New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-26


fered only slightly from accounts previously
testified to- There was no blood on the
gun, he said Beattie had told him that he
was not sure whether the man fed along
the road or through the woods
n. w. Sydnor. Of Richmond who took a
second set Of bloodhounds TO the scene, fol-
lowed Major Patton on the stand.
Ibid YOU find any footprints in the ditch
elong the road?'
Yves, sir: there were three. pretty close
and 10 the west side Of a stump
"Dld YOU talk with the accuscd?'
The witness said he did. lie related
Beattes account Of how his wife was
killed, saving that Beattie had told him
that the assailsnt had fed from the right.
other witnesses had testified that Besttie
had said the man stood on tho left.
Ibid you examine Beatties shoulder 10
see IL there was any brlise that might be
made by the kick Of n gum
Yes, sir. did, and found no marks, -
said Sydnor.
Nearess Found the Gun.
Mandy Alexander, an old negress. was
then called to testify as TO the finding of
the gun
She related how she had met T. p. Petit
grew, white farmer. and had told him
OF her find.
Jerry Reynolds. gray haired negro,
was next called. lie had picked up the
gun after Mandy had gone, but soon met
Pettigrew and turned IL over 10 him. The
negro held the gun in his hand as he sat
in the witness chair and identified it.
T. p. Pettigrew, an elderly, gray bearded
man. told how Jerry Reynolds had handed
him the gun lie then identified the gun,
which he said had been picked up about
four Yards from where the road crosses
the railroad track. He recalled under
cross animal ton having seen an automo-
bile track on the edge of the ROADWAY.
Before any witnesses were called at the
opening Of to-day's session H. NJ. Smith
ir.. for the defence, objected TO the intro
duction Yesterday of Beattie's Dear Kid
letter TO Beulah Binford. identified by the
prisoner at the coroner's inquest AS
Reattie was not then under arrest the de-
fence cited ruling barring the use at
trial of testimony not in the defendant s
own behalf and given by him while a Wit
ness previously.
Notwithstanding Mr. Smiths argument
the court ruled that the letter should not
be excluded
Hill Carter. for the defence, then took
up the point that the indictment against
Beattie refers to wound in Louise
Beattie's face" rather than TO the skull
or brain. and that all testimony relating
TO a wound other than in tho face should
be excluded But the court held that in
asmuch as the indictment specified pene-
tration of the face there was no ground
for sustaining the defences contention.
The crowd was even larger to-day than
Yesterday, and hundreds gathered about
the courthouse yard 10 catch glimpse OF
Paul Beattie cousin OF the prisoner, who
stated at the coroner's inquest he had
bought the gun with which the shooting
was done and had delivered it 10 Henry
Clay Beattle. jr., with some cartridges
day or two prior to the murder.
The prisoner was dressed in a black suit
| to-day, having discarded the gray one he
! has worn heretofor lie was calm and
! smiled frequently as witnesses testified
| against him. His aged father was in the
courtroom and sat at his elbow throughout
| the session.
II became known here to-day that
| Beattie, ir.' lawyers had received letter
| from j. s Minor. contractor, OF Louis
Vile. who says that two men, whom he
! can perhaps produce, told him that they
| were walking along the Midlothian turn
! pike on the night of July Is. when they saw
| a man with gun accost an automobile.