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VOL 2, NO. 32
CHARLOT FE, N. C.. SUNDAY MORNING. Sc PTEMBEK 10. 1911
PRICE 5 CENTS
“!f I Go to Chair
i'll Go Like a Man**
Says Hem y Beattie
X jjnces Talk oj Suicide
And Says He Will
Game to The End—
: .-,dsts Jurors as Bunch oj
Cji^ntryimn.
f-C
/ -ij They Don*t Understand
CV. Life Where The
ijtuiahs Are to Be Found—
Luwyers For Dejense Have
Hope of New 7rial
BY J. O’NEIL.)
-;ueid Court House. Va.. Sept.
:eli a blue haze of cigarette
the window of his little
- The old Colonial jail here,
'lay Beattie. Jr., who yester-
^ .'ondemned to die for hav-
- = 'lip young wife on the Mid-
rurnpike on the night of July
: afternoon talked quite frauk-
his affairs.
•Not a Dead One Yet.”
.-r :ir fram a dead one yet,” he
-s he grinned in man-to-man
j’ his interviewer. “There's
*;:al battle to come before
,* ’ me to the electric chair.
... I 1 a new trial in an-
•1.:. county and with an up-to-date
; " be acquitted."
■nch young man was more in-
■ r d in dispatches from
' - t^riiig of that city’s protest
Beulah Biufords stage ap-
:v3-ce. than he was in his own
srrarently. He asked to be
'he local papers containing
isratches. and not until he
them through would he go
d.rcuss his predicament.
Roasts the Jury.
p11 you, old boj’,” he said to
•viewer, ' a fellow s up against
he is to be tried by a bunch
CC'
the fatal gun for Henry, and told on
the witness stand of Henry’s confes
sion to him, said.
■'I’m sorrj' for Henry Clay; but I
had to tell the truth. God knows. 1
didn’t want to swear to any lies. I’m
going to stay right here in Richmond,
get back my old job as watchman
on the Mayo bridge, and turn down
all these offers of large sums of
money to go on the stage or pose for
moving pictures. Beulah Binford can
do that if she wants; but I have a de
cent wife and a fine baby, and I’m
going to stick to them and keep the
respect of the people of my native
town.”
A Juror Talks.
One of the .lurors, A. J. Fetterolf,
spoke freely of the manner in which
he and his colleagues had handled
the case.
“Prosecutor Wendenburg made a
powerful argument, in winding up,
but we didn't need it,” he said. “We
didn’t even need the story of Paul
Beattie, that his cousin had confess
ed to him. Once we were sure that
Paul had bought the gun, and that
this was the same gun found near
the scene of the crime, we were cer
tain that he was guilty. And this
evidence we got without a single
word from Paul.
Though Henry Was Lying.
‘’Then, too, we felt that young
Henrj’ Beattie, when he went on the
witness stand in his own defense,
was Ij'ing. We had no doubt about
that. He would have been better off
if he had not volunteered his testimo
ny. He really convicted himself.”
Prosecutor ’^^endenburg, who won
for the state the famous case, was
followed all about town today by
admiring crowds. The day before
yesterday was election day in Vir
ginia. and he was a candidate for
nomination to the state senate. Be
cause of -the case of Beattie, he
wasn’t able to .make a single speech,
wasn’t able even to cast his own
vote. But he was triumphantly elect
ed, ncA-ertheless, chiefly because of
his splendid conduct of the trial out
here.
Wendenburg Talks.
He said today;
‘‘I never had any doubt of the re-
Italian Mobs Break
Into Hospitals To
Fiee Cholera Viciimb
Wendenbuig On
The Beattie Case
Tvraen from the backw’oods _ __ __
t’aat tried me. I never had j trial. Young Beattie is a
'••om the beginning shrewd, cunning boy, but In his story
:rt married young; brine upon the witness stand he betrayed
. ;es; work around their Uijmself several times, and really
lat do tiiev know about a I brought about his own conviction.”
Little Hope For New Trial.
Not even Beattie’s own lawyers,
Harry Smith and Hill Carter, have
any hope that the higher courts will
grant him a new trial. He w'ill prob
ably be taken into Richmond jail in a
few days or so. there to remain until
hp is taken to the penitentiary on
November 24 to go to the chair.
citVB life? T\’hat do they
't how easy it fs for a
m nowadays to get mixed
; r! like Beulah Binford?
• i. the Beulahs.
• o’l newspaper men
- 1 know this—its al-
or a cbaT^ with a
.->• and a motor car,
: ; mixed tin with those
' help it. Isn't that
ir':.
e-'i :
'bey got me on—this
•'Out on ihe condemn-
casually as though
;; "-hv he had struck
111 -ome. "Tho^e farm-
don't uuderstana;
I ' jpi* ♦o *3*' igain that I’m inno-
and *’■ V *ir.y j’lr;’ of up-to-date
jror r.: '-ri'Ti of 8 live ciiy—
f tr. R;chrnond—would have freed
MRS. ASTOR AND HER SISTER.
Colonel John Jacob Aster's wife (on the left) and her sister Katherine,
as they appeared six years ago. These pictures of Miss Madeline Tal*
mage Force and her sister, Miss Katherine Force, were taken while
they were studying in Paris six years ago. At that time i^iss Made
line Force were known as a girl who was determined to express her
oninions and make herself heard.
She still bears that trait of determinaticn, for whenever newspaper men
approached Colonel Astor to ask him about his plans for the wedding
his fiance s’^^epped forward, placed her hand on his arm and said:
“Come, Colonel, let us go. We do not care to say anything, do we?”
“Oh, no," the colonel would reply. Really there is nothing to be said.” And
there the matter ended.
Miss Katherine Force was known to Paris as a very quiet little girl, yet
it was she who said of the Rev. Dr. Richmond, who denounced the com
ing marriage:
“Oh, if I were only a man! I’d show him!”
Woman Fires Three Shots
At Anothei In Moving
Picture Show-Panic Insues
\o ’iuicide for Mine."
■. lello'vs,” Eeattle add-
- ■ - ■/:' ot talk in the papers
of me trying to
• n life. That s all rot. Be-
'■ ■* ; Sn'J.'.y must go to the
i r^. 'joir.? 'here like a man.
mine
. a., r-j'p said in your articles
'.VpII I’m going to be
~ • »hro’ig'n to the finish,
' ' d'-rjaration that he
Tr. kill himself, he was
sntly last night and to-
• . ’>ho watched his
-in'T.t. At the same time,
• I’l, loaded rifles walkrtd
'. '^nrd the outside of the
.-■■re has not been a mur-
' r'siniiity that th^ citizens
.-•'r'-M'l rountv might decide
■ * “xecution of the law into
hands, but the officials
' •'.t no rhfin'es.
Gives iH.m Lunch.
■ npvroao'n tn a breaK-
■| '.ung Beattie has shown
' on '.rial came this
.n old negro mammie
‘‘■r fried chicken
■ I c.'irt ho’.ise each day,
i'le nasket of delicacies,
to tears when he
. ' this rame. He lad just
■ hoon. i=n be distributed
of ;hp basket to a doz-
• *710 I risoners who share
il l wiih n.ini,
'.u MiPt’ IVe-ty, thank
• -''outed to him.
■’ bov s.’ wa? his response.
omh s own request, he
’’ I \i?itors today. He sent
! 1.- father, brother and 5i^-
■ prf'tfTrod that they should
' . -lom ihe jail, explaining
"ouid onl> suffer if they
He ;-.ii(i nothing about
j-uiferin? of his own.
■p'- For the Henk, Monks-
nl> vnrry was that he
■' • s';;;, in this little jail
■ 1.- to be transferred
n • r'l. where he can 'near the
i.f'nk of a motor horn or
f 1 trollrv car in front
Si., when ap-
1 .V- rorrespondents and ask-
I hi" iio|;cs or fears for the
■■ 1...- boy, broke down and
; -:;d. .'obbingly;
•■i's Father Breaks Down
if nothing I can say—notn-
' in do.'’
i'=attie, the cousin who bought
Lipton Ready to
Challenge for Cup
(By WILLIAM GOODE.)
London, Sept. 9.—“What’s good
enough for Uncle Sam is good enough
for Lipton. I want no favors; just let
me start fair and square under the
rules recognized from San Diego to
New York by every American yacht
club and I'll challenge for the Ameri
ca’s cup tomorrow.
Sir Thomas Lipton,s small blue eyes,
not unlike the blue eyes of Andrew
Carnegie, contracted until they nearly
closed, his shoulders crunched to
gether, and with his clenched right
hand he hit the open palm of his left
as he spoke. The whole soul of the
man was in is words, and the lever
that roused him was this simpe ques
tion: ‘ Sir Thomas, are you afraid to
chaenge again?”
The yachting season in Europe, just
finished, has been a wonderfu sea
son for many reasons, one of which
is that no European yachtsman has en
tered any boat for the races open to
the twenty-three metre class. Magnif
icent gold and silver cups and money
prizes have gone abegging. Why? Be
cause no owner cared to race against
Lipton's Shamrock IV, which during
the last three years proved himself
almost invincible.
And rather than w’in cups by walk
overs Sir Thomas has put the Sham
rock into a shed.
"The ‘international rule is the one
adopted by every club in Europe, so
you can see there are just two sets of
rules in existence.
Nashvill, Tenn., Sept. 9.—"Walking
into a local moving picture theatre
early this afternoon. Mrs. Earl Sam
uel. aged 35, approached the seat of
a young woman known here as Willie
West, and drawing a pistol from her
hand bag, fired three shots into Miss
West’s neck. The theatre was crowd
ed and a near panic followed. Seven
women fainted. Badly wounded but
conscious, Miss West was rushed to
a hospital while Mrs. Samuel was
placed under arrest.
Earl Samuel, a well know& young
grain man, was arrested with Miss
AVest some time ago on a charge of dis
orderly conduct and the wife started
divorce proceedings, but the matter
w’as compromised during the heiirlng
Miss West came here from the west.
Chinese Rioteis Turn
Upon Foi eigners-Famine
Expected to Cause Trouble
Washington, Sept. 9.—Rioting in
Cheng Tu, capital of the turbulent
Chinese province of Sze-Chuen, is
aimed not only at the Oriental govern
ment’s policy of permitting foreign
participation in Chinese railway fi
nancing, but now demonstrations have
been directed at foreigners resident in
the province. This is in. accordance
with information received h.e"re today.
Placards have been mailed about the
troubled capital w'arning foreigners.
Many British subjects have gone ta
Chang King, where there are British
French and German gunboats.
RES
IPT’S HTTODE
OHHIFF
Boston, Sept. 9.— Governor Judson
Harmon, of Ohio, in an address before
the Boston democratic clubs tonight
scored President Taft for his attitude
towards revision of the tariff. He de
clared that the president had been
woefully and wrongfully advised or
he would not have vetoed the bills
pased at the special session. This r ,
tion and “other marks of paternity,”
the gpvernor aflSrmed, suggested that
.his position in this matter was adopted
.offspring, like the' defense of' former
S«^tary Ballenger.” Presitieiit Taft
haifl- not-kept bis pre-election promise,
as well as a great many other proni
ises he had made since assuming office,
declared Mr, Harmon
•'His position is simply that thos«
who, by trickery of tariff making,
have apparently secured a license to
impose exorbitant prices on the Amer
ican people shall go on doing it, in
spite of what congress may do,” said
the governor, “until five men, who ar#
not responsible to the people, nor even
experts, and composing the president’s
tariff commission, shall advise him hov
how much these taxes ought to be re
duced and how to do it scientifically
He admits they are too high on
these adsolute and universal neces
sities of life, but he fears these bill*
may have cut them too^much.
“All the men, women and children
in the land must continue to suffer aa
admitted wrong which affects health
and comforts rather than run any risk
of' causing too much shrinkage in
profits made excessive by law. The
p66ple must not even have the benefit
of the doubt.
“If the present tariff charges had
been fixed merely w'ithout propei
knowledge ■ and skill it could well be
said that an ‘unscientific’ remedy is
good enough for an unscientific wrong,
th
FRANCE
WILL KEEP
HER TWO YEAR
MEN.
Paris. Sept. 9.—A ministerial con-
feience today decided to keep under
command the two year service men,
whose terms in the French army ex-
l>ire September 24, 25 and 26, owing to
the tension with Germany, unless Ger
many releases her two year men,
whose terms are due to expire be
tween September 24 and 27.
France appears to be slowly trans
forming her troops to points closer to
the northeastern frontier as an or
dinary military precaution, which it
would i>e erroneous to infer means
the expectation of war. The movement
might mean a reply to the consider
able military activity beyond the
Rhine.
TO SUCCEED MR.
6ICGS AS JUDGE
Special to The News.
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 9.—Governor
Kitchen names Howard A. Foushee, of
Durham, as superior court judge of
the ninth district, to succeed Judge J.
Crawford Biggs, who resigned to be
come a member of the law faculty of
Trinity College and resume his prac
tice in Durham.
The appointment was announced
about one o’clock.
Commission bestows the judgeship
on Foufehee until the next general elec
tion, although the term of Judge Biggs
would have continuel two years longer.
The new judge is one of the best
known lawyers of the state and has
served repeatedly with marked ability
in the legislature. His opponents of
the commission were A. A. Hicks, of
Oxford, A. Wayland Cooke, of Greens
boro, and Jacob A. Long, of Ala
mance.
THE WfeATHER.
Washington. Sept. 9.—Fore
cast lor Suuday and Monday:
North Carolina, and South
Carolina, probably fair in in
terior, local showers on the
coast Sunday and Monday
COULD NOT CET
EVIDENCE ACIST
THE LYNCHERS
Westchester, Pa., Sept. 9.—Declar
ing inability to get sufficient evidence
to warrant indictment of additional
persons in connection with the recent
lynching of the negro Zach Walker, at
Coatesville, the grand jury investigat
ing the case asked to be excused to
day. Judge Butler ordered the jury
however, to get back to work. He said
the lynchers must be brought to jus
tice.
Many Officers Hurt
In BrestRiots
especially when those who apply the
comedy have the advantage of dealing
with actual results, while those who
did the wrong acted only on conjutic
ture.
“But the Payne-AIdrich-Smoot law
had a far worse science than ignor
ance. And it is a reflection on our
plan of government to say that the
flagrant iniquities of that law shall go
on defying good sense, common knowl*
edge and honest purpose until a com
mission without legal responsibility or
authority shall decide how the duly
chosen law making body may deaj
with them.
“‘I believe in the veto power. But it
is to be employed only on the clear
and positive" conviction of t'he execu
tive that the public interest so re
quired.
“The consumers of the country were
entitled to at teast partial immediate
relief. This congress gave and the
president took away.
“Not content with caling the major
ity- in congress unscientific, incompe
tent and ignorant,” continued Govern
or Harmon, “though in his vetoes he
did so in parliamentary phrase, the
president now, in public speeches,
charges them with insincerity, employ
ing the ruder language of the stump.
He says they were ‘playing politics.’
“In despatches inspired in Washing-
ton, the claim is now set up that the
Gainesville, Tex., Sept. 9.—It j record of accomplishment by a
stated on good authority here administration is due to
that United States Senator Joseph W. ^^d to be twice defeated at
Bailey will not change his residence to j.. uolls to secure it. Surely, trying
New York City after the expiration of ^ .... ,, ,
his term, but that he will practice
law in one of the larger Texas cities.
This statement was the outcome of
yesterday’s conference here between
the ‘ Senator and several prominent
Texas democrats.
“When the silence of that fatal
night was broken by the screams of
that poor, defenseless woman, as she
realized that the man who had
sworn to protect her was a fiend
incarnate, and he silenced that
scream with the report of that death-
dealing gun, God frowned and the law
shuddered.”
“This man was left alone on the
scene of the crime, left alone by
that pool of blood—with the smoking
weapon still in his hands. He threw
the gun into the car and the body
of his wife after it—like the body ot
a slaughtered beast.”
“The learned and brilliant counsel
for .the accused have asked you on
principles of sophistry how this man
could have committeed that crime.
I say that a man who murders his
wife is not only a murderer, but a
fool.”
“Beattie had to account for that
gun, and he tells you of a big beard
ed highwayman, a giant, who fired
the shot, and of how he, a mere
strippling, goes up and v.'rests that
gun aw’ay from the giant, not know
ing whether he had a double-bar
reled shotgun and whether the giant
would have given him the other
load.”
“Thank God. no scrubby farmer
came along and picked up that gun.
He threw it out in the highway of
tramps, hoping that some tramp
would pick it up.”
“And yet Mr. Carter wants you to
look for a bearded stranger. Why,
when the people read the papers the
next morning, every farmer in Ches
terfield-ran for his razor to shave off
his beard.”
I wonder how much of this man
will go to heaven and how much will
go below. God has given us means
to procure evidence. The great pow
er which moves all things appealed
to the conscience of Paul and made
him reveal all he knew.”
“This is the cheapest murder I
ever heard of. It has an element of
cheapness about it.”
‘This is the greatest crime and
the worst under the roof of heaven.
This young man, gentlemen, has
bound a band of blood ardund his
name so that generations will slow
ly go by it until it is blotted from
memory, rfhe dark and bloody annals
of the past have nothing to equal this
crime.”
“But there is an invisible power
somewhere, and that same power
made Paul’ tell the balance of that
secret in his heart. He had nothing
to fear. He knew he was an inno
cent agent. But here he has been vil-
lified, and the worst character has
been attributed to him. But I tell
Paul Beattie that God, who made
him disclose that dreadful secret,
will look after him. He has nothing
to fear.”
“A ministerial friend of mine sug
gested that the deeds of Henry VIII.
of England, formed the greatest blot
on the escutcheon of England. And
I say that this crime of Henry Beat
tie has formed the greatest blot on
the escutcheon of yirginia.”
“They tell you to let him go free.
Let him go free, and I tell you that
every unpunished murder tak^ some
thing away from the security of
every man’s life. Let this man go
free, and I say to Virginia; ‘Go to the
grave of Cluverius; go to the grave
of McCue, and to the grave of Peter
phillips; dig up their bodies and apoL
ogize to them, and place a band
around the escutcheon of Virginia, to
remain ther^ through a.11 eternity.
“Justice must be satisfied, ^
broken law must be vindicated. Go,
gentlemen of the jury, and render
vour decision so that the verdict ol
this state will be: ‘Well done, thou
good and faithful servants. ’
Ghastly Procession Through
The Streets Was 2 hat of the
Mob Bearing Victims oj
Dread Drsease-Troops Have
Been Ordered Out,
1 rouble Started When Auth
or Hies Attempted to Check
the Spread of Cholera By
Isolating Those Infected—
Crowds Acted Wildly,
Chiasso, Switzerland, Sept. 9.—Gi-
oia Del Colle. a city with a population
Gf 20,000, in the Italian province of
Bari Della Puglie, has been the scene
of savage excesses in consequeaca of
the cholera epidemic.
The authorities tried to stamp out
cholera infection by. sending all per
sons ::ttacked by the disease to a hos
pital, and ordering those who had
been in contact with cholera victims
isolated in a neighboring building.
The populace immediately revolt
ed.
The hospital was stormed and the
building threatened with incendiary
destruction should the mob be inter-
ferred with in releasing the cholera
stricken inmates.
The police were inadequate to cope
with the situation, and the crowds
rushed into the building, brought out
the cholera patients and carried them
in ghastly procession through the
town. The thoroughfares were lined
w'ith people who acclaimed the cholera
victims and shouted imprecations
against the government. The cholera
suspects under observation were also
set free amid similar scenes of fran
tic enthusiasm enacted by the peo
ple.
The Italian government has dis
patched troops to Gioia Del Colle.
An man Carries
Post Bag
London, Sept. 9.-^ustav Hamel
left the Hendon aviatioV field for
Windsor about 4:30 o’clock today
with the first aerial post bag. Thou
sands cheered him while the band
played the national anthem. Unfa
vorable weather delayed the start.
He arrived at Windsor at 5:11 p.
m.
The mail bag contained missive*
for all the crowned heads of Europe,
a present of a packet of cigarettes for
King George from the manufacturers,
communications addressed by the
premier to the various cabinet min*
isters and foreign amt»assadors, the
colonial ministers and to London ed
itors. The bag weighed twenty-five
pounds.
Each letter was stamped “first
United Kingdom aerial mail.”
Within thel ast two days approxi
mately 300,000 letters and post cards
have been deposited in the special
aerial mailing boxes.
Bailey Not to Quit
His Native State
Report Issued on
Texas Cotton Crop
Austin, Tex., Sept. 9.—The state
agricultural department today an
nounced that reports of 645 corres
pondents show the Texas cotton crop
to be about 67 per cent September o,
against the last government report o£
b8 per cent.
TWO CARS START ON
GLIDDEN TOUR.
CON^DITION OF MISS
CLARA BARTON IMPROVED.
Brest, Prance, Sept. 9.—Twenty po- Worcester, Mass., Sept. 9. Charles
licemen and soldiers were badly hurt Barton, of Boston, brother of Miss
by missiles thrown by the mob in the Clara Barton, founder of the Red
riots here. '■ Cross Society, who has been ill, stat-
An equal number of noters were ed tonight that Miss Barton s condi- i
hurt by b6inK struck bv sabros. Th6 tion was such that sh© was able to [pie shall rule for those rule a coun-
soldiers ^ ere not permitted to use join members of the family at the j try in whose behalf the taxing po'wer
their guns. .dinner table tonight. is employed.”
to take credit from those w'ho have
earned it is the worst form of ‘playing
politics.’
“Let our friends in congress take
heart, for if what they have done is
‘playing politics, the people will cry.
Go on with the gamel’ The tariff will
never be taken out of politics, so long
as it is to be prostituted for private
gain and those who get or wish to get
the gain can control the organizati.’n
of one of the great parties.
“For the voters will always use the
other party for their defense and the
conflict will go on until it is settled
whether privileged classes or the peo
New York, Sept. 9.—From the na
tional headquarters of the automo
bile association of America, two Flan
ders cars started yesterday afternoon
on the pathflnding trip of the 1911
Glidden tour, from New York to Jack
sonville, Fla. A. L. Westgard is the
pathfinder. His trip will cover 1,400
miles. . ~
The pathfinders were due in rhiia-
delphia and at Gettysburg today. The
route runs through Staunton and Roa
noke, Va., Winston-Salem and Char
lotte,’ N. C., Anderson, S. C., Atlanta,
Macon and Savannah Ga., thence to
Jacksonville. The pathfinders are
scheduled to reach Atlanta September
15th and will leave there the following
day, reaching Jacksonville September
29th. ' .
MINING CONGRESS PUT OFF.
Chicago, Sept. 9.—The convention of
the American Mining Congress, which
was to have been held here October
24 was today postponed until the 2Sth.
owing to the inability of President
Taft to be present and address the
delegates on the first named date.
The president is expected on the
28th.
Will Bring Banker
Into Biibety Muddk
Montgomery, Ala.. Sept. 9.—Jolm W.
A. Sanford, of Montgomery, represent
ing the prosecution in the bribery,
cases lodged yesterday against W. M.
Moses, and Deronda Levy, excise com
missioners at Girard, Ala., said today
a warrant w’ould be sent out this af
ternoon for the arrest of a prominent
banker of Columbus, Ga., who he de«
dared was the manipulator in the al
leged bribery scheme. The Georgia
citizen, he states, is president of a
bank of Russel county, Alabama.
LaFollette W ill
1 ake Tip From Taft
Madison. Wis., Sept. 9.—Not until
congress convenes in December will
Senator LaFollette announce his can
didacy for the presidency, according
to a report from well informed sourc
es today. It is said the Wisconsin pro
gressive is delaying announcement of
his campaign until he can determine
just what attitude President Taft will
take toward so-called progressive pol
icies in his message to congress.
Ten Buildings Burned.
Santiago, Cuba,, Sept. 9.—Ten
buildings in / the business section of
this city, burned today. The loss is
about $100,000.
FIFTY HURT IN WRECK. ^
♦
♦ Washington, Sept. 9.—Fifty ♦
♦ or more persons were Injured ♦
♦ tonight at the Benning race ^
♦ track when a street car ran ^
♦ into the rear end of another ♦
♦ car, which was filled with ex- ♦
♦ cursionists from Chesapeake ♦
^ Beach. Five of the injured ♦
exctirsionists are seriously ♦
hurt and two, a Greek and an ♦
Italian, it is believed, will die. ♦
♦