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Show 7 Man Accused of Slaying ' His .Wife Leaves Wit- ness Stand Chesterfield Courthouse, Va., Sept. . 6. After asking Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., indicted for wife murder, the one question as to how he could account for the transition of the same shotgun from the hands of Paul Beattle, his cousin, on Saturday nigtit, to the j hands of tho alleged highwayman on the following Tuesday night, the pros- , ecutlon ended Its cross-examination of tho prisoner today. The accused denied that he knew" his cousin Paul had a gun on the Saturday night in . question, or that he was with him during that week. The commonwealth thereupon began be-gan its attack, ori the prisoner's story. The rebuttal was practically an attempt at-tempt to corroborate Paul Beattle as to his alleged meeting with Henry on Tuesday n!ght to arrange for the delivery de-livery of a shotgun to his cousin on tho Saturday following. Several witnesses testlf'ed that they Saw the two cousins together on Thursday, and Mrs. E. J. Houchens, mother-in-law of Paul, stated that Henry brought Paul home In a ma-Chine' ma-Chine' that same evening A second point taken up by the commonwealth com-monwealth was an assault on E. H. Neblitt's testimony that Paul had a shotgun on the bridge where he worked, on the Saturday night following follow-ing the alleged transfer of the gun. Witnesses testified that Paul had no gun at the bridge that day. Chesterfield Courthouse, Sept. 5. Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., indicted for wife murder, at 9:30 o'clock today, ajain took the witness stand and prosecutor pros-ecutor L. O. Wenderburgresumed his cross-examination,, court convening at an earlier hour than usual so as to complete the prisoner's testimony today to-day Judge Watson announced that it seemed to the court that the case along Its main lines had been developed de-veloped carefully and at great length, and that It had reached the stage where,. the court would be justified in nlncirig somejllmlt on counseL,.,-f .,, a half houTs: of direct examination and cross-examination of three and a ha'f hours yesterday, the examination ot the prisoner should not be a test of phslcal endurance and that the court would permit an hour more of cross-examination cross-examination and only a half hour of re-direct examination. Mr' Wenderburg said ho onlv intended in-tended to ask one or two questions. "Mr. Beattle," he began, "will you explain how the same gun which your cousin bought on Saturlav night was in the woods on the Midlothian turnpike that night?" "1 didn't know anything about the gun. I didn't Pee it until the highwayman highway-man raised It.' "And will you admit that if your wife had not suggested the ride, you would not have been there?" "No, my mind wasn't made up as to thp ride when mv wife suggested it." "Well, how did the man with the gun know that you and your wlfo .-., nincr ,,r )hn mail ihnf nicht?" "We protest," said counsel for the defense, and the Judge sustained them. Mr. Wende'nburg here concluded his cross-examination. Mr. Smith said no re-direct examination exam-ination was Intended, and the prisoner prison-er was excused at 9:37 o'clock, jirn seven minutes after he took tho stand. . Only a meager crowd was in tho ; court room on account of tho early hour. Paul Beattle. cousin of the accused, was brought to the vicinity of the court house by the prosecution and Mr. Wendenburg said he intended to put him on the stand In rebuttal. Tho prisoner walked back to the bir sumrlsed at the brevity of his examination, exam-ination, askln; Judge Watson as ho rose from the witness stand chair 1' there were not additional questions. "That will be all," replied the judge, who remarked that perhaps ho had been over-generous in his limitation on counsel Harry Latham was tec first witness called by the prosecution in rebuttal. Latham was alleged to have statod that while with the prisoner, preceding preced-ing the murder, Beattle. immediate-Iv immediate-Iv after leaving a telephone, said he was going to Short and Main streets In Richmond. Paul Beattle had testified tes-tified that ho met Henry on Thurs-dav Thurs-dav night at that Intersection. In his testimony, however, Latham maintained that all he knew was that Beattle had montioned going to Short and Main streets. He knew nothing as to the previous telephone conversation conver-sation or whom the accused intended to meet. Telophone Conversation. W R. Hart, who was with Latham was called. He said he had been a friend of tho accused for fifteen years. On the Thuradav night preceding the murder, Hart sal 1 he overheard Beat-tlo Beat-tlo say on the telephone. "Wiil be there in fifteen minutes," and that when he came from the telephone Unaccused Un-accused explained he was going to take Paul Beattlo and his wjfe out Tiding. , , Mrs. A- B. Houchens, .mother-in-law pf'paul Beattle, next took the stand Living in the same house with Paul Beattle, she W2S asked Jf she knew anvthlng about the receipt of a telephone tele-phone mespngo from Henry C. Beat-tie. Beat-tie. Jr.. on Thursday night. "It was Thursday night. July U, (Continued on Pago Eight.) ( - EEATTIE'S LAST WORD. My P HI ,4 (Continued From Pago One.) H L nbout 9 o'clock," said Mrs. Houchcns, HI "when I answered the telephone and l Henry C. Beattle, Jr., said he was on 1 the way to the West End and asked lEr ' for Paul. T recalled Paul and I heard H$L Paul say, 'You want mo to meet you H3 , nt Short and Mala In fifteen mlnur.es? BjS ; All right, II'l meet you In a half hour.' HHJ' Paul then ,cnlled a Mrs. Fisher and H!- said Henry would be up later." ' '(. "Did you hear anyone come hv lat- ' ' er that night?" H "I heard Paul say, 'Good night, H Henry,' when the machine brought H Paul home" HI ' "Did they seem tov he doing any- M thing about tlic machine?" M "Yes, they were both fixing the light H I or something. " B-l "Do you remember what time Henry H " brought Paul home Saturday nighf" H j "About 11 o'clock. It was the same B car that was there Thursday night." B ! "How could you tell It was the same H ' machine?" asked Mr. Smith for the B i defense. H j; "It looked the same to me." B t "How can ypu tell one machine B rt, .'rom another?" B ' , "The machine of Thursday night H i tnd of Saturday night had a yellow Hi op" "Did not you all toll Paul he was in a bad fix and to tell all to the police?" po-lice?" "Not until wo knew ho( had bought the gun." "Then you all tried to edge Paul out of it?" "I just told him to toll the truth." "'"Wasn't he worried to death and nearly crazy?" "No. He didn't act crazy." "Did you ever see him have any fits?" "He has had nervous breakdowns." Told of Purchase of Gun, "Did Paul tell you anything about the alleged confession on that Thursday Thurs-day night?" "Ho told us about the purchase of the gun." John Joseph, n Syrian who has a store at Short and Main streets testified testi-fied he saw Paul Beattie at his stand Thursday night, July 13. "What did Paul do at your stand?" "He came between S and 10 at night and sat down. He had been there seven or eight minutes and a machine came. Another young fellow was in it and they went west " "When did you meet the prisoner?" "In the jail." "Was It, the same man who camo for Paul?" "1 think so, but I wouldn't swear" Frank Mason, who claims to have ' been In the John Joseph store, testified testi-fied that ho saw Paul there on Thursday Thurs-day night and that a machine called for him. William McEvoy, a bartender, testified testi-fied that ho saw Paul and Henry together to-gether about half past eight o'clock In McEvoy's, drinking beer, "on either eith-er Wednesday. Thursday or Friday night before the murder" John Brltton corroborated McEvoy's testimony, declaring he saw Paul and Henry at the bar on Thursday night before the murder He said he thought they had n machine outside and camo between S and 0 o'clock. By previous agreement, the defense was permitted to bring In testimony of John D. Blair when It could be gotten. Blair was ono of the boy? who came from a dance at Bon Air on the night of the murder. He corroborated cor-roborated Kestloborg's testimony that it was he the boys saw with a woman on a running board of a machine that had been stopped in the road, James Rnferty, a night watchman on May's bridge, relieved by Paul Beattle at 7 o'clock every morning, testified that on the Sunday morning when E H Neblitt said he saw Paul with a gun In the cement house, he saw no gun there. "If It was there I would have seen the gnu," said Raferty. "Did you see Paul when he camo to work?" "Yes." "Did he have a shotgun or any other oth-er kind of gun?" "No " "The igun could have been hidden, however, In the cement house, couldn't It9" asked Mr. Smith In cross-examination. "I suppose so." Paul Had No Gun. E. J. Hcuchens, father-in-law of Paul Beattie, said he saw the latter going to work on the Sunday morning morn-ing in question and that he carried no gun. W. H. Lewis, who was at the bridge on Sunday morning, saw E. H Neblitt Neb-litt come and go, and during the whole time did not see Paul with a I gun. Walter Nunnolly said that while Noblltt was at the bridge. Paul was not In the cement house where Neblitt Neb-litt alleged that he saw him handling hand-ling a gun George D Talley corroborated cor-roborated Nunnolly's testimony H. H Crowder also declared he was at the brldfe during the entire perloa while Neblitt stopped on the bridge, but Paul neither visited the cement house nearby nor carried a shotqun. William Sharp testified that Noblltt did not know Paul Beattle when he saw him Just a few days ago in the courthouse yard when he had asked him to rolnt out Paul to him Questions Ruled Out.-Coroner Out.-Coroner J. H Lovington was asked if he had a con', ersafion on the Thursday Thurs-day afternoon with Henry Clay Boat-tie, Boat-tie, Jr.. In the prespnre of several dotectlves, in which the prisoner de . nled that he sent I'ilah Blnford monev for furniture. The defense objected. ob-jected. Pro editor Wen lenburs said his purrose was to impeach and discredit dis-credit the veracity of tho prisoner as he yesterday denied having the conversation con-versation in question |