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But 1t did not turn up, and as there
was no question of Beattie's guilt, we
did not hesitate to say SO.
I'VE were not impressed with the
Kastleburg evidence as destroying the
testimony Of the Bon Air youths be,
later that Kastleburg's car was back
in the garage when the Bon Air dancers
Beattie is as certain now to go to the
electric chair as If this were November
"a, the ''hangman's Friday" set for his
execution.
There is no earthly chance of a new
trial being granted by the supreme
court" declared L. o. Wendenburg this
morning as he looked up from a hood
Of congratulatory kilograms.
A changing Court"
The supreme court of Virginia Is
known as hanging court" and would
be apt to decline a new trial to Beattie
under all circumstances. The justices
of the supreme court could find, all the
lawyers of Richmond say, no possible
legal ground for granting new trial.
Humanity speaking, 1t is certain that the
electric chair will avenge the murder
Of Mrs. Louise Owen Beattie, which
Mr.. Wendenburg called in his perora-
ton the deed of the most cold-blooded
assassin and brutal murderer OF the
twentieth century.
Richmond is well satisfied with the
verdict in the Beattie case and II any
dissent they are keeping quiet. The
verdict was well received in the city.
Relatives of the murdered bride are
glad that the murderer of their daugh-
ter or niece will be punished for his
crime. The attitude of the Owen family
secretary of Governor Mann and broth
er of Thomas Owen and Robert v:
owen, the last-named being the girls
father. The thousands of dollars spent
is understood, by Thomas Owen. who
is the well-to-do member of the family.
The pity of Richmond is conferred on
the aged and broken father Of the con-
demned.
While Henry Clay Beatrie, jr., with
the hammer blows of the prosecution,
the aged father sat at his side. The
older man WINGED when a stab OF dam
aging testimony brought only an JIM
personal sneer to the face OF his son;
the white faced father breathed to
fast heartbeats quickened by the story
of Paul Reattie, while the younger
merely INDUCED in cynical smiles, and
finally II was the fathsr who collapsed,
an aged wreck OF manhood when tie
last night, while his son sat without
culver of emotion or contraction of
fear distorting his features.
This is why all of Virginia, who
knows of the splendid loyalty of Henry
Clay Beattie, ST., declare that he, and
not his son, will feel the shock of
death should the young man go to the
chair; that he. and not the cynical,
smiling youth, is suffering now in the
valley of the shadow; that he, and not
the convicted uxorcide, is today real
izing that the wages of sin Is death.
People have wondered since the be-
ginning of the trial at Beattie's atti-
tude, but the real wonder of II all
comes now in the impassivity, the cool
ness, and the equanimity with which
he awaits death.
During the fifty-seVen minutes taken
by the twelve Virginia farmers to find
him guilty Beattie, was stonelike in
masking his emotions.
Unmoved By Verdict.
Then when the jurors entered the
room. and with faces expressing
plainly a sympathy for the young
prisoner which he did not show for
himself, stood while the foreman an
nOunced the words Guilty as charg-
ed" and then in half hysteria, chorus
ed Guilty, guilty, guilty" he was still
unmoved.
He stood motionless. His hands
were at his sides, and his shoulders
were squared. His head was thrown
back. His eyes were set straightfor-