The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-09-05

JaiIer Permits Prisoner to Meet Coun-
sci and Relatives Under Great
White Oaks In Jail Yard--EVery
Detail of Case as Presented by
Commonwealth Is Threshed Out.
Reported Suicide of Accused Muir
derer Creates CONSERVATION.
Chesterfield c. H., Va, Sept. A.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., spent many
long hours in consultation with one
of his two lawyers, Strengthening
himself and being strengthened
against today's supreme test when he
takes the stand to plead for his life.
When Harry Smith, the lawyer, mo-
tored to the courthouse over the
roads of the wilderness, Jailer Bill
Cogbill, exercising a kind discretion,
unlocked the iron door of the gloomy
little red brick jail behind the court
house and let the prisoner come out
and sit under the great white oak.
His father soon came to join them,
and the brother, Douglas, VINO had
on Friday rendered doubtful help to
his brother on the witness stand.
All morning and far into the after
noon, the earnest group, with backs
against the rough tree, kept heads to-
gether. By and by the lawyers went
over every piece of damaging teSti-
mony that had been a part of the
commonw ealth's strong case against
the young man. Paul Beattie's incrim-
mating story Of how he had pur-
chased the shotgun with which the
murder of Henry's wife was done;
the sordid details of the prisoners
long continued relations with the girl
Beulah Binford, whom the common
wealth's attorney still holds rs pos
sible witness; Henry's own story OF
how his wife had been shot down at
his side in the automobile these top
les were winnowed with infinite pa
thence.
When the dark began to come Jail
er Bill strolled over to the group,
jingling his key. The elder Beattie
embraced his son and he went back
to the Jail.
Reporters Are Disappointed.
Into the midst of this serenity had
burst a hurley-burley of alarm.
rumor had sprung from the ground
that Beattie had taken his own life
in his cell at the Chesterfield county
Jail. The report spread from the
Richmond newspaper Office to the no.
tells where the out-of-town reporters
were staying and string Of automo-
biles, carrying reporters, whisked
over the wilderness roads at break
neck speed. The group under the
white oak, with the calm and self
contained prisoner, nattily garbed in
his creased suit in the midst, was
what the reporters saw when their
machines painted up to the courthouse
green.
Arguments of counsel upon the in
structions of the court will begiI
Thursday, according to Attorney Wen
denburg, and Friday will be occupied
by the summing up On each side, and
the case will go to the jury FRIDAY
night.
Wendenburg would not say whether
or not he will call Beulah Binford tt
the stand in rebuttal He admitted
that there was a strong possibility
that he would decide to put the cir
before the jury after Henry Beatti,
steps from the stand Everything
would depend upon what the prisone
himself states when he is his owl
witness.
There is no mistaking the fact the
the prosecution is not at all sure a
to what the girls attitude would b,
on the stand, and that it will not risl
having her turn out an unfavOrabl
witness unless it feels that by max
ing herself the defenSe's witness b,
a hostile attitude she would lay heI
self open to damaging revelations OF
cross-eXanination. Meanwhile Henr
Beattie must testify without havin
the benefit of knowing how great O
little Beulah Binford might harm hin
by her testimony, He can not kno1
which Of his statements she will b
called upon TO refute He does know
that from the mouth of Beuiah Biz
ford the prosecution has drawn muc
Of the material that they hav
launched against him.
Say Witness Too Reticent.
1t became known that several Ricf
mond detectives are digging turthe
into the story that Charles H. Kaste
berg, the butcher, told so unwillingl
on the witness stand. 1t is said b
did not tell all he knew, but withheld
some important features. Kastelber
was the witness who said that he ha
been out with woman companion O
the Midlothian turnpike on the nigl
OF the murder and that this was tn
car which was passed by two auto
full Of Richmond youths and mistal
en- by them for Beattie's car. Tn
detectives who were investigating al
said to have the name of a man [
whom Kastelberg spoke upon his r