The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-06

be established.
 The commonwealth introduced sev- |eral witnesses, including members or Paul Beatties family, to prove that the two cousins, Henry and Paul. were together on Thursday night, as well as on Saturday night, preceding the murder wnich contention was de- nieG by the prisoner on the stand.
 It was Thursday night Baul de- clared. that his cousin first asked him to buy a shotgun.
 Not only were witnesses brought to the stand who testified that Paul was caEed on the telephone by his cousin that night and requested to meet him at a certain street corner, but witnesses who said they saw the pair on that corner as we'll as in bar room later, corroboraPd the story of Paul Beattie as to his move ,ments on the Thursday night in ques- Ition. 3 .,i
 Witnesses were also introduced with the purpose of discrediting the testimony of E. H.. Neblitt, who de- clared heI saw Paul with shotgun on the bridge where Neblitt worked a day after Paul Beattie's story al- leges PaE transferred the fatal gun to Henry.
 Two men said they wera on the bridge while Neblitt was there and they declared Paul had no shotgun. The commonwealth attempted to cast some doubt too, on the evidence of Charles H. Kestleberg, who said it was he who was motoring on Midlo- thian Turnpike on the night of the murder and who stopped his machine while a woman stood on the running board. Roland Lassiter. one of the group of boys who saw the car with woman on the running board and a man crouched before the hood, de- cared he knew Kestleberg as well as the makel of his car and that neith- CT the man nor the car was the same. JA~
 Though various phases of the case were entered into, the prosecution in effect really concentrated its at- tention on corroborating the story of Paul Beattie. not only as to the purchase of the gun, but as to his presence on the yeranda of the .pris- loner's home on the night following tnel murder when Paul claims Henry confessed to him that he committed the crime.
 Witnesses were ~iought forward to controvert the story of the accus- ed the stand yesterday that while Paul was on the veranda that night they were not alone and that too d great many people were present for any private conversations. The principal witness in refuting this was Henry B. Owen, a brother of the dead woman, who testified that Pau and Henry not only were alone in one portion of the veraada, but that he later observed them alone within the house.
 Auto Experts Testify
 c. II. Oliver, Who said he was fam- liliar with the construction of automo- lbiles contradicted testimony of auto mobile experts that the Beattie car lby it's construction was imperyious to the dripping of blood through il to the ground except in two places where blood was not visible.
 R. B. Abort, an automobile ex bert who examined the Beattie car corroborated Oliyer's statement. Al pert also declared the steering gear of the Beattie car was such that I could not be driven with one hanC at forty or fifty miles an hour a. the accused yesterday testified.
 Mrs. Paul Beattie then took th' stand. h.
 Do you remember Paul being car rled home in an automobile at anl time during the week preceding th' murder?v
 "Yes. about 9:so on Thursday night.7
 Who was with him?"
 "As near as I can tell, younl man" gf,f
 Do you know who he was?"
 "No."
 Where was he when you saw himy'
 "EIe got out of the machine ant fixed the front lights.l It looked like Henry Beattie to me.
 "Did you know Hsnry Beattie be fore?"
 Where were yours
 "1n the front window of my room.
 "How long had Paul been out tna night?" About 20 or 25 minutes" "TeR about it."