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Show BEATTIECA8E IS DRAWING T0ACL0SE Prosecution Declares New Evidence of Alleged Eye ' Witness Not Needed. . JURY POSSIBLY MAY GET CASE TONIGHT Court Charges Jury and At. torneys Plunge Into the Arguments. CHE STE WIELD OOTJXTHOUSE, V., Sept. 7. C sating aside aa unnecessary unnec-essary the eleventh hour . Information from aa all aged y wltneaa th commonwealth com-monwealth of Virginia today began the final argument, against Henry Clay Beattle, Jr.. Indicted for wif murder. Two lawyer, J.-M. Gregory for the prosecution, and Hill Carter for the defense, de-fense, measured rhetoric in the morning morn-ing session in the alternate scourging and lauding of th character of the accused. ac-cused. . Though there ia a possibility that th argument will be concluded late today and a verdict rendered by midnight, L. O. Wendenburg, who ia to close for the prosecution, predicted at noon that he would not finish until tomorrow. to-morrow. Judge Watson does not expect the jury to go out until noon tomorrow. Mr. Gregory speech occupied nearly an hour and a half and was a scathing scath-ing denunciation of the prisoner, particularly par-ticularly in hia continued relations with a girl of prenuptial fancy even in the subsequent months of his married life. Appealing to th religious and moral sense of the jury, gathered from the rustie community in this vicinity, Mr. Gregory painted a picture of immorality, immoral-ity, revolting ia it details. ' Then he ernphaaized the commutative evidence of the defenae and pointed to what he called ' the- "salient incontrovertible facta in the caae, namely the purchase of a shotgun by Paul Tleattis, which four dava later killed the wife of his cousin, henry Clay BeattikJr." In a ringing voice, full of emotion. Rill Carter begss the plea for th defease. DefscuM Isuds rath.- , "That father," aid Mr. CartsT, "told yon how the son sobbed nd rlevfcd over the death of hi wif and know yon will believe the parent closest to him as be contradicts what other witnesses ssy of the lack of manifestation mani-festation oa th part of th accused of hi grief." He argued thst there wa no motiv for Young Beat tie t kill hi wif, the father, had pictured the warm affection af-fection between the couple. He arraigned ar-raigned the detective who h declared hail "mercilessly worked up theories and cast unsupported suspicions." Bepeatedly pointing to th instructions instruc-tions to th jury aa to circumstantial evidence and reaaonable doubt, Mr. Carter assailed the veracity of Paul Besttie. , Mr. Carter had not finished hi remark re-mark whew the court, at 1:10 p. m., took a recess for luncheon. Court convened St 1:S0 o clock. Judg Watson declared that counsel tn the argument ar-gument today mtsht refer to portions of testimony "not fit for ladies to hear," and requested all women In the courtroom to leave. Judge Watson then read the Instruc-tiona Instruc-tiona to the Jury. In pert he aaid: Judge Watson's Oharg. "i:pon th trial of tha criminal caae by a Jury, the law contemplates the concurrence con-currence of twelve mlnda In the conclusion conclu-sion of guilt before a oonvlctlon can be had. Earh Individual Juror must be satisfied sat-isfied beyond reasonable doubt of the defendant'a guilt before he can. under hia oeth. consent to a verdict of guilty. Each Juror should feel the responsibility resting on him ss a member of the Jury and should realise thst his own mind must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's gul't before -he ren consent to s verdict of runty. Therefore, There-fore, If any Individual member of the Jury, after having duly conaldered all the evidence In th case, and after consultation consul-tation with his fellow Jurors, should entertain en-tertain such ressonable doubt of defendant'a defend-ant'a guilt, aa Is set forth In the other Instructions In this esse. It Is his duty not to surrender his own convictions simply sim-ply because the balance of the Jury entertain enter-tain different convlctlona." The prisoner listened Intently to the reading of the Instructions atul smiled when they had been concluded. J. at. Gregory began the argument for the proe-ecution- at lfl:3S o'clock. "The record In thia case shows." he said, "on a dark nlrht. Julv ). the soil of this county wss stained by eome high assassin with the blood of sn Innocent woman. 1 believe I ran show that no other man committed the crime but the husband of that woman, with the very gun you gentlemen of the Jury have examined ex-amined here. Prison r Only Mao oa can. "He w th only man seen on the spot that night, and he was armed with the same gun he has here Identified." Attorney Gregory, after referring to the crime as ''hellish.' reviewed the evidence evi-dence of the boys who came from a dance at Bonalr on the nlahj of the murder, arguing ar-guing that It was the prisoner they saw and none ether crouching in front of the machine, and a woman on the running Mr. Gregory ecathlngly attacked the testimony of Charlea H. Kestlebersr. who said It was he the boys saw on their way from Bonalr. . , . w "Here le a man. declared afr. Gregory, Greg-ory, "who on a drunken spree trie, to tell us the hour he wss on the Midlothian turnpike when he wss on several roads that night with a woman dressed In white. And the bova. honest young men. tell us It waa a different make rf nr thev saw, and a woman dressed differently differ-ently standing on lb running board, and the machine a mile nearer the crime. Thev tell us. too. the exact hour, which correspond, almost exactly to the hour of the crime. I don't believe there I. a man on thi. Jury who believe, a thing Ke.tleberg said." Mr. Gregory's speech 'tingled with rell-gloua rell-gloua fervor. Often he quoted scripture and In a trembllne- voice referred te Cain aa the flret homMde. ajeathlBgly Arraigns Defendant. "Henry nar Beattle. Jr.. ehoold have been th keeper of that devoted wife." said Mr. tiregorv. "bat he be-sme a traitor end forsook her. Why? were (Coatiaued oa pK 8-) quiet at flmt because he w-es 'rid. man eaye now ho doe not l.,,! lo escape punishment, and Is willing lo testify. Statement! Verified. At the outset the prosecution ws Inclined In-clined to think thin wss Jut another crank's letter, of hlrh many have .been received bv both aide since the trial no-tan. no-tan. An Investigation wae h"w; ver. and s-versl of h wrt" "!-ments "!-ments wore soon eorroWatod. -The. Chest -rricld farmer mentioned In letter let-ter acknowledged that a man of the nsme used by the writer employed by him "ntll a few day. after the murd.r and further declared It waa a fart that the fSm "and wa. chasing a runaway cow ..n i hi night the crime wa committed. iS telling hi. .tory. th. alleged '" .aid he wa. looking for a row when ha "me "n the mar and woman In an aulo-mob'h. aulo-mob'h. on the Midlothian tumplk. after 'Vhe'dc'nratlnn that Brattle clubbed 1,1. wife with the trim before shooting her la sldei-ed bv the lawvera and detectives ? lit 7ro.erutlon with peculiar Interest. F. Ei that Phy-lclan. who examined Mr. Heatlgt's b'Klv reported that tne frontal bone'cn th- right aid. o .the skull probably wa. broken. ""'. "'..iJVn'd A ih.. ihot had entered the left pine ana penrtrateS to the bark of the head, "n . ..iTt of thi. It 1" understood. Mr. lB? SIZES head in the Indlctmant drawn for the itirv May Exhume Body, if the new witness Is used the murdered isr b snsirilT - - u"r autlmrutvai- to evamtni him. . .nUM n"t ""file" m",7r wru'"g'ave a detailed ac-cotr,VhV,rsacd ac-cotr,VhV,rsacd J. he clslm. .o have ttPIS? in' .1 epwnoSron hand .Tde of he Midlothian turnpike as "'"Tlley'Ve'r; nlrX. I could hear them talking loud, so 1 dldn t show my-l my-l 'f nut waited behind a tree about en Tect from the edge of the road In the iSk pl woods to hear what they ssid. Besttle Oeta Qnn. "The woman was pleadln with the man Bhe was saying that she wanted love b-k a.aln. end she did not want the man to he cruel to her. The man answered rouKhly. "At one time I heard him ssy: I sm tired of all this. I am golna lo end this.- Then 1 heard the -"n. "How sre ou oln to end It. 1M man said somethln I could not hear and then I heard him say. TH "h" vou how l m aolnir to end It He not out of tl.s machine and walked across o t ho opposite op-posite side of the road from where I was. and after he had been there a minute he came ba.-k with aomeihlna In his hand.. I could not see what It was n the dark. The woman was stsnfllna; in the ma.-hlne In front of the left hand seat In the front part of the automobile when the man came ba.-k. , . . . "Just when the man came back I beard the woman scream once. Then Ihe man. who waa standing In the road, jwuns what he had In his band and hit the woman on the' right side of the face. . She fell from the machine lo the road and she did not make a sound. "For a minute the man stood looking st her. and then I heard him ss; Damn you! You're not dead yet. IN fix you.' Then he up with a run. which was what he had hit the woman with, and he shot her where she lay In the road hy the front seat of the automobile. dkl not see where he shot her. I saw him throw the aim som-where and he began to lift his wife's body In Ihe front seat of the automobile, and I came out rmm the trees. Murderer Dl scorers Witnee. "The man turned around and saw me, and he ssid to me. Dld you see this?' "I told him e. I had seen It. ' -D n vou. what In the h are you going to do about Itr he ssid. I didn't say anything. Then he began to threaten me. He said he was rich and hart lots of friends In Richmond, and If I told on him he would have me killed somehow. He said nobody would believe my story If 1 appeared In court against him snyway, and I had better get out. He said he would give me some money and a suit of clothes If I would go away. "I told the man I would go away. Then he told me to come to Beattle'a store the next day and there would be some money for me. I went snd he got some money and bought a suit of clothes. I stsxed in Kouth Richmond for two days then, but I wss so scared and got so nervous sfter thst two days I took the train to thla plate." BETJLAH BINTORD AND PAUL BEATTIB ABE RELEASED RICHMOND. Va.. Sept. 7. Beulah Bin-ford Bin-ford and Paul Beattle. detained ss witnesses wit-nesses for Ihe commonwealth In the Henry clay Besttle, Jr., murder case, were released from the Henrico county Jail todav bv order of .Tudge Waller A. Watson of the Chesterneld circuit court. Paul Beattle went at unce to his home and remained there all morning with his family, greeting neighlKlrs and friends and enjovlng his liberty to the fullest degree. He ssys he Intend, to do nothing noth-ing else for a month and then he Is going to New York to go Into vaudeville, having hav-ing offer that he- Is "too poor to refuse." re-fuse." Heulah Blnford remained In the prison until later In the dsy. pscking her cloth- Ing and toilet accessories. She said esrly In the day thst she wss waiting to decide de-cide Just whst course she should pursue when she actually walked through Its portals Into the next chspter of her already eventful career. BEATTIE CASE IS DRAWING DRAW-ING TO A CLOSE (Continued from pge 1.) not legally required lo prove a motive, but the commonwealth has- gone beyond and unlocked the door of Henry Clay Beattle. Jr.'s sffectlons. lie went to Ihe red light district for his affectione wnlle a lender bene ws. on his wife's bresst. Bitter denunciation of Beulah lilnlord followed. . "My Ood!" exclaimed Oregon". bope I never ahall see as blsck a character as hss been depicted to you by witnesses wit-nesses aa that of Henry Clay Beatlle. Jr.. the man who showered hi affections on a notorious worr.sn." Mr. Oregon- flnlehel his srgument at I2:0 o clock and Hill Carter began for the defense. . "There Is In vour hands, gentlemen of the Jury." said Mr. Csrter. "the question of life or death to this young man. i years old. 1 don't say that hla character Is perfect. There have been .disclosed relatione wllh Beulah Blnford. which show that he Is not a perfect man. but la that phase of his character an Issue. There Is nothing. I say. gentlemen, in his character which would Indicate that he Is the col.1 blooded brute wnod committed com-mitted this crime." During the speech of Mr Carter tears streamed down the face of the P' ", and he brushed Ihem aside Willi his hsndkerchlef. .. After recess Mr. Csrter re.umed his Invective sgslnst the detectives "Why dldn t they bring Beulah Blnford here to testify?" he asked. "It Is a well known principle of Isw If one side ha" evidence which It withholds from the Jurv II Is a suspicious circumstance. Why did the commonwealth Keep tnis girl locked up forty dsys and then not permit her to testify as to the things which she alone could tell?" Mr. Carter accused the prosecution of unfstr tsctlcs In gstherlng evidence and declared mat one of the boys who came from the dance at Bonalr had mentioned to a detective soon sfler the murder thst Ihe mschlne he saw waa No. D-11. and that this fact was suppressed by the commonwealth when It learned that tlie Beattle car had a different number. This. h said, would hsve established beyond doubt that the car the boy ssw was Hist of Kestleperg. which was No. D-11. Will Not Boo pen Cue. Prosecutor Wendenburg declared todsy thst lie hsd decided hot to request the reopening of the Besttle esse on sccount of the discovery of an alleged eye wlt-nes. wlt-nes. i "We hsve a strong enough 'case without with-out It." he .aid. "We could not get the man here for a couple of dsva at least, as he Uvea out west. But ws have asked him to come here luet the aame. to see what there la to hT story. Of course, we have received, re-ceived, as Is ususl In murder caeca, many lefiera from alleged eye witnesses. This one. however, signed his nsme. and we find that he did once work as a farm hand nesr Ihe scene M the murder. We are going- to Investlgste It further, but on can take the story now for whst It Is 'wcth.'' . Mr. Wendenburg received the Information Informa-tion In veelerday a mall. The writer, who until a few days after the murder of Mrs. Beetli-. wss a 4irsi hsnd em- fVA-ed nesr th sen. of the crime, said bat he actually saw young Beattle sill Ms wife, and saw htm knock her from the automobile with lite butt of the shotgun shot-gun and then shot her aa she Isy en the ground. H wrote I net Beattle threatened threat-ened him ethen he found that he hsd witnessed wit-nessed the deed, and tne following day gve hlin a ault of cktbe and money with whkh to go away. Though. be kept |