Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-22

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ONCE Mai. Werner found Capt. Mcmahon
and the informant, and the latter quick
ly explained Paurs hand in the alleged
murder. The informant went so far as
to say that the gun had been bought
from Sam stern, and to add that Paul
Beattie was so nervous and overcome by
the death Of Mrs Beattie that he only
needed touch to make him confess the
whole story.
Acting upon the informants state
mentS, Maj. Werner summoned Capt.
Wright of the third police station and
sent him with Capt. Mcmahon to see
by Stern. Capt Mcmahon requested the
postponement Of the inquest. but with
negative result.
Not deferred. however. by the rebuff
from the county authorities, Capts.
Wright and Mcmahon and Sam Stern
hurried to Paul Beattie's home. at 201
Randolph street. only to find him out
They returned about O'clock and
caught Beattie in. At the sight of the
officers Beattie's dismay and despair
were marked. He turned toward Stern
before the officers could speak and
cried:
Il did not buy it from him"
The officers attempted to calm him,
formation that the gun had been pur-
chased by Paul Beattie from 9Th
street pawnbroker last Saturday
evening and Immediately turned
over to II. c: Beattie, jr. While Capt
Wright and Mr.. Stern were endeayor-
ing to calm the overwrought Beattle
Capt. Mcmahon wrote out the confess
sion.
Scene Dramatic One.
Criminal history in Virginia will hardly
furnish more dramatic scene than that
witnessed yesterday on the lawn of Cor
oner j. g. Loving, on the Midlothian road
mile or more beyond South Richmond
During the entire morning jury and law
yers sat on the wide porch while Henry
Z. Beaftie, jr.. answered unflnchingly
ceaseless fire of questions, point after
point being gone over in the minutest de-
tail. first by Judge Gregory. common
wealth's attorney. and then by Louis o.
Wendenburg, associate counsel for the
prosecution.
From the start the hearing was an
every turn how he could explain some
seeming discrepancy. Sometimes his ex-
PLANTATION was ready, sometimes he was
unable to account for certain apparently
the back of his coat furnished & topic of
much discussion. Beattie was uncertain
whether he had his coat on or off at the
time of the murder The position Of the
alleged assailant and the manner of his
attack were also much emphasized. The
car itself was put in evidence. 1t was
drawn up beside the porch and young
.BeatHe stepped into it, taking the steer
ing wheel and demonstrating how he held
the body Of his wife on that wild ride
back to the Owen home.
On Stand Under Arrest.
In the afternoon Beattie was still on
no afQ hy1f writ nof
Bailey sitting beside him., He was then
under arrest charged with murder. There
was little change in his face-a slight
tw1tching possibly as Of rapidly beating
pulse on one side-but his calm never
broke, and he answered clearly, asserting
that his family life had been happy, and
that no man could say there had ever
been cross word between himself and
his wife.
The Binford woman proved the sensa-
tional witness OF the afternoon. But
seventeen years old. and a companion of
young Beattie in devious ways since her
thirteenth birthday, she yet answered
straightly the questions put to her, ad
hitting that in the resumption of her re-
lations with the accused in the past few
months she had beeI he aggressor, and
that she had written and ,,lephoned him
after coming here from Norfolk, and
finally persuaded him to see her at Sth
telling his family of their former as 30
citation. Their intimacy grew afresh &C.
cording to her testimony. and she came to
see him more and more frequently, and
also to correspond with him about her
housekeeping arrangements.
Failure Of Bloodhounds.
The complete failure of the blood
hounds to take any trail, though worked
faithfully, was testified to by those in
charge Of the dogs from the State Farm
and by the Richmond detectives, who ac-
companied them. The clot OF blood in the
road, the mechanism Of the motor car
and the blood stains yet to be seen on
it were discussed in detail, two de-
tectives testifying that the spot could
not have been made in the road by blood
dripping from the machine.
Hearsay evidence from witnesses, yet
to be examined in person, shows that
tape line was put in the exact spot
where the gun was found at the Belt
told of throwing 1t in the back of the
car and of it's jolting out on the way
home. At any rate, 1t was not in the
car when he got to the Owen place.
One man described spot twenty feet
from the crossing. where the weapon
was found, and the witnesses were or
the opinion that the gun could not have
fallen from the car in the manner de-
scribed.
Sent Her to School.
The Binford girl, when called TO the
stand, wore a white veil and hat with
light striped cloth suit. She was sworn
and gave her age as seventeen on the
18th Of this month She said she first
met Beattie August 3. four years ago, or
when she was Just thirteen years OF age.
Ibid he aid in your education?' she
was asked.
HE did. He sent me to St Mary's
Academy, at Alexandra, in October. after
l had known him a year. l was at
school a month, and got lonesome and
came back home.
The witness told of the birth Of the
child in Raleigh. n. c., in July, 1909. The
child died the following year She was
not here at the time, but understood
that Beattie had paid the funeral ex-.
penses. The witness said that her re-
lations with Beattie had been entirely
broken off before his marriage. and that
she had not seen him for two years
until she accidentally met him at ball
game in Norfolk two months ago, and
told him she was coming to Richmond