The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05
MRS. bEATT|E SAW
HER MURDERER
She Looked Her Husband Full
in the Face a Moment Be-
fore He Fired Fatal Shot
ELABORATE CONFESSION
WAS LEFT BY BEATTlE

.@ Vim III
The Cynical Statue of Iron Wrote With
His Own Hand a Detailed Account
of the Crime in All Its AwfuIness. IL
Is Claimed-ln il the Wife-Assassin
Relates How He Had Contemplated
the Act For Two Weeks Before the
Trasedy-One OF Pall-Bcarers Say.
He Saw the Confession.
Richmond, Va, Dec. Eft is no
longer uncertain hat before expiating
his terrible CRIME in the electric chair
at the State Prison, Henry Clay Beat
tie, Jr., left behind him something
more in detail OF the killing of his
Wife than the mere confession given
tc the world py his SPIRITUAL advisers.
Today the existence IF a second and
more circumstantial confession of his
crime, made by Henry Beattie and
turned over TO the Kew. Benjamin
Dennis, IS widely spoken of. says tao
Sucn a confession is
said to have been actually seen by one
OF the pail bearers at the Bcattle
funeral.
In this confession Beattie is said to
have gone at length into a history of
the contemplation ana comnliSslon OF
the killing, telling now he had con-
tempiateu the Tragedy two weeks be-
fore the commission Of the homicide
and setting forth the in winch
the fatal not was Tired.
Two weeks before the hlOOdV mid
night act was committed, Beattie mad
definitely and finally determined to do
away with his wife, according to toe
confession. With this intention he in
Guced PAUL Beattlc to OBTAIN the gun.
which weapon he placed by the side OF
Midlothian turnpike within easy dis
tance of the highway. Fol a week De
fore the killing Beattie noticed what
he took to be a great change in the
disposition Of his wife, VINO appeared
n.ole placid and less irritable. So
much was this the case that on the
very night of the killing, Beattie was
almost dissuaded from a commission
Ct the crime by the apparent happi-
ness exhibited by the doomed woman
the confession relates.
Beattie Puts Out Lights.
When the final. fatal auto ride was
begun and that part of the turnpike
reached at which the crime was to be
committed, Beatiie saw that the lamps
to his machine We're e~xtinguished and
brought the a to a stop, the confess
sion goes on. Leaving the machine
the young husband advanced into the
underbrush by the side Of the road to
the stump where the single-barrelled
CUR was Secreted.
On returning to the car he saw Mrs.
Reattie about to alight. She had one
foot in the automobile and another
On the running board. Her back was
to him. AS he advanced upon
her she turned her head and looked
full at him.
It was at this moment that he fired,
to the confession. Her
body turned and fell upon it's back in
the roadway, the head striking with
violence. Beattie denied that he
his wife with the gun before
firing at her.
Explains Grit in lair.
He attributes the conclusion at the
base of the skull to the fall Of the
from the car. 1t was in this
manner that grit and small particles
Of dirt attached themselves to the
hair. Beattie's confession denied that
he sat upon any portion OF the body
while returning with his dead wife
through the night TO the home OF Tom
in his auto car.
Beattie also states in his confession
that the newspaper accounts Of the
tragedy, while essentially accurate In
the more Important facts. did him a
great injustice with regard to details
is said to have stated hat to some
extent his marriage with Miss Owen
was forced unon him. although he
Ices not use this circumstance as any
c~tan,,oti0n of or aycfGe for his Hrtma