The Washington times., 1911-08-30
STRIKES HARD AT
PAUL'S TESTIMONY
Beattie Defense Confronts Youth With Witness Who
Says He Said Il Don't Think Henry Did It."
Prosecution Rests Case.

[, nesses have already been called. They
| embrace representatives of almost every
walk of life from two humble colored
men. to a number Of well groomed and
| automobile caps.
When the court adjourned for lunch
con, jury room was cleared for the
purpose Of allowing attorneys for the
defense and witnesses to confer regard
ing the line Of testimony to be present
ed. Some Of these witnesses, Attorney
Smith stated, have never been con-
suited by the defense, and Mr.. Smith
asked TO be allowed to have a. room in
which he might have a quiet talk with
them.
Beattie on the stand, It is almost su-
perfluoUS to say, will be an even more
interesting figure than that of the chief
Sitness against h,td him; ,,;S his cousin; Paul Paul
de force IN The way Of cross-examtna-
| ton have so far rather failed to mater
ialize as brilliantly as desired, II Is not
dangerous to forecast a thrilling time
when Mr.. WendenburR gets after Beat
tie.
To Be Last Witness.
His lawyers have said they will keep
him TIL the last.
I'VE shall set no new precedents IN
| murder trials in this respect" said Mr..
Smith.
1t is In the evidence that the de-
fendant has contradicted himself al
ready, and the details of his own story
cannot be made to reconcile themselves
with all Of his previous accounts as re-
lated OH the stand by the Common
wealth's witnesses who talked to him
Immediately after the murder.
Therefore. already at hand are a large
number OF points available to Mr.. Wen
denberg, and he cannot fail to use them.
Beulah Binford, the chances now are.
will appear later in rsbuttal, but the
girl may be excluded by the Common
wealth at the last minute, and Messrs,
Scherer and Wendenburg said this
morning: I'VE cannot say ourselves.
now, whether she will testify. We shall
not know for certain until the defense's
case is in"
taken as to the additional blood spots,'
said Special Agent L. L. Scherer. 81
went over that road myself on the
Wednesday morning after the crime.
and so did q number of other officers.
1 am as positive of this as l am Of any
point in the entire case. The question
was raised as to other blood spots. An
afternoon paper on Wednesday printed
that a second spot had been found, and,
although the road had already been
again and found nothing. The Robert
son boy says he saw the spots on
Thursday morning, two days after the
crime. His brother, the reporter, who
wrote the article about the second blood
spot, was still not satisfied SO / took him
over the road with me on Friday morn
ing, and We found nothing. We got out
at No. 160 telegraph pole and examined
the ground carefully.
His paper had printed the story on
Wednesday afternoon in good faith on
the statement Of q man we are pre-
pared to produce, who. after examin-
ing the real blood spot and noticing its
color and appearance. Is now firmly OF
the opinion that the spot he saw was
an expectoration Of tobacco juice. He
said it was not az large As tea cup.
Would Have Disappeared.
Our inspection OF the road was made
early Wednesday morning before 1t had
been much travelled. After the fact of
the murder became generally known.
hundreds Of motor cars raced about all
day Wednesday and Thursday, and any
such stain must have been obliterated
in the dust long before the Robertson
boy came along.
"iEven the big puddle, wet with fluid |
blood when first found, and carefully |
guarded through the night, until the |
bloodhounds came, and roped on all the
next day, had faded into a dull stain |
by Thursday afternoon. Had an un-
ending line Of motor cars been rolling |
dust over 1t, 1t would have been oblit- |
Grated long since. / expect to go on |
the stand myself in regard to this. and
participated in the search and who |
carefully examined the road for traces |
of blood or anything that might give |
US a clue to the crime"