Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-24
BEATTIE Is HELD
FOR WIFE MURDER
Cousin of Accused Virginian
Confesses Buying Shot
gun and Cartridge.
TAKES THE MATTER COoLLY
woman in the Case Tells of First
Meeting With Man Charged
With Richmond Killing.

Richmond, Va, July 24.-With Henry
c. Beattie, Jr., and his cousin. Paul D.
Beattie, under arrest, and a signed
statement from the latter that he
bought for his cousin the shot gun with
which young Mrs. Henry c. Beattie
was killed in their possession, the po-
lice have set about to strengthen as
far as possible their case against the
accused husband.
Beattie has been cool and apparent
ly undisturbed since his arrest Satur-
day night. He did not seem surprised
when informed of the statement made
by his cousin, but said nothing to in
dicate that he would abandon the story
he has told from the first-that his
wife was shot to death by a strange
man from the roadside while seated
beside him in his automobile. Paul
Beattie went into convulsions when ar
rested and was unconscious for some
time.
HUSBAND WILL BE HELD.
The coroner's inquest was resumed
Saturday. Whatever may be the re-
suit of the inquiry, the police declare
they will hold the husband for trial.
They believe the crime was committed
by one man, and Paul Beattie will be
held as a witness. His signed state
ment. secured by the police, and upon
which they based their arrest, was in
part as follows:
Il, Paul D. Beattie, state that during
the week of July 10, Henry c. Beattie
asked me to buy him a shot gun, where
upon l asked him what he wanted II
for, but he did not tell me. l told him
that would, whereup 1 went to pawn
shop and priced a single barreled shot
gun, the kind he had advised me to
get, and on the following Saturday
night, about 1915 o'clock, which was
July Is, 1911, in company with Henry
C. Beattie, in his automobile, 1 went
to the pawn shop and secured the gun.
paying $3.50, and delivering the gun to
Henry c. Beattie, whereupon we both
got into the automobile and he brought
me home, arriving at home about 11:15
p. m. July Is.
Il also state that I bought three
shells on the afternoon of July 15,
1911, and gave them to Henry c..
Beattie."
MESSAGE TO FATHER.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who is under
arrest charged with the killing of his
young wife, sent a message to his faith
er in which he declared absolutely un-
true" in every particular the signed
statement of Paul Beattie, his cousin,
to the effect that. he had bought the
shot gun with which it is alleged Beat
tie shot his wife on a lonely road near
here.
In her testimony before the coron-
ers jury, Beulah Binford, the "other
woman in the case" contradicted Beat
tie in many particulars as TO the lat
ter's movements during the past few
weeks and laid bare the details of her
relations with the accused husband.
She said she went motoring with Beat
tie the night before the murder and
was with him until midnight. She had
met him four times in two weeks at
resorts, she said.
GIRL ONLY Is.
The girl told of meeting Beattie four
years ago when she was only 13 years
old and of his sending her to st. Mary's
academy at Alexandria. After being at
school one month, she continued, she
got lonesome" and returned home
She told of the birth Of child at Ra-
leigh, n. c., in 1909. The baby, which
had been put in the care OF a Rich
mond family, died there the following
year, and the girl said she understood
BeaJtie paid the funeral expenses.
The witness declared that her rela-
tions with Beattie were broken of en-
tirely before his marriage, but that
she met him in Norfolk two months
ago and followed him to Richmond, in
spite of his protests. Since her ar
rival he had seen her frequently, she
said, and had sent her money with
which to buy furniture for a home.
The examination brought out no direct