Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-09-08

! Paul departed from the jail as soon
as the glad news come. He said first
that he was going to New York to
pose for a moving picture concern,
which is getting up reproduction
(partly real and partly faked) of the
trial. But later he announced that ne
was going back on his old job as
Waterman on a railroad bridge cross
ing the James River
Beulah took a couple of hours to
pack up her possession. Then, escort
cd by her mother and married sister,
she took a noon train for Washing
ton, intending to go through to New
York tonight, where she will also fl
cure in the moving picture story OF
the famous affair. She said with
great glee that she expected to be on
Broadway-a place she had never
seen-very soon.
The other incident of the day was
the Mrecking of a taxicab carrying
eight persons out here from Richmond
to listen to the windup of the trial.
One woman and six men in the ma
chine were badly shaken up.
The day began with an enormous
crowd present to hear the arguments.
Judge Gregory, a fine old Virginia
gentleman. began for the State by re-
citing tho first words Of Genesis.
"1n the beginning God created the
Heaven and the earth; and the earth
was without form and void"
He led his hearers, therefrom
through Genesis and Exodus to the
proclamation of the commandments by
Moses and finally to the distum;
Thou shalt not kill" Some of his
hearers smiled sarcastically at this
and called it foolish; but it was wiser
than they knew. For every man on
the jury is devout Christian. Gre
CORY could have done nothing better.
He appealed likewise to their Unborn
respect for the sanctity IF the marriage
VOW by picturing young Beattie's fast
life and the calling of the Beulah
Binford names that are Biblical but
scarcely printable.
AS he spoke on incident occurred
typical of this queer old place in the
middle of a great forest. wagon
drove up containing three middle aged
negroes. made up" with the white
lines that MINISTRIES use about their
mouths, playing guitars and mandollns
and singing. Also an ancient
Nanny" wrapping up small packages
The wagon halted in front of the court
house, the men began chanting old
time darkey ballads while the woman
sold magic SOAP" Judge Gregary's
fervent recital of the Bible became
mixed with the queer syncopated mu-
sic of the medicine man."
Judge Watson, from the bench, halt
ed proceedings and sent out old
Sheriff Gill to stop the noise of the
darkeys. Only when they had moved
on did the gray haired attorney move
on. No one smiled at the quaint in
terlude. When Gregory concluded
land during his speech he had con-
sumed five throat troches and six
glasses of water) he was surround
ed on the lawn by his admirers and
told that he had made the effort of
his life.
His adversary, Hill Carter, for the
defense, used up the whole of the af-
ternoon. He is magnificent repre-
sentative of the old school of oratory
with his voluminous rounded phrases,
his appeal to patriotism, the love of
home, the love of state and all Dixie.
His big voice in his peroration doomed
out over one hundred yards square
of adjacent territory. Mr.. Carter
chiefly devoted himself to denouncing
Paul Beattie, the cousin, and pointing
out the impossibility of the defendant
having hired Paul to buy the gun for
him. Mr.. Carter wound up with
dramatic recital of a certain Dean
case Of yore. This Dean, 1t appears,
was convicted on circumstanital evil
dence and hanged. Ten years later,
on her deathbed, his wife confessed
that she had committed the murder.
Mr.. Carter pictured sufferings of the
jurors who had sent Dean to the hemp
collar and warned the present jurors
of such possibility of woe.