The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-08

Is the gun that Is now in evidence.
and that he delivered that gun on
SATURDAY night preceding tho crime
( TO the accused. without that testi-
/ mony there Is here no case. II tina,
/ is testimony. there is ground for a
} reasonable doubt and the case is NJ
i an end. We have shown that tho tcs-
timoay of Paul Beattie is unreliable.
IL we can touch Paul the case goes
I out.
Thu statement that he mad. herr.
ana the way that they say that Henry
Beattio committed his crime Is UNI
reasonable and unnatural
II he desired to Kill his wife why
should he select an old second hand
sho;Eun-hard to conceal. Had he
Kept such gun from Saturday to
Tuesday the chances are strong that
/ some one would have seen It. Why
not take the pistol in his brothers
room. which he could have gotten
, without comment? Why go at It In
! this bunglesome way? Why did he get
the gun? 1t is unnatural. unreason-
able. and, in my Judgment. the height
of folly.
! why should Paul Beattie have kept
this gun hidden ana secret? Not only
nc did not let anybody see 1t. but he
never mentioned its purchase until the
Thursday night after the crime He
, says he was not told 10 conceal 1t
i that he had no dream it was for any
Improper purpose; that there was no
/ reason why II should not have been
/ shown. 1t was an unusual purchase
( for man like Paul Beattie to make.
no living human being ever saw that
gun in the hands of Henry Beattic.
| You have only that Paul says so--thats
all. That Is n fact that should BIO
/ carefully weighed by this jury in a
case where human life is at stake.
/ Why did Paul Beattie. when asked
to give statement OF the people for
whom he had worked and when he did
| give long list, omit the butcher next
/ door TO Weinsteins pawnshop? He
| said he didn't even know the namo of
the people that kept the shop, and
yet he went in there and borrowed a
! dollar. 1t is suspicious circum-
| stance that should be considered in
connection with this mans testimony
He told both those Weinstein boys whose
state~'ents were so carefully taken
| by Mr.. Scherer. and yet who were not
summoned by the prosecution, that he
| was buying the gun to be used as a
Waterman on Mayos Bridge. Why did
! Paul Beattie make that false state
ment to those two boys?
Conflicting Statements.
why did Henry shake his head that
night that Paul has told about? From
Paurs statement the natural inference
! he wished to convey was that II was
a secret signal not to talk where 9TH
! ers were about-to wait until they
| could get together, as Paul says they
| afterwards did. In former statement
| Paul said he merely asked Henry how
| he was feeling and Henry shook his
| head.
THAT shows the boy to be as un-
! reliable as his grandfather said. Why
| did he afterwards tell Mr.. Booth that
he didn't believe Henry had committed
the crime? Why did he say that tho
gun was wrapped up in three pieces
when the Weinstein boys say 1t was
| said nothing about the gun being in
three pieces. Why was 1t that he
didn't tell before this trial that Henry
had asked him to deliver a message to
Beulah-to tell her not to call him up;
| that he would kill her II she told of
their relations? Why this boy on
| whose evidence you are asked to con-
Wet don't even know his own age!
He said he had no Bible. that he was
/ the Judge he said he hadn't even
known until placed on the stand at
the inquest that the gun found was
| the one he bought
Let us see about his conduct at the
inquest He claims he bought the
gun, but on the stand there he could
not tell when he was asked to do it
he said his mind had gone to pieces.
What was there that caused this
| wreck Of his mind. this excitement
about having bought n gun when he
didn't even know that 1t was the same
| gun that had been found? He says
himself he was In a tarrihle fax, and
he was. He had bought a gun. and
that gun had been found near the
| him to lay the responsibility for this
| gun somewhere other than on hts own
| shoulders? 1t was him or me, he
reasoned. Then for tine first time four
days after the murder comes tho state
ment that he had bought the gun for
Henry. No one saw him give that gun
to Henry. His conduct on the day the
coroner's inquest opened stamped him
| with guilt, IL not with fright to an
extent that makes his testimony abso-
| lutely unreliable. DIR. Mann told the
! policemen that he wasn't dangerously
sick. he had Mysteries and nothing
else. and was able to understand what
| was said to him.
Paul's Attack on Beattie,
ION his way to the hospital he told
that his uncle had by some means
gotten hold of his mothers prop
erty. Those damned people, he said.
are trying to put this thing on me-
A half-dozen times in his testimony
he resents the fact that they had more
money than he had; he said he was
| too poor to buy paper. Coroner Low
ing said there was nothing the matter
with him: that he was Just taking,
and give him catntp tea and fennsl
seed There's the man that can't be
| touched-on whose word they ask
| jury to take a human life
1T anything else We're needed to
| show the utter falsity OF his state
ments II needs only his sworn testi-
mony before the coroner to tell the
whole truth, and his statement after
! he left the stand to Policeman Gentry
| that he had told all he knew. Yet no
suppressed before the coroner's court
| If you believe his story. the most vital
/ and !mp ,rtant e-idence he had. He