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The Washington times., 1911-09-07
India Press Attacks
Durbar Extravaganza

CALCUTTA, India, Sept. IA series
OF violent attacks are being made
upon the British government King
/ George, in particular. as a result of
the announcement here of plans for
the Kings visit to India in December
for the holding of the durbar at Delhi.
The trip of the King and the royal
escort will cost approximately $780,
600. 900. Most of this expense will
have to be betrayed by the Indian
government. and a large portion of
the country is now suffering from
drought, famine, and plague.
The cost of the durbar and the grand
review alone will be nearly $4,000, 600,
and this means but two\ days of the
months stay his majesty will make
in India.
The native press suggests that the
500, 200, 900 be used to relieve suffer-
Ing
The Washington times., 1911-09-07

started for their days labor. and Henry
Clay Beattie slept on like a child.
Breakfast was brought to his cell, and
still he slept. The crowds collected out
side of his cell window and speculated
upon the time Of his appearance. Some
even went 50 far as to poke sticks
through the CRATES of his barred win
dow, but the young man slept as peace
fully as sleeps a baby on its mothers
breast. He may have been appre-
hensive as to what the day might bring
forth, but II he was nobody knew Of
this but Henry Clay Beattie himself
II the prisoner Is now, or has ever been,
at all worried over what the future
holds in store for him. he does not show
It either by word,-look. or manner.
A perfect rain Of testimony has been
produced, bearing on the immortality of
this young man. Facts have been sworn
TO that would bring a blush to the cheek
Of a stronger man than Henry Clay
Beattie. He himself has told of HIS
numerous liaisons, but he has never
WINGED, Fever become uneasy as the
sordid blackness OF his twenty-six years
Of life has been uncovered with the
searching examination the prosecution
has given him.
II has been vivissction without an
esthetics. A blackness as Of the mire
has been revealed, but young Beattle
only uncovers his even white teeth In
a scornful smile in which there Is no
ing over what he has accomplished with
that power over women he has boosted
he possesses.
No Affection for Wife.
But there Is never a scintilla of at
lection for the girl he made his wife,
the girl who became the mother of his
child. the girl who went down TO her
foul death that night. He talked as
calmly of the manner in which she met
her death as he would have talked OF
shooting a rabbit.
There were oceans Of love, brimming
over with kisses" fer the other girl"
but not one word for the sweet, trust
ing, innocent wife. A fatuous smile
illuminated the sallow pastiness Of his
face when he told Of the time he gave
TO the goiden-haired, xalse-hearted, way
ward girl, Beulah Binford, but when he
spoke of his own wife and their little
child, his voice Was lead-there was no
emotion upon his face.
Almost any man would have collapsed
after all these facts had been brought
10 light. but not Henry CLAY Reattie. ir.
His demeaner on the witness stand
in fact, his entire demeaner since that
Aohoi 40 mas oNSON ASANh S'
a sort OF wonder.
Is II because those terrible events
of the night OF July IS have scared
themselves into his brain that the
young mans intellect is tottering on its
throne? Some people are kind enough
to give this as an excuse for the alb
sence of emotion he displays.
Is 1t because he Is a creature of Ice
and steel: II he is. this contradicts
the statement made by him on the wit
ness stand that he loves his wife
Is II because he is stalking his all on
this last desperate and final throw of
the dice of life. realizing that II he
falters now, nothing will save him?
Whatever 1t Is that is holding Henry
Clay Beattie. jr., together, 1t is some
thing so wonderful. so puzzling, SO
mystifying that nobody has
been found who will attempt to under
stand or explain it.
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
Music Houses After
The Channel Swimmer

LONDON, Sept. Rival London anc
Paris music hall managers bic against
each other today to obtain the appear
ance in their places OF William T. Bur-
lish Channel. The highest offer SO far
is $500 a week. Burgess Is yet unde-
oided. -.-. -.
To prove that he was IN good physi-
cal condition following mis- long swim.
during which he, covered enough dis
lance in the water to cross the channel
three times, Burgess TOOK a half hour 8
swim in the sea today.
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
Rumor That Beattie
Witness Letter Was
Mailed in District

There was a report around Police
Headquarters today that the letter
from an alleged eyewitness of the
Beattie murder, which may result in
the reopening of the trial, was post
marked Washington, and that Central
Office detectives here were working
on the case.
police, denied that there was any
truth in the report. He said all the
police knew about the letter was
what they read in the newspapers,
and denied that the Richmond au-
thorities had asked him to take a
hand in the case.
Two Southern railway detectives
visited headquarters this afternoon.
but Inspector Boardman said their
call had no bearing on the letter in
the Beattie case
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
Paul Beattie Freed
From Jail; Starts
- At Once for Home

RICHMOND, Sept. Paul Beattie
was released from Jail today, and
started at once for the home where his
wife and baby have been awaiting his
coming for weeks
An attempt by the prosecution to pre-
vent the release of Paul and Beulah
Binford until the Beattie jury returned
q verdict failed, Judge Watson ruling
that there was no excuse for holding
them when they could no longer take
Sae stand.
Il am sure glad to get out of that
1ail," said Paul shortly after his re-
lease. 1T wasn't so bad after 1 got
used to it, but it wasn't pleasant place
to be in"
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
CAPITAL WOMAN
BELIEVES BEATT|E
CAN'T Be CONVICTED
Mrs. Anne Watson, Sister of
/ Attorney Wendenburg,
Explains Case.

Mrs. Anne Won Kettler Watson, sis
ter of Louis Wendenburg, chief State,
attorney in the Beattie case, who Hvei
at LIB Seventeenth street northwest
has returned to Washington after {
brief visit in New York, and today
threw some new light on the murder
case which is attracting the attention
Of the entire country.
Mrs. Watson, who is a native OF
Richmond, Va. is personally acquainted
with the attorneys If both sides of TIE
case, the judge, and several of the
leading witnesses. She spent several
days in Richmond at the beginning Of
the trial, and after long conversations
with her brother, is familiar. even to
The details, with the affair.
Il don't know what Louis thinks
about the case now" Mrs. Watson said
this afternoon, but from the begin
ming he has feared that 1t would be
difficult to select jury of Chesterfield
very friendly toward the Beatties.
Doesn't Expect Conviction.
81 do not believe that Henry Clay
will be convicted. Not that
aa nix him guilty, but because
vcrve sF Two or three men-staid
fsiFsa-6-. county cittzens-who feel
lhlL E.. under some obligations to
~ Faith he prisoner, and that they
gaEusf utiously send him to the
u- ne how the trial has all
Virginia by the ears. When l was there
business and commerce was perilously
near being entirely suspended. Through
out eastern Virginia the same condition
has existed.
81 am unable to understand why the
trial has caused so much excitement
The Beattie family is supposed to be
a wealthy one. Well, for Manchester.
the father of the prisoner may be
cause there is but little wealth in that
section. In Richmond he would not
be considered even in the comfortably
wealthy class.
Probably the good looks of the
mysterious woman in the case-Beulah
Binford-is responsible for the interest"
Fairness Toward Beattie.
Mrs. Watson says that ner brother
does not want Henry Clay Beattie, jr.,
convicted unless it can be positively
proved that he committed the murder.
Louis has told every witness before
placing him on the stand that he want
ed nothing but the truth. If the young
OF them, then 1 want to prove it. If he
did not, l want him released. 1 would
do nothing unfair to send him to the
electric chair"
Mrs. Watson's mother, who also re-
sides at the Seventeenth street resi-
dence, and her twelve-year-old daugh-
ter, Miss Margaret Watson, a personal
friend of the Baroness Hengelmuller,
are in Richmond at this time, visiting
Attorney Wendenburg.
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
Supreme Court Has Big
Rate Case to Decide

The Supreme Court has before It. in
what are known as the Minnesota rate
cases. one of the biggest questions Il
will be called on to decide the coming
year. This question involves the matter
of whether the States are going to be
allowed to retain authority to regulate
intrastate rates.
In the Minnesota rate cases, Judge
Sanborn, Of the Federal circuit court,
held in effect that any regulation of
State rates is reflected in interstate
{ rates, and for this reason such reglIla-
ton interfered with interstate COM
merce-
State railway commissions in all parts
Of the country have taken alarm at this
decision. A number of them have al
ready taken steps to have their side Of
the controversy heard in the Supreme
Court when the arguments are pre-
scented.
1t Is widely recognized that If the San
born decision stands II will go far to
abolish State lines In raflroading. -
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
SHOWS NO
SIGNOF BREAKDOWN
Remarkable Stoicsm of Youth Continues Secret of His
Wonderful Steel Nerves Is Still Puzzling All
Observers
By JULIA MURDOCH.
Over Times Leased Chesterfield Court House.

CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE,
Va. Sept. 7-Could you do it?
Gould any being of flesh and blood
sit calmly by and listen for seven
heart-wringing, nerve-destroying hours
TO testimony that blackened apd
blackened 70 a still deeper density.
ones very soul, yet meet it all with q
smile?
Have inquisitorial rack or torture
block ever been more cruelty used to
exact confession of crime than were
the cross questions hurled at Henry
Clay Reattie with the force and rapid
ity of pneumatic riveter on the day
he met the prosecution In a desperate
battle with fate?
! Yet not flicker Of an eyelid, not a
cuaver OF tone told that Henry c.
Beattie, jr., was concerned even In the
slightest degree
Telltale bloody garments were Haunted
before his eyes, and the stains on them
were stains made by the life blood Of
his wife, Louise. whom he had testi-
| fed he loved. Even these CORY gar
ments did not cause the slightest
tremor of emotion. He was told -
put on the blood-stained coat, an Or
deal from which almost any man IN
the world would shrink in terror, bit
with every appearance of alacrity he
stood up. Strengthening himself and
the garment carefully, pulling It down
at the collar, fiattening It out on the
shoulders, more mindful of the way II
fitted him than OF the awful event It
recalled.
Told His Story coolly.
Coolly he told the jury his version OF
that ride through the moonless night.
CoolIy he showed the lawyers and jur-
ors how his young wife-happy and
light hearted, but a moment before
had ''crumpled up in the seat beside
him after the shot had ben fired.
CoolIy he described the way the blood
had run from her head, and not even
was there a tremor In his voice to de-
note that the story In all its sickening
details had Weakened In him the slight
est spark Of emotion.
Flicking a grain Of dust from the
sleeve of his coat. reaching across in
q graceful. languid gesture for a glass
of water. occasionally touching his lips
with a pocket handkerchief, hitching
up his trousers for fear of bags at the
knees, and pulling down his cuffs so
that they would show just that per-
feet half inch. he told his story. with
keen attention to appearances, and he
told II well
Only once during the whole CORY re-
cital did his eyes grow dim. That was
when the most melancholy part of his
testimony was reached, wherein the
doctor had SAID She Is dead" Then
there were few-only few-tears. At
all other times he was as cool, as calm,
as colorless as a calm gray glacier-as
cold, as hard, and as unexplainable,
1t was not a game fight. IL was more of
a calm encounter, in which he was I'M
shakable and mistaken to the very
end.
Z Sleeps Like a Child.
And the following morning he slept
until s o'clock. The prison gang, with |
clanking iron chains, left the Jail and |
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
A Truthful Man.

You appear to have every conf
dence IN your husband,
"Well, he Is very truthful. For In
stance, be sent me word yesterday
that he was detained downtown"
by business, chr"
mo; by baseball
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
Sleeps Like a Child.

And the following morning he slept
until o'clock. The prison gang. with
clanking iron chains, left the jail and
The Washington times., 1911-09-07
Question Of Motive.

Regarding the question of motive,
Judge Gregory continued:
I'VE have shown that this wife with
the babe on her bosom, was xa faith
full woman. Is there any reason why
he should leave this young wife and
The Washington times., 1911-09-07

The story is believed to be true 1t
may be that the tale Of girl or girls
being present with the man is not so,
but 1t is confidently held that there was
an actual eyewitness OF the homicide.
The Beattie case needed only sensa-
ticnal denouement such as the Common
wealth has been seeking the last twen-
ty-four hours to make Il the most
surprise-givipg murder trial of the
twentieth century.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
THIRTY GRADUATES.
Commencement Exercises at Har.
din College Begins This Week.

The Hardin College Commence
ment concerts began this week
The remaining entertainments vii
be as follows:
Friday-Graduate piano recita'
by pupils of Professor Guerne and
Professor Gjerdrum.
May 15-Graduate piano recital
by pupils of Miss Sawyer.
May 17-Graduate piano recital
by pupils of Professor Guerne.
May 1S-Graduate expression
recital
May 22-Graduate voice recital
by pupils of Mrs. Adam.
May 23-Graduate piano recital
by pupils Of Miss Lawson.
May 25-Graduate art levee. af-
ternoon and evening.
May 26-Postgraduate recital
piano, Ruth Covington; voice,
Frances GuptOn.
May 2S-Baccalureate sermon
II a. m., Doctor w. C. Anderson.
Springfield.
May 29-ClasS day and alumnae
day.
May 30-Graduating exercises
The 1911 graduates are: Liter
ary-Pauline Bretch A. b.. ilo-
bart, Ok; Clara Haggard, A. B..
Mexico, Mo-. Veda Mckinney, A..
b., Gillian, Mo-; Gladys Anna
Seider, A. B., Okmulgee, Ok. !;
Myrtle Moore, b. L., Mexico, Mo. !;
Marie Rose, B. L., Mexico, Mo. !;
Jessica Wayham, B. L., st. Louis,
Mo.
PianO-Lena Bryarly, Mexico,
Mo-; Claudia Covington, Coal
gate, Ok. Margaret Cunningham,
Mexico, Mo-; Frances Folsom
Guthrie, Mexico, Mo-; India Cor
nelia Hines, Sallisaw, Ok; Mar
garet Irvine, Marshall, Mo, ; Beat
rice johnson, Moberly, Mo-. ; Flor
ence Agusta Nettels, Topeka, ,Kas. :;
Ruth Robertson, Mexico, Mo. +;
Laura Irene Shelton, Okmulgee.
Ok.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
M. w. A. GATHERING.
Mexico Man Delegate to the Nat
ional Camp at Buffalo.

Hannibal, Mo, May 3.-The
State Camp of the Modern Wood
men Of America convened in Han
nibal this morning. The conven-
tion tonight was concluded by "A
moonlight excursion on the Mis-
sissippi River. More than 300
representatives, from every part
of the State, were in attendance.
Before the election of officers
Sedalia was selected for the 1914
State Camp. Columbia, Mexico
and other places were contcnding
for the meeting.
Russell Kneisley of Carrollton,
Mo. was elected State council.
James \. Kerr of Ozark, Mo, was
made State clerk. Sixty-four del
egates to the National Camp, to be
held at Buffalo, n. Y, in June,
were chosen. They were in
structed to vote for II. II. Smith of
Brookfcld, Mo, for member of the
National Board of Directors, and
G. S. Summers of Cape Girardeau,
Mo, for national auditor.
Mayor John Drcyer welcomed
the camp in behalf of the city.
Sidney j. Roy, secretary of the
Commercial Club. made the ad-
dress of welcome for the local
camp. John Sullivan of Kansas
City responded.
Among those who attended the
Hannibal meeting from AudraiE
county were Val Erdel Of Rush
Hill and J. w. Plunkett of Mexico.
The latter is one of the 64 dele
gates to go to the National Camp
meet at Buffalo. "Pomp" Plum
kett is clerk of the Mexico camp
has served in that capacity for
a number Of years-and is one of
the hardest workers in the Mod
ern Woodmen cause in the State.
Val Erdel left nothing undone to
help his Audrain Neighbor get the
place of national delegate. Val
Erdel is all right, too.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
HIGH HILL DISTRICT.

Planting corn is the order of the
day. Quite number planted in
our district last week.
c. f. Sellers has three rafting
good mule colts.
Ollie Sims and family and j. X.
Botkin and family spent Sunday
with B. F. Pulls and wife.
Charly Boyd of Boone county
brought sheep and horses to
Elmer Shock s pasture here.
j. l.. Smith and wife and daugh-
ter visited their daughter, Mrs.
John Beatty, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCamman at
tended the funeral of Tommy Cox
Sunday at Hickory Grove church.
c. Z. Sellers bought Of ID. d.
Oyer COW and calf for $3S. Also
six Shoats, 100 lbs. each, at 6 cts
per ib.
Mrs. John Rediger was called to
Illinois last week on account of
the serious illness of her sister
there. Mrs. Rediger came home
Monday and left her sister in a
critical condition. Has consump-
ton.
A large crowd was in attend
ance at the dedication of the new
Christian church in Centralia
Sunday.
Charley Sellers bought two
calves of John Rediger at $3.50
per head.
j. +. Edwards, Barton Imam
and John Rediger shipped a ear
of sheep Monday.
Jessie Pulls was in our district
the first of last week visiting
friends and relatives.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
THE SCHOOL BOY.
He Likes The Study of Agricul
ture-Progress in Audrain.

w. II. Thompson, Of Laddonia.
one of the most progressive young
farmers in all Audrain county.
has the following interesting ar
ticle in the Missouri Farmer and
Breeder, published at Columbia.
Mo-:
knowledge is power" and
adds interest, enthusiasm and in
Spiration to the vocation or profes
sion in which a person is engaged
We might travel the world over
and view some of the grandcst
wonders of nature or some of the
greatest accomplishments of man.
both ancient and modern, and
they would mean hut little to us
if we did not have some previous
knowledge of their why and
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
New Suits Filed.

Horace Mundy has filed suit in
the Circuit Court against the c. &
A. railroad, alleging that defend
ant failed to keep the fence along
its right of way touching plain
tiff's land in good repair and on
four different occasions he lost
hogs because of this neglect, for
which he asks damages for 1910.
Ed. NJ. Crooks of Rush Hill has
sued the same road, alleging that
said road, over which he shipped
some stock last January, failed to
deliver them for the following
days market, for which he asks
1900 damages.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
The Sleepers Poisoned.

Fayette, Mo-, May IA pc
culiar case of poisoning occurred
near this city in the case of
Thelma, daughter of Romie Leach.
and Christine, daughter of Ernest
Dougherty.
The children were sleeping in
rooms freshly papered with green
and purple wall paper. The
moisture caused deadly poison
- fill the rooms. The odor was
perceptible, but the parents
believed it harmless. The Leach
child is at the point of death.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
CENTRAL AMERICA.
Former Mexico Woman Visits the
Canal and British Honduras.

Mrs. Hugh Sproul OF Paris, Mo-,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. ". \.
Boatman OF Mexico, returned re.
Gently from British Honduras,
where she visited her brother,
hoDert bOatman, and her nephew,
Eddie Johnston, late OF near San
ia Fe, who are located there. She
mad a delightful trip. Returning
she visited the Panama canal. Re-
garuIng her visit in the territory
Of the canal the Paris Appeal says
Mrs. Hugh Sproul presented the
Odd Fellows Lodge with a rose
wood and mahogany gavel as a
souvenir Of her trip to Central
America. She was amazed at the
work already accomplished in the
Panama canal zone. Thirty-nine
thousand men are employed every
day. Five thousand barrels of ce.
mcnt are required every day on
one section of the big ditch.
Rivers have been eliminated,
mountains removed, a great lake
constructed and mighty chasms
filled up. Once the deadliest 10.
cality on earth, the canal zone is
now the healthiest because it has
been made the most sanitary. All
underground, the disease breeding
swamps and the dreaded mosquito
which scattered yellow fever
germs, have been eradicated. The
government has provided eX.
cellent quarters for all the work
mon. Every house has running
water and sewer facilities. Re-.
ligious services, public entertain.
ments and other things calculated
to make the workmen contented,
have been provided by the govern.
ment. Health officers inspect
every house in the zone every
week. Provisions are supplied to
the workmen as cheap as they
could be had at home. In short,
the work is being carried on un-
der the most favorable conditions
and without regard to expense.
and every day brings nearer a re-
alization of the the dream of the
centuries, the union of the Allan
tie and Pacific waters across this
narrow iSthmus.
Mrs. Sproul went from the At
lantic to the Pacific side by rail.
making the trip in two hours.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
Centralia Christian Church.

The new Centralia $4,000
Christian church was dedicated
last Sunday. Rev. u. y. Sweeney
of Columbus, Indiana, preached
the dedicatory sermon. About 100
persons attended from Mexico.
Rev. w. A. Shullenberger of the
Mexico Christian church delivered
the communion sermon in the
afternoon.
They are liberal in their giving
to church because in Centralia
There was a balance of $4,000 to
Iiquidate the Indebtedness Of this
new church, and last Sunday
morning, in a very short time.
81 900 was subscribed to square
this debt.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
The County Infirmary.

r. II. Phillips, chief engineer
for the electric railroad, is draw
ing plans for the new county poor
house. 1t will be built near the site
OF the old buildings. 1t is pro-
posed to build two wings, one for
men and one for women, two stor-
les high, and to converge into a
three story front, the whole to be
as sanitary as possible and as
nearly fire proof, too, as possible,
The building will be heated by
steam, electric lights will be put
in and IA complete water system
installed.
When compelled the building
will be a structure worth while.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-05-11
Mexico High School.

tuesday, May 16-Class play,
one Of Eight" at Grand Opera
House, 8 p. m.
Thursday, May 1S-Drawing
and Manual Training displays at
High School, 2 p. m.
Friday, May 19.-Commence-
lent exercises and address by DR..
"inship; Grand Opera House at
. p. m, Last day of grade school /;
ulSplay of work and programs at
B p. m.
Saturday, May 2O-Promotion
oddreSs-eighth grade-at high
school study hall at s p. m.