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WILSON, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, i91i
VOL. 17 NO. 165
BEATTIE IS
STILL GAME
HOPING THE COURTS WILL INTER
CEDE IN HIS BEHALF-FATHER
DESPONDENT
EXPRESSIONS OF PRICIPAL
Richmond, Va., Sept. 11. Special
agent Scherer who workfed up the
evidence against Beattie was at first
disposed to discredit the eye witness
story received from Chicago. He is
now impressed with the story. He
will investigate and be prepared for
the contigency in case there is anoth
er trial which is doubtful. There is
no order thus far to remove Beattie
from Chesterfield jail.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 11. By Henry
C. Beattie Jr.: "I am not a dead man
yet. The fight is far from finished
We have hardly begun. Wait until
the case gets into the Supreme Court.
I am innocent and will be acquitted
By Henry C. Beattie, Sr.: Tnere is
nothing I can say." (The father broke
down at this point and wept.)
By Paul Beattie: "I am sorry for
Henry, but I had to tell the truth.
God knows I could "not swear to a
lie. I am going to stay in Richmond.
The public has- believed me and
stood by me. I expect to go back to
work with Contractor L. J. Smith. 1
am going to make my home here, and
when the time comes to die I want
to be buried here."
By Ben P. Owen, uncle of the late
Mrs. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.: "It is
not our wish to give any public ex
pression as to the case. From the
beginning my brother; Tom, and my
self have aimed to make, in a dig
nified manner, an appeal for justice
to the judgment of the law."
By Beulah Binford (by wire from
New York): "It's awful. He is not
guilty. They didn't prove a thing
' against him. They're sending him to
death for "nothing. I wish I could do
something or say something., that
would change the case. I know he
didn't murder her. I know it. He
couldn't have done such a thing. He
is a fine man, and was always square
and kind."
By Special Attorney Louis O. Wen
denburg, assisting the prosecution:
"I am fully satisfied. Justice has been
done. The laws of the State have
been vindicated. The verdict could
not have been otherwise."
By Attorney Harry M. Smith, sen
ior counsel for the accused: "I would
prefer to say nothing for publication
just at this time."
Declares Girl Influenced Jury.
Chesterfield Courthouse, Va., Sept.
11. Thought of impending doom
death in the electric chair on Nov
ember 24 did not break the steel
bound composure of Henry Clay Beat-
tie, Jr., as he spent his first day in
a cell here as a convict for the mur
der of his wife.
In a matter-of-fact way he discuss
ed the case with friends, who called
to express sympathy, but to the news
paper men he bitterly denounced the
verdict as unfair. . - "
Expecting that Judge "Watson would
not order his removal to the state
penitentiary for several days, young
Beattie began to make his cell more
habitable. His window faces the
country road and from it can view
all Chesterfield in its - simple still
ness. Newspapers, ; particularly , those
that feature sports, are sent . to him
daily, and on these he lingers as he
did during those 58 minutes Satur?
day afternoon when 12 men were de
ciding his fate.
Beulah Binford his relations with
whom shocked the jurymen was a
frequent name on Beattie's lips Sat
urday but she probably never before
received as deep condemnation.
Time and again he complained that
the jury had tried him for his rela
tions with the girl of the underworld
rather than upon the circumstantial
testimony pertinent to the tragedy.
A white-haired man rode out to the
jail today, jostled over three miles of
a rough road .from the nearest in
terurban station. As he entered the
dim chamber where his convicted son
stood he pressed a kiss on his fore
head. It was at this moment as in pre-
I vious moments in the trial, that the
fortitude of the boy crumpled and
his face flushed tears forcing their
way from his eyes over his pale
cheeks.
, In the mind of father and son still
flickers one hope the granting by
the Court of Appeals of a new trial
through a writ of error. But the pre
vailing opinion in Virginia's bar is
that it is a vain hope.
In contrast to the peaceful scene
in the jail a little home in Richmond
17 miles away, where Paul Beattie
cousin of the convicted man, sat with
his wife an dbabe, glad of detention
as the commonwealth's principal wit
ness, yet sympathetic for the man for
whom he bought the fatal gun, all
ignorant of the evil purpose that it
was to fill four days later.
"What I did in testifying" said
Paul, "I did from a sense of duty.
It was hard at first to nerve myself
to telling all I knew but I am reliev
ed that I have done it."
"Fearfully unfair," muttered the con
demned man in his cell when asked
his opinion of the verdict.
"Beulah Binford," he added, "fig
ured largely in the verdict, Jnore
largely than the testimony of the
killing. These country folks cannot
understand how a woman of the un
derworld can be crazy about you.
They don't know when that happens
how very hard it is to get rid of her.
"I have drifted along hoping against
hope that somthing would occur to
enable me to rid myself of that Bin
ford girl. And once a woman of that
kind feels that you no longer take
any interest in her, she usually seeks
solace in suicide. So I drifted along
waiting for a chance to breaK off re
lations with her without having to
hurt herself. I tried hard to persuade
her in the meantime to live a proper
life. .
Had this case been tried in any
court where those things are not un
common, this morning I would have
been a free man. Interpreting Judge
Watson's instructions to the jury, 1
cannot see how the verdict could
have been , other than 'not guilty.' I
believe the jury was Influenced by
the one-sided newspaper reports be
fore I had a chance to present my
side of the case. I wanted to give out
a statement as soon as I was arrest
ed but Mr. Smith, my lawyer, advised
against this.
I have not given up hope, because
I cannot feel that an innocent man
will be permitted to suffer for this
hideous crime."
There were many rumors abroad
today that Beattie would never die
in the electric chair; that he would
find some means of committing sui
cide when all hope of gaining his
freedom was gone.
-"Billy" Sampson, his chum and one
of thcf important witnesses at the trial
was quoted as saying:
"Henry Beattie will "not die in the
chair. It will be some other way."
The First Chinese Warship.
New York, Sept. 11. Saluated by
passing steamers the Cruiser Haichi
the first Chinese warship to enter
American waters came up the bay in
a blanket fog and: anchored off the
city at Governor's Island. She was
saluted by 21 guns.
Several Barges of Coal Sunk.
Paducah, Ky., Sept.' 11. Several
barges laden with " coal sunk when
the tow boat Sprague went ashore
on; Sisters Island. She had 46 barges
in. tow. Boats are on the way to the
rescue. There is no loss of life.
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i THE WEATHER &
Showers.
Local showers tonight or Tuesday
with light to variably wind.
DISEASE AND
IGNORANCE
AGAINST BOTH, THE AUTHORITIES
MUST ACT-MOBS THINK PHY
SICIANS INJECT POISON
INTO CHOLERA VICTIMS
Chiasso, Switzerland, Sept. 11.
Savage excesses have been committ
ed as a result of the cholera epidem
ic now raging in Italy, in Gioca del
Colle, a town of 20,000 in the Italian
province of Bari della Puglie, accord
ing to official reports received here.
The desease is said to have reduc
ed the inhabitants of the town to a
condition of desperation. The autho
rities, in an effort to stamp out the
infection, ordered that all persons at
tacked by cholera should be taken to
a hospital and those who had been
in contact with cholera victimse be
isolated in a neighborhood building.
Convinced that it was the inten
tion of the authorities to kill the
patients -and also those under obser
vation a crowd stormed the hospital
and threatened to burn it if interfer
ed with in releasing the cholera strick
en inmates.
The crowds rushed into the build
ing, brought out the cholera patients
and carried them in ghastly proces
sion through the town.
The thoroughfares were lined with
people who acclaimed the cholera vie
tims and shouted imprecations
against the government. The cholera
suspects under observation were al
so set free amid similar scenes of
frantic enthusiasm enacted by the
people.
The Italian government has dis
patched troops to the place.
Scenes similar to those witnessed
at Gioia de Colle also are reported
from Massafra, a town in the Italian
province of Lecce.
While the municipal council -of
Lecce was in session discussing the
best measures for combating the cho
lera, thousands of demonstrants how
ling "death" "death" gathered about
the city hall. The mayor and council
lors suspended the meeting and es
caped from the building. The mob
then moved toward the cholera hos
pital, keeping up a running fight with
the police who were unable to stop
the marching crowd. Several police
men and some of the townspeople
were dangerously injured.
The mob entered the hospital and
after carrying out the patients smash
ed the furniture and set fire to the
building. The patients some of whom
were in a dying condition, were car
ried triumphantly through the streets
The general belief " of the people is
that the doctors inoculate cholera
stricken persons with poison.
When the rioters entered the hos
pital several of the wards were al
ready afire. A woman patient was
crying desperately which further ex
cited the fury of the mob, who inter
preted the cries as proof of the cruel
ty practiced by the representatives
of "tyrannical government."
Smoke and flames added to the
terror and distress of the patients.
Some were picked up and transported
on mattresses; others were laid on
cots. The crowd around them, intoxi
cated by their triumph, danced and
shouted and made carnival compar
able to the dance of the furies. Mean
while two - women ; patients left in
the flaming wards were incinerated,
while other pationts who were car
ried to their homes, died before reach
ing them. - -
Fortunately the rioters forgot to
cut the telegraph wires and the. a a
thorities were informed. Police, sold
iers and carbineers and even sailors
were rushed to the burning hospital.
They- succeeded in quelling the riot
ers, forty-five of whom were arrested
as the leaders. These included nine
women. . ,; ---'
LOOD AND
AGITATION
CAUSE CHINESE FURY AGAINST
FOREIGNERS-GUNBOATS CAN'T
REACH SCENE
AMERICANS THREATENED
Shanghai, Sept, 11.- The Govern
ment has declared martial law In the
western provinces. Looters will be
shot on sight. The military are in
sufficient to preserve order. Reports
are meagre from the scene of disor
der. Missionaries are believed to be
safe.
Peking, Sept. 11. For three days
no messages have been received from
the hundred foreigners gathered at
Ching Tu, captital of Sze-Chuen pro-
vine, for safety from the mobs which
have been running riot in the sur
rounding districts for some time past.
The Chinese viceroy ordered the for
eigners to leave the city and it is
believed that they are now making
their way toward the Yangtse Kiang
about three hundred miles away, by
cart or river, through a country
where anti-foreign placards have br3n
posted for many weeks.
It is understood the .fugities are
under the escort of Chinese troops,
but it is considered questionable if
these troops would oppose their own
people should an attack be made up
on the foreigners.
There are British gunboats on the
Yang-Tse above the gorges whic'i ex
tend from Ichang to Chung King.The
American ships were ordered up riv
er but were unable to proceed abeve
Ichang, many -hundred miles from
Ching Tu. -
The Americans among the refugees
number thirty. With the excepe'm of
a representative of an American to
bacco company, all are Methodist or
Baptist missionaries. Placards wh'c'n
have been posted in many places atarc
that foreign bankers have been en
trenching themselves on the pover
ty,stricken Chinese. '
The most influential Chinese news
papers in Peking give unqualified
support to the agitation in the pro
vinces and petitions have been pre
sented to the throne asking that the
railway program be rescinded and
that the provinces be permitted to
construct the lines which have been
projected by the government with
the aid of foreign capital.
Flood and famine in the Yang Tse
Kiang valley have claimed at least
five million souls within the decade,
according to conservative computa
tions of missionary societies and oth
er authorities who have received au
thentic reports from the death ridden
districts.
In the famine of 1906-7 the most aw
ful camp of which history has any
record was established outside the
walls- of the ancient city of Tsing
Kiang Fu, situated on the grand can
al, about 100 miles north of the
Yang Tee River. There 500,000 men
women and children were herded in
to huts made of mud and reeds De
spite the efforts made by the Chin
ese government, by devoted mission
aries and by well disposed foreign
ers, thousands died every day and .i-ho
deaths ir. that section of the country
in the nine months from October,
1906 to July, 1907, must have run to
three-quarters of a million.
A very large , contingent ' of Chi
nese and influential foreign residents
believe that, the greatest responsibil
ity confronting the Chinese govern
ment yesterday is the solving of an
engineering problem that will save
the lives of the one hundred and fifty
millions who inhabit the Yang Tse
Valley and make possible for continu
ed human occupation one of the rich
est territories in the world.
'ibe constantly recurring floods are
due partly to a denudation of practi
cally all tree life as deforestation has
been going on for hundreds of years
Another cause is the peculiar eon
formation throughout many parts' of
-he territory affected. Huge -lams
hold the .flood waters from reacajig
natural channels in many , places and
completely submerge millions of ; acres
every time the Yang Tse, fed by the
torrential rains in. the mountains,- gets
on the rampage.
The engineering problems referred
to are staggering. Here is a terri
tory 700 miles long and 200 miles'
wide that at periods recurring at
least every thr, years is fully or
partially floodp Canals and reser
voirs would a to be the only rem
edy unless 3 great Yang Tse can
be dyked.
Gre
ooro Daily News Absorb"
Telegram.
Greensboro, N. C, Sept 11. The
Hildebrand-Crater Publishing com
pany, owners of the Greensboro Daily
News, has bought the Greensboro
Telegram, with its good will, subscrip
tion list, advertising contracts and
linotype machine. With this deal the
Telegram is absorbed by the Daily
News. The last issue of the Telegram
appeared Saturday afternoon, and it
is understood that its editor and man
ager J. T. Fain, will return to Ala
bama to engage in newspaper work
there.
The Greensboro Telegram was es
tablished in 1897 as an afternoon
paper by C. G. Wright. It was first
edited for about eight months by th
late Charles P. Sapp. Following him
the paper was edited and managed
for about two years by R. M. Phil
lips, now associate editor of the
Daily News. R. F. Beasley then edit
ed the paper for something over a
year when it was sold to R. W. Hay
wood, who changed It to r. morning
paper and ran it as such until last
winter. The paper was then sold to
J. T. Fain and H. G. Braxton of
Alabama. Some time ago Mr. Braxton
sold his interest to Mr. Fain who Sat
urday sold the paper, as stated, to
the Hildebrand-Crater company.
In his concluding editorial Mr. Fain
after stating his reasons for selling,
says:
"We do not feel that the subscrib
ers of the Telegram will lose by the
change, as they will receive in the
News a better newspaper than we
were giving them or could n give them
on a business-like basis."
Vatican Fears Cholera.
Rome, Sept. 11. Several cases of
cholera have occurred in Rome, more
especially in the quarter of San Lo
renzo, which is exclusively composed
of wretched and overcrowded tene
ment houses. Stringent measures are
being taken to prevent the spread of
contagion from this quarter to the
city pproper, but former official neg
lect has already caused many vic
tims. -
Some anxiety Is felt at the Vatican
lest the dread disease Invade the
apostolic palace. Under various pre
texts all leaves of absence have been
denied for the last fortnight to the
members of the Swiss Guard and Pa
pal employes and all employes who
have been on their holidays in the
country are subjected to quarantine
in their own homes. They are visit
ed daily for a week by a physician
before being readmitted to the Vati
can. .
BROKE HIS LEG.
Aviator Herbert- Great, Britain's Fast
Postman Falls With Machine.
London, Sept. 11. Aviator Herbert
Great Britian's fast aerial postman
broke his leg today when his aero
plane fell near Windsor.
TROUBLES IN PORTUGAL
A Garrison in Sympathy With Royal
ists Mutiny. ;
Lisbon, Sept. 11. The Portugese
government has bought.- three aero
planes to be used in warfare on the
Royalists on . the northern frontier.
It is reported that the garrison at
Canize in the province of Orense has
mutined.
Mr. W. A.. Finch left for Nash
ville this morning.
GERMAN
TROOPS
LANDED AT AGIDOR TO PROTECT
FOREIGNERS AGAINST
RIFF TRIBES
ACTION IS SIGNIFICANT
London, Sept. 11. The Riff tribes
are attacking foreigners in Tangeira
German gun boats are . preparing to
land marines at Agidir. This actios,
on the part of Germany is significant
and viewed with alarm. This and oth
er troubles in China affected the Loa
don cotton market.
SUPPRESSING BINFORD PICTURE
If Moving Pictures Are Shown Li
censes Will Be Taken Away.
New York, Sept. 11. In a letter to
600 moving pictures proprietors in
this city commissioner of license Wal
lace warned against the exhibition of
the Beulah Binford, or the scene of
the trial Those who violates this law,
will have the licenses suspended.
Mills Starting Up.
Boston, Sept. 11. Nearly 25,000 per
sons engaged in the New England
textile industries resumed work to
day after an Idleness due to shut
down.
Russian Ambassador to United
States.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 11. The ap
pointment of Geo. Bakhmetiff to be
Ambassador to the United States i
announced.
HER BODY FOUND.
Daughter of Wealthy Hendersonvill
Jeweler Floating in Lake Osceola
Asheville, Sept 11. The dead body
of Miss Myrtle Hawkins, seventeen
yearg old the daughter of a wealthy
Hendcrsonville jeweler, who disap
peared Thursday was found )today,
floating in Lake Osceola.
HEAD-ON COLLISION,
One Man Killed and Four Serious
ly Injured in a Wreck on North
western. Chicago, Sept. 11. One man was
killed and four seriously injured in a
collision in a fog between two North
western trains near McHenry, Ills.
One engine and four coaches left the
track.
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COTTON.
New York, Sept. 11. Jan. opened
11.42; May 11.63; Oct. 11.28; Dec
11.42 and at noon Jan. was 11.34;;
May 11.57; Oct. 11.25; Dec. 11.37;
Liverpool opened 6 1-2 points down
from Saturday with Jan 7 1-2 and Deo
7 1-2.
At 11:30 Oct. cotton was 11.28?;
Dec. 11.41; Jan. 11.40.
At 2 o'clock Oct. cotton was H29;
Dec. 11.38; Jan. 11.35 and March 11.46
STOCKS
New York, Sept. 11. After open
ing strong with gains of 3-4 the stock
market became feverish and the list
unsettled. Steel common gained 1-8
and Southern Railway" 1-4. The curb
was steady. Americans' in' London are
firm. .
PROVISIONS
Chicago, Sept. 11. The opening la
Sept, wheat was 93 1-8 and Sept. cora
66 5-8.
11:3 A. M., Sept. Wheat was 92
7-8 and Sept Corn 7-8.
At 2 o'clock Dec. Wheat was 96
1-2,: Corn Sept 66 7-8.
Wheat closed Sept 92 1-4, Cora
Sept 66 5-8,
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