Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-05
BEATT|E COMPLETES HIS TESTIMONY;
CASE WILL co To JURY ON FRIDAY.

Mrs. Houchens said that Paul tnen
went out.
When he returned" she contln-
ued, '.he called up a Mrs. Fisher
(Beulah Binford)."
Mrs. Houchens declared that she
saw Paul come home that night IN
an automobile and said as ne left
the car:
"Geod night, Henry"
what time did Paul come home
that next Saturday night?'' asked
Wendenburg.
Just at IL o'clock. | heard a
clock strike.
Under cross examination Smith
endeayored to show that the family
of Paul has been acting throughout
the case from a desire to protect
Paul. He and Wendenburg argued
| over this point and the defense bat
tered at the thin little woman on the
stand in an effort TO upset her
Smiths cross-eXamination failed
| to shake Mrs. Houchens testimony.
John Josephs, Syrian, who keeps
fruit stand and confectionery store
at Short and Main streets then took
the stand. He said Paul was in
| his store on the Thursday night be-
fore the killing.
He came in the store and after
he had been there seven or eight min
utes a car came up and Paul got in
and the machine drove away"
Josephs declared that Beattie looked
like the man who drove the car.
An attempt to cross-examiGe JOS
ephs, who talked very broken Eng
lish, ended in a ludicrous mixture
of Syrian expletires and bad English,
and Smith gave it up.
| Frank Mason, who was in Josephs'
place that night, corroborated his
story.
John NlcEnvoy said that on either
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday
night before the killing he saw Hen
ry and Paul, both of whom he knew,
in his uncles saloon. Yesterday
Beattie fatty denied this. Smith
failed to shake McEnvoy's testimony.
| John Brighton corroborated Nc
Envoy's story. Beattie, relieved af-
| ter his long ordeal on the stand, sat
watching every witness called to
prove his testimony false. The mus
cular pulse in his cheeks beat heav-
ily as witness after witness swore
that he had not told the truth on
the stand. He leaned heavily on
the desk before him and fixed his
eyes on the witness.
Wendenburg discovered that he
had two witnesses present, and he
asked for a brief adjournment. This
was allowed.
| Mrs. F. B. Nolan, a neighbor
of Paul Beatties, was then called.
She said that she saw Paul arrive
home on the Thursday evening prior
to the killing. She didn't know the
man who drove the car.
At the conclusion of Mrs. Nolan's
testimony court was adjourned for
the noon recess.
After a short recess Smith was
allowed to reopen the case for the
defense TO put on John d. Blair, Jr.,
who was with the boy riders on the
Midlothian turnpike the night Of the
killing Blair was not on hand when
the defense closed.
Blair declared that he was con-
yinced that the car he saw standing
by the roadside was a Knox car and
she thought the number was Dill
| This would identify the car as
Kastleburg's and support the con-
tention Of the defense that the boys
9saw Kastleburg's car, not Beattie's
Then the State resumed its re-
buttal and called James Rafter, night
watchman on the bridge where Paul
Beattie was employed as day
watchman, who took the stand. He
declared that he never saw gun in
the cement house where Ernest Neb-
lit said Paul had shot gun on the
lSunday after the murder.
| a. B. Houchens, father OF Paul's
Hwife, who is also night watchman
ldeclared he met Paul as he went tc
work Sunday morning and that he
Ihad no gun.
1 A. H. Crowder also contradicted
aNeblitt's story.
j George J. Talley testified to the
I same effect.
1 During the noon recess special
fprosecutor Wendenburg predicted
that the case will go to the jury
lsome time Friday or Saturday.
| I'VE expect to close our rebutta
this afternoon, he said, "and it i;
lpossble the defense will be able tc
finish their case in rebuttal today
1--we will consume at least one day in
largument on the judges charge and
after that the closing arguments in
the case will take a day or two
"Will you call Beulah Binford?'
he was asked
Not unless / find that our case