Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-07-26

NEW EVIDENCE IN
BEATT|E MURDER CASE.
Circumstantial Evidence Gathers
Around Observation-Disclosures H
Woman Mentioned.

Richmond, Va., July 26.-Ncw
links in the chain of circumstautiaI
evidence which detectives declare sup
ports the verdict OF the coroner's jury
against Henry Clay Beattie, jr., were
forged today.
The slight wound which Beattie bears
on his nose and which he says he re-
ceived in the struggle with the mys-
terious man who murdered his wife,
may be the strongest link against him,
The police this afternoon learned that
Beattie, who is an enthusiastic hunter,
always fires a gun from his right
shoulder, but sights with his left eye.
and friend Of the young husband as
serted that be had frequently been
bruised. in exactly the same spot on
The nose, when firing a gun that kick
ed !"
Roland Snyder, OF Chesterfield
county, told the detectives that he saw
q man at the edge OF the woods, oppo-
site the exrct sdor where Mrs. BeattIe
was murdered on the same evening and
about two hours before the crime was
committed. A newly hlazed tree at
this spot gave the detectives the lheory
that it was marked tolocate the hiding
place of the shotgun.
From Mrs. r. Y. Oven, mother OF
the murdered wife, the police this al
ernoon received long letter, de-
tclaring that stating that bcr
daughter and Beattie had fire.
quent quarrels, and declaring that
on the night Mrs. Beattie vas
urged by her husband to go on the
fatal ride that terminated with her
death. Beattie impressed upon Mrs.
Owen the fact that he wanted his wife
alone to accompany him.
Beulah Biniord, the seycnteen-year-
old Other Woman in the case was
put through three-hour lhird-degree
by tho police this afternoon. They
declared she had given them some
further information, the exact nature
Of which they refused TO reveal.
Richmond, Va. July 2G.-New
evidence. tending to support the po-
lice theory that Mrs. Henry Clay
Beattie, jr., was murdered while stand
ing on the Midlothian road, beside
her husbands automobile, and not
while seated in the car, as Beattle
claims, was developed by detectives.
Eight young men, who formed an
automobile party on the night the
crime was committed, declared today
that they passed IN automobile,
apparently stranded, at the exact
spot where the pools of blood latter
gave evidence CT the murder. They
told the police that man and woman
we're standing beside the machine, the
man apparently attempting to repair it
and that the man refused aid, when ii
was preferred. They fixed the time as
few moments before that given by
Beatte as the time OF the murder.
The eight men-Sam Meek, James
Pascal, Ernest Moseley, Archie Briggs,
]. B. Montgomery, Atkins Gregory,
]. A. Clark and Frank Cutchins, think
the couple were Beattie and his wife.
Another Development may result II
clue now under investigation by the
detectives pans out They are search
ing for another girl to whom it was said,
Beattie has recently paid marked at
tentions.
The theory that 0lrs. Beattie re-
preached her husband for his relations
with the Binford girl, and threatened
divorce on the grounds which it was
said would have made the elder Reattie
disinherit his sou, is also being investl.
gated by the police as offering a possible
motive for her murder.