The evening world., 1911-11-27
bEATT|E BURIED
BESIDE G|RL-W|FE
whom He KILLED
Flowers Strewn on Both
Graves and Guard Watches
Against Vandals.
r ONES r r
Funeral at $50 A. M. and Po-
lice Shut Out Curious
Ones at Cemetery.
MORBlD ONES BARRED.

RICHMOND. Nov. N.-At the very
same hour in the morning, 7:23, that
Beattie IA electrocuted last Friday,
his body was lowered into It's grave
yesterday. The funeral was held an
hour before In his home. The Beat
tie family had carefully guarded the
secret Of the hour OF the funeral,
and BY the earliness succeeded In COM
Iietely eluding the crowd of the NOR
bid that otherwise would have swarmed
about the house and crowded at the
cemetery gates.
A. II was. there was only a hand
full Of spectators in the neighborhood
OF The house when the hearse and Jour
carriages departed from the big WIDE
portcoed Beattie home, and save for
. small group Of reporters there was
none at the cemetery to watch the
little. sad cortege enter.
One Of the carriages was filled with
flowers. sent as much in respect to
The old father as in sympathy with
the young murderer. only flowers
that bore cards of intimate friends of
the Beattis family were accepted at
the home. Several pieces sept by
inaudlin women were rejected and
turned back to the florists.
six soYHooD FRIENDS ACT AS
PALL5EARERS.
. The services In the home were pom
Quoted by the Rev. J. ]. Fix. the family
pastor.
The Rev. Benjamin Dennis. to whom
Beattie first confessed, was also present.
Besides the clergymen. only eleven per.
. . were grouped before the black sill
vss-moun,ed casket in the Beattie home
-hAs white-haired father. feeble and
utterly broken: Douglas Beattie. his
brother. Miss Hazel. his sister, and the
dead youths two aunts. Six young men
stood against the wall. They were pail
bearers. They had been friends Of young
attie in childhood and boyhood. and
- had volunteered to perform this
II office for him in remembrance OF
10 early days.
Tho six ~pallbearers were named by
isattie himself. and through his brother
douglas he sent to them the request
hat they act.
The service was very brief. There
| Sas the low music OF a hymn on a
' parlor organ. q spoken prayer by the
Rev. J. J.. Fix and hen a silent prayer
by an, while the organ again sounded
soft1y the strains of sacred music.
BURIED BESIDE HIS WIFE HE
MURDERED.
HIS boyhood friends bore the casket
10 the waiting hearse n through the
empty streets OF the sleeping city the
little procession moved swiftly out into
the suburban roads and to the ceme-
terry. Two policemen guarded the gates
and barred the way OF n VINO might
have followed to the scene Of burial.
brief prayer was spoken n Beat
tie was laid In a grave beside that OF
the girl wife whom he murdered. Tit
flowers were put on both graves.
II Is understood that tho Beattio
family will keep a guard at the
cemetery at night In feak that vandal
might commit some act OF desec IT ;ior
ut the young slayer's grave.
Toward afternoon when the publ
learned that Beattie a already beei
buried they nocked by the thousands Il
the cemetery. The two policemen oil
duty sent a call for aid. Half a dozel
mounted police and as many more OF
foot were hurried to the Maury Gene
terry. They roped off the entrance 4
the cemetery with a double strand o
ropes and would permit none to enter