The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-30
SURPRISE IN
 BEATTIE CASE
WITNESS UPSETs BOTH DEFENSE AND PROSECUTION WITH
 NEW TESTIMONY.
Declares He Saw Several Blood Spots at Different Points Near Scene of Mrs. Beattie's
 Murder.

Chesterfield Courthouse, Va, Aug. go An auburn haired boy, taking swiftly but clearly, revealed on the witnclss stand today to the surprise of both defense and prosecution in the trial of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., for wife murder that he had observed sev eral blood spots along Midlothian Turnpike where the crime occurred. Hitner.o it had been presumed no blood spot existed except one near the place where Mrs. Benttie is suppos- ed to have succumbed.
 Alexander Robertson was the boy and what he told the jury unexpected ly in response to question from the counsel for oha defense entirely upset the plan of the commonwealth to rest gts case today. Prosecutor Wend- burg anpounced Shat it would be necessary for him now to call at least seven or eight witnesses to con sroyert the boys testimony.
 On direct examination by Prosecu- tor Wendberg when the later was seeking to show where the boy found certain yellow hair pin similar to that worn by Mrs. Beattie, Robertson rsferred to it's distance from 'rhe first blood spot"
 Were there two blood spots?" asked Harry M. Smith Jr., counsel for the defense. in apparent surprise. and the boy not only told of d sec ond blood spot but of several other smaller spo,s near it.
 The revelation concerning the pres ence of more than one blood spot is in line with the contention of tae de fense that all blood on the road oozed where Beattle alleges. wheFe his wiEe was shot.
 The prosecution's theory has been That the large blood spot in the road at Inc place where Mrs. Beattie is al lesed to have been killed resulted from murder committed outside the machine and not in tho seat as Hen ry alleges.
 The prosecr.ion has pointed out by witnesses and statements Chat no blood was found on either running board of the ear and that the dust pan underneath the car would have caught any blood that trckled through fhe front part of the machine from the seat and that all the blood visible had hardened on the floor of the ear just beneath the steering wheel.
 Robertson was summoned as witness by the prosecution only 10 state shat he found a hair pin but i,,,, tsst!;neay as a result of the questions of the counsel for the de Sense and hd subsequently will De called by the defense if necessary. In the meantime the prosecution will gather oyernislA witnesses to show that many people looked for other blood spots and found none.
 The prosecution announced just be- fore adjournment of court today that after tae introduction of several wit nesses along this line tomorrow II would rest it's case.
 The Robertson boy brotheS ot reporter on one Of the Richmond newspapers, has been employed about the courtroom in carrying his broth CTS manucript from the courthouse 10 a telegraph office nearby and as he finished in the witness chair ne seized several sheets of matter ~rl'- ten by his brother about his own ana dashed to thei Impoverished telegraph office in a barn about 75 yards away
 Henry c. Beattie, Jr., inc accusea' and Paul D. Beattle, his cousin "no told yesterday on the witness stahu of an alleged confession by Hehrs eoncerning the murder, we're cohiihed in separate cells in Chesterfield couh ty jail tonight. Paul had been heP' in confinement in Richmond in delaui' of bond but today after he finished on the witness stand Judgel Watson s"u denly orered his retention in lail nere.
 Paul Beatties story yesterday was not shaken in the cross examination Of he counsel for the def'inse' put y became apparent today that the oe sense intends to refute his testlnl'us