The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-24
BEATTIE, CONTRASTING THAT HE KILLED
 MOTHER OF HIS BABY, GOES TO DEATH
 CHAIR WITH A SMILE ON HIS LIPS

acknowledgment of their blessing and advanced to the chair.
 His manner indicated acceptance o1 his fate as matter of fact. He seat ed himself calmly in the chair, nov. ing his limbs to get comfort in the stiff heavy straps ,as the guards buckled them about arm and thigh The heavy black cap was pulled down over his head. The jury leaned forward, eagerly, to gaze at the strangely harnessed man in the circle of light. Superintendent Wood raised his hand and the switch was thrown
 A little thread of white smoke rase from the death cap. the limbs and body of the dying man twisted into the utmost tension and suddenly crumpled as the current was reduced and cut off.i Dr. Oppenheimer leaned over the chair, tsted pulse and heart and raised his hand. Henry Clay Beattie had paid the death penalty for the brutal murder of his young wife.
 Morbid Crowd Outside.
 Out in the drizzIing rain before the penitentiary. a morbed crowd had stood for hours.
 At 7:30, this people surged around the stone gate of the building as Superintendent Wood appeared.
 Its all over," he said, and hush fell on the crowd "It was very much like other executions he continued Tt was over at 7:23," and he stood looking over the crowd. Well, he's done, you better move on out of here now." shouted a burly policeman, and the crowd slunk away in the rain.
 None of the ,Beattie family was neal the penitentiary when the young mur- derer died. But over in Manchester a straight backed loyal father, who has aged a lifetime in the past four months, was bowed with sorrow and Hazel Beattie, the dead mans sister and his brother, Douglas, tried in vain to comfort their father, but their ef- forts proved almost useless.
 Rain had battered at the brick walls of the Virginia penitentiary through out the night, but it did not disturb the sleep of the smooth faced youth who early retired and sank into a sound slumber.
 The Rev. J. J. Fix and the Rev. Ben jamin Dennis were at the penitentiary early to give the last consolation of religion to the condemned man. They knelt and prayed with him just as soon as he arose and began the vigil that was. to end only when they ac- companied him to the death chair.
 Subdued at Last.
 IT, that marked Beattie's whole attitude after the murder of his wife was sub dued as he faced his last few hours on earth. But he dressed with scrup- ulOus care for the final ordeal. He seemed determined to preserve his calmness and strained to appear at ease.
 Four months of prison life and prison fare, however, had sadly changed the Lothario of Manchester and the handsome face that had cap- tivated Beulah Binford was pasty white.
 Long before Bettie was called to death, the crowd of morbid1ys curious had gathered before the penitentiary. Every one was barred from the build ing and half a score of newspaper men joined the crowd that idled about the sidewalk. A dozen policemen kept the crowd moving. The people stood around talking in fushed whispers, gazing at the grim brick front of the penitentiary, seemingly unconscious of the rain, which, at times, became a 'veritable downpour. Scores of rumors stirred the crowd. It was reported that Beattie had confessed, that the chair had failed to work properly, that he had been granted reprieve. But not word came from the great. silent building, until Beattie had died.
  tie a last goodbye in pathetic and heartrending scene, yesterday.
 In Family Plot.
 Arrangements were made, today, to turn the body of the dead murderer over to his brother, Douglas, for burial. The family will bury it in the Beattie lot at Maury cemetery. :.
 An hour after the execution, Doug las Beattie entered the apartments of Superintendent Wood and went into conference with him. No grave has been dug In the Beattie section of the Maury cemetery, today. Superintend- ent Jones, of the cemetery. said no application had been made. This step. Jones said, was necessary, before the sod could be turned. It was suggest ed that burial would be postponed un- til Saturday, the body being kept by an undertaken until then. The Beat tie plot is on a little knoll in the cemetery. Side by side in this little section are the graves of the Beattie twins, marked 'In Jesus care"
 Alongside of these is the resting place of the murderer's mother, while beside this grave is that of Mrs. Hen " Clay Beattie, Jr., the murdered woman-without a stone or mark of any kind. By the side of his wife, it is said, will be buried the electrocuted body now lying in the penitentiary.
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