The Washington times., 1911-08-26
HEALTH IS
: BETTER THAN At
TINE Of INQUEST
Youth Has Always Been
Weak and Sickly-Life
Once in Danger.
By JULIA MUKDOCK.
Over Times Leased Wire From Ches-
terfeId Court House.

terfeld Court House.
CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE
Va. Aug. 26.-Paul Beattie is thin
anaemic youth. Suffering from lung
trouble and having been an epileptic
In childhood, he was thought at one
time to be in danger Of death. Today
his appearance is perceptibly improved
over that at the inquest, where he was
seized with the fit that furnished such
a dramatic prologue to, that inquiry
He has gained in weight, and his color
is clearer. He is a youth Of undersize,
an inoffensive, cigarette-smoking young
ster, scarcely more than a boy, though
he Is married and Is the father of a
Beven-mpnths-old baby son. He re-
sembles his cousin, Henry Clay Beattie,
in many ways
He has the same narrow chest, the
same retreating forehead, the same
blue eyes that close into narrow slits
when he becomes excited or nervous.
His clean shaven face has high cheek
bones, and his hair Is perhaps a trifie
lighter than his cousins.
In appearance, he Is what some peo-
pie might term a "mamma's boy,
though he has been an orphan for
several years, both parents having
been buried within four days Of each
other.
Didn't Appear Frightened.
IT don't care how much they try to
frighten me II they want to-" he
smiled while he lounged on the porch
Of the little Chesterfield Hotel and
.smoked a cigarette with almost as
much nonchalance as that displayed
by his cousin when engaged in the
same diversion.
IT don't care haw much they try to
worry me. My conscience is clear"
Yes, II is lonesome" he went on, "to
be kept away from my wife and little
hoy. but then the baby has his mother,
so 1t isn't as bad off as that other little
Peattie baby, after all Nobody knows
better than ! do what IT means TO be
mother when she died, right at her bed
side, and she talked to me the last OF
all"
The women of Paul Beattie's family
are standing by him nohly: r wife
and mother-in-law, his grandmother and
his aunt we're all present at the court
Rouse yesterday afternoon and remained
Until the court adjourned. chatting with
Paul who sauntered beneath the trees.
or sat in the shade OF the porch OF thc
little wooden hotel. which <onStltutes
the entire village of Chesterfield, with
the exception of the grocery store
owned W by n. H. Cogtill. who IS also
the keeper of the county Jail.
A cell in the pail had been prepared
for Paul Beattie's ocupany. but 1t wa:
decided to return him to Richmond, las,
evening. rather than to leave him out
in the country where the chirp Of tn, the
crickets, and the songs OF the Dull
frogs are the only disturbing elements
Speculations of Idlers.
,,, -, ,ba court house those NOR.
bidly curious ones who seem to find
certain amount of satisfaction in watch
ing the drama Of life and death that !:
being enacted In the little brick build
ing, were wondering whether they vii
he furnished with more thrills thar
usual when Paul Beatie was placed
upon the witness stand.
DO you suppose he will throw anothe
ft?'' they asked each other eagerly
their idle curiosity seeming to indicate
| that the sight of this young mans SUI
| fering would prove a spectacle OF ao
sorbing interest. Improved in health
neither lawyers nor the members o
his family expected that Paul woult
break down.