The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-24
BEATT|E JURY IS
 NOW COMPLETED Battle for Young Virgin ian's Life Begins Today JUDGE CHARGES JURY Binford Woman May Not Testify Until Late in Trial-Beattie Is
 Calm and Composed In
 His Cell
JUDGE CHARGES JURY

1HeSleTllt1u Nd., fAh- gust 23.-The jury which will decide whether or not Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., of Richmond shall go to the electric. chair, convicted of wife murder, was completed today. Beauties battle for his life will begin at 10 o'clock tomor- row morning, to which hour the court adjourned. The commonwealth then will call it's first witness.
 The prisoner was locked up for the night in the small jail here and will not be returned to the Richmond jail during the trial. His gray-haired father embraced him and journeyed home in dusty public conveyance
 Made up almost entirely Of lean, bronze-faced farmers, the jury follows the lines indicated by Mondays selec- tions. The 12 men, as they remain after the defense exercised it's four peremptory challenges on the panel of 16 are:
 N. w. Farley, quarryman, 3l years old; E. L. Wilson, 3s A, l.. Fetteroff, contractor, 34; Irving l.. Bass, Jr., 30; v ". Fuqua, 27; W. L. Burgess, 52; M E. Purdy, 27; M. c. Robinson, A; Thomas A. Hancock, 37; Lewis Robert son, A; w. P Rocks, Ss M. E. Blanken- ship, assistant superintendent of a silk mill, 3S.
 All of the foregoing Ae farmers ex- cept the three otherwise stated.
 Beattie conferred' earnestly with his lawyers and studied intently the faces in the full panel of 16 men before the de- fense decided on it's eliminations
 Then, after a moment of whispered con- versation with H. M Smith, Jr., his chief counsel. the prisoner nodded his head, and the clerk announced that the names of four farmers selected on Monday were dropped from the list.
 Jury Is Charged
 In charging the jury, who Will be keos during the trial at an old tavern near the courthouse, Judge Walter A. Wat son simply set forth the law of Virginia as applicable to homicide. AS the indict- ment covers all degrees from the first de- gree to involuntary manslaughter, he ex-' pIained that the defendant might be found guilty accordingly
 'If you find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, said the court, you shall say go, and nothing more, in which event punishment shall be death. but if you find him guilty of murder in the second degree you shall say so, and shall fix his punishment by confinement in tsc penitentiary not less than five or not gore than IS years"
 After citing the penalty for lesser de- grees of manslaughter the court con- cluded with the words: "If you find the prisoner not guilty of any of the offenses charged, you shall say so and no more."
 It was hot almost to suffocation in the little courtroom today. None of the wit nesses were on hand and those who came to see Beuah Binford, the girl in the case" were disappointed She probably will not be called to testify until late in the week.
 Thomas Owen, an uncle of Mrs. Beattie, to whose home Henry brought the body of his wife with tale of a bearded high wayman firing into his automobile from the roadway, probably will be the first witness called for the commonwealth in the morning.
 The day was set aside solely for com pletion of the jury, all witnesses having been excused until tomorrow so that when court convened there was nothing facing the defense and prosecution except the examination of the 30 ta1esmen summoned yesterday from the highways and byways of Chesterfield county.
 Beattie was brought from the jail In
  ent, as the law requires. while the jurors were being chosen. He was the only one of the trio held in connection with the case to be brought here. Beaulah Bin ford, arrested as a material witness, and Paul Beattie, the defendants cousin, sim ilarly held. being kept in their cells.
 The Binford girl, who declared yester- day that she hoped never again to see the man who was charged with murdering his wife for her sake. lounged in her cell while Henry made ready for the trip to Chesterfield. Silent and morose, Paul Beattie stood in the corridor of the jail and watched his cousin depart.
 As usual. Henry Beattie spent an un- broken night of sleep and dressed care fully for the trip to Chesterfield. He looked worried and a bit pale, but wore the same air of confidence that impressed spectators when he pleaded not guilty at his ara ignment on Monday.
 Henry Clay Beattie. Sr., father of the prisoner. was again at his sons side dur ing, the days proceedings. Grief stricken the father says little. but avows he will fight hard to save his boy from the cleo tric chair
 More than 75 witnesses have been sum moned by the prosecution and nearly 30 by the defense. The commonwealth will attempt to show that Beattie, tired of his wife. murdered her in order that he might resume relations with the BinfOrd girl. The defense will maintain that no one saw the motor car tragedy: that the prisoners version that his wife was shot by highwaymen is true, and that Paul Beattie, who says he purchased Tor Henry the gun with which Mrs. Beattie was shot. is ne'er-do-well and an unreliable