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Show BEATTIE IS BITTER OVER THEjfERDICT Was Judged for Indiscretions Indiscre-tions Rather Than Tragedy, Trag-edy, He ThinKs. CITY JURY MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT Grief of Condemned Wife Murderer's Father Is . Heart Rending. . CHESTEBJTELD OOUXTHOUBE. I Va, Sept. 0. Barer repudiation of Beulali Binford aa a girt from whoa bo Vainly triad to detach himself and the direct Imputation that the Jury Judged him more for hia lndlscretlonj than the tragedy ltaelf, came today from the 11 pa of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, convicted laat night of wife nrar-der. nrar-der. Any other jnry, composed of 'city folk, with broader view,, would hare been more merciful, waa hi, bitter lament. la-ment. - '"Fearfully unfair," ha muttered In hia cell when aeked hia opinion of the verdict. ."Beulah Binford," he added, "figured "fig-ured largely in the verdict, mora largely large-ly than the teatimony of th killing. That country folk cannot understand bow woman of the underworld cat be eraxy about you. They don't know when' that happen, bow very hard it ia to get rid of her. "I have drifted along, hoping against hope, that something would occur to rid myself of that Binford girl. Aad one a woman of that kind feels thst you no longer tak any interest in her, she usually seeks solse in suicide. So I drifted along, waiting; for a chance to break off relatione with bar without having her hurt herself. I tried bard to persuade her ia the meantime to lira a proper life. Critic! Bui lawyer. "Had 4hia casa been tried where these things ar not uncommon this moraiog I would bare ba a free man. Interpreting Judg Watson's instructions instruc-tions to the jury. I cannot see how tb rstdiet eon Id hve beea other than not aS'l.ty, I. heUef the Jnry,. wa influenced W the oa aided mewspaper report before I had chance to present' pre-sent' toy aide of th eaa. I wanted to giro .out a statement -aa soon aa 1 was arrested, b-nt-Mr. Smith, my lawyer, law-yer, advised, against this. " ' "I have not given np hope," because I esnnot feel that aa innocent man will he permitted-to suffer for thi hideous hide-ous erime." . There were. msnv. rumors abroad to- day that Beattie would never die in the electric chair; that he would find aome means of committing suicide when sll hope of gaining hia freedom waa gone. V Bill " Sampson, his cbum, and one of the important witnesses at tha trial, was quoted aa aving: i "Henry Besttie will not die in the chair. . It will ba some other way." "If he ia convicted he haa nerve enongh to kill himself before others do, ' said Baulah Binford, iuat before her departure from Riehmona. Heavy Ouard Around Jail. A heavy guard patrolled the little stone Chesterfield jail last night, ami today guardsmen were the only persons Best-tie Best-tie saw aa he looked out on the scene which had re.-ently been covered with his fellow countrymen. He ate tils breakfast break-fast In silence. Best lie's thin, pallid fare wore a flu-kerin smile aa be cased throush th grated window. Home tlm today ft la expected that Beattie will be taken to' th etate penitentiary peni-tentiary In Richmond to await electrocution electro-cution on November 24, or the granting of a new trial by th court of appaals, which meets early In that month. Many lawyer today discussing- th possibility pos-sibility of a writ of error were of th vplnlon that It would not b aranrcd. The court appeal they aacened. set a precedent In th famous McCun cms In 1104. Public feeling; ovr th rrlm still runs h(gh In this section and In Richmond, where Beattie Hred. Th vrdlct was received with little surprise by th community. com-munity. Th loud votced spech of L. C. Wendenburg;. th prosecuting attorney, still rang In th ear of th poop) today aa they talked of th cas. , . Bjmpathy for Father. Expressions of sympathy war heard everywhere fr th aged father of the prisoner, a prominent merchant and highly high-ly respected citizen. Hia gTlef today was heartrending. Th affection between th father and son. manifested In th kmg days of th trial aa they sat side by side, was said by the father on tha witness stand to hav grown Intensely sine the early death of th Ny a mother. It wa tha theory of the prosecution that fear lest his father mlgnt learn from th lip of Henry s wife of his renewed indiscretions with th Binford girl that prompted young Beattie to commit th rrlm and fabricate th tal of th bearded highwayman. high-wayman. Bent In sorrow at th awfutn of th blow, the ldr Beat 1 1 vtalted the prle-oner prle-oner today. rvunH had told htm not to lose hop, that they yt mlfht have his boy's life. |