Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1911-08-31
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speciul By United Press Wire
Chesterfield Courthouse, Va, Aug.
alt was definitely settled today
that Henry BeattIe will not plead In
sanity to escape the electric chair,
He himself is determined to make his
fight on its merit, and his chief coun-
| sci, Harry M. Smith, said:
| you may announce definitely thai
we will not make any insanity de-
| fense. We are well satisfied with
/ the trend Of events, and see no rea-
son for changing our present plan.
A driving rain swept about the
little brick court house again today
| Travel over the understanding roads
of Chesterfield county was very diff
ficult. But the crowd Of morbidly
curious was on hand even before the
lawyers and the Judge made their ap-
! pearance.
! Heard WOnan's Scream.
When court convened Smith want
ed to recall J. c. TaIIey, who told OF
! hearing a woman scream on the
night Of the murder. But Talley
| in an automobile with detective
Scherer, was maroOned somewhere
along the muddy road on the way
! from Richmond.
Then Smith called David Vein
stein, the seventeen year old son OF
pawn broker, at whose shop Pau
/ Beattie says he bought the fatal gun
1 The boy says he sold the gun tt
Paul and asserted that he gave it tC
| him at few minutes before 1C
O'Clock on the Saturday evening be
/ fore the tragedy. Paul had picked
out the gun that morning he said
He differed with Paul on several
minor details of the transaction, but
cOrrobOrated his story in the man
Said He Was Watchman.
Paul Beattie told me he was a
watchman on a bridge and wanted
the gun to use down there said
David. Paul Beattie fatty denied
having made that statement during
his examination.
The boy said he had known Paul
Beattie for a week before he bought
the gun. The youth had once tried
TO buy a pistol at the pawn shop. He
contradicted PauTs testimony that
the latter had only been in the pawn
shop once before he bought the gun.
declaring that Paul had previously
visited him five or six times.
Under cross examination, the boy
positively identified the gun produc-
ed in court as the one he sold Paul.
Wendenburg succeeded in confusing
the boy badly on the exact time he
sold the gun. The net result of his
testimony was a series of confusions
and contradictions.
Surprised by Witness.
a mysterious witness surprised the
prosecution with the declaration that
the Sunday before the killing, Paul
Beattie was at his post as a bridg ge
watchman. carrying a shot gun. Paul
Beattie had insisted that he gave the
gun to his cousin Henry the accused
man, on Saturday night.
The witness who threw the bomb
into the camp of the prosecution was
Ernest H. Neblitt, a paper mill su-
perintendent. He declared that at s
O'Clock Saturday evening he saw Paul
Beattie standing in the door way of
little building at the end of the
bridge with a shot gun in his hand.
When he saw me he put the gun
inside the door way" said Neblitt.
Contradicts Paups Testimony.
If Neblitt's story is established,
one of the principal features of Paul's s
testimony, upon which the prosecu-
tion has founded its whole case, will
be contradicted. In a brief cross eX-
animation special prosecutor Wen
denburg was unable to shake Neb-
lit in the slightest degree.
After springing the sensation the de-
Tense settled down to examine half
a dozen character witnesses TO pre-
pare the way for the placing of Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., himself on the
stand.
Binford Girl Will Tell Truth.
In the course of an interview in
her cell today, Beulah Binford de-
clared that if she were put on the
stand she would tell the truth and
nothing but the truth concerning her
relation with Henry Clay Beattie,
Jr., now on trial for the murder OF
his wife.
Il can't tell you what my testi-
mony will be, said she, swinging her
silk clad ankles lightly to and fro,
But can tell you it will be the
truth"
II Henry IS acquitted Will yOu
and he be chums again?"
Il never could trust myself alone
with a man who has been accused
of murder. I would be afraid OF
him"
The question OF calling Beulah
Binford TO the witness stand was the
prominent feature of the early part
of todays trial. I'VE will not call
the girl unless her testimony is alb
solutely necessary in rebuttal," said
Prosecutor Wendenburg.
We have no idea now of calling
her at all, said chief attorney Smith
for the defense.
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