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Show BEAM IS ARRAIGNED FOR MURDER Yonni Virginian of Prominent Promi-nent Family Faces Charge of Slaying His Wife. TRIAL MAY PROVE . SPECTACULAR ONE Continuance Asked by Defense De-fense Is Overruled by Judge. " " CHESTEHriELD- C OTJRT EOTTBB, Va, Aag. 81 Standing by tbe aide of hi gray haired father, Henry Clay Seattle, Jr, of aUehmond entered a plow of not guilty here) today. hen arraigned In the circuit court on as Indictment charging him with the murder mur-der of big young wife. Ha did not flinch aa the) clerk read the indictment bat hlg father ' beside him eat with bowed head.. Ia half an hour tbe ' jury bad been selected.. Bareheaded, chewing gum and entiling, entil-ing, the prisoner arrived at the Chesterfield Ches-terfield county courthouse tbia moraine mora-ine to answer to tbe charge of killing hie wife in a motor ear oa turnpike ear Richmond, July 11. Judge Walter A. Wataon arrived shortly before tbe prisoner to convene court. , rather Arrlvee Karly. Beattie 'a aged father had -reaebed Chesterfield half as hour earlier. In oonrt father and son sat aide by aide and exchanged whispers. Beattie then began toteik with bis lawyers. The stage waa set for the opening of onav of the moat spectacular trials in the history , of Virginia. ' W. T. Tineley, the aged father-in-law of Judge .Walter Wataon of the Chee-terfleld Chee-terfleld circuit court, whoee grave ill-neat ill-neat gave fiae to report, of possible delay de-lay ia the eaae, spent a comparatively food night;, and the judge let it be neam that,, notwithstanding illneea ia tbe family, ha 'would be on hand to ooBveae eowrt. - Beattie was op early, ready for the fifteen-mile auto ride " from Richmond tp the wil here. ? . Jlia jailara ,aag be elept well, e h. baa done einoa hi anreet mora than a mnta ago. -He dreaeed carefully, nlaneed at the morning papers, ate a gbt breekfaet aad set waiting In the iail eorridor for- bis Arst trip ia the open air ainoe bis-imprieonmeat. Two Important Witnesses. ., , Beulab Biaford, the pretty seventeen, year-old. "girl in tbe case," made no pre pa rations to leave the jail in Bieh-mond, Bieh-mond, where' she baa been held aa a 'material witeeui but Paul Beattie, the priaoaer'a Cousin, who baa awora that be purchased the gna with which Lou 1m Welferd Owen Beattie waa shot, waa Instructed late last night that be must be -ready to make the journey by automobile au-tomobile to Chesterfield. Paul baa aaid little; since hia incarceration, but pa his testimony tbe commonwealth hopes to send hie twenty-six-year-old on sin to the eleetrie chair: The Biaford girl may be called as a witness aa tbe trial proirr eases. with prospects of the actual beginning begin-ning of Beattie 'a fight for life, t'bee-terneld t'bee-terneld county haa a prospective spectator spec-tator or auditor in every family with male member more thTn 11 years old. . To Virginia ' credit it waa noted that not ' one white woman wae ia court when the prisoner waa arraigned oa the indictment, and, barring tboae wHo may be called as witneeeea, it is believed that few, if any, women will attempt to gaia admission at tbe trial. Judge Wateoa spent several minutes talking with the army of special newe-peper newe-peper eorreepoadeata aad arranging aeata. Beattie leaned over the old walnnt (Continued on rage A.) smamanasa n n t r - BEATTIE IS ARRAIGNED : (Continued from page 1.) railing and talked lightly with those ' near him. The old father sat silent, stroking his gray hair. Dark circles showed nnder the prisoner's eyes, but he looked trim and aelf possessed. The small room wss jammed as the proceedings began. The conrt ordered that all disinterested spectators stand np and remain standing. Two women, newspaper writers were the only white ' women in the yard or courtroom. The clerk formally called the ease for tha commonwealth, and tha prosecution prose-cution asked that the prisoner be arraigned. ar-raigned. ' A motion hy the defense for postponement post-ponement until next Monday, on tha KTound that ths defence was not ready for trial, was overruled by the court. Judge Watson said that the matter of continuance might be considered after the trial had begun. The defenaa then moved that the Indictment ba quashed on the ground of error. Beattie was arraigned and entered plea of not guilty. Story of OrlnM. Mrs. Beattia was murdered on a lonely turnpike at 10:45 o'clock July 18, -while on an nutomobile ride with her husband. Beattie drove the ear into town with her bloody body neross his lap, her head ghastly with a gunshot wound. Ha said that a "tall, gaunt, bearded man" stopped the automobile,, cursed him for earelesa driving and, after an interchange of words, deliberately deliber-ately fired ths shot. Beattia declared he did not know hia wife waa shot until after be had jumped from the ear, grappled grap-pled with the assassin, received a blow from tbe shotgun and returned to the ear. His story was generally believed until bloodhounds sent ts the scene of the crime could not be made to take up any scent. Then county detectives unearthed un-earthed the liaison between the Bin-ford Bin-ford girl and the hnaband, and bit by J bit acraped together evidence that resulted re-sulted in tha coroner 'a jury holding. Beattie for the erime. |