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THE BEATTIE TRIAL. HE.NRY CLAY UEATTIK CROSS. EX AMIN KD. Prsoncr Vigorously Questioned bj Conunoswoalth. Ordeal Being Tem? porarily Lud? ?I by Adjournment. Chesterfleid Court House. Sept. 4. - Through tlx weary hours In a crowd ad and stuffy court room. Henry Clay Beattie. Jr.. indicted for the murder of his wife, battled for his life today. Evening shadows alone Interrupted a vigorous cross-exanilna tion by the commonwealth. Judge Watson ending the ordeul by adjourn? ing court to an earlier hour than usual tomorrow?9:15 a. m.?when prosecutor L. O. Wendenburg will continue his rapid tire of questions. A lone figure was young Beattie In the crowd that surrounded him on all sides* even the windows and trees commanding the court room being thick with staring faces. The pris? oner sat for hours. unfolding the sordid details of h,s relations with Beulsh Btnford. the 17-year-ol i girl, for whom, ths prosecution charges Bsattls killed his bride of a year. Not alone the orgies of the four yearn, before his marriage and those that preceded the tragedy, but the grue? some ta)*> of the attack of the high? wayman, the wild ride to the Owen hosne at a speed of 55 miles an hour with ths lifeless body of his wife in '.hs machine beside him. was given to the Jury In all its horrible detail. The prisoner, by request of the prosecution, even stood up to full length and donned the bloodstained os? that hs wore the night of the laerder and attempted to explain why blood had not flecked certain portions of the garment if his wife was re I lining against him In the way he de wnited. Ths clothes of the dead woman /ad been burned Just before the ar r vst of Bsattis and as more than once there wss occasion to refer to them. iToaecutor Wendenburg exclaim 3d: t wish to Ood we had them here!" It was a day of extrtmc solemnity la the court room. The accused lat in an arm chair, his heud often rest? ing on one hand, while with the oth? er hs robbed a knotted handker hlef over his pale and perspiring ace. In the bar sat his broth .t. Jougias. snd his v> hlte-hair- d f 'h ?r. ties latter at times covering his erlnkled countenance with a fan ha ?oms partleularly loathe, alls vsrs recited by the BOA. But when hs snd of the dsy came, the father, as usual, bent over the prisoner af 'sctlonatsly and kissed him. Beattie answered questions in an ?ven voice snd without emotion. Cxcept for the nervous fingering of his hanksrchlef and the character? istic vibration of the muscles in his cheek, hs sat like a school boy ex prssslonlsss as he narrated the story of ths crime. In no essential did the prisoner's version of the affair today differ from that which he gave at th*- coroner's inquest or that to which ths dsfense, through Its witnesses, hitherto has clung. The direct exam? ination lasted only two and a half hours, while the cross-exmaination had proceeded three and a half hour* wh?m court adjourned for the day. The prosecution In Its cross-exeml nation gave particular attention, how aver, to two points In the previous testimony of the prisoner. If the accused had on the night of the murder a light fastened to the rear of the machine, why could he not see the fleeing highwayman In the rear of the car, or If the prisoner had grappled with the man and suc? ceeded In wresting the shotgun from him. falling to the* ground at the same time with the eudden release of the wearpon from tho highwayman's hand, why did the highwayman ttee with Beat )? at his fm-t ??n th.- ground? These questions the prisoner evaded In his testimony but tomorrow the prosecution will hammer away at them snsw. Ciinlsl after denial rame from the Hps of ths prisoner as Prosecutor Wsnlenburg questioned him concern? ing ths alleged purchase of a shotgun for him by his cousin, Paul Beattie. on the Saturday before the murder and the testimony of the latter as to the confession In whe h Henry in alleged to have exclaimed "I wish to Ood I hsd not done lt. I wouldn't do It again for a million dollars"' Benttle disclaimed any connection with the purchase of the gun and any knowledge of the transfer of any gun hy Psul declaring he never saw the fatal shotgun until the night it was raised by the highwayman on the Midlothian turnpike. Idttle g| Caul's testimony < oneernlng his meeting with him did he admit. He gaJd he was with his cousin only on the Saturday night before the murder and men lv carried him home In his < fir from tl Bsattls store In South Id' bmogeV He emphatically denied that he had gej n with faul at any time within the week or for'nlsht pre- |ous and on thif d?'< lara'iofi the prosecution to? morrow will linger part|e-jl irlj ?? tonight Detective H<-Merer de I if. I that four witnesses were to bg pro? duced who * Henry snd Paul I? gether on the Thursday night before 11 e murder. That It was his wife who suggest .d the rid ? on the Midlothian turn? pike after they WON carry ing the ' Owens' home on their return from! the Heattle store, where they went to get a prescription tilled. was the st ?foment of the prisoner as to the 001 >slon for the ill-fated ride, hut ' when on crosa-examlnatlon Prosecu- j tor Wendenburg asked tho accused if he would have taken his wife riding even if she had not suggested "the spin." Heattle admitted that his mind was not made up at the time." The influence of Beulah Hinford on the case was conspicuous throughout the day. Chest, ?rti.dd Courthouse, Sept. ? With unexpected brevity both the commonwealth and the defense in the trial of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., indicted for the murder of his wife, closed the evidence In the case short? ly after 6 o'clock tonight. Judge Wat? son stretched his arms wearily, yawn? ed audibly and with a sigh of relief announced that court would adjourn until Thursday morning, tomorrow, to be devoted to argument of counsel with the court as to the instructions to be given the Jury before the argu? ment proper Is begun on Thursday. When court adjourned tonight Beu? lah Binford. the "girl in the case." alleged by the prosecution to have been the motive for the murder by Bsftttti of his young wife, still was In Jail without having uttered a sin? gle word of testimony. Scarcely an hour had passed in the 11 days of testimony when her name was not on the Hps of witnesses or counsel, for either side. Admittedly fearing that she would scrupulously avoid Injuring the case of her former companion at any cost, though statements and Interviewers galore had fortified the prosecution with what It regarded as all necessary Information, the commonwealth did not put her on the stand. "We have proved that she was the motive for the crime," said Prosecu? tor Wendenburg tonight, "without bearing her testimony as our witness, and the admissions of the prisoner himself have told the Jury enough." Another figure, Paul Beattie, cousin of the accused, whose confession con? cerning the purchase of a shotgun for H. r four dnv? br^r? *he rmrpirtrtA led ' 'he building of the ?ais. .'or Jh.? I >*eeutlon. likewise SM kept In Jail. it both he and the BfofoFd | >rl are 1 sly lo be relossi I tomorrow. Judge Watson explained his attituae toward her continued Imprisonment by saying In the court room yesterday that unles* the girl was to be put on the witness itand he wished "to turn her loose." The closing of the case was sudden. Harry M. Smith and Hill Carter, at? torneys for the defense, first an? nounced that they had a few witnesses for the sur-rebuttal. but If the com? monwealth would agree to rest its case they would do likewise. The agreement was accepted, and Judge Watson arranged to meet counsel for both sides in Richmond tomorrow in a conference concerning Instructions to be given to the Jury. The prisoner will be kept In confinement In the Jail at Chesterfield and the Jury also will remain In the hamlet. The taking of evidence today was nlong no well connected line, the prosecution. after completing its short cross-examination of the pris? oner, taking up scattered points in the clvdence. From one feature of the case to another the prosecution skim med In its efforts to corroborate cer? tain points in the case it had built u\ previously, but most conspicuous was the dlrec* attack on the testimony of the prisoner. The single question of importance that tho prosecution put to the ac - u-ed In its brief cross-examination ? ill', today was the one on which th ? i mm< >nw ealth has been basing prae Uaally its Whole case against him. Th prosecution wanted to know how It hinpem d that a gun. admittedly pur chased by a cousin of Henry Clay Seattle, Jr.. and Identified by wit eesset i<>r the defoaes as having bee purchased on the Saturday before th murder, came to be In the hands < the eery highwayman who killed Mr Seattle on the Midlothian turnpik four days later. The prisoner eBgWSfSd simply that he knevs nothing of the purchase ? ?ay gun by Paul and did not see the weapon till it was rateed by the lone highwaymen. The prosecution he rested the examination and thereUOt SgSS the introduction of witnesses to dls< re.lit th.' t. stirnony of the a< c used. The attack. It wan evident, was 00 ducted by th* prosecution on th. theory that if one or two important points In the story of the prison* ' -uld 00 dSCTSdlted the . ISO woul b ? establtshsd. The commonwealth Introdtn Sd ssn ? tal witnesses. Including rnetnh.ts Paul Beattte's family, to pfOVe that the COOS!IIS were together Thursday night, as w li as Saturday nlnht pre? ceding the murder which contention was denbd by the prisoner on the rtsnd. i? wss Thursday night Paul TEXAS PAPER ANNOUNCES COM? IN4. RETIREMENT. According to senator, Re Will Not Reconsider?Hopes for Successor <d Urenter Ability. Tort Worth, Texas, Sept &.?The Record tomorrow Will publish a dis? patch from Gainesville, Texas, an? nouncing that United State? Senator Joseph W, Ballsy Will not be a can? didate for reelection. "Toil can lay for me that 1 Will not bs a candidate for reelection to ths senate next year and you can al? so say that this decision is Irrevoc? able,*1 the dispatch quoted Senator Bailey as saying in reply to the di? rect question. "I know that the State can not find a successor who will be more faithful to the welfare of her people than I have been, but I sincerely hope that she will find one who can repre? sent her In the senate with greater ability than 1 hare." Senator Bailey returned to Gairx-s ViUe from Washington today. WRECK ON NORTHWF.STKRX. Two Coal Cars Leave Tracks amll Train Vnable to Proceed. I Tuesday evening when the North Western train was leaving the city, two heavily laden coal cars left the track out somewhere near the end of Dingle street, the track being ef? fectually blocked and the train pre? vented from making its usual run. An extra engine was run out to the scene and the two cars with their pas ?engSTl were brought back to the Itatlon, the passengers iVing forced to spend the night in tire city. It p/gS stated by the conduetnr that the wreck could not he accounted for in iny way except by the spreading of the rails. At the time that the ac? cident on the road occurred the train was going very slowly around the ?urve. The two coal cars which left the track were next to the engine. No one was injured and the wreck stayed on the ground all night, de? spite the efforts of the crew to pull ihe two cars back on the track. The two cars were finady got in place on the track this morning sTn irftlj after Id -' lock and after tomt repairs had bean tlone to the track the angln? went b ? R for the passenger cars, leaving tits station! some titn shortly eftr 1 i' o'clock.1 declared, that his cousin first asked him to buy a shotgun. Not only were witnesses brought to the stand who testilied that Paul was called on the telephone by his cousin Henry that night and requested to meet him at a certain street corner, but witnesses who said they saw the pair on the corner as well as in a bar room later Corroborated the story of Paul Beattie as to hi3 movements on the Thursday night in question, Witnesses also were introduced with ths object of discrediting the testi? mony Of E. H. Neblitt, who declared he MW Paul with a shotgun on the bridge where Neblitt worked a day after Paul Beattle'a st'.ry alleges he transferred the fatal gun to Henry. Two men said they were on th? bridge while Neblitt was there and they declared that Paul had no shot cun. The commonwealth attempted to cast some doubt, too. en the evi? dence ??f <'has. H. Kesttooerg. who said it was he who was motoring or. the Midlothian turnpike on the night of the murder and who stopped his machine while a woman stood on the running board. Roland Laissiter, one of the group of boys w ho saw the car with the woman on the running board and man crouched before ths hood, declared that he knew Kestb herg, as well as the make of bis car. and that neither the man or iar were the same. Though various phasea of the case were sntsrsd Into the prosecution in effect concentrated its effort on cor? roborating the story of Paul Beattie Witnesses were brought forward to controvert the story of the accused on the Stand yesterday that while Paul was on the veranda lhat night they Were not alone and that too many people were present for any private conversation. The principal witness In refuting this was Henry B. Owen, a brother of the dead woman, who testified that Paul and Henry not on I) were alone In one portion of the veranda, but that he later observed them alone within the house. Several automobile experts testified during the late afternoon, C, s. (diver contradicted testimony of automobile experts thai the Beat tie ear b) Its construction was im pervloua lo the dripping of blood through i? to the ground except In IWO places, where blood was not visi? ble. K, \{, A!port, an SUtomobls ex? pert, w ho ex imined the Beattie r ir, corroborated Oliver's statement, ii" also declared thai the steering gear of the Bsattls car e i eu< h thai it could not be driven with ons hand a! H? to |Q miles an hour gf the SCCUSed t,.tO|f|fw1 IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT, j Patience Robinson Released from Jail?Negro Boy Plead tiuilty of Assault. Patienee Robinson was Wednes? day released from the county jail up on the payment of a fine of $50 and the premise tu leave Sumter never to return. She, with two other women, was arrested several days ago for conducting a disorderly house and keeping whiskey for un? lawful purposes. The other two women were releas? ed upon the payment of lines of $2u each, and the Rosinson woman has now been released and has promised to leave town. This will probably be her last offense in this city as Mag? istrate Wells has promised to bring up the case against her at any time that she tries to open up any house in the city. There was a case of an unusual sort In the Magistrate's court that morning. Charley Lewis was- in? dicted by Rosa Lewis for assault. I fie plead guilty of pushing her, whereupon she claimed that he was guilty of slapping her, Which con? stituted the crime of assault and was lined $10. About two hours after the case had been closed and was almost for? gotten, Charley's mother came in bringing a number of witnesses and"de? manding that the case be rehearsed as her son had not secured justice. Judge Wells refused to reopen the case, whereupon she wont off to hunt up a lawyer who would tell her how she might indict the parties who Had sworn out the worrant against her son and caused him to be fined: Inequalities In State Taxation ami' the Remedy. The Snn has recently published two artfslas relating to the assessment of property in thus State for tax? ation ander the general assessment law of 1910. The result of that re? assessment has been to increase the valuation of property in the coun? ties by nearly $120.000,000. Since 1897? when the last general assess? ment in the counties was made, the assHsamKizt of Baltimore city . riiich was already high, has increased $1*9.565,000. or over 50 per eent. Ioi the- articles referred to it is pla-inSy shewn that the system of Stato ssxation is defective <n that thor* I? :n? cmiormi'v asa>> etil, in r-5i?>re property Is assesses up iu its luu value. in SOIttfc *f the counties, even under the new assess? ment, the valuation is far beesw the actual value. In some aunties property rs sssssssd at about so per cent of its valvie, and in oth;*r? at about 50 per cent. In Frederick county, for instance, it is saftt that farm Tands which are held by their owners at $100 an acre, or near that sum an1. gSSSSSSd at $4 0, to which the value of the improvements is added, making the assessment In eome in Btsnees not much more than half the r#ad ratlue. This, perhaps, explains Frederi *k county, the largest county irt the State, and probablj* next to Baltimore county the richest, is as wwd at $4,500.000 less titan Wash? ington county, and has gained loss han Carroll. Frederick ha3 660 aqvare miles of territory, while Wash? ington has only 4 57 and- Frederick has the most fertile and best improv? ed farming lands in the State. Where property in a county Jr assessed at half Its value, the owner of that property pays only one-half as much proportionately of the direct state tax as the owner of property In the city or another county. where the property is assessed at the full value. This is an injusth e which cries aloud for remedy. So long as the assessment through? out a county is reasonably uniform, it makes no difference about local taxation. A low* assessment means relatively a high rax rate, and a high assessment means a low tax rate, the amounr of the tax actually paid by the taxpayer being the same Ve either case. But it does make a difference wheo it comes to the State tax. The rate of the direct State tax is uniform throughout the State. Those counties where the assessment is more nearfy up to the real value will have proportionately more to pay. That ts the reason why the city of Baltimore pays more of the direct State tax in proportion to the wa?alth than any other part of the State. Let US suppose that a man owns a house in the city worth $10,000. It will be assessed at $10,000, ami his bill for State taxes, at the present levy of 22 cents on the $100, will be $L'2. Now let us suppose that a man owns a farm in Frederick county worth $10,000 and that farm Is as? sessed at $5,000. Ills bill for State taxes on It will be only $11, or one half what the city man pays, and the two men are worth the same. That is not payment of taxation according to the actual worth as required in the Constitution, it has been suggested that this Inequality mlghl be rem? edied by having ? single assessing agency for the entire state whose SPEAKERS SAY FARMERS ML Si WORK TOGETHER. Planten Will t>e Controlled by Com? bines Unless They Conserve Tbeir Efforts* Shawnee. oklu,, Sept. 5,?That the j farmeri of America will be owned and controlled by trusts within the next Jo years if they do not co? operate and conserve, their efforts was the warning issued today by Presi? dent J. Brooke, of Tennessee, in his response to the address of welcome at the opening session of the Nation? al Farmers' union. United Spates Senate* Thos. P. Gore who followed Mr, Brooks, took up the cudgels for cooperation, ana his speech was confined mostly 10 amplifying th-*- statements of Brooks. "You farmers will be buried deep? er in misery than ever if you do not cooperate," declared the ?lind sena? tor. "More attention must be given to business if ys>sj are to be success? ful." Former State Senator Campbell Kussel in his ad?fress of welcome on behalf of the Oklahoma Farmers' union denied a statement recently !made by the secretary of true State ' Bankers' association that the cotton crop of the State Car 1011 w:ul net thv? planters $7 5.0 tu/, 000. "Every in F teiligent farmer itarowa that this ? year's crop will do swll to bring $45. 00%?/??>.' said Russew; "That is if the present prices avtt; maintained." Secretary A. G. BsTiS of thcr Na i+.ioasjl union is recelt?sg a number of [letters and telegrauv from farmers in the cotton belt urging the dole gates to pass a resohiibm to hold cot? ton for 13 to 15 center. All of the remaining meetings will be executive Every delegate represent-? 5,000 mem? bers, A great number of tfclegrams from commercial clubs, newspapers, busi? ness men and bankers erf cotton grow? ing- states were receives^ tjdhy pledg? ing snport to any "holding plan" the I national union may .rdopt. While (nothing official has been given out regarding the price that; farmers will be asked to place on their cotton, it is safi the convention- probably will 'agree <!>n from 13 to iU ^ents. I % VTrff^f Tf'^a ^bniTt VHv BhgfBWd titfAtv*^ the sale of* fbto attesting j rink i> ilicgal In most ?f the coun Ities ? f Teva,-: and bejsasso the prop? osition, to put prohibition in the Con? stitution of the State- was only de? feated; by a few votes*. Mime of our Northern friends are saying that Ply? mouth Rock has been, moved to the Galveston seawall, thr.t Texas has be? come a Puritan stronghold and an outpost of New Englaad. C'^ald anything bo more absurd? New England was never distinguish? ed! for any dislike of strong drink and intolerance of the liquor habit was never included amocg* the vices of Puritanism. Macau?ey said that the Puritan objected to bear-baiting, not on account of the pcin to the bear but [because it gave the people pleasure, j Perhaps because drinking seems to give some people- pleasure it was supposed that the Puritain objected to it. But this i* unjust. New Eng? land rum has always been one of the most popular articles of commerce among "the fim? old Puritan stock." Indeed, it Is sutd that once in the old days, when news reached Boston that a shipload' jf Quakers was head? ing for that oity, one of the most eminent and pious of all the Puritan divines Of New England insisted that an armed Vessel should be sent out to capture Chem on the high seas, sell them as slaves to the West In? dian planters and invest the money received for them in rum. to be sold In New England at a profit, "thuft" in the wosws of this holy man, "not only doiitg God serivce but greatly enriching ha.* saints." How did the idea thad the New Englander object? ed to rum ever get abroad??Balti? more Sue). sfsaei Trtch. ? Mississippi man bettered to he dead woke up and admired the fkrwers his friends had sent him Some of them probably felt tike sending htm the bills. Cot. Ella?She ts considered the fkrwwr of ths family. Stelle?And since her operation she feels, she says, that she can be classed in the list of "cut flowers." Appeal Tax Court of Baltimore. Continuing essessmi ni in the coun? ties would remedy another wrong. Where reassessments are made at long intervals the annual gain SS capes taxation until the time of as? sessment cornea which may be a num her of years. In Baltimore city, where there Is a continuing tax sys? tem, the Increase In value is added each year and pays taxes the next year, it does not permit the Increase in wealth to go untaxed for fourteen years, as has been ths case In some OLD LAND M.VHR DISMANTLED. Historic ElUeon Gin Factory at Mate- < buflfj lloing Taken Down. On* of the land marks of historic Sfateburg, the Old Ellison Gin Eac - tuiy building of which comparatively few people in this county know jny ihtnsj, is being dismantled and torn down. Part of the building is in a. dilapidated condition and other parts are being carried off where the lum? ber will' be of more service than in the old building which has stood the storms ef a century. There are sctarcely any school children Mid few grown men and women in the county who know any? thing of tie old Ellison Gin Factory and outside of the county, with the exception o? historians and others who had occasion to search through the records ?if the Star.-, there are al? most none who know that prior to the war BtaCeburSJ sent out from the Ellison Gin Factory some of the best gins which were in ui?t- anywhere in the country. The gin factery wan founded by William Ellison, a negro who secured his freedom in some unknown way during the earl:? part <j>f the Nine? teenth century. Ellison was a good artisan and by applying himself ta his art he secured money and saved it until he had sufficient i< purchase ins wife out of slavery. From this time on the Ellison's were known a3 free negroes. They were welt known and respected by the white people of the neighborhood for they were hard working and peaceable citizens. Henry and William Ellison were the two sons born to William and his wife and these two wore engaged! in the factory with their father. The factory was established some? time in the early ?jart of the- Nine? teenth century, exactly what year is not known, and here was set up the first gin factory in the State of South Carolina, and one the first in the South. Ellison by his economy had managed to save suf? ficient money to purchase a numbe* of slaves and thes*? were employ in his factory, from which gin? w sent to all parts o? the cotton g". ing States. Ellison; anet his two were fine artisans and the mr terial turned out from* their factory was the very best on tfhe market and al? most every old man in this county enn tell of the Ellison Cotton Gin which some of his KinpfOiV.s u?e-l he fore the War,?-and afterwards too for the gins aiwa.? lasted for }.-urs ai d :>eare. Whib moat of" tf-e gft were used m this State, a large number wera sent* out to other States east of the Mississippi, and some even went beyond that "Fatrcer of Waters." The factory was situated a few hundred feet from the old Camden-Cha-rleston highwav and at that point where the I road turns off to Garner's Ferry*, now the regular Coiumbia-Sumter Gar? ner's Ferry road. In the heart of Stateburg the factory wa# *stablish ed and for many year3 it continued operations- here. The factory was still doing a fir*? business up to the time ()f the war and even during the war it continued in operation, but it was closed durmg the latter years of the war and n^ver reop.ned. The skill of the Ellison's will be realized when the fact is known that there were i-iany white people of those days Who sent their sons to work under cne older Ellison and his two sons as apprentices, that they might learn some of the skill in ar tleanship f^r which their masters were renowaedL The property is still owned by de *< sndStttS ef the rirst Ellison and his wife. It has served its day, how? ever, ami must give way to something else more modem and useful in its way, but not more important to the people of a commonwealth than was the old Ellison Cotton Gin Fa. tory in its day and timr Several gratings on Harvin street: watre put in Monday by street Super? visor White. At the ami tiOCM work was still progressing on Ken drick street. Night work often causes a strain on the eves. It vour eyes arc not perfect and able to stand this strain, see us and we will prescribe tor y on. The proper glasses guaranteed. Gradu? ate optician in charge of our optical parlor. W, A. Thompson A Jewelr and Optteaa. in STBl'EI PHOI