The evening world., 1911-08-23

oven recall that Henry ever mentioned
his wife's name to me.
III he we're free TO-DAY would
never 20 back to him.. lie would never
away OF influence me ar ne once did
when ] was only & little girl. when l
WASH. fourteen years old. Then he
came along one day all dressed up fine
and l was standing In q doorway out Of
the rain. lie had ON a ralncoat and
had a fine silver handled umbrella. lie
looked at me n smiled and asked me
10 get under his umbrella. And that
Was the way We began 10 know eaeh
other. tor Two years l loved Harry
him for some time.
Il never exactly got so I didn't like
him. Certainly. when I stopped loving
him ! didn't hate him. But after a
while he got Just like anybody else,
] used to see him. but It would be just
like ] might see any young man that
called on me that I liked.
GIRL A PUZZLE TO LAWYERS
FOR STATE.
And II he Was acquitted ! wouldn {
marry him. Id be afraid OF him.
The Binford girl at this. however.
threw up her hands In mock horror
And tho prosecution does not yet know
what to make OF the girl. She 10 H.
literate. frivolous. immoral. but she
10 also most cunning This Indifference
to Beattie 10 possibly the msrest pose
the thing 20 cloak her real design
OF seeing him safely through his
murder trial and then throwing her
arms around his neck
a moth r.ess baby may help save
Beattie from, DYING In the electric chair.
Not since the July night when he rode
home with his wise's dead body has the
stoical youth made n single inquiry
about the child-his and the dead
woman's-lest motherless by the crime.
But the clasp OF the fingers OF that ten
weeks-old bah. aad II plaintive cry
may keep from Chesterfield Court House
a witness upon whom the prosecution
based q large part OF the case that WAS
| planned to force the payment Of Beat
ties ~ for that OF his Young ife.
LOVE OF THE BABY MAY KEEP
MRS. OWEN AWAY.
That witness Is Mrs. r.. v. owen.
mother OF the dead woman While Beat
tie males his Gigs cites and reads his
newspapers In indolent Indifference N
his cell. she croons comfortin lullabys
at the cradle of the little mite OF lu-
nanlty that Is TO her the last bitter re-
minuer OF her murdered daughter.
And the love that the helpless infant
has awakened In the five weeks since
the tragedy may prevent the stricken
grandmother from returning to Rich
mond TO testify against the child's
father. Since the tragedy Mrs. owen
has returned to her home In Dover,
Del. ant Is beyond the Jurisdiction of
tho court. No subpoena can force her
to appear. II she comes she viii come
Voluntarily. and the prosecution learned
to-day that Il Is very probable that she
Will refuse.
In the mass Of circumstantlsl evidence
upon which the prosecution depends to
send Beattie to the electric chair Mrs.
owen Is an important link. Upon what
abe was expected to tell of the domestic
life OF her daughter the prosecution
contemplated building a motive that
would At the horror OF the crime.
Mrs. owen, the prosecution has been
informed. possesses IA letter from neI
daughter written shorty before the kill
ing which would support this motive.
But both Mrs. owen and the letter are
In Delaware and without them the
lawyers for the commonwealth believe
that Il viii he almost impossible 20 provs
this phase OF their case,