The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-23

j Iaster in his battonhole, in honor q
j 1.-THE occasion, cordially invited him to
[stroll with his father on the lawn II DC
lIRlshed. Instead son his fathers adj
yice, he went q . little chamber il
tie court aouse and, with his parent
and his brother ate a lunch Of colo
chicken and New Brunswick stew.
Afterward, when his father was con,
.sultlng his counsel, Lawyers Smith
!. and Carter, Beattie poked his head
out Of the little room and gossiped
half playfully with some young men
!. friends who had clustered quickly
about him, anxious, apparently, to
show the crowd their acquaintance
with one who had become 50 distin.
guished.
When a newspaper photographer
asked Beattie to pose then and there
.Ihe assumed a mock horror at the
.Ipropositi9R and covered his face with
I.his! hand kerchiei, but he covered the
side Of his face that was not toward
1.-the camera. When the snap had been
taken he said:
%say, now, he sure and send me
one"
Some Of the Witnesses.
In the crowd under the trees outside
the court house throughout the day
I1olled men and women who WILDE i'm
portant witnesses in the case. There
was tall, slender Henrietta Pitman, a
girl from Norfolk accompanied by a
fat woman. They are said to be ready
to testify they knew that Henry Beat,
tie had taken up with Beulah Blnford
again and meant TO furnish an apart
ment for her, and there is also talk
that they heard a conversation in
which he said he meant to get rid of
his wife.
Beulah Binford's young married sis.
ter, Mrs. Claudia Powell, and her hus-
band were also there. And there were
a crowd Of youngsters. who held a wa.
termelon feast sitting in a big circle,
under sycamore tree, who are ex,
pected to testify that returning from a.
dance along the Midlothian pike on
the night OF StheEmirdef they saw
Beattle standing III the road adjusting
a lamp on his motVf car and they ask
ed him If he needed help and he curt
by answered "No''gThe fact that he
was then alone in the icar and just set,
ting about lightinghis lamp is deemed
important. (.
Mrs. Ellison, who Is alleged to have
secured a visit with Beutah Bintord
after her arrest by declaring herself
to DO the girls sister and who ISIS up
posed to have been asked to carry
some message to her that may incrlm-
innate Beattle, was also among these
in anotherwise picnic crowd.
5euIah 6inford's Vanity.
Paul Beattie, the prisoners cousin,
who bought the gun with which the
murdeg was committed, was left be.
hind in the Richmond jail and SO, to
her great disappointment, was Beulail
Biniord. She had fully expected to
be taken, as Beattie was, in a motor
car to the Chesterfield court house.
She had put onher prettiest frock and
hat and was otherwise most fetching
ily arrayed. Her little wayward ma.
ture that feeds so delightedly on its
own vanity had counted eimplicltlyson
vying with Beattie as the cyhosute Of |
eyes In the court house crowds, she
frankly whispered when she wastold
to 80. She said she really needed the
fresh air and then she said as. final
plea to little Sheriff gill:
"Why you know how disappointed
everybody will be il they don't see
me-" I
But the sheriff, a most decisive lit
tie man behind his geniallty, shook
his head and Beulahwas left In tears
Her mother laughed at her first, but
.comtorted her afterSard.
Iasthe first scene Of the public en-:
'actnlent Of the Midlothian road trags
'eiiys there was asrichs display CONE