The Cairo bulletin., 1911-08-26
Witnesses Declare They Heard
Screams and Saw Automobile on
Road near Where Wife Of Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., Was Murdered.
Twelve ARE EXAMINED
Courtroom Is Silent When Sheriff
Unrolls Bloody Coat by Roadside
--Beattie's Coat Similar, Wit
ness Says.

! Sam Pally,~a. day laborer and A, X.
/ Briggs, ffteenryear-old1 son OF a
! Richmond contractor, took the wit
iness stand IN the old Chesterfield
courthouse and gave what the
! prosecution considers as the most
important testimony SO far intro
tduced in the trial of Henry Clay
4 Beattie. Jr,, under indictment for
i wife murder.
| An even dozen witnesses We're
heard but Paul Beattie, star wit
/ ness for the Commonwealth, was
not among them. He may be called
late tomorrow afternoon.
The dairyman swore that between
sunset and dark on the night of the
| murder he saw an automobile SINH
lar to Beattie's halt at the road side
not far from the scene of the crime.
i A lone man stepped out, he said, and
4 this man, the prosecution will at
tempt to show, was Beattie, con-
cealing the gun with which 1t is al
legged he shot his wife.
4 Hears Screams.
4 Pally swore that about IL o'clock
that night, sitting on the back
/ porch of his home not far from the
road side he heard the scream of a
woman, then shot and finally the
noise of an automobile starting
4 The Briggs boy testified that some
time between 1880 and IL on the
same night he and several compan-
ions, In an automobile passed car
at the roadside near where the mur-
der was committed The man, he
said, apparently was fixing tire
| The woman was standing on the
running board The boy declared
they passed no other car on the re-
mainder of the journey to Rich
mond. His companion will be called
upon to testify along this line to-
morrow.
| Beattie leaned forward In his seat
and gazed intently at the witness
as the question was asked.
Was Fixing Tire.
when ] left home. said Sydner
"he was working in ditch at the
road side, on the machines right
rear tire" ~
"Was he young or old NAM"
| ,"He was a young man and wore
a brown suit" 61t
There was hush in the court
room as the sheriff unrolled the
bloody brown coat worn by the man
at the road side. He was instructed
to look at the defendant to state IL
the man he saw was about the same
size.
YES" said the daIryman slowly
about the same size"
Have you seen the automobile
since the murder?" he was asked,
He said he had and that generally
it agreed with the car he had seen
on the road way.
Auto Like Beattie's.
"It was big four-seated passen-
ger car. he said, and the top was
yellow"
The Beattie automobile has vel
! low top. n,
Sam Tally, who said he worked In
a quarry, followed Sydner to the
stand. a
II was sitting on the back porch
of my house about 800 yards from
the road" Tally testified In direct
examination, when all OF sudden
about IL o'clock / heard the scream
ing Of a woman, then shot. In
about ten minutes more heard an
automobile start"
"Did you hear anything else, the
cries of a man for help or the toot-
ing of an automobile horn" asked
/ the defense In support Of the Beattie
story that he had tried to summon
aid after the bearded highwayman
had fired into the car.
II did not. said the witness, but
on further examination he admitted
that he might have said on the morn
ing after the crime that he heard an
automobile horn sounded.