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Adams's testimony ')ore out the charges of the prosecution that Beat tie could have brought the shotgun obtained from Paul Beattie to the place where a few hours later he con ducted his ill fated wife. Detective L. L. Scherer. Scherer sat calmly in the witness chair, setting forth a narrative of his activity on the case from the start, saying in part: "Mr. Beattie asserted to me that while bending over the brakes the highwayman had fired. He said that Mrs. Beattie dropped over to the right or on his left shoulder, that the man stepped to the rear of the machine and, meeting Beattie in the rear, the man struck a grazing blow. "In the meantime his wife had fal len, he said, to the front floor of the car. Beattie said he held his wife on the left seat and took her to Mr. Tom Owen in that position, driving with one hand. I asked Mr. Beattie where the man then went. Up the road or in the woods, he answered, uncertain ly. ' Relations With Binford Cirl. "I asked Beattie about his rehtions with Beulah Binford, and as to vvIa.th er his wife knew that Beulah Blnicrd was back in Richmond, ,and he said merely that she did. He stated that he and his wife had not quarr.1ed then, and that they never had had a cross word." - W: "Was there anythiug raid abut hisl Wife knowing the relations between Beattie and Beulah Binford?" asked Prosecutor Wendeaburg. "I asked Mr. Beattie if his wife knew abhut his relations with Beulah BiA ford before the marriage, and he said yes." It was at this point that Scherer testified that he had asked - Beattie about his physical condition, and the court by agreement with the prose cuting attorney, arranged to take up that question on a separate occasion. Scherer described in detail his work the day after the murder. Beatte Identified Gun. "We had been therea short time," heaid slowly, "when some one came up with a single-barrelled gun. It was identified by Henry C. Beattie, Jr., as the gun.' I am not positive whiether he stated it was the gun used in 'kill ing his wife, or the gun 'which he thought' was used in killing his wife. "After H. 0. Beattie, Jr., had come up to the spot, I discussed the case 'with him, and asked him to give me as near as possible the facts concern ing the case. We had only spoke a few words when reporters interrupted us. We walked away to the blood spot. I and others, who gathered~ there, asked Beattie to place the car in the position it was at the time Of the shooting. Mr. Beattie then placed; the car, first on the left-hand side of the blood spot going toward Rich mond, with the front seat about op posite the blood spot. "He had already told me that he hd stopped the car to keep from run img over the murderer. He stated that the assassin had fired from in front"' Scherer said some one in the crowd got on the left seat of the car and that he to'ok a position in front of the ear, where the murderer was suppos ed to have stood. Impossible, Said Detectire. "'Mr. Beattie,' I said, 'at the' time your wife could not have been shot from this point.' He then said the man must have moved to the left about six feet. He examined the car closely. There was no blood on the foot board. The blood spot on the seat of the car was about eighteen inches long. We. were trying to find how the blood got in the road. "I raised the cushion in the ma chine, and then the plank in the floor of the machine, but was unable to discover any blood stains on any part of the machine except the seat." * Thke prisoner eyed the witness stead ily throughout his testimony. "Beattle or someone else suggested that the blood might have gotten on the road when Mrs. Beattie fell on the car,'' continued Scherer. "Mrs. Beattie, if shot from the left side g .ulj nlot have fallen in such a man E4i as ib dause the bia spot on the road." ..a?1a "Was there anything said during your conversations with Beattie about Beulah Binford?" "There was," answered Scherer. "Tell ustabout it." Counsel for the defence here asked for pause, while Henry Clay Beattle, Jr., whispered to H. M. Smith, Jr., his lawyer. "I asked "Beattie," continued Scher er a moment later, "if he had written Beulah Binford before he had gotten back from Norfolk. I asked if he did not know or was not assisting Beulah Binford or had not given her some money towards buying furniture. He said he had not. Was Out With Eeulah I asked if it were not true that he was out with 3eulah Binford the nigh before the murder, and I believe tha during the conversation he asked a. to where Beulah Binford was, 0: whether she was under arrest. H( stated that he was out with Beulal Binford the night before the murder I think, until between 12 and 1 o'clock I asked hiin about being out with hei at other times, and he stated that h( had been several times. At the fre quent mention of BeuIah Binford't name the prisoner fidgeted in his sea and his face showed intense interest. "I asked," continued Mr. Scherer "if it was not a fact that Beulah Bin ford had made Beattie bury the child supposed to be his. In fact, I asked him if he was -the father of Beulah Binford's child. He admitted it and said, too, that his wife knew he had paid the expenses of the child's fun eral." Women suddenly were ordered from the court, as Scherer reached a stage in hi stestimony where he inteded to tell what Beattie had told him. Although the case has been in pro gress six days, neither Paul Beattie, the cousin, nor Beulah Binford, "the other girl" in the case, have been call ed to the stand, and spectators were guessing today wbich would testify first. Since the trial started, the Binford girl has remained in jail at Richmond, with fifteen miles between her and the an who stands accused of commit ting the crime for her sake. She said in an interview recently that she hoped never to see him again and Beattie has not spoken her name since the in dictment. Another Witness. Richmond, Va., Aug. ZT.-A new wit ness was accidentally discovered by the prosecution today, who is said to have asserted that he knew a day ahead of time that the murder was to be committed. He is George Jones, a huckster, and he is alleged to have given this information in the presence of H. B. Chewning, a well known con tractor, and another man, whose name the prosecution for the present has re served. The link that gives Jones' assertion serious foundation is that Jones is known to be a close friend of "Claude," a sister of Beulahi Binford, "the girl in the case." It is therefore supposed that Jones by his proximity -to the Binford family may have learned of the alleged plot. Some light on the relations of Beat tie and Beulah Binford is expected by the prosecution from Mirs. Binford, another of the girl, and the common wealth's plan foi tomorrow is to bring to the stand not only several Rich. mond women but two ph ysicians, one of whom is said to have treated Beu la.h Binford and another who is alleg ed to have visited Btattie concerning his ailment. ASHLEY'S HOLD FAMILY REUNI01% Big Crowd Hears Address of Governoi Blease-Chief Executive Guest of Honor. Anderson, Aug. 25.--Governor Bleasi was the guest of honor and the onl3 speaker at the John Ashley family re union, which was held near Hones Path today, and which was attended by more than twenty-five hundred people. The speaking took place in a large grove after a bountiful picnic dinner had been served. After reviewing Josh Ashley's ca reer in the political world, Governor Blease discussed education at length He jumped on the State colleges charging extravagance. He compared them with the denominational collegE and pointed out that with less- moh1ey these colleges are turning out as greal or greater men than the State colleges are graduating. He said that thE president of the University of South Carolina is getting a salary and per. quisites much larger than the gover nor and twice as large as the salary of President Snyder, of Wofford col lege, who, he declared, was the besi .educated man in the State. Says Drain On State's Finances. He pointed out that Winthrop col lege, the Citadel an the University year ae yea asked for appropria tions for additional buildings and that the State treasury was unable tc stand the steady drains made upon it for these buildings. He called at tention to the fact that the county schools are not accomplishing mucd because the salaries paid the teachers are so small as ebuipared with salarie of other cAlfings, that it was impossi ble to get competent teachers. fli urged better school houses and inor< competent teachers with larger sal aries. Gov. Blease said that he had called upon the board of directors of thi penitentiary to abollish that "tubercu losis incubator,'' referring to the hos iery mill, and that the directors claim ed that they had no authority to shu up the mill. He said he then called oi the State 'board of health with th4 same result. Now he has called upoi the State courts and if nothing is don( there to relieve the situation, he state he would act, even should it mean hi, political execution. Again Defends Pardon Record. The governor defended his pardor record, charging that the newspaper. -were not telling the public why anc under what circumstances he extend i ed executive clemency. He stated tha many had received clemency becaus( they were dying of tuberculosis, whicl he claimed they contracted in thf hosiery mill. As to the charge thai he was selling pardons, he stated tha1 the records show that he had extend ed clemency to prisoners of the poorei classes, who had not been able tc engage counsel and who had not beer able to fight their cases through thE various courts. Many of those par doned, he said, were not able to buy their railroad tickets to their homes. He said that if he was selling pardons no doubt he could have made big kill ings for a pardon for W. T. Jones, the wealthy Union county farmer, and"for two or three other prominent and NVealthy convicts. Governor Blease said that it had been charged that he is an advocate of lynching. . He said that he is not, but that he believes when a negro touches the person of a whitewoman the soon er the negro is swung to a liinb of a tree the better. Refers to Abbeville Affair. "I verily believe it was an act of the Almighty," the speaker said, "that I was in New York and that Sheriff Lyon, of Abbeville county, was in Co lumbia the other night, when a negro brute insulted a lady at Abbeville court house." Governor Blease did not refer to the Belton incident, except to say that while speaking to a large gathering of his home people in Newberry coun ty recently he had called on them to ascertain whether or not they believed the published accounts of the inci dent, and they declared that they did not. Gov. Blease was certainly among his friends today. They cheered him as he alighted on the picnic grounds and they cheered his every utterance. Hi s gpeech was about the best he ever made in Anderson county. Tonight he is speaking at the Chiquola mills, at Honea Path, and tomorrow morning he will make a speech at Greenwood. He will spend tonight with Joe Ash ley, a son of Josh Ashley, and an avowed candidate for sheriff of this county. 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