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L "tt u 111 QTOHV HhlH-ill HuP 'MSSSmMigi - F C RDPPC RJIPK Rn7P I DssGribes Young : Husband's Sudd&n Appearance vitli Joiy oil Testimony Starts in, the Beattie Mur der Trial and Uncle of Mrs. Beattie Only Witness of the Forenoon Ses sion It Was to His House the Ac cused Rushed With the Qead Body of His Wife Gives Graphic Descrip tion and Repeats Beattie's Tale to Him Jury Completed Yesterday Af ternoon. Chesterfield Court House, Va.; Aug. 24 Henry ClajiBeattle, Jr's.; trial for wife murder, 'began in earnest today with the opening of the prosecution's case. For the first time since his arrest over a month ago Beattie slept away from the Richmond jail )last uight, occupying a cot in the brick lock-up, near the court house. One of the first witnesses called by the com monwealth this morning, after court preliminaries were", concluded, was Thomas Owen, the murdered " young wife's uncle, who was summoned to testify how Beattie brought the body of his wife to the Owen home, with the story of a man In the roadway firing into his automobile, killing his wife. -Beulah Binford, the seventeen year old girl, who Is said to have come between the prisoner and his wife, remains in the rail at Jlichmond as a material witness. Her testimony will probably not be introduced until tomorrow or next day. The prosecu tion at the convening of court had ready its list of more than-'seventy witnesses. -The defense will call more than a score. - ,. , fc Blood Stained Automobile. Court opened prpmptly at , 10:30 o'clock' and, the prisoner took his seat promptly. Today ' was the first anni versary ;.bf4?Ji.ls.c marriage -Jxrthe wo man he Is i' ScusecTpf murderingShort ly before court .opened the blood stained automobile, in which Beattie's wife met her death, was driveh into the court house yard. The prisoner was on the lawn when the machine arrived. Beattie calmly, inspected it, His father raised the cushion of the front seat, revealing the blood spots on the wooden work. Thomas Owen took the stand at 11:20 and the pris oner gazed fixedly at him. He told how Beattie drove up to his house on the night of the murder, and took his young wife into the car, returning later with her dead body beside him, Beattie shouting "My God, my God! They have killed Louise." : Shotgun Exhibited. Beattie's blood-soaked, clothing were unrolled before, the jury, ' the witness identifying them. . The single-barrel shot gun," with which the common wealth says the shot was fired, wafe then exhibited. ; Describes Scene of Tragedy. Owen described the scene" of the crime on the night 'of the murder. Beattie watched his uncle-in-law ; like a hawk. As the testimony proceeded he occasionally shook - his head as if in contradiction. . "Did you observe the conduct of the accused at the house after the mur der?" Owen was asked, j "He seemed grieved. .Several times he inquired if his wife was dead The witness described the 'bearded highwayman" pictured to him by Beat tie, as his wife's murderer. He r peated Beattie's. stoiV of the alleged encounter and told of the scratch on Beattie's face, which the: prisoner said the man on the road inflicted. : "Did the accused render you aid in an attempt to identify the assassin?" Owen was asked. - , "His description of ihe man was his only aid," replied the witness. ' On' Cross" Examination. Attorney Smith, for the defense, cross examined Owen. The witness became confused regarding several in cidents on the night of the murder. To show that if Beattie had murder in his heart he would not nave select ed the Midlothian turnpike,10wen was asked to describe the highway, which ie admitted was popular with auto riobilists. Who Suggested Bloodhounds? "Who at first suggested bloodhounds to trace the assassin?" asked Attor ney Smith. "I think I did," said Owen; "Do you not recall Henrf -..having said: 'Get the hounds soon, spare no Pense?'" - -. .. . .. "I remember nothing of the kind," answered the witnessf . , . ; The court ruled out questions ask ed by-tEe commonwealth's attorney that Beattie refrained f rem inviting flF His nan wi fi mmmm imm , uiiu ouiuiuui . iiiiiikiioui iuuoi m members Of his own family on the night automobile ride, in order foiat Beattie and his wife might be Vone. Then a recess was taken until this afternoon. Personnel of the Jury. Made up almost .entirely of lean, bronzed faced farmers, the jury as com pleted yesterday afternoon follows the lines indicated by Monday's selections. The 12 men as they remain alter the defense exercised its four peremptory challenges on the panel of 16, are: No. 1 N. W. Marley, quarryman, 37 years old. No. 2 E. L. Wilson, 38 years old. No. 3 A. L. Fetteroff, contractor, 34 years old. ' No. 4 Irving L. Bass, Jr., 30 years old. - No. 5 V. W. Fuqua, 27 years old. No. 6 W. L. Burgess, 52, years old. No. 7 M. E. Purdie, 27 years old. No. 8 M. C. Robinson, 44 years old. . No. 9 Thomas A. Hancock, 37 years old. No. 10 Lewis Robertson,' 44 years old. No. 11 W. P. Rooks, 48 years old. ' No. 12 M. E. Blankenship, assistant superintendent of a slk mill, 38 years old. ; . All of the foregoing are farmers ex cept the three otherwise specified. Taking His Own Medicine. Falls to the lot of a lawyer in "Bil ly's Marriage," Grand today. It, EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES -CAUSES MANY DEATHS San Francisco, Au. 24 Advices from Tutuila, Samoa, states that as the re sult of an epidemic of measles in the island of American Samoa 219 deaths have occurred. Ten per cent of the pop ulation is affected by the disease; Taking His Own Medicine. Falls to the lot of a lawyer in "Bil ly's Marriage," Grand today. It. , - : W SON -TO CHOOSE OWN WIFE Yet Mrs. Hetty Green's Venturesome Spirit, However, Is Shown by Fact That Son Is Only 44. New York, Aug. 23. Col. Edward Howland Robinson Green, son of Het ty Green and able financier on ifis own hook yesterday entered upon his forty fourth year still a bachelor, but with the announced intention of taking unto himself a wife just as soon as the right woman is found. Those thousands of young women all over the country who have been proposing to Col. Green by letter and telegram had just as well save their postage and tolls, as he has definitely and determinedly announced that he will have no mail order bride in his'n. , "I'm ; going", to meet the woman I marry in the regular and. time-honored way, or else we won't meet," asserted the Colonel, with an air of finality in his tones "Just because my name is Green these young ladies who- have! been writing me need not think I am." So there, girls! , Colonel Green has some, views on the Astor-Force wedding: He said: "It's Col Astor's business, not 'mine. This is a free country," continued the Colonel, who, as a multi-millionaire, has a right to think so, "and the young woman Mr. Astor is to marry seems pleased and happy. What right have a lot of scandal-mongers" Col. Green became heated at .this point and spoke with vigor "to impute wrongful mo tives to either of them? It is much worse for a preacher' like Richmond to criticise than for a layman. The Bible says, 'Judge not,' and I think. a dema gogic clergyman like Richmond set ting out to spoil a young girl's rom ance is guilty of a far greatrinthan Astor ever dreamed of. It is her life, and she has' a right to order' it as it pleases her.". sg Taking Hte Own Medicine. - Fallp to. the lot ot a "lawyer in ly's Marriage," Grahd today. Bil- lt s Arrjaga President of Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal,-Aug. '24 The As sembly elected Senior Arriaga presi dent of the Republic 1 "The Garden of Love." Beautiful ballad sung today by Dan ford, i Grand Theatre. m n h r m mb a . m m n w a - i . . r. ....:.o'.:-:-:-::::-::-:::::-......:::--?x :;:-: -"wy.' w.. . w.v ""w . : Li.'-x:-;-.-;j9 : - ?::i-w-.x.vj - 1 . aw a . a a a m iiiiiiii mil i ma a a - biibbbbbbb' b b a bl m r i- i Met .With Accident Within - Twenty Five Miles of the Goal and Had to $pp for Repairs to His Aeroplane iaged to Break Another Record Mibrnina. Nyav Y., Aug. 24. Avbtor At- wood su - Nd an accident to nis ae roplane' a o'clock this morning A of the flaisb of his within 25 record breaks eroplane flight from York He . landed St. Louis to here for repair??" is doubtful if he continues to New York until tomor row, s Breaks a Record ;Today. Rhinecliff,- N. Y., Aug. 24. Harry N. Atwood.'the aviator, broke all rec ords 'for distance in cross country ae roplane flying, when he passed over Kingston, opposite here, at 8 : 39 o'cfbck this morning, in his S.t. Louis to New York aeroplane flight. -Atwood ex ceeded by thirteen miles the record of 1,164 miles previously made by Eu ropean aeronauts. His distance from St. Louis, when he passed here, was 1,177 miles. He proceeded southward, headed for West Point and New York. PRINCESS TAKES UP WORK AS SCULPTOR .London, Aug. 24. With the inten tion of bejng a sculptor like her great aunt, Princess Louise, Duchess of Ar gyll, the King's only daughter, has just started to learn modelling in clay. Some . time ago, when the little Princess .was .taken to the Duchess' studio at Kensington Palace, she ex preased jlish to take- up the art, and then and there the duchess gave her her first lesson. Such capacity did tne youthful pu pil exhibit that Queen Mary decided to have her taught professionally. She has now a little studio all to herself, and she has commenced her "career." She is said to be very particular about her working costume, and In her big blue overalls she makes a pleasant picture. , The handsoraest of all of Queen Vic toria's daughters, and profoundly cul-tured- the puchess of Argyll is cred ited as being the pioneer who led aris tocratic women into the world of art in England, at any rate. 1 .. .. i. Italian Census Figures. Rome, Aug. 24. The census taken in June shows the following approximate populations in four cities: Naples, 750, OO'O; Milan, 6'15,000; Turin, 429,000; Genoa, 240,000. PRIVATEJ E.SI LHAN COURTESY OF RrVl EVV OP" Rochester, . N, Y., Aug, 24. When "Major John E. Oilman of .Boston ap peared here as commander in chief .of the Grand Army of the Republic at the 1911 reunion he'was a very differ ent looking man from the one who as a lad of sixteen ran away from home in 1861. t enlist in the army, as the accompanying picture, made from a photograph taken 'in , 1862', 'shows,. Major ;Gilman had two arms when this(picture was taken . Some months later at Gettysburg his right arm was shattered by a shell, necessitating am putation, , ' f-' - Wrf'Y $Kitox.:. asst. London, Aug. 24. A model of one of the newest types of aeroplanes is shown in the illustration. It was exhibited recently in England. The ma chine is called "an automatic balancing aeroplane." It consists of a central tube swinging upon the framework of the planes. The driver is protected by the cabin in which he sits' and stee rs the machine by one wheel. The center of gravity is )W. aiding the aviator to maintain his stability. The gyroscope principle is applied to this aeroplane in an ingenious way, and the inventors claim that the new balancing apparatus will greatly en hance the safety of frying. - v SI! ALREADY DEAD Four More Victims Iteft of the Nevada Mine Fire Five ifted After Passing Through the Flames. Ely," Nev., Aug. 24p-Of theten men at the 1,400 foot ley el of the Coroux mine which caught Are, six are dead, four dying after passing through the flames to reach the surface. .MUST WEAR PRESERVERS Harward Aviation . Meet Doesn't Want Any Drownings. 7j .Boston, Aug. 24. Every aviator fly ing over water at, Uie Harvard avia tion meet, which opens at" Squantuni. Saturday, will be required to wear a life preserver. This rule will be rigidly 'observed, according to a statement issued today by Charles J. Glidden, chairman of the Contest Committee of the meet Appalled by the deaths' of . St. Croix Johnstone and William S. Badger, at Chicago, ; the manar of this tourna ment. detemiied'i4fct-ai IfciniUaewJujcfc; dents must, if possIble3)e av'oided here. The aviators .will be urged to reffain from any hazardous aerial feats. It will be impressed upon theninds of the aviators that the public does not ask them to perform what will endan ger life and limb. v : The route of the. flyers- in the inter state race from 'Boston to Nashua, to Worcester, to Providence, to Boston, has been viewed, and plenty of guiding objects found. Starting from Squan tum the pilots will first sight the Charles river They will follow the Charles to theConcord river at Lowell, f It is then easy to follow the Merrimac to Nashua. Turning at Nashua, the railrpad from that city to Worcester can be readily followed, and'after passing Lake Quin signamond, the Blackstone Valley will be followed to Providence. The State highway from Providence to Boston and the railroad will be the guides back to the goal. DELEGATES WIRE THEIR SUPPORT OP OR. WILEY Duluth, Aug. 24. Telegrams express ing confidence in Dr. Harvey ( W. Wiley and promising support of his official acts, were sent President Taft today by delegates Of the fifteenth annual convention of the. Association ot Itate and National Food and Dairy Depart ments. The' convention has been di vided into W41ey and Wilson factions. fflJRNED TO DEATH outh and Child Perish in- Flames at a Home.' " ' Ontario, Calif ornfa, Aug. 24. Doug las and Everett Davenport, aged seventeen and nine years, respectively, were burned to death when the Clark residence was destroyed by vflre. Mrs. James Clark jumped from- an upper story and was fatally injured. STRIPPED' AND, SOLD Norfolk, Aug. .24. Abandoned as a complete wre,ck the Thomaston, Maine, schooner, Willie H. Child, which went ashore off the dangerous Hatteras scoast, while enroute to Jacksonville, Fla., to load lumber, has been stripped and sold. ' y t . "The Local Bullyjf ; i Cleverest , of air laugh photoplays. Grand today. - ' It. SCHOONER ... . w v a i - i , ' w. T iLii . ,' Parents and Son Murdered in Their Beds in Indiana and the Home St On Fire Another Son Charged With the Wholesale Crime. Boonhille, Ind., Aug. 24. Richard Lee and Mrs Lee, and their seventeen year old son, Clarence, were killed in their beds here with a hammer. The house was then set afire. William Lee, 21 years old, has been arrested, charged with this triple mur der of his father, mother and brother. h3 GE PROFIT NEXT WINTER. The Beef Trust4 Men re Grabbing . Dairy Products and Poultry Also. Chicago, Aug. 24. The cold storage men are preparing to reap a great harvest of profits from the public next winter. The biggest winners will be the men in the beef trust. They are "combing" the country for dairy prod ucts and poultry. Not only the West but the East J& racked-for "broilers. Reports of, the leading' warehouses of the country on Aug. 1st" showm an 11 per cent storage of butter. Receipts in Chicago, New York ,aind Boston show a falling off of 11,623,460 pounds during May, June and July, as com pared with last year. The Federal smashing of the Elgin butter trust has saved the consumers millions of dollars. The wholesale price for the best quality is 26 cents. Last year, before the .Government hit the trust, the price was 30 and 31 cents, though the supply was 11 per cent larger. On August 1st, 48,582,000 Pounds of butter was in storage In 35 houses. If this butter is held for winter consumption the consumer will pay from 5 to 8 cents a pound more than he is paying now. At the first of the month there wer6 in cold storage in 35 houses 2,971,000 cases of eggs, thirty dozen in a case. This was an excess of 487,000 cases over last year. It is expected they will advance 15 cents a dozen by next winter. . S Corn-fed .cattle sold today for $8.25 a hundredweight at the stock yards, the highest price in TfpV years. Beef, pork and mutton arewsually kept in cold storage from sixty; to ninety days. It is estimated, taking the receipts, shipments and slaughtering x -& ba sis, that the packers have now on ice in Chicago, Omaha, Sioux City, Kan sas City, St. Louis and; St. Joseph 2, 500,000 hogs, -fresh 'and in process of curing; 800,000 beeves and 1,500,000 sheep. . . " What fcthis food will cost the con sumer depends upon the packers . and the, demand at the beginning of cold weather, when it is put on the mar ket." ... . - ; ' , ' ' WHO WOULDN'T FIGHT SOUTH PASSES Atchison, Kans., Aug. 24. William Sims, who in' .Civil War days was Im prisoned because' he refused to join the Federal Army, died today v aged 83 years. - He served two "years in the. Confederate army, -returning, to Kan sas after the war, penniless. He owned l.'SOO acres ot landlat his death, - BACK TO THE LINKS. President Taft Returns Today To Boston, Aug. 24. President Taft ar rived 'here at 9:15 o'clock this morn- i ingv He entered an automobile and started for, Beverly, where he has planned to spend most of the day play ing jgolf. .. ; Big Smile BUI at the 'Grand r-Three of the funniest films on today only, ' ' - . It TRAGEDY Many Autoists Will Enter and With Good 1 Weather Records May Be Smashed Course Considered One of the Fastest in the World. ChfWfgo, Aug. 24. Everything is in readiness for the running . of the American Automobile Association's second annual "national stock chassis road races at Elgin, 111., under the auspices, of the Chicago' Motor Club, tomorrow : and Saturday. Last year there were 40,000 paid admissions to the event and this year it Is expected that the attendance will reach 80,000. With favorable weather conditions several track records may be broken in the opinion of " experts and the course is now" considered one ot the fastest in the world; Ten thousand dollars has been expended in improv ing . the course since the last race meet. Seventy thousand gallons of oil have been put on the course in the past month which has had the effect of. hardening the surface and making it practically ausuess. The Elgin track is 8 1-2 miles in length, over a triangular course, and for most of the distance is 54 feet wide. The roads leading to Elgin from Chicago and other adjacent cities have been treated with a dust proof liquid for the benefit of the thousands who will go to the races in automobiles. Prizes aggregating $15,000 will be dis tributed, among the " winners of the four events: . Persons interested in automobile racing from nearly every state in the union will attend.- The program for the two days' racing meet with the list of , entries, Is as. follows: Friday; August 2511 a. m. Dlinbis Cup, distance 200 miles. First prize, trophy gained at $1,500, $400 in cash, and '$650 worth of automobile equip ment. Second prize, $150 worth of au tomobile equipment. Third prize, $100 worth of automobile equipment. Addi tional prize to car making fastest lap, $100 worth of automobile equipment. Car Driver Merz ........ Herr Jeff kins Stickney distance 170 National ....... National ....... Velie , Velie Kane County Cap, miles. First prize, trophy valued at $1,000, $300 in cash, and $800 worth of automobile equipment. Second prize, $250 worth of automobile equipment. Third prize, $100 worth of automobile equipment. Additional prize to car making fastest lap $100 worth of au tomobile equipment. Car s F A L ....... F A. L ..i..... FA L Staver-Chicago Staver-Chicago Staver-Chicago Driver ... Greiner . . . . Gelnaw .... Pearce Monchmeier To be selected . . . .To be selected Jenkins .. To be selected ...... Maisbnville Pearce ...... . Armstrong . . ......... Ogren Hughes Barnes Cole v Cole C6rbin: .. . Colby ; Colby Colby ... ... Mercer ....... Mercer Cino Burt Cino . . '. Raimey Aurora Cup, distance 135 miies. First prize, $750, $300 in cash, and $400 in automobile equipment. Second prize, $50 worth of automobile equip ment. Additional .prize to car making fastest lap $100 worth of automobile equipment. V Saturday, August 26, 11 a. m. Elgin National Trophy, distance 300 miles. First prize, ' trophy valued at $3,500, $1,000 in cash, and $1,700 worth of automobile equipment. '. Second prize, $300 in cash and $200 worth of auto mobile equipment. - Third prize, $200 in cash and $100 worth of automobile equipment. Additional prize to car making fastest lap v $200 worth of au tomobile equipment. - Car Driver j . Mulford . . Zengle .. Aitken Lozler . ''. National. National Alco Alco ... Alco .'. . . , Simplex Simplex v . . . Grant . Hartman . . . . . Lee "t" . . . ivy DePalma . Wishart Pope-Hartford i . . Buck Merger . . . . . .w'.-. . Hughes Cino ..... Burt Cino ...V. ... Kalmey The officials Vhowill act at the El gin races this, year embrace the best known automobile racing experts in . ' . (Continued on Page Two.); Ma"y AutoIste Will Enter and With Jefferson County, Centered by Alan Jefferson County, Centered by Alan bama's Chief City, Passing on tha Liquor Question Today Prohibition ists Confident of . Victory "Antls" Also Sure and Say Birmingham Will Vote Wet Like Mobile and: Mont gomery. Birmingham, Aug., 24.- The polls throughout Jefferson county opened to day and people are voting on local op tion. The local optionists' the "dry' ticket, claim victory by two thousand majority. In addition to . Birmingham tha county embraces Bessemer and sev eral other populous manufacturing centers, in consequence of which the election is regarded as the stiffest test to which prohibition has been put in Alabama since the adoption of the State--wide prohibition: law' several years ago. Whether the dispensary sys tem or sale by licensed saloons shall rule in 'the eent the city goes "wet" will be decided by the election. Both the prohibition and the antl-prohibi-tion forces have conducted vigorous campaigns. The "antis" are confident of; success, basing their prediction on the -presumption that Birmingham will follow, the example of Mobile and Montgomery, the two other largest cities of the State, which already have gone "wet." CONTEST FOR CONVENTION Big Cities -After Next Year's Meeting of thefjprder of Moose. 1- , Detroit, " Aug. 24. Loa'l ' Order of Moose, held; its ' principal , legislative j session today. Kansas - City, Denver, Los Angeles and Seattle are contest- ; ing for-the- next convention. - Ten' thorn isandMoose partictp'atedfi'iaiit night's" parade. . ,. ... : . , ' . . ; . FIVE-THOUSAND EAGLES IN -ANNUAL PARADE San Francisco, Aug. 24. Five thou sand Eagles marched through- San Francisco streets today in a parade cf the Grand Aerie of Fraternal Order of Eagles. ; .. .v. ipi mm test . Kansas City, Mo., Aug.' 24. The Hon. Henry - Wallace ofr Des Moines, Ia.V,will . preside at the third national conservation congress, which opens in this city September 25 for a session of three days. . This session will be de voted almost wholly to the fanner, his home and his farm. These related top ics will be discussed by many men of prominence. President Wallace is an authority on farming. Women dele gates will participate actively in this" convention, which will.be a new fea- ture of the congress., v : - ' i- --i -Z : - r -;.. . . . , y m "mi i -) iJi-
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