Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-09-08
Fire Marshal is Busy
NEW WITNESS TO THE CRIME
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could not hear, and then heard him
Say:I TIL show you I'm going to- end
it, He got out of the machine and walked
across to the oppositeS'oR the road from
wherA was. and then, after he had been
there a minute. he came back with some
thing in his hands l could not see what IT
was in the dark. The woman was stand
ing in the machine in front of the left
hand seat in the front part OF the auto
mobile when the man came back.
Heard the Woman Scream.
Just when the man came back 1 heard
the woman scream once. Then the man
who was standing in the groad, swung
what he had in his hand and hit the
woman on the right side Of the face. She
fell from the machine to the road and did
lot make sound.
For a minute the man stood looking at
her and then heard him say: Damn you
you're not dead yet I'll fix you Then he
up with a gun, which was what he had hit
the woman with and he shot her where she
lay in the road by the front seat of the
automobile. I did not see where he shot
her. I saw him throw the gun somewhere
and he began to lift the body to the from,
seat of the automobile, and 1 came out
from the trees.
The man turned around and saw me and
said to me: Did you see this?'
II told him yes had seen II. 'D-n you
what the HI are you going TO do about
~? he said l didn't say anything. Then
he began to threaten me. He said he was
rich and had lots Of friends in Richmond
and II told on him he would have me
killed somehow He said nobody would
believe my story IL | appeared in court
out He said he would give me some money
and suit OF clothes IL would go away.
II told the man l would go away Then
he told me to come to Beattie's store the
next day and there would be some money
for me. / went and he got some money
and bought a suit Of clothes. / stayed In
South Richmond for two days then. but
/ was so scared and got 30 nervous after
that two days that l took the train to
this place"
Court convened at 1880 O'Clock Judge
Watson declared that counsel In the argu-
ment today might refer to portions Of testi-
mony not fit for women to hear" and
requested all women in the court room to
leave.
Judge Watson then read the instructions
% the jury. The prisoner listened. intently
% the reading OF the instructions and
Y smiled when they had been concluded. J,
: NJ. Gregory began the argument for the
4 prosecution at 1875 O'Clock.
The record in the case shows" he said.
'on a dark night, July Is. the soil of this
county was stained by some high assassin
with the blood of an innocent woman. l
believe / can show that no other man
! committed the crime but the husband OF
! that woman, with the very gun, you, gen
| tlemen Of the jury. have examined here.
He was the only man seen on the spot
| that night and he was armed with the
same gun he has here identified"
Attorney Gregory after referring to the
crime as ''hellsh" reviewed the evidences
OF the boys who came from a dance at Dor
Air the night OF the murder, arguing thai
1t was the prisoner they saw and none
other. crouching In front of the machins
and a woman on the running board.
RICHMOND, Va. Sept. 7.-Beulah Bin.
ford and Paul Beattis. detained as wit
nesses for the commonwealth in the Henry
Clay Bsattie, jr., murder case we're re
leased from the Hsnrioo county Sail today
by order Of Judge Walter A. Watson OF tn,
Chesterfield circuit court