The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-01

Douglas told of smearing his cloth. eS with blood in driving the blood soaked automobile the night of the crime. He described the bloodstains car from the time Henry brought home his wife's body until six o'clock the next afternoon. The roads were dry and dusty, he said. At this point Smith interrupted to ask permission to have experts exa- mine the automobile. The defense evidently expected to make a great effort to show that the bloodstains n the Mlddlothean turnpike might have leaked through the car. w F. Gordon and Carroll Mon- tague were given permission to look over the car in the presence of an officer.
 Rising in his place, Smith declared that hes had just received a message conveying information of great inn portance. '1 will have to go to the telephone" he said. We may have to call another witness"
 A move of surprise and expectancy swept the courtroom as Smith work ed his way out to a phone. A tenn porary lull in the proceedings follow ed.
 While Smith was at the telephone Henry Clay Beattie. Jr., visibly af- fected, talked in excited whispers
 
 man by the arm and read the mes sage to him eyes ablaze with excite ment- Hill Carter declared that he could make public no intimation of the new discovery at this time.
 Tt is of, intense importance" he declared, .tand we are doing our best to verify 1t. But to even intimate it's purpose now might hurt our case
 For half an hour Harry M. Smith, Jr., and Hill Carter kept the tele- phone busy or held excited confer ences on the lawn of the courthouse. No inkling of the expected sensation was permitted to escape. | Meantime, the courtroom sat tense with expectancy. the prisoner and his father conferring in whispers, the jury hdgeting .nervously in the box, Judge Watson leaning back in his chair, and Douglas Beattie wriggled as he sat in the witness chair. After nearly three quarters of an hour of bustling about, Smith returned to the courthouse. A hush fell over the crowd as he took his place but he postponed the expected sensation.
 s'I haven't been able to complete my investigation,' he said. T was unable to obtain any satisfaction over the telephone so I have sent a tele- gram.'
 The direct examination of Douglas Beattie was then resumed and the tense strain in the courtroom slack ened a trifle. Douglas told of var ious trips to the scene in the Beattie automobile after the tragedy.
 While Douglas was under cross ex- animation, Smith was again called from the courtroom. When he returned his client threw his arm across the lawyers shoulders and they conferred closely for several minutes. The court waited expectantly but Smith said nothing.
 After lengthy cross examination, Prosecutor WendenbuCg involved Douglas Beattie in an argument that utterly ruined his testimony with the jury.
 If had known that this case was to take the turn it has I would have eliminated all the blood spots and would not have carried the detectives out to the scene of the crime" Doug las finally declared with heat
 What Would you have destroyed the evidence?" Demanded Wenden- burgi, "Yes, if it was to be used against my brother
 Why would you do that?"
 For fully two minutes the witness stared at the jury not answering Finally, Judge Watson ordered him to reply and he said
 ''I would have done it because I be- lieved that those men and that ma- chine have been used against my brother"
 He argued this point with Wenden- burg at length Then he admitted he had carried a message from his County jail.
 II told her that he merely sent her word Not to forget him., " said Doug las