Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-11-23

good standing OF the presbyterian
church. Later his wild life kept him
& way from the services. But his name
was never dropped from the roles and
now it is rewritten in them as full
m mber.
The elder Beattie said:
Later after it is all over | may
make a statement. But l cannot do SO
now. All I can do is to thank the
many friends who have been kind and
sympathetic in their de alings with me
in this time of my great sorrow"
To an intimate friend Mr.. Beattie is
said to have remarked:
"The whole city might talk to me for
a thousand years but they could not
make me believe that my boy is gull
ty."
It is said that the Borrowing father
made a last personal interview to Gov
ernor- Mann in the shape of letter
asking for only a weeks respite but
the governor replied that, while much
affected by it, he felt that his con-
science would not allow him to inter
vene.
The lawyers for the condemned
youth with all manners of funds al
their disposal planned today to MAXI
last desperate attempt to gain at
least a reprieve for Henry. They con-
templated going to the Supreme Court
of the United States, it is said, and
asking for a warrant restraining the
local authorities from electrocutins
tie prisoner on Friday.
They had a precedent, it was said
the case of negro named Johnson
- In Cir ttanooga, Tenn, who was dut
to be hanged in 1905. The Supreme
!, Court granted stay but the loca
sheriff allowed him to be hange(
anyhow. Thereafter the sheriff ant
), others spent some months in jail fo'
contempt of court. But according u
i reports, the eldest Beattie vetoed tn,
' proposition. He said it would onl
n bring another period of sorrow to hlr
It and would do no good in the end.
Governor Mann today received fifty
II two letters of Comment upon tf
If Beattie case, including five fro!
w cranks "confessing" that they and nj
- Henry killed the young wife. The le
eesss all go to the waste basket.
tn. twelve jurors who will witnes
the ga ktrocution were chosen toda'
$ Each REL lived card of invitation wit
: black y der around its edge EleU
: en- sre citia MS of Richmond City Will
t the twelfth n sheriff from anothe
Virginia county>
r Tomorrow afternoon towards even
Ing Henry Clay Beattie's father, sis
E ters, brothers and other relatives will
: say their last farewell TO him. The,
c will not be allowed to remain in tn
penitent.ary afternightfsll and he will
y be obliged to retire and sleep-if tina
t is possible-after 8 O'Clock at nigh
his last night on earth. From tina
v sleep he will be awakened to 60 to hi;
: death. -
A word-after a long silence
), reached Richmond today from Beu
: lah Binford, the pretty child Of tn
e streets, for love of whom Be- title com
: mitted the crime he Is about expiate
Beulah, who has been living in tn,
: Bronx, N. Y, since Beattie was con
, victed, wrote a letter to friend her,
;. saying:
II have changed my name and my
, address and l hope that no one viii
ever discover that the girl they NEE
) is the notorious Beuhsh Binford.
, have sent no word to Henry Beattit
, and have got none to give. l am 60
ing to church every Sunday and try.
ing to be good girl. but Il have beer
, praying for Henry and hope his sou
will be saved"