The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-08-26
EXPECT CLIMAX
IN TRIAL TODAY
Paul Beattie TO Take Stand
Against Cousin.
HAS BEEN UNDER GUARD

How Much He Knows Concerning
Murder Of Young Married Woman
on Midlothian Pike Remains to Be
Heard--Judge overrules Objection
to lnaictmcnt--Testim SO Far
Is Damaging to Scion Of Old Vir.
1Inia Family on Trial For Life.
Chesterfeld c. H., Va, Aug. &C.
The climax of the commonwealth
case against Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.,
standing trial here for wife murder
will come today when Paul Beattie,
his cousin, viii take the stand. The
testimony Of two days has been lead.
ing up to and preparing for this step.
That already given was in many par.
ticulars sharply damaging against
the younS prisoner and remained nm.
shaken under fire of cross.cxamlna.
ton. M EOS
The attorneys for the ,prosecution
will attempt to show through Paul
Beattie's Testimony. that the gun
which was found on the Midlothian
turnpike the day after Mrs. Beattie
was murdered and which has hther-
to remained unidentified before the
court as TO ownership. was the samo
gun that Paul Bcattie bought at a
pawnshop at the instance Of Henry
Beattie and turned over 10 him.
How much else Paul Beattie may
tell closely duplicating his cousin
with the commission of the homicide
is a matter of conjecture. for Paul
Beattie has been kept closely guard.
ed bv the prosecution. and the extent
of tho completely which he had in
the crime, either unwittlngly nr 9TH
erwise, mas not been allowed to be.
come public, .t......
Testimony Is Damaging.
Most serious Of the testimony
against Beattie that has been given
was that of one witness who swore
that at five minutes before II o'clock
on the night of July he heard a
womRn's sirill scream at spot on
the Midlothian turnpike. about 800
yards from his house. and that tho
scream was followed almost instantly
by the report of a gun. Anottcr wit.
ness testified TO having seen man
much resembling Reattie standing by
an automobile about 20 or 30 feet
from the spot afterward marked by
"A pool Of blood this was a few min.
utes after sundown, on the same
evening as that OF the homicide. The
statement was in line with the effort
of the prosecution to show that Beat.
tic had gene to the place where the
murder was committed before he had
taken his wife out for a ridH in the
automobile and had secre'ed tho
shotgun with which the Staying was
done behind stump n few feet off
the road.
The trend Of the prosecutions case
was cumulative. The first thing that
Judge Watson did at the opening Of
court was TO rule against the motion
made by the defense attacking the
indictment on technical grounds.
Judge Watson denied the motion
fatty holding that the indictment
was not faulty because It had not de.
Initiated the wound that caused
Mrs. Beattie's death more exactly
than in the wording "a wound in the
face"
George FARRELL, a Richmond detec-
tive. BEGAN the building up Of seri.
Gus menace against the prisoner
when he repeated the story Beattie
had told him on the night of Mrs.
Beattie's death ms 10 the incidents
of the holdup, and which conflict
with the story Beattle told at the
coroner's inquest. The detective
could not be shaken on this point by
Harry Smith, Jr., the lawyer for the
defense.
Dogs clroled Stump.
When W. w Sydnor, deputy
sheriff who owns two bloodhounds,
took tho stand he told how he had
hurried TO the scene of the crime
with his dogs early on the morning
following the shooting. and how his
dogs started at the dark stain OF
blood in the road and went straight
to stump a few yards off the road,
circled il, and returned again to the
blood marks. These dogs and the
others had found no other trail than
the short one to the stump and back,
though Beattie had said that the
mysterious man who did the shooting
had turned and run up the road into