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Iii BEATTIE TRIAL PRISON KB S COt SIN OlVKS SEN? SATIONAL TESTIMONY. Nr?, ft. V. ?>w??n Tells of IhxughUT'v DontCMtlr Infelicity ? Prosecution Almost Through. Cheeterflsld Court House. V*.. Aug. St.?Between moment* of Intense ?motion Paul Heat tie. cousin of Henry Clay Seattle. Jr.. who stands Indicted for the murder of his wife, revealed on the witness stand late today that the accused told him 24 hours after the murder how sorry he was Phs had dons It." a circumstance relating to the crime that ths witness hither? to had suppressed. Ctralng as dramatically and as un expetcedly as ths pathetic tale told an hour before by Mrs. R. V. Owen, mother of the dead woman, of the domestic Infelicity of her daughter, due to the husband's condition, the brief but thrilling testimony stvcn by Paul Beattle created a profound sen oatoa. Paul Beattle. at the coroner's in queet a nervous wrock. but today strong and determined, poured out a tale which confessedly ha.* troubled his mind not only because he pur chased the shotgun for Henry but be? cause he did not until today tell ail he knew of the case. With quivering lips snd tear dtmmed eyee he s?t forth the story against which hi* heart and sympathy had for days been revolting. ~1 hated to testify sgalnst my own flesh and kin." he murmured, "but my wife, my child and the duty I owe to my city forced me to do so." The casp that rose simultaneously from ths throats of those In the stuffy court room waa strikingly audible. Paul Beattle continued: "Henry had told me that he wanted me to etlck by him, but I said to him. This looks mighty black to me. and you've got me Into a lot of trouble." Henry then told me. 'I wish to Ood I had not done It. I would not have done It for a mlllon dollars but she never loved me; she married me for my money.' A huehed stillness prevailed In the room aa hla next words were awaited hut he said no more and bracing him self in hie chair turned toward the bench where the prisoner and counsel sat and looked fixedly at the latter in anticipation of the cross-examination. Hei ? M. .*intth. counsel for tho de? fense, rose from his seat gas* u hard at the witness and in a loud voice l Paul with the charge that av^ lb. ..er's Inquest he had not told the whole truth and thai he had omitted to make the atatemont con? cerning Henry's alleged confession to him. Paul looked appeallngly at the eouneel snd hardly able to repress his ?"notion told now he had not been able to clear his mind at the inquest when he collapsed. He had only re* oently been able to force himself to -give dsmaging evidence against his ?own kinsman, he said. After the test mony of Paul Betitle adjournment waa taken until tomor? row morning when cross examination i will b? resumed. In ths meantime Henry C. Beutle. Jr.. waa taken beck to Richmond to permit of a conference with counsel. The prosecution announced lno?. it hsd practically finished Its case. From sarly morning. when a msther. Mrs. R. V. Owen. ?tlrVd htr 9 pride and in a choking voice almost s whisper st times, told the Jury the sordid details of how Henry C. Beat tie. Jr.'s physical condition caused his wife heartrending grief and hour* ?>f anguish, the prisoner faced the hardest strain thus far witnessed In his niht for life. Chesterfield Court House. Va? Aug. 2S?An auburn haired boy. talking swiftlv t ut I learly, revealed on ths witness stand lodog to the sur? prise of loth defense and prosecution la ths trial of Henry Clay Beattle. Jr.. for wife murder, that he had ob ssrved several blood spots along the Midlothian turnpike, where the crime occurred Hitherto it had been pre? sumed no blood epot existed except j one near ths place where Mrs. Beat tie Is supposed to have suecnr -d Alexander Robertson was the bsgr, snd what he told the Jury In rOSpSSSM to a question from counsel for the de? fense ly upset the plan of the <omm<mw<*?lth to rest Its case today. Prosecutor Wendenburg announced that It would gg necessary for him ill at least seven or eight ? * *? controvert the boy's tes tln n '?' examination by the proso ien the latter was seeking to show where the ggf found a gSS> ftai^ yellow hair pin. similar |g that worn ? v Mr* Beattle. gg|..g*gag r f- rred to gjj distance from the first Mi?d spot ' "Were there two hlOOd spots?" asked Henry M. Hinlth. Jr. oOggSOl f'.r the defense In apparent sur? prise, the hoy not onlv told of a see end blood spot but of s. veral smaller spots near iv Ths rolefsttoa eooeeynlng Ike erst eoce of m<?r* than ore b|od Iget Is In lire - ,#b -. ? of the de fense that all the blood on the road dripped from the car. In which Hen? ry Clay Beattie, Jr.. alleges hie wife was shot. The prosecution'* theory is that the blood in the road at the place Mrs. Beattie was killed resulted from murder committed outside the ma? chine. The prosecution has pointed out by witnesses and its statements concern? ing an examination of the machine that no blood was found on either running board of the car and thst the dust pan underneath the car would have caught any blood that trckled through the front part of the machine from the seat, and that all the blood visible had hardened on the floor of the car Just beneath the steering wheel. Robertson was summoned as a wit? ness by the prosecution only for the purpose of stating that he had found a hair pin, but his testimony, as a re? sult of the Questions of counsel for the defense, soon established that he would be an important witness for the defense, and he subsequently will be called by the defense If necessary. The prosecution announced Just be? fore sdjournment of court at 4:30 today that after the Introduction of several wltneesoa along this line to? morrow It would reJt its case. Henry C. Beatle, Jr.. the accused, and Paul D. Beattie, hie cousin, who yest< rday on the witness stand told of an alleged confession by Henry concerning the murdor. were confined in searate cells in Chesterfield county Jail tonight. Paul hitherto had kept In confinement in Richmond in de? fault of bond, but today, after he finished on the witness stand, Judge Watson suddenly ordered his reten? tion in Jail here. Paul Beattle's story of yesterday was not shaken In the cross-examina? tion by counsel for the defense, but It became apparent today that the defense Intends to refute his testi? mony by placing on the stand the orison er himself. Alexander Robertson, a 16-year old-boy, was the last witness of the day. He testified to having found a woman's ye.low hair pin Thursday morning after the murder. He said he gave the pin to his older brother, Taylor Robertson ,a newspaper man, In the court room at the time. "Is It your purpose to prove that the pin was Mrs. Beattle's? asked oonsel for the defense. ??It Is." The boy's testimony revealed for the first time the presence of a sec? ond blood spot on the Midlothian turnpike about 300 to 400 yards from hp first blood spot. He said it was 18' inches long. GORMAN FOR GOVERNOR. Maryland Primary Returns Indicate That l>emorratM Have Nominated Late Senator's Son. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 29.?^Returns from today's Democratls primary election In Maryland indicate that state 8enator Arthur Pue Gorman, son of the late Cnlted States Senator Gorman, will be the nominee of the democratic party for governor at the November election. Mr. Gorman's ? pponent in the primary was State Senator Blair Lee. who had the sup? port of Congressman Talbot and Oov. ''rothers and the so-called progres? sive ?dement. Today's primary also determined the nomination for at? torney general, comptroller, mem bers of the Maryland senate and house and delegates and the State central committee. "?sjsjsjgg Meals" and Menu Liquor. \. w berry Obsjofvsf, Seme doubt bus been expressed whethe r Columbia Is really a "square mo mI town" but there Is no doubt at nil that It is i mean liquor town. It Wmt proVSd at the reunion this WSSM ?If any proof were needed. Per? sans srho wars preasnt say that the amOkBl Ol drinking and drunkenness urnong the veteran-* was fearful to See. It is shameful, and those who. In their mistaken "hospitality" furnish? ed the old men?many of them In ihelr second childhood?with liquor to make thern drunk have much to answer for. It Is said that Columbia did ver\ little for the entertainment of the veterans except to give them liquor >.nd bSSjg, It was th*? same way two \ears nyo. I..i -?t y> ,?r In Ipsrtgnbtirg the "hospitality" of the peOpISi took a different turn; the old solders were tr. ated royally?but liters was scares* !\ i drunken nmn seen during Iht entire reunion. it h a shams khsl ;? Confsdersts reunion should bS spoiled by baccha u f< its and thul the tnjoymsnt of the old soldiers should be thus turned Into mortification sad regrets* Lsl 'to next reunion bs somewhere snd |#i the standard of hospt ? ' t- sed honor is Iht survivors of ItlS ' Lor i' tits. " bs Something high? er and better than free whlsksy and m:w type OF negro formed. Marked Change* Iii the llacc Observ? ed In the South. The census figures for 1&10, says a New Orleans letter to the New York Sun, show that the negro Increased slowly in numbers during this decade and that they are making for the towns. The rural districts of the south the increase of population was only 8.3 per cent for the negroes, as against 17.5 per oeut for the prevous decade, and as against 17.3 per cent for thv whites. In other words twice as faet as the negro populaton in the country dlstrcts. This was not wholly unexpected. If the census of 1910 had covered the question of the admixture of the races i as the enumerations in antebellum times did, it would have brought to light a remarkable ethnological fact, namely that the Southern negro is getting blacker in spite of the mixture of blood and that there is rapidly be? ing formed a homogeneous negroid race. Former censuses divided the negroes into octoroons, quadroons, mulattos and blacks. Later these dis? tinctions were dropped and the classi? fications of colored, that is those of I mixed race, and negroes were substi? tuted. Finally ,all negroes, whether I full black or not, were enumerated as I colored. Because of this classification the census figures do not reflect the I change now going on among the ne I groes as a race. Louisiana is whitening very fast. It j had a negro majority In slavery days I and for thirty years afterward, and this was the case with New Orleans I until 1850, it b. ,j the only large I American city at the time w ith more I negroes than whites. The census of 1 1900 showed a white majority of 75, I 000; that of 1910 will show a white I majority of 150,000. ' I The whites have been gaining on I the negroes, slightly through irnmi I gratlon and mainly through natural I Increase, especially of the French I speaking population. Of the twenty I eight parishes of south Louisiana in J which the people of French origin are I numerous, a majority had more ne I groes than white when emancipation I came. Today all but five of them have I white majorities and the majorities j are steadily increasing. There is some drift in the Bame di I rectlon in the northern part of the I State, but there Is due largely to I negro exodus to Oklahoma, Arkan. i land other States caused by the .. I sion of the boll weevil. I But his change is a minor tn itt< ? I compared with the tendency of the I negroes to become a more homogene I ou8 race, different from what they I were in Africa or from what they I were in the south in antebellum days. I The typ*? Is markedly different, and I the difference is most apparent In I .southern Louisiana and especially In I New Orleans, where the conditions I have been such as to develop this I type. I Early in Louisiana was the fact J recognized that the negro slaves im I ported into the country were not all I of the same tribe or race. As mat I ter of fact the slaves were of different I tribes nnd differed in language, form I and even color. There were yellow, I black and bronze negroes, even some j Callas and others mixed of an Arab I type; there were straight haired ne I groes and not a few persons of dark I skinned races were smuggled In I among the negroes proper. All the earlier Louisiana records I classified the negroes according to I their tribes, and up to the extinction I of slavery the Louisiana title deeds I continued to specify the kind of ne I gro sold. He was a negro Nard or J of the Nard nation, a Senegal negro, I a Congo negro, a Mandlnga negro, j etc. Since the abolition of slavery all I these tribes and races have so lnter I married that the race became in time I composite, inc luding all the black j tribes of central and southern Africa, with probably a dash of Arab blood. Then followed a mixture with Amorl I can Indians. As negro ethnology has never re? ceived much consideration, although the Smithsonian Institution has Issued dozens of volumes on Indian ethnol? ogy, there If nothing to show what proportion of Indian blood was swal IfTSd up in the more numerous ne? groes. The old French nnd Spanish censuses of Louisiana show a very largo number of Indian slaves who lived in the same quarters as the ne gross and who disappeared by the fores of amalgamation. The Indians numbered nearly one-fifth of the slaves. The disappearance of these trlbsi la not so much dus to their sxtinctlon a- to the faet that they w. re swallow? ed up In the isrgs number of the ne? groes and thai Intermarriage gradu? al!) converted them into negroes When the Dawei commission visited Louisiana nnd Mississippi some years ago ta arrange for the division of the Indian lamb'. mainly the Cho< I in lands In Oklahoma .and to Sei that R proper shsre waa swarded to those Indiana who remained behind when ?h< real nf ths tribe moved under 'he I Dancing Rabbti treaty tn Indian ter j rltory, some 40,000 negroes put In I e!a!nv as dei< sndants < f taws. The Commission was puzzled at the appearance of these black Indians but their claims were finally disposed of by the fact that it was Impossible for them to prove the marriage >f their parents and to comply with the requirements of the law in other re? spects. In Western Louisiana there has al? ways been serious trouble with tho people known as the Red Rones, who claim to be Indians and who undoubt? edly have Indian blood but In whom the negro features and characteristics are much more pronounced than the Indian. It can be stated with safety that there was in Louisiana and Mis? sissippi a considerable mixture of In? dian blood with the composite Afri? can, taking him away from any of the original types and making him an ln do-Afrlcan. Finally came the rmixture with the whites, which De Bow, a New Orleans man, attempted to bring out when he was superintendent of the census. In the census just before ^> e Civil war and again in 1870 an attempt Was made to enumerate the octoroons, quadroons, mulattos and negroes sep? arately. It Is admitted that the work was not thoroughly done for the ne? gro himself rarely has any knowledge of his ancestry, and the test of color while generally good Is not always accurate. But even making allowances for errors, the facts given wore of Impor? tance as showing the intermixture of races. The mixture, was confessedly greatest in Louisiana and particularly in New Orleans. The last enumeration showed that the negro and colored population of New Orleans was about two-fifths white and three-fifths ne? gro, or not quite the proportions of an average mulatto. Nowhere in the country, for that matter nowhere In the world, were there more octoroons and quadroons, persons in whom the white blood predominated whc would haev been called white in Latin Amer? ica, but whom the Americans classi? fied and treated as negroes. Through the mixture of the differ? ent African tribes with a dash of In? dian and white blood and also because of the better treatment they received the negroes had changed when in slavery to a better, stronger and high? er type. Slavery perhaps has most to do with this change. To the slaves owners, particularly to those breed* Ing slaves for the southern rtisrket, I it was important, ind cd necessary, ta take good care ..f the. negroes, .just as ;bas |.-? nec< sgsry with horse* and cattle. Cars was taken tleo to tee that healthy young women did not mate with weak, delicate, under? sized or old men. The consequence was an Improvement in the race. The same reason induced the planters to take good care of their hands and feed them well on solid and substan? tial food, not luxurious. The negro race added from two to three Inches to its height and an aver? age of twenty pounds to the weight of the full grown man or woman dur? ing slavery. Whatever the wrongs of the negro may have been, in the opin? ion of persons who have studied the matter, it is safe to say that perhaps no race was in better physical con? dition when emancipation came, and none had made greater progress physically from the day negroes were imported from Africa. The white and Indian blood, per? haps the mode of living, minimized the features of the negro, and he im? proved in looks, and by 1S70 this blood mixture had affected the entire negro population of the country. J. Stall Patterson, one of the few per? sons who have made a study of nogxo ethnology, insists that the white blood among the negroes has been so well distributed that there Is scarcely a ne? uro of pure African blood in the country. As he puts it: "Even now they (the negroes) are no longer negroes. One-third have a large infusion of white blood; one third have less but still some, and of the other third It would be difficult to find an assured specimen of pure African blood." Any one who knows the negro type will recognize the truth of this state? ment and will recognize the follj of classifying by color. An average negro family with any considerable propor? tion of white blood in it Will show children from light yellow to almost black, and the atavistic principle is strong In such mixtures and Is one of the crowning arguments against ra. ial intermarriage. From the mar 1*18ge ol a White man With B woman of only one-sixte nth neuro and showing herself none of the characteristics of the negro race is often horn a child white In color but decidedly African In feature. Since slavery and e*pe< tally since lb*1 adoption In Louisiana of the policy of segregating the races, thus putting I stop to anj further Intermingling of blood, another marked ? bange has taken place In the negro In Louisiana, both rapid and surprising. Intermix? ture between tie- races b.is been al? most entire!) cut off. The negro race I blood, and a* no dl t u- Mni i rtr ivn j ' r.mong the negroes bet* en "white negro" and "block: negro" <i' was cream colored octoroon spurned the leather colored quadroon and the lat ter took it out on the yellow mulatto or dark molasses tinted negro) Inter? marriage is rapidly reducing the race i<> a homogeneous one, probably five slxchl negro and one-sixth white, with a dash of Indian. The octoroons are almost gone. A few escape dls-1 guised Into the ranks of the whiter., occasionally to be exposed and driven back; the others sink down into the mass of the negro race. But the striking feature of this change is that the new negro, the composite or homogeneous negroid, is] very dark, probably darker than the antebellum negro or even the original imported African. No one who can remember conditions of fifty years ago i ut is struck by the fact that the average negro of Louisiana of today and especially of New Orleans is much dorked than of old. | It is a dt rk, velvety black rather than the blackish yellow of the origi? nal Congo African. It is much too black for the proportion of white and Indian blood In their veins of the typi? cal negro of today. On the other hand, although blacker, the features are less pronouncedly African, the hair less wooly. How much of this Improvement is due to better conditions, to better liv? ing, and how much to racial inter? mixture is of course impossible to say. The wavy hair is frequent instead of wool, which the negro abhor as a racial badge. Thus there is a blacker race, more distinctly African in color bur infinitely less so in feature, a Mack American as It were. The explanation probably lies in the flu t that the black type of negro is m.^re virile and increases more rap? id':.- than the yellow or mixed types and is therefore swallowing them up. Quadroons and mulattos, as a whole, are weaker ,are more prone to dis snss and have smaller families. For? merly these people, who were mainly free, looked with contempt on the Macks, but this sentiment has been destroyed by the experiences of the las 'orty years. The negro race is not self-support? ing In New Orleans; there the negro deati s exceed the births, and the de? ficiency is made good by the drift of the blacker negroes from the country districts. Thus, with a continuous supply of black blood flowing in, the amalgamation becomes more complete This does not. however, fully explain the tendency of the negro to grow ! weaker, which is due rather to the I fact that the black tribes of Africa I were of a stronger and more virile j type and there is that natural ten? dency to revert to that original type. The same tendency is shown in several of the West Indian islands, where the original Indian inhabitants have been swallowed up by the ne? groes, as well as a considerable white population, with apparently no effect on the color of the negroes. In St. I Kitts, to which thousands of Irish? men were sent as prisoners in Ire? land, there is little apparent trace of Irish blood to be found among the inhabitants, but the negroes of the island speak with a marked Irish brogue, all that survives of the pris I oners. ; NEGRO GIRL ARRESTED FOR HOUSE BREAKING. ! Mary Jones Tries to Break into Resi i donee During Absence of Occu? pants. - . Tuesday afternoon Mary Jones, a I small black negro girl, waj arrested j by Policemen Owens and Hatchell j for attempting to oreak into the resi I dence of Mr. Reach. All of the mem? bers of the family went out during the evening and Mrs. Beach found (the girl trying to get into the house through the window upon her re? turn. The girl at once ran off upon the arrival of members of the house ' hold, but she was seen and a descrip? tion of her was given to the police which resulted in her arrest. With the passage of the tariff re? vision bills and the bill admitting New Mexico and Arizona as States into the union,?not to mention oth? ers?the Democratic party is moving into the confidence of the masses of the people.?Bamberg Advocate. T TrV?TP OlG^yn?XTrP ACME PLASTER. PHIAVOLE? lillvlri, urilvlrilN 1 , p^v?** BRICIL DRAIN TTo-t- flroir. F?tv. *totr 7V-Vr li<X> , UldiU, *ix*<d OoU CbC Chk^ega 1 i*?<L Horses, Mnles, RQ^ies- *TJf IT* order Too Large O? Too houtU. Booth-Harby Live Stock Co. SUMTER. SOUTH CAROLINA. The Little Become Great. Familiar with banking service as you are you recognize it as a great factor in modern business success. There are points of service rendered here that cannot alvays be analysed. Why is it? The worth of a bank to you is the careful and considerate attention given to the handling of your affairs, made more satis? factory by the kindly internet of officers and clerks with perfect protection, assuring accurate accounting and safeguarding of your money. Dealing with the People's Bank opens to you a banking service that cannot be fully described, yet is plainly manifest. It rests largely on the almost silent "little things" which are ex? tended in the form of service, courtesy and advice, but which have come to mean "gTeat things" for those who transact their affairs here. The Peoples' Bank. A Conservator of Business Energy We hear much today of the matter of conservation. Forest conservation; water and stream conservation; soil conservation. These are all groat material resources. But the greatest re? source of any nation or community lies in the energy und char? acter of its people. The Bank of these modern times stands out pre-eminently as a conservator of business energy and time? that energy which utilizes and directs all the material resources. Are you availing yourself adequately of this great potentiality in your business. We offer yon the ?*ervlee? of an institution which is up-to-date in every respeet and cordially invite you to become better ac quainled with us. The Bank of Sumter ILSTAPtdSHED 1889 I ! How Peopl e Lose Their Money Hy < oncesllng it about tholr person; i?y stowing it away in mugs, ju*,'.-1, and jars; by sewing it up in skirts and tnks; by lucking i; un? der couches and carpets; in cupboards and bureau drawers. How People Save~Their Money By depositing it in a good, ellabls bank. Confident that this this bank meets ?h<' public needs, U'S tender the servtOSS of our bank t.. all v\ ho !?. !!. \. in k ping on the safe side. JM Farmers' Bank ScTrusrCo.