The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-11-25
CONDEMNED MAN SMILED
AS HE WAITED ~ CHAIR.
For the Shock That Vas To End
: His Life for Brutal Midlothian
Road Murder.
Body Claimed by Parents. Who
Will Have Remains Buried sun
day | nder Police Guard.

Clay Bsattl~. Jr. went to his death
a. dawn today. The SELF oufes-sd .
murfereT OF Ais young vlf.. sIthousn
ne confession Nar not made public
until four hours AFTER hs had paid the
toll eGActod hy the fa~ lie maln
iained % th. end the remarkable
nerve he had exhibited since nrst he
MAS accused or k.lung h., Nif- on
TIE lonely Midlothian turnpike last
July. ri. last eNpre--ion vss a sneer
when he Ousers"d The chair hat va
10 launch him into eternity
The COnlesHiou VAS made public Ia D
the rotunda % a dOeutovu hotel By
the Rev. benjamin Denui-. one 81 the
ministers who had Iaborcd with
beattie to repent. A. matter Of
fact Il wRE Acknowledged bt the min !
ister Bsattie hrst admitted his guilt
November %. the day after be entered /
the death chamber and before the
fruitlssS appeal for a commutatiou oiI
sentence VAs made 90 Governor Mann.
IL was not until yesterday that be-
would agree 10 lie being put Ia writ
Ing for his signature Then all hope .
that the governor would Interfere vas
gone. The extraordinary document
follows:
4. Henry clay Beutt-e. Jr. desir /
pis OF standing right before God aud
man. do on this 23d day OF november.
l9llf confess my guilt OF the crime
charged against mc. Much that WAS
fpublished cOncerniug the details was
' not true. but the awful lact. without
the narrowing circumstance. remaius
For this action ! am truly sorry. and /
BELIEVING that am a. peace with God
aud am soon TO pass lnto his pres
enee. this statement Is made
No Detailed Confession
Beattie's confession was followed
by the following statement b. the at
tending ministers
This statement was signed In the
presence OF tho two attending minis |
terp and r. tho only statement that
can and will b. made public by them
Mr.. Beatiie desired To thank the
many friends for kind letters and ex
pressions Of interest and the public
for whstever sympathy was felt or
expressed"
Beattie's attitude throughout the
trial aud the Imprisonment that
waited only on his death was study
for Psychologist lie read the news
papers Av dis Every reference 20 his
iron nerve and to tho fact that he
was going to the chair without
acknowledging HIS crime ln the hope
OF saving his aged father further sor-
row, according 10 those Who Ncre with
him 20 the end. seemed to AFFORD him
supreme satisfaction Apparently he
gloated over the notoriety HIS crime
had brought him
Even after h.s confession ne main
talnod his air OF bravado What had
since November q. been cons .fered
stoicism IL nov regarded a. cyn.cism
His remarkable nerve now seems 'o
have had its basis and support In the
knowledge thai he Was being an
piauded a. man of spartan courage
and lnheVlble Will
Father Believed Him innocent
y The secret of hiz confession V1a
held inviolatc hs fho ministers urrf
today. Not even fhr brokerhplrtrl
father kn"N ~ iis existence friend
OF the family declare
Not until four hours a.rer ha has
been pronounced dcad Boo The death
chamber In stHfrs prison vsra trr
murderers attorneys cognirlrt "a
he had mai" clean breast a. r.a
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