The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-01

show that he Is mistaken as TO his
facts by witnesses. who yesterday at
ternoon visited The place and mad.
observations of the locality. Paul is
confident that a person in the cement
house could not have been seen by
another sitting IN u buggy in HuII
street.
Not until the prosecution begins its
rebuttal VIII its position on this point
be known. In the meantime the de-
Tense merely smiles at the sugges-
ton that Paul has been discredited
and declines TO show what it has III
mind.
After IalIey.
Paul was not the only States wit
ness - come in Tor al attack hy the
defeHse. j. G., or sam" Talley,
as he is most frequently referred to.
was also given some more attention
ana he himself was pat on BY the de-
Tense for the purpose Of conuadlc-
ton. +. l. Lutz, d young law stu
dent from South Richmond, Was
brought in and shown 10 the witness
Tor Identification.
He was then asked II he had not
said in Lutz presence on the morn
nag after the homicide that he knew
nothing OF Ii and Was III bed When
It occurred. Ia5ict dented this.
He was then ASKED II he did not
teil W. T. Brown. whom he knows,
that he knew nothing Of the killing
ana II Brown dld not meet him at
Forest Hill. when x became known
that Tauey was "a De a Wlness, and
remind him that he had made that
statement. TaIley denied This also.
LuIz swore that Talley had made
I the statement THAI Tauey had said
hi ~ a
that he Was IA Ued at the time and
did NOT get up unuI the next morning
at s o'clock, lie said he did not
know Talley At the time, but recog-
n!z0d him when he testified several
days ago.
Z Brown testified that Talley had told
him the same thing. N'Gen he met
Taiiey after finding out that he was
to be witness he asked MIN II he
was not afraid Of getting into trouble
for saying ne knew nothing. ana then
coming forward with a statement OF
what he did know. Talley said that
the reason he said he didn't know
anything was because he didn't want
to get into court. Emmett l. Jew EFT.
the witness said, was present
JeWejt followed Brown. and testffie
to the same thing, but before he lief,
the stand he had added some testi-
mony Of an occurrence on the court
house green few minutes before He
said that Talley had just remarked
to Brown that the Beatrie case is on
now. but Ii won't last forever, and
when it is over another one Will com
mence. Brown retaliated that he is
as big man as Talley, which is quite
true.
Tauey is the witness who testified
TO hearing the scream of q woman,
followed by a shot, then the churn!ng
OF an automobile as It went rapidly
away from the scene of the crime. He
lives near the spot. 1t has been
/ brought out IN the evidence that he
1 is a fighting man. and many OF his
terday asked him If he had not been
convicted and given a sentence OF
i've years In the penitentiary, and he
replied that he had not
Character Witnesses
| d. L. Toney, candidate for the Leg
islature; W. r. Bradley. contractor
and baseball magnate; II. A. Maurice,
Mayor OF Manchester for sixteen
years before its tncorpora ton by the
city of Richmond. and now justice of
Police Court, part 2: George Cary
real estate dealer: r. S. Robertson.
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Bank; A. ]. Daffron. furniture dealer;
John Moore and w. Fl. Washington
were put on by the defense to prove
ftha character OF Henry clay Beattie
Jr,
These Witnesses were asked as Ia
his reputation for truthfulness and
veracity The replied were either
They were then asked as to his repu-
They were then hsked as to his repu-
tat1on for peace and order and kind
ness of heart and again favorable
testimony was given In every instance
The introduction of a negro woman
to testify to having seen a tramp
about two miles from the scene Of the
crime on the Sunday preceding It con
Guided the testimony for the day.