The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
HENRY BEATTIE, JR.,
 TO TESTIFY IN HIS
 OWN BEHALF TODAY
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told other people in the house and my father, sister and went to Tom Owens house. Henry was in a room to the right of the hall. He was lying on a reclining chair and my father kneeling by his side. Henry was sobbing and moaning and fondling his wife's slipper"
 The witness corroborated his fathers testimony of yesterday as to Henry's manifestations of grief the night of the murder
 .sDid you examine the car?"
 When I got into it to go up the road I found blood on the left seat covered up and I got full of blood on the right seat .
 Why was the left seat covered.
 q was told 1t was covered with blood. '
 We ask that this be stricken out as hearsay," said Prosecutor Wendenburg.
 The court sustained the motion
 The witness said he drove the car prac- tically from the time Henry brought the dead woman to the Owen home until the next day.
 How bloody was the seat?" asked MT. Smith.
 Car Was Bloody
 ''1t was bloody enough to make big spot on my pants"
 Did you lift the seat up?''
 Yes, and blood ran in every direction after 1 nad fldOe1 dDOut lNO HOuiS. ? "f4ow much was that car run after the murder before being taken in charge by the county authorites?"
 Douglas said he had gone mp and down the Midlothian turnpike for miles sev- eral times. He declared the blood under the drivers seat still was soft the next day.
 Counsel for the defense asked permis- sion for it's witness to make an independ- ent examination of the automobile. A deputy sheriff conducted the witness to the machine in a barn several hundred yards from the courthouse.
 At this iuncture MT. Smith received a message telling him of an important wit ness, and the court gave him permission to suspend the examination of witnesses for a few minutes. As he left the room MT. smith said it probably would be nec- essary to summon the witness at once
 When the message was read by the ,--ssaner who sat beside Mr. Smith, he bee.sne excited and pounded on the table in sfsnt Of him several times his face talked quickly to him. It was just a moment after this that MT. Smith left the room, and the courts session was in terrupted.
 The message it was learned, came from his son in Richmond, who also has worked on the case.
 Young Smith. it was said, had dscov- cred the new witness. It was learned l that the new witness will corroborate a story of a Louisville man that he knew | of man and woman who travelled the Midlothian turnpike on the night of tho murder. and that the machine stopred once and the woman stood on the running ! board. This fact, if established will be used by the defense to controvert the testimony Of several boy witnesses of the prosecution, that they saw man and a woman in car similar to Henry Clay Beattie Jr's on the road and that the man was no! in the machine By the testimony of the boys the prosecution has contended that inc ac- cused was moi in his seat in the cal ' when the murder occurred. MT. smitF returned to the court room at f2 ocIocl; and continued his examination of Dong. las Beattie, who was on the stand he. fore the half hours Interruption.
 %N Describes Visit T The witness told in detail of his firsi Nisit, to Tho scene of the tragedy a few hours after IL happened and the find. i ing of the big blood spot
 He related how he motored back ant