The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-08
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| hour it might have thrown Il gun
twenty feet down the track. You ave
/ not going to sacrifice a human life on
such bubbles and uuirks as these?
am surprised that the able attorneys
for the Commonwealth should have
built a case on such sinking sand, Il
that the kind of testimony on which
YOU are Gravcly asked to take a life?
If they didn't know Paul Beattie's We
racity was gone they would not have
relied on such evidence
As Ia Hood ON Gun.
Another bubble: They say there was
blood on the gun. 1t was handled by
numerous people; the car was bloody.
Douglas Bcattie handled it and had
blood on his hands. Henry Bea;tie
caught that gun In struggle with Il
highwayman, and received II superficial
wound on the nose. What more natu
raj than that he put his hand 10 his
nose before he threw the gun into the
back of the motor car as he has de-
scrihed? Why do you gentlemen bring
such little. trivial things here il YOU
have got any case?
''Dirt in the hair: What is that for?
Are they going to advance the theory
in closing this case that this woman
was killed outside of the machine. on
the ground? VIII they attempt to take
an underhold like that in closing? Is
that theory a specimen of the outside
help OF this bunch of detectives?
Where is the undertaken who shrouded
this woman? If there was grit i'm her
hair and dirt or her clothes Scherer
and his gang worked up all that tes-
timony, and all they could get was that
one side OF her head looked dirty Are
they catching at straws? Couldn't
that dust have come from her bloody
head having lain on the floor of the
car? Henry had passed three big cars
going out-,wo OF these dancing boys
and the one of astelberG-and the
wonder is that they didn't get more dirt
than they did.
They say he went UP that road be-
fore that evening. Mr.. Sydnor, the dairy
man. says he saw an automobile. The
Sydnor identified the car don't
think so. Their theory is that he made
some preparations for the crime-dug
a grave, maybe. or had the gun there.
Beattie is that he left home after S
o'clock. AT the time Sydnor says he
saw car there this man had not left
hiz fathers house. Sydnor merely
says he was a man about that size
lie says he had on tan socks, and this
Fellow never owned any tan socks
Henry Bcattie's statement as to why
he did not get to Tom Owens home
earlier that night was made that
night: he says he had a bursted tire ana
had lost an hour.
Now they say that Henry was drunk
the night of the murder. OF all that
most of detectives and others who
watched him narrowly that night. onlv
one, DR.. Mercer. seems TO have noticed
II. 1t was wonderful somebody else
did not see him in that condition. DR..
Mercer says he staggered. 1t might
have been from excitement and rriaf
suppose in his excitement and grief
ne mad taken more whiskey than was
good Tor MIN. what then?
Cnnnot SHOW Motive.
nat was his motive for this
cruel, lnhuman crime? Is il soine TO
DE argued here that he was going TO
make way with his wife for the love
or Beulah Bnford? He wrote her n
letter tull of gush-oceans OF love
evidence in that letter that he did not
trust her. He wanted to see a bill TOR
mat furniture. He was afraid she
would take that ten dollars and blow
she didn't do 1t. Was any furniture
ever bought?
Douglas Beattie has been criticized
~ .nc attorney Tor the Commonwealth
,or saving that If he had known what
Uses were to be made of 1t against his
brother he would have DESTROYED evi.
uehCe on the blood stained motor car
Wen, he didn't destroy any evidence
~ gay me detectives everything be-
iore he dreamed that the detectives
would charge the crime against Hem
ry Beattie. When he found out thar
1hey were manufacturing evidence he
said he would have DESTROYED thnf
which was being falsely used had he
SHOWN how ii was TO he twisted and
/ turned to fit their theory of the case
/ ~ that be wrong make the most of II
( MS father said to his household. what
/ cNeT they want give 1t to them
ELIZA Moselcy. a colored woman the
court put on. heard the gun and the
SURF or an automobile In starting. Sh.
confirms Henry's statement thai the
\ squirt forward OF his car lust pre
ccdcd the gun shot. Scherer saws hc
shy three tracks going and coming
from stump. Henry Beattie was
mere Why were not his footsteps
measured? Why was no dcscrIptinn
OF those tracks given? no measure
ments taken? What sort OF shoes were
they made by? Tracks were found
AZ the scene of the murder. sunnossS
10 be those OF the murderer. vet stu
Hiously. carefully and strangely there
mas not been one word about bov,
those tracks look ed
Tracks Didn't Fit Theory
isn't II clear that those tracks ala
not ut their theory? When ease Is
neen. II any one fact is found to he
inconsistent with the guilt OF the ac
cused. that OF itself is enough 10 on
htlc verdict OF acnuittal Thnv
; were the tracks OK some ono else
perhaps of the man that did the kill