Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-09-04

'BEATT|E TAKES STAND AND'GWEs
JURY HIS ACCOUN [0F MURDER.
Were you introduced to herr"

I Were you introduced to herr"
No." and the prisoner related that
Beulah Biuford and Henrietta Pitmau
had held up his auto in the street and
asked him 70 take them for ride.
Henrietta Pitman was there but
she didn't 60 for ride with u.s.
What is Beulah Bnford's general
reputation that time?"
"She was a girl running about the
town with anybody that had the price. "
How long did your relations with
Beulah Binford continued"
Until the fall of 1905"
Beattie said that at that time Beulah
had gone;.to Washington This vas a
short trip before Beulah's child was
born. Beattie related that the Bin
fords had demanded money from him
following the birth of the child. He
declined to pay and was finally forced
to pay because they hired lawyer.
A ter that l was the laughing stock
of the town."
All the boys guyed me for being SO
easy, ISlDdI hSO OSdIliC Will q SlltiC.
Did you think that you were the
father OF that child?"
No. Beulah Binford swore at the
inquest I was not the father of the
child"
Beatte sat calmly as he told the
story OF his seventeen-year-old sweet
heart sacrificing her reputation, her
character in bis effort to clear himself.
Smith tried to interrupt his examination
to call c. II. Kastelburg, but Wenden-
burg refused to allow it.
Il don't want anything to interrupt
this examination, said the prosecutor.
when did you break off relations
with Beulah Biuford?"
In 1905"
When were you married."
In 1910"
How did you regard Beulah Bin
ford when you we're running with herr"
Simply as woman cf town.
Did you love herr"
A gbasty smile played over Beattie's
features; he wrung the damp handker-
chief he held in his hands and said:
II cared nothing for her except to
satisfy my passion.
Beattie declared that be had loved
his wife for year prior TO the
marriage.
Il never said a cross word her or she
to me. No one can contradict that. |
never knew any reason for her being
unhappy in any way. ! told her all
about my relations with Beulah Bin.
ford and the fact that child had been
blamed on me-
did she know of the resumption OF
your relations at Norfolk. "
No"
/ Beattie described the trip to Norfolk,
the two nights he spent there with
Beulah Binford, he declared that he
had then bade her goodbye forever.
She had told him he said that she
was going to Danville to enter a life
of shame.
Il tried to save her from that Beat
tie explained. I did not know she was
coming to Richmond and after she
came here + tried TO dissuade her from
going on to Danville.
She wasn't the first girl tried to
help" remarked the witness.
In detail Reattie told OF his ride home
with the body OF his wife. He declared
he was going fifty miles an hour and
that the car jumped 2 feet as he crossed
the Belt line railroad tracks. He told
OF stopping once to Fight his lights and
OF the tragic arrival at the Beattie
home,
Beattie categorically denied the con,
fession that Paul says Henry made the
Thursday after the killing. He ad-
mitted talking with Paul on the veranda
of his home but denied every word OF
the conversation related by Paul.
Beattie denied what the prosecution
claimed was one OF the motives of the
murder, that his wife had suffered a
physical ailment as result of bis
liason with the Binford girl. He said
he told her be had inflammation of the
bladder.