The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-29
JUDGE RULES
AGAINST 6EArTIe
promptly overrules Motion to sx.
o'ude the Dear Kid" Letter From
The Notwithstanding In the Road.
way.

Courthouse, Aug. %
Inc defense in the Beattie trial met
with two setbacks at the opening of
court here today Judge Walter A.
watson quickly overruled motion IN
exclude the Dear Kid" letter written
by Beattie to Beulah Binford and in.
troduced yesterday and followed this
by denying motion which questioned
the wording of the Indictment as IN
the wound being in the face" in.
stead of the skull or brain of the vic.
tim as shown by the autopsy.
Before any witnesses were called II
M. Smith, Jr,, for the defense, objected
to the introduction yesterday of Beat.
ties letter to Beulah Binford, identi.
fled by the prisoner at the coropers
inquest
Yesterday, May Stuart. an aged wo
man, told of Beattie's association with
Beulah Binford.
The Stuart woman swore to being
the proprietor of resort in Richmond
and testified that Beattie had appeared
there with the Binford girl four times
within the two months preceding the
murder and for the last time on July
"a, the night before the crime. Beulah
Binford, she said she had known for
several years.
Dear Kid" Letter.
After her testimony the common.
wealth introduced in evidence a letter
written by the defendant to the Bin. |
ford girl and identified as such at the
inquest. Penned on his fathers sta.
tionary Beattie wrote:
Dear Kid Pay this on the furnit
ure and make him give you an item.
lied account of what you must pay
each week. ' Well be good, with
oceans If love brimming with kisses.
Yours,
(Signed) HEN"
Beattie showed no emotion when
the letter was read.
Hill Carter for the defense, then con.
tended that the indictment against
Beattie refers to a wound in Louise
Beattie's face" rather than to the
skull or brain, and that all testimony
relating to wound other than in the
face should be excluded. The court did
not sustain the contention.
Encounter in The Roadway.
farrell, called to the stand, related
The prisoners story of the roadway
encounter and testified that Beattie
said his wife's assailant ran into the
woods Thomas Owen, Beattie's uncle
n-law, testified yesterday that the
defendant had told him that the man
ran up the road.
The prosecution offered a map of
he Midlothion turnpike. farrell was
asked to describe where the blood
spot was found.
about in the center of the road"
How far from the left hand run.
ling board of the carr"
About ~ or IS inches"
WAS it possible for human being
II the car"
I'VE object" cried the defense, and
he objection was sustained.
Counsel asked the witness If there
vas any blood on the gun found near
he scene of the crime.
YES"
Then, describing the blood in the
ar, the witness took the view of the
detectives who testified yesterday
hat blood could not have run through
he machine to the ground.
did you see the accused weep on
he night of the MURDER"
mo"
The court cautioned the witness to
Express no opinion as to Beattie's
,rief, but relate simply what he
aw.
No Blood on Gun.
Maj. James ID. Patton, of Richmond,
Who went to the scene on the day fol-
owing the murder, with bloodhounds,
estified that the dogs failed to take ,
ny scent of the alleged bearded high,
yayman. He told Of Beatties version
II the encounter, which differed but
lightly from the accounts previously
estified to. There was no blood on
he gun he said Beattie had told him
hat he was not sure whether the man
led down the road or through the
woods
w. S. Snyder of Richmond who took
second set of bloodhounds to the
Gene followed Maj Patton on the