THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1911. S M DATS SWING PORTRAIT AND SNAP SHOT OP ALLEGED WIFE SLAYER WHO TESTIFIES IN -OWN BEHALF AND PICTURE OF FATAL AUTOMOBILE. TOLO B BEATTIE Jury Hears Story of Misspent Years and Version of How Wife Met Death. LOVE FOR HER UNSWERVING Young Virginian, on -Stand for Hia Life, Frankly Admits His Re lations With Benlah, and Flat ly Contradicts Hia Cousin. (Contlnsd from First Pays.) for only one offense. The court per mitted the prisoner to say that 'he didn't know his action was against the - law, "If the girl ran about town." "Sow, when the child was born. It was named after you. wasn't It?' "Yes, It was named Henry Clay.' "And when the child died you bought the casket?" "I was In the store when the funeral director had the bill and I told him the "child had been adopted by Mrs. Trout, and she said she wouldn't pay It but would turn It over to the city as my child; and I naturally didn't want that to happen and paid the bill, thinking that would be the last of It." "Did you write any letter to Mrs. Blnford to sisrn some paper in refer ence to the adoption of this child and that If she did not you would wash your hands of the matter?" "I can't remember writing it. I thought I had washed my' hands of the matter when I was in the lawyer's of fice." Girl Taken on Auto Ride. The prosecutor produced the letter and exclaimed: "Did you write that letter?" I did." Mr. Wendenbura; read: "Mrs. Blnford: You can sign the en closed with your name and address. Please do so at once, as this Is the last time I will monkey with this business. When you have an answer, call me up. Henry. "Did that letter relate to the adop tion of the child?" "From the contents of the letter, I think that it does, but when the child was born there was a paper to sign and It may have been In reference to that." "On Thursday preceding the homicide when did you Join BeulahT "About a quarter to nine." "Where did you go that night?" "Went out riding." "Took her to the countryr1 "Yes." The prisoner denied that he either had seen or telephoned Paul Seattle on Thursaay night. Love for Beulah Denied. "Paul ha testified that after you left McEvere's on Thursday you took him home?" "I didn't see him any night except Saturday. "That's the night Paul says you gave him Instructions about the gun, isn't it?" "So he said." "When you took Paul home on Sat urday night what did you say about Beulah Blnford?" "I told him to -call up Beulah Bln ford under the name of Mrs. Fisher, and that I would be there In a few minutes." "Were you In love with Beulah from the time she came from Norfolk until the time of the death of your wife?" "I never loved her." "Was she In love with you?" "I can't speak for her." "Didn't she write of you In her diary?" "I don't know. She may have." Regarding the admissibility of the diary, the court ruled that It should come "from the sworn lips of Beulah Blnford." Mr. Wendenburg produced the "Dear Kid" letter concerning the purchase of furniture for Miss Blnford, inclosing i J10.000 check, and the witness ad mitted having written It. It was dated July 19, or four days before the murder. "In your "Dear Kid' letter you asked Beulah to get an itemized bill of the furniture and what must be paid each week. Why was that? "I though she might say the bill was larger than it was. " 'With oceans of love.' What do you mean by that?" "Nothing just gush or taffy." " "Brimming with klasea.' What do you mean?" "Well, few men are with a girl of that kind and do not kiss her. It Is not a coldblooded act." - ' - - if.. i r - n I p ; y v v til 1 I ic' tCtI I ' Pa-nl Nerer Trusted. With one hand on his hip and his eyea on the Bible held by the Sheriff, the prisoner swore "to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth.". "Please state your age," said Mr. Smith, his counsel. "Twenty-sir" "What relation to you is Paul Beat tie T" "A second cousin." "Have you ever had any confidential relations with him or has he been your intimate?" "No sir," with emphasis. "Haa he ever run around with you?" "No, I only saw him when he would come to the store to get money or something and he was never left a minute without being watched." "You had no confidence in him?" "None in the world." "Did you ever trust him with any secret?" "None in the world." "How long have you known Beulah Blnford?" "I met her In August. 1907." "How did you meet her?" "I was coming down Broad street In a machine with four or five fellows. Some one attracted my attention to two girls. I stopped the car and one of the girls asked me if she could take a ride. Beulah and the girl then got In." "Had you ever been Introduced to her before?" "No." "Was the other girl Henrietta Pitt man n?" "Yes." "What was Beulah Bin ford's reputa tion?" "That afternoon the rest of the boys, with the exception of one fellow, told me not to have anything to do with her." "When did your Improper relations with Beulah Blnford break off?" "In the Fall of 1908." "What were the relations between you and your wife up to the night of her death?" "I never spoke a cross word to her or aha to me. We were always affao- tionate, and I don't see how any one could have been any happier." "Was there any reason for her to be unhappy?" "Not that I know of." "When 'you were married, did she know about Beulah Blnford?" "Every one in town did. I told her all about the effort to blame the child on me, too. I made a clean breast of it." "Did you have any real love for that woman?" I couldn't love a woman that I couldn't respect and trust." "Please state If you met Paul Beat- tie on the Thursday night preceding the homicide and commissioned him to buy a shotgun?" No." Did you know anything about his going to the pawnbroker's shop or buy ing a gun?" "No, sir." "Did he bring you a gun?" "No, sir." "On the night of the murder, Tues day, what time did you leave your house 7" A little after 8 o'clock. I got the machine out of the garage. I had gone only a short distance when I eaw I had a flat tire. I had to Jack up the rear of the car and fix it." Do you know how long it took you?" Judging from the time I left my house and the time I got to Mr. Owen's. It must have taken an hour." When you got to Mr. Owens' what did you do?" I went upstairs in the house wnere my wife was. Louise, was nursing the baby and I kissed her, sitting beside her and talking with her. Mr. Owen came in later and said Dr. Myer was coming." "Did you play with the baby?" I Yes, I walked up and down the room with It and put my finger in its mouth for It to bite." Fatal Ride Described. The only Intimation we have had about your being unhappy has come from Mrs. Owen, your mother-in-law. Was there anything in your life that caused your wife to be unhappy?" "No. She had no reason to be. "State what happened after you started in the' automobile ride with your wife on the night of the murder." We were at the Owen house about three-quarters of an hour. I then took a prescription from Dr. Myer to be filled. We went down the Midlothian Turnpike to a drugstore." Was your wife in good humor?" Yes. I paid for the prescription. bought some candy for my wife and got Into the car and headed up the Midlothian pike. Just as we got to Mr. Owen's house to return my wife suggested that we take a little spin." well, what happened?" "The last thing I can remember be fore we turned around was a row of cedar trees, which my wife said would make good Christmas trees, and the gate near where we turned. State what happened then." About three-quarters of a mile or a mile from where we turned, we were going along easy when a man came from the left-hand side of the road. He was so close to me that I had to put on the brake so as not to hit him. He asked me if I were going to hit him. And I said I had plenty of room. I then put on the low gear and reached over to take the brake.' He pointed the gun at me and said, 'Stop or I'll shoot." I did not want to aggravate him, so I said nothing. As I touched the clutch he fired and my wife fell back of me." 'She fell between your back and the back of the seat?" "Yea In the space of a moment I Jumped out of the car and started to ward the man. He raised the gun to hit me. I caught the gun aa it hit me on the nose. He let loose, and. being overbalanced, I fell back. There has been something said about blood on the gun. Tom Owen said my face was bloody. I picked up the gun and the man ran up the road." Why didn't you follow the man?" Well, after fretting the gun and seeing him running up the road, my next thought was for my wife. She was lying . on the left-hand side of the car; I had to step on her dress to get in. I felt her pulse, but I know I couldn't tell, being excited, whether she was dead or living. I hollered 'Mur der and 'Help,' and blew the horn, but knowing there was a doctor at Tom Owen's. I seated my wife on the left j side. Her head dropped forward, and. holding her with one hand, I ran the car with the other. A little way down the lights went out. I fixed my wife in the seat and Jumped out to fix the lights. I realized then I had no coat on." Now, Paul Beattle has declared that he said, 'This thing looks black to me," and that you said, 'I wish to God I hadn't done It, though she never loved me and only married me for my money.' Did you ever make that statement?" 'No." "Paul Beattle said you remarked. "How In hell did those detectives find out there was a No. 6 shell in that gun?" Did you make any such statement?" "No." Charles H. Kestleberg was recalled. "What was the number of your car?" asked Mr. Smith. - . "D-ll." said Mr. Kestleberg. Lee Paschal, one of the boys who came from the dance at Bonalr on the night of the murder and testified for the commonwealth, was asked if he remembered the number of the car which be and the other boys saw with the woman on the left running board. He said it was "D-ll." Beattle bad testified that hia car number waa 820. ABOVE, HENRY CLAY BEATTIE, JR, AJTD (RIGHT) JURORS INSPECTING DEATH CAR BELOW, BEATTI E ON HIS WAY TO COURTHOUSE. LASTNOGI IS TAKEN Govern Lone Tribesman. SCHOLAR STUDIES SPECIE warships with 14-lnch guns the cali ber of the rifles which composed the main batteries of the latest designed Dreadnoughts of the American Navy the United States, it Is believed by naval ordnance experts, will seriously consider the 16-inch guns for battle ships. The largest gun on foreign ves- r I I , nets iwuay is jj.D-incn, aaopiea vy Federal Treaty Necessary to Great Britain and Russia. no pruuiem oi a lo-incn gun is al ready being worked out in theory in connection with imaginary 35,000 and 40,000-ton battleships. In order to pre pare to take an advance step when ever foreign competition warrants it. For rifles of that caliber a warship must necessarily have a displacement of at least 81,000 tons to resist the ter rific recoil. These plans demonstrate. It Is declared, how materially is the evolution In naval construction and ordnance In one country controlled by the progress of others. With the size and strength of war ships growing from year to year in thia worldwide endeavor to excel, naval experts are beginning to wonder when and where the climax will be reached. The rapid development in size Is dem onstrated by the "Dreadnoughts Built, or building, for the United States Navy. The Utah, whioh has Just been nlaced In commlssison, has a displacement of zi,8Z5 tons; the Arkansas and Wyo ming, which will be completed in less than a year, will be 26,000 tons, while the Texas and New York, the construc tion of which was begun only a few montns ago, will be 27,000 tons. With the 26,000 and 27,000-ton ships building, the Navy Department is plan ning to make the displacement of the two battleships authorlezd by the last naval act zs.&oo tons. That Is certainly not the end, for it la believed that the next Dreadnoughts will be at least du.vuu ions. TWO ATTACK TAFT PLAN First Ride on "Iron Horse" Is Made on Trip to Berkeley University. Status of Warlike Survivor Tangled In Deep Law. OROVILLE, Cal.. Sept. . (Special.) The United States Government will have to make a treaty with a Nogi Indian captured here a few days ago, according to Professor Waterman, of the State University. Before this In dian can legally be taken in charge and disposed of by the Government, President Taft and his Cabinet will have to agree with him upon the terms under which his future life will tie governed, and the United States" Senate will have to ratify the treaty. The United States had no treaty with the warlike Nogls before their sup posed extermination by white settlers several decades ago. With all other tribes the Government has treaties. This lone survivor of the famous Nogls will have to be dealt with le gally, aa there Is no Intention to al low him to run wild among the rocka and brush of the foothills and moun tains. The Indian was this afternoon taken to Berkeley by Professor Waterman for further study. They went' on a train and It waa the first time the Indian had taken such a ride. CHAUFFEUR'S DEATH QUEER Body Found In Fox River Sewn Up in Improvised Sack. CHICAGO, Sept. 4. Circumstances surrounding the mysterious . death of Frederick Wennerstrom, the chauffeur whose body was found in the Fox River, near Cary, 111, yesterday, resemble in many respects the murder of William Bate, a chauffeur, near here, in Novem ber, 1904. Wennerstrom's body was sewn in an Improvised sack and it is believed the crime was committed Wednesday night. Wennerstrom's car is missing. A brother of the chauffeur mentioned to him last Monday an offer made by a grain dealer of $300 a month to drive him about the surrounding country to purchase grain. Wennerstrom left the garage here at 2 P. M. Wednesday,, saying he was go ing out north and would be back soon. At 5 P. M. a telephone message purport ing to be from Wennerstrom was re ceived by Charles H. Barnlkow. "Tell my wife that I am going to Crystal Lake with a party and for her to look for me when I get back," said the voice over the wire. Barnikow now believes that the tele phone message was not from Wennerstrom. CLAPP, OF MrSTVESOTA, WAXTS , RECALL OF JUDGES. 16-INCH CANNON NEXT United Staffs Planning Heaviest .Gnn for Bigger Dreadnoughts. WASHINGTON, Sept 4. Aa soon aa some other nation begin to ana it Gorernor Johnson, of California, Also Favors Amendment at Meet ing of Direct Leg-lsJation League. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota, and Gov ernor Johnson, of California, attacked the attitude of President Taft in re gard to the recall of the Judiciary In speeohes today before the Direct Leg islation League of Calfornla. The league is leading the campaign for the state constitutional amendment for the recall of Judges to be voted on October 10. ; "The President says he fears Judgea would waver in their decisions if the recall were Banging over them," said Senator Clapp. "In all my experience I have never known a Judge who waa influenced in his decisions by the pres ence of an impending election. There Isn't a corrupt boss or lobbyist or cor rupter of public morals In the country who is not now fighting the proposed recall of Judgea. "The abject terror that the recall has caused certain parties to experi ence," Governor Johnson asserted, "furnishes the humor of this campaign. A recent veto message, which received a wide notice through the entire coun try, said, 'think of the power that will be given to the political boss through the recall." "This message .asks you to think of the great power the lobbyist and po litical boss would have over the Judges. .It reminds me" of the fact that every time Morgan, Rockefeller, Gug genheim or some other big Interest is attacked, you are asked to think of the poor widows and orphans who hold stock." Telegrams of encouragement to the league from William 8. tPRen, Gover nor West, of Oregon, and other jromi-. New Fall and Winter Fabrics For Gentlemen's Garments to Order. ATI the latest designs and colorings known to the wea vers' art in suitings, over coating's, trouserings and fancy vestings. Drou in today and look them over. No trouble to show goods Satisfaction guaranteed in all oim Garments to order In a day If required. Full dress and tuxedo suits a specl<jr. WILLIAM JERREMS SON3 108 Third Street. nent citizens of the Northwest were read. GIKL ENTERTAINS HER WOOER LV TRIAL COURTSHIP. Mother Makes Aspirant for Hand of Daughter Test Her Disposition ' Before Proposing. ELSAH. 111., 'Sept. 4. A trial court ship in which a young man and a young woman lived together for three days In the home of her mother, with the full understanding: he was to pro pose at the end of a stated period if he was satisfied, and she was to accept it she was sat'sfled, haa Just come to an end in this little village, and the end was a wedding. Last Saturday the man took up his abode with his near fiancee and watched her methods In keeping house, sampled her cooking, studied her ways and tried to find If her personality was Buch as would make him a good wife. At the eame time she tried his disposition, tested his patience, ob served his manners and endeavored to find if the affection she expected hlra to express would be true and lasting. The man was W ilson D. Sherman, of Willlamsport, Pa., and the woman Miss Maud Sherman, of Elsah. He Is 35 years old and she Is 30. Their acquain tance began two years ago, when they began to correspond after learning each other's names in a matrimonial Journal. Sherman arrived In Alton Saturday, and was met at the train by Miss Sherman and her mother. They had never met 'before and he Identified her by a picture. Miss Sherman does not deny she took a little more than ordinary pains to see that Wilson's beefsteaks and pie were a little above the ordinary run; : Once she purposely delayed a meal to see whether he would become nervous or uneasy, but he only smiled and said supper would taste all the better when it came. Three days was more than needed. Miss Sherman proved so charming that on the second day he asked her to cur tail the trial and be his bride, but he wa& gently rejected and told to wait the full time. That was a part of hia test, but .he didn t know It. On the third night he proposed again and got the coveted Tes. RUTHERFORD LOSES RANK President Taft Commutes Sentence of Convicted Lieutenant. 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