New-York tribune., 1911-11-23
DEATT|E IS UNAFRA|D
Receives Sacrament OF Lords
Supper in His Cell.
WANTS 70 GET IT OVER WITH
Il Am Innocent, He Tells Spirit
ual Adviser-Will Make No
Confession.

Richmond Va. Nov 22.-Henry clay
Beattie. ir. the youthful wife murderer.
TO-DAY received the Sacrament OF tho Lord f
supper He professed religion and ;old his
spiritual advisers that he faced the un-
known with equanimity. Although Beattie
is subdued in demeauor. the wonderful
nerve that thus far has sustained the cor
domued man has not deserted him
The sacra uent was administered with al
due solemnity in the death cell in tho state
renitentiary this afternoon The Rev. John
+ Fix. the Presbyterian minister who has
abored with Beattic since he was sem
fenced. offcated. assisted by the Rev. Ben
iamiu Dennis. OF South Richmond. The only
other person present was the prisoner =
aged and broken-hesrted father The vigi-
lance Of the death watch was not relaxed
during the ceremony, although the guards
withdrew 10 tho corridor.
Report that Beattie's iron nerve had
broken have been disproved. During the
desperate efforts made for a new trial, and
FOR reprieve at the hands Of the governor
of the state. the high tension under which
the convicted man labored stretched his
nerves. Naturally he was irascible and
gwen 10 euhhFU lAe VI dliSfAs S'NN 49,
have disappeared.
That Beattie is now resigned 10 his fate
Is proved by j remark 70 his guard to-day
when the suggestion was made that Gov
ernor Mann might grant a reprieve at the
eleventh hour.
Let lis get it over with Beattie is de-
clared 10 have said. II II has to be, the
sooner II is ended the. better
Fathers Final Plea to Governor.
The elder Beattie within the last few
hours has paid a secret visit TO Governor
Mann in a final despairing effort 70 gain
the Governors interference. II was un-
avaiing. Governor Mann will let the law
exact its toll. unless within the few hours
before the younger Beattie is led 10 the
death chair he should experience a change
Of mind This is regarded as almost out
side rne range Of possibility.
Invitations have been sent 70 the twelve
witnesses who will compose the jury in the
death chamber on Friday morning Under
/ the law the witnesses must present them
| selves at the prison before O'Clock on
/ that morning. shortly thereafter Beattie
| viii be led from his cell TO the chair.
/ Within ten minutes at the most the jury
viii be trooping from the chamber Of death.
/ The same mails that bore the invitations
to the witnesses brought more than one
hundred letters TO Governor Mann. Some OF
the writer's commended his policy Of non
interference with the mandate OF the law
! others hysterically called upon him tc
| intervene To none Of them was any at
| tentiOn paid.
Beattie spent the day in reading. While
/ much Of his reading is Of a religious nature
he maintains still his keen interest in thu
daily newspapers. He pays especial atten
ton TO the sporting pages and reads then
avidly. His appetite, so say his guards, il
excellent. and he displays no abnormalit,
either mentally or physically. Unless ther,
il a sudden breakdown Beattie vii walk {
his doom unabashed and unafraid.
Beattie announced through the Rev Or
j. J. Fix to-day that he would make n,