The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-07-27
BEAUTIES COUSIN
BOUGHT FATAL GUN.

BOUGHT FATAL GUN.
RICHMOND, VA.,-SPECIAL.
Mrs. Paul Beattie, of 2O1 Ran
dolph Street, Immediately after
the arrest of her husband in con-
nection with the murder of Mrs.
II. G. Beattie on Tuesday night
made the following statement:
MIR. II. q. Beattie, Jr., and Paul
Beattie are cousins. She said that
her husband had been approached
by II. G. Beattie and asked to pro-
cure for him an old gun.
That request was made the lat
ter part of the past week. Why
the gun was wanted by Harry
Beattie, Mrs. Paul Beattie could
not state. The gun was bought
Friday or Saturday at the pawn
shop of Samuel Stern.
The price paid for the gun, &C
cording to Mrs. Paul Beattie, was
$3.50.
She also said that H. G. Beattie
and her husband went to the
pawnshop together, and that her
husband did not fetch the gun
back to his home after the pur-
chase was made. Her impression
was that H. G. Beattie carried the
gun away with him from the
pawnshop.
Mrs. Paul Beattie said that she
believed from the statement of
her husband that the murder had
been carefully planned, and that
the Blnford woman was radically
concerned in the case.
She said that the detectives told
her that Henry Beattie, Jr., did
not go into the pawn shop with
his cousin.
She said it is her opinion that
her husband was used by Henry
Beattie, Jr., as a tool.
When called at her home by
The Journal by telephone, she had
not yet been appraised of her hus-
band s arrest.
She denied that her husband
had anything to do with the af-
fair except to purchase the gun
for his cousin without the knOwl-
edge that it was to be used for
murder.
She said she did not see the gun
knd it is her opinion that it was
taken home by Henry Beattie,
Jr, directly from the pawn
shop.
She said that on the night after
the murder her husband and her
self had visited Henry Beattie,
Jr., and her husband had told her
afterwards that his cousin still
calmly told the same story which
he at first gave out.
She said his exact words were,
Henry still sticks out that it was
not himself who committed the
murder, but that it was a man in
the road" from which she drew
the inference that her husband
had confronted him with the fact
of the purchase of the shotgun
with which the murder was done,
and that he had denied that it !
was the same gun.
A reporter at Coroner Loving's |
house interviewed Sam Stern, the |
pawnbroker.
Stern said that he had not sold |
the gun, but that Sam Weinstein, |
who conducts a pawnshop next |
door, sold it. Weinstein, said
Stern, is out of the city.
If the statement of Mrs. Paul |
Beattie should prove to be cor
rect, it would appear to settle the
question of guilt in this sad case.
Unless her testimony, voluntarily.
freely, frankly and fully recited
can be broken down the outlook
for the success of the defense for
those accused or under suspicion
would appear to be a negligible
quantity. Without a doubt the
statement of Mrs. Beattie is the
most conclusive and final that has
yet been made.
Soon after being placed under
arrest charged with completely in
the murder of Mrs. Harry G. Beat
tie, Jr., Paul Beattie, a cousin of
the accused man, became violently
insane.
So violent, indeed, were his &C
tions and so abnormal his con-
duct and demeanor, that the in
slant conclusion was reached by
those who witnessed the spectacle,
that he was. for the time being, at
least, bereft of his senses.
1t was thought advisable to
place him under restraint to pre-
vent any injury to himself.
AND HIS