pneumonia which is ex'
pected to prove Of great service.
"For some time" says Prof. HILL
ut has been recognized that the best
way to supply alcoholic stimulant to
the laboring heart in pneumonia Is
by way of the lungs in the form OF
vapor. MY apparatus arranges for q
mixed vapor Of oxygen, water and al
cohol, to be carried directly to the
lungs, whence it reaches the heart
from the pulmonary veins. Thence
the stimulant is carried directly to the
heart muscle itself by the coronary
arteries"
Because there is not sufficient I'M
diseased lung tissue left to breathe
with, and because the heart thereby
fails, the judicious administration OF
heart stimuIants so as to tide this
organ over until the lung symptoms
subside is the chief point in the treat
ment
By using Prof. Hills apparatus the
heart can be reached by stimulant
much more accurately and quickly
than If the alcohol were given in the
ordinary way.
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Accounts Grant Didn't Audit

near l began to look for a compliment
on the manner in which l had attend
ed to his business and on the accurate
and complete story of his business af-
fairs that the accounts would tell to
him
"Of course, some time after ia
theirs return we we're too much &C.
cupied with greetings, with receiving
friends and congratulations, and with
listening to the various stories that
father had to tell Of his experiences, to
get down to the business that lay be-
tween him and me. But, finally, there
came day when l placed before
father my account books, vouchers and
other documents essential to perfect
accounting, and said to him:
Father, have tried to keep very
careful and accurate accounts of your
business affairs since you have been
away, and I think have done pretty
well. 1 have here a general statement
of receipts and disbursements, a de-
tailed statement, and complete set of
vouchers. am sure that you will find
the accounts all right, and would like
to have you look them over
well, my son, father asked, did
you receive enough money to pay all
my bills promptly
"'Oh. yes, the receipts were abund-
ant
"Wen, you have paid all the bills?'
Eyes, every one.
WAS there anything left over?'
eyes. quite little sum-
Then take your accounts away and
lock them up: I don't care to see them.
So long as all the bills were paid, and
so long as the balance remains in my
favor, what do 1 care about accounts?
That's all want to know
And do you know" concluded Mr..
Grant, 81 could never get father to look
at those accounts had kept so pains
takingly against the day of his return.
But I think he was not little proud
of the way in which was able to hand
a general report to him by word of
mouth.
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Rights ReserYed,(