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BEATTIE PLEADS NOT GUILTY” 10 WIFE MURDER With Lowered Eyes Listens to Indictment, While Father Sits Near, Head Bowed. JURORS ,EASY TO GET. Seven Chosen Hour After Trial | Begins —Binford Girl Ab- | sent—Courthouse Packed. OMPSTERFINLD COURTHOUSE, Va, Aug. 21.—Standing by the side of his @ray haired father, Henry Clay Reattle ir. of Richmond entered a plea of not ullty here to-das when arraigned in the Gircult Court on an indictment charging fim with the murder of his young wife He did not flinch as the clerk read the indictment, but stood with eyes lowered. Mie father near him sat with bowed head Counsel for the defense argued the arraignment day next, but the to have postponed until Mon- Court dented the von tom with a me 40 quash the indict Shortly after 1 o'clock a venire of talesmen was empainelied, and the of selecting © jury was begun. N. W. Farley, a farmer, was found Acceptable to both sidex and was the first juror to take his seat in the Henry ¢ ston, a farmer, answer @ll questions satisfactorily and took seat as Juror No, 2 JURY BOX HALF FILLED LITTLE OVER HOUR. C. T. Wilson, a farmer, said he could | IN “go deport bh elf as to influen by nothing but the evid and w chosen ax Juror 8. Later he rose] in his seat to say that “just now” he! Was not a qualified voter in the State. He was directed to stand aside, In iss | than ten minutes’ time John T. Dance, | @ farmer, had been selected, making three in the box. T. L. Wilson (no relation to the juror Aismissed) was quickly selected and made Juror No. 4 A.M. Fetteroff, a farmer about thirty- against the mirror back of the bar. The | five years old, took his place in the box} fact aimed that Paul aid not tett | of the United States js sometimes crit- | Datrons and bartender fled. Then Miss ag Juror Ni the whole truth in bis story of buy: Io a aned feised, and if 1 remember correctly, al ‘ sat ainatinailer ‘Kdwin M. Bass jr, a young farmer,| for Henry the second-hand shot People a Chance. DOSE Aa Geer ver a ge Cau cOr de 0 dat Gown at Suror No, & In a little pith which the killing was done will ASR dua ead ah MOP AEy AM GH y's saloon useless for bu : ‘orm the basis for the case of the de- : Hs ness purposes. When a policeman more than an honor half of the jury had tengo, WASHINGTON i mt’ go I wanted » buard, rived and gathered her in, she had been selected ‘A Catholis priest may become the lever i aor aTON,: AUB) SL—Benster Le witness was asced way he @P-/ broken all the glassware and bottles, B. W. Fuqua, another farmer, was|which which the defense will try to pry Follette in a speech to-day came out| pointed a “mixed board,” consisting of] smashed all the fixtures she could quickly chosen as Juror No. 7. Henry Meattle loose from the death | openly tn favor of Governme two chemists, Dr, Wiley am Dr. Dun-| nandie and turned on the-beor and ale Chest 1 Court House, hid away in| Clasp of the electric chair. It became ship of the railroads of Alas liap and a la Solicitor MeCahe. P < known to-day that the day his cousin { | and allowed it to rin as it willed over ita thicke of oak and hemlock, wat G o Pont! h a ‘It may be that It was not necessary Mer und cay today tor the imormia| Wee indicted, Paul Beattie, who is a | Governmental control of the natural re-|_““l E the ‘floor, a Catholic, summoned a priest to his cell sou of that rich Territory. In the|'? Have # lawyer on the board because} Upon being placed in a cell Miss fete—the piggest murder trial in ats his-|jn Henrico County jail, Locked in his course of his remarks he rtecred to 4 {0f the Prosecutions which must be] stttenell went to seep. She will be al- tory. The stringy-bearded, tobacco! bosom, that priest carries the secret for | lei eae he referred t0 @l assed on by the board,” sald the Sec-| {owed to sleep her sleep out, and City chewing farmers came to “Co't day, which’ the attorneys for the defense pil which he introduced four years| retary, “It may be that a farmer like | Judge Beale will take up her cage to- | If it were @ county tate, werxed thelr|MIxnt give all the wealth they could ago providing for the leasing of all|me or you, Mr, Chairman, could take a| morrow morning. @hagey chins and discussed crops and : +4 |mineral rights in the United States,|case into court, but I don't believe we | LA Seape apemeege| the weather, as the pale, anaemic youtn| OEFENSE MAY CALL PRIEST As|Former Comptroller Promised | aitnousir tie measure wax intended to] would do very well with tt." {GIRL TRIED IN VAIN TO who has spent the last month in Henrico A WITNESS. sat » applica nore especially to “Has it worked out well?” | County Jail wax unloaded trom an auto-| The heavy pall of the confesstonal aur|_ tO Appear, but Failed to ye sensible and practical thing to|“QOUR PEOPLE ON THE cancel SAVE BROKER HINSDALE. mioplte, under heavy guard, to take his} rounds the ery, that Pax) Beattie told Shaw Up do,” he said, “Is to create a board co 1S EXPLAINED. | place at the dock. the priest, and tt 1s beyond the pale of i public works for Alas! to be ap- {Miss Connolly Seized Drowning | «Sih Soe ee the (awe, | “L think you gentlemen have gone far y ig he has deen since his arrest when Detective Scherer led him from the automobile to the court room. He wan hare-headed, smiling and chewing gum. mingly enjoying the gaping-mouthed attention Destowed by the countrymen, he swag- ered through the lane of men formed for him, smiling in a superior way, JEULAH BINFORD NOT COUR. FOR OPENING. The immovable calmness of Beattie in ie fight for life was strikingly tllus- trated during a recess of the trial to- y. He held @ jocular chat with a @umber of his friends who gathered f@bont the window of the little room ‘where he was confined, In the course of the conversation, one of his friends, an (ngurance agent, remarked “Henry, you had better let me sel! Fou $10,000 worth of I!fe insurance.” “Better make it $100,000," came back the reply, “I'll probably need tt." And tho gathering laughed, Beattie foiming tn heartily. Beulah Binford did not appear at to Gay's proceedings. She may called as @ witness during the tria but to- day the pretty in the case’ re mained in a cell in Richmond, sur Founded by pictures of Be he has no less than yefive in the jal reading the newspaper extr pre fessing confiden his aca Although the iford befor « afternoon a wos itre of Intere P, Latte, mer's who i a gun with which Louise Wellford Ow Ueattio was shot. was Instruct ready to make ney ti bile to Ch The svar w s for the x Paul has said litte since on we , 1 Ae eit c J asa witness as the oe FEW WOMEN AMONG CURIOUS IN COURT THRONG, The strict » . Beuitle’s sndictin . than five hundred persons to the "1 here jas) and with 4 Of the act nning of ight f 1 c id County * pect! A wud ¢ family with a male memver more twelve years old. To Virginia's cred $t was noted not one While Woman Was in court 1 the prisoner Was in @icted, and barring those who may €alled as Witnesses few if any women Atiempted to-day to crowd into the Uittie courtroom during the trial, It became known here to-day that} Hervous Paul Hwattle will be the weak #pot in the case of the prosecution, at Which Harry M. Smith and Hill Car two of Virginia's ablest lawyers, w Aim tae vig guns of thelr défense. The Banker’s Son on Trial for Wife Murder, the Victim and “Other Woman in Case ” Miss j ed BEULAH > TAFOLLETIEAINS TOBREAK MORGAN GRD IN ALASKA Wants Government Owner- ship and Control to Give ESTER Pro GSE Fle pointed by the President and confirmed But ahe lawyers for the defense may by the call the confessor to the stand and a ar to the Isthinfan | place before the jury the moral effect] A Subpoena was tssued to-day by | Cans! Cominission hank aidbste of the priest's refusal to tell the Deputy Bank Examiner B. I. Dodge works should then take not oe ais oars Mu iiuce. be strength commanding the attendance on Wednes. | 1°" iy seus ie poet Grams Cotte 7 iy they y of farmers} aay morning at the Union Bank fal'ure | T°)! ay $0 the COA: folds, but can only be conjectured. should now acquire-all of the ratiro Investigation in Brooklyn of former in Alaska and t once th Mey \ a Ad ee Alas \l settle at once the po Comptroller Edward M. Grout. The sub- | o¢ governmental ownership peena was issued at the request of “It should similarly provide for tho former Pollee Commissioner James 8. ent of publi utilities, opsey, who !s assisting Assemblyman | such as the telegraph and telephone, It joldstein in probing the Union Bank |should operete and develop the wharves scandal by authority of the Legislature, and docks and steamship Ines If nece In to-day's early stock market trading, , Morning, and Mr. Cropsey wad expected | (71 n-Guagenhelms, accus Settlement of the labor ateike in Eng. | that Mr. Grout would ve on hand. Hel oiea to the highest profits on thelr tn land failed to exert 0 had also expected that Christopher J.) 700 ¥ h a 1 to exert a favorable Influ- | jrooke, assistant cashier of the Arian.| vestments, and demanding to a great ence at tho opening and stocks were lic avenue branch of the Union Bank, {CXtent Immediate returns, must make left open to attacks by the bear element. | y xorbitant and oppre A steady reaction during the first hour of the United § ve charges. The ates do not de- ‘ould be on hand. Mr. Brooks was served with a subpoena inst week. | See) waa eer ide magmas poate) In the absenco of Mr. Grout, who was |Mand an immediate return, They can |president of the Union Bank after he | °mselves supply all necessary money bears sold stocks quite confidently be-|iaq reorganized It put of the debrie {St aM Interest change of less than 3 per cause @ better response had not been |ieft by the failure of the Mechanica @| cent: Rates for transporatton and for made to favorable Aevelopments Over |mragers' Bank, Mr. Cropsey und Ag. {ther Public utilities may properly be i weeksanes semblyman Goldstein were unable to|!0Ws With the capital cost as emall a ery little Improvement wae displayed | mae much progress in their investi. | the Investment would be to the people. in the subsequent trading. gation, They questioned two former| “Most (mportant of all ts control of * employees of the bank concerning cer- | the transportation factiities by the Gov- tain juggling with the books and then|¢rnment. It would forever remove the ached the end of their probing re-|irresistivle temptation of discrimination, sources for the moment. | rel and corruption which have Mr, Cropsey announced that withovt| characterized the worst period of our Mr, Grout he could not proceed along|ra'lroad operation.” the nes he had planned. He then read| Senator La Follette declared that the . into the record a correspondence be-|people were waging a losing fight ” tween Mr. Grout and Mr, Dodge rela-| against the corporations tn Alaska, Be- Uve to the investigation yrehouse of natural K Under date of July 2% Mr, Grout wrote ud those Who are trying to H that he was going on a vacation, but he said, was to be found Hs would respond within twenty-four hours | “the nous power of the greates to a letter sent to his office demand that the world on of capital , his attendance at the investigation, 1 ¢ other letters Mr. Grout expressed the) Mr Fallette found a parallel in| ¥ desire to give the probers all the ald in the present situation In Alaska in the | his power. the anthracle coal fields of ; pent irout appears t ter o ntury But recently Mr Grout appears to haslaadl ay have come to the conclusion that there aieret Gennatiens = 2 | was nothing in the affairs of the hry: Pacis (ep i] aj | during his term as preside the failed to break the grip of monopoly, Mot’ ‘fi Tl stitution that requires or warrants ine| “When we have before story al Ps S| vestigation, Deputy Examiner Dodge, | of this anthracite struggle, mands I Va 4 slyman Goldstein and Mr, Cropsey | ed, “now consummated In the complete ‘ to @ contrary view ontrol of J. Plerpont Morgan againet Mo. Kan a out Is mistaken when he says | the whole American people, can we exe that we have nothing to do with his ad- | pect different result if we permit sw ministration of tne affairs of the Union | the Morgan-( nhelms to get contre} At sald Mr. Cropsey y's }of Alaska? ‘This power will He in thelr Yt ding. “He was notif ¢ docks, wharves, moun- iD on Aug, 19. sand the Hmited outlet to the ‘ W Perhaps the not{feation not . t q ached him, I have no » be - —~—— r 4 nfalr » I move an adjournment to Cutter Snyes Scho Mid 14h Wednesday, and ask tha: a subpoena! wWasitiNGTON, Aug. 21 4 20% + “el be issued and served upon Mr, Grout LR t K oy — & Be tho Antern ee aerout er Lottie R. Russell of Brid Hock land, ss : lhe ant, hotitied ‘of the nomcueneaee| bound from New York to Wilmington, it lance here to-day, in response to a sub-\N. C., Was saved last night by the salty. 18 | poena of Christopher J. Brooks, in or- | enue « minole after she was “Stunber ‘| der that approorlate action may be | able ® southeast gale and was 4 5 ‘ ii | taken.” | ing Cape Fear bar. The cutt 1 sted of = 72 Ene took off her crew of six men and towed Vir-car,. Chem = (the schooner to Southport, N.C, Wer . *|SUNDAY WORLD WANTS _—_———— oa aT ey Swift Company's spica of fresh beet tn +adveuce. —! + * WORK MONDAY WONDERS Boe Si City for the G8 endin 02 oncte De THE EVENING WORLD, Sel N tt ie Mas [ig on her tothe hospital, pronounced AUGUST 21 "WILSON HITS BACK WOMAN WRECKS -AT WILEY BEFORE SALOON OF MAN CONGRESS BOARD, SHE TRIED 10 KILL | —~— — | ee Accuses Expert of Veiling | Ray Mitchell Goes to Yonkers | Facts and Gives Him Full | to Continue Her Re- Blame in Rusby Case. venge for Jilting. DENIES ONE MAN POWER BOTTLES HIT MIRRORS. Cabinet Officer Tells of “Fam- And Beer Runs on Floor Be- ily Troubles” That Led to Charges Against Wiley. fore She’s Arrested and Put to Sleep. | From Yonkers comes the hews that | Miss Ray Mitchell of this city went into the saloon of William Murray at No, 68 St. Joseph's avenue, to-day, and by the indiscriminate use of such mis- siles as came to her hands made the WASHINGTON, Aug. of Agriculture Wilson, testifying to- day before the House Investigating committee, severely criticised Dr. H. W. Wiley of the Bureau of Chemist: for his course in regard to pure food and drug work, and told in a more or 21.—Secretary f place look as if the Empire State Ex- jlese general way of, the “family | prege had run through it. Murra troubles” which led to the recom-|toe Ray Mitchell had been @ Mendation for Dr. Wiley's dismissal. | charge of disorderly conduct, sald he Secretary Wilson declared that Dr. thought she must have a grudge against Wiley in his testimony before the com-| nim or something. mittee had withheld material matters) 1¢ was abolit a month ago at No, 28 in regard to the controversy over lh West Forty-sixth street, the home of phur dioxide in fruit, He complained| pay Mitchell, that she shot Murray that Dr. Wiley did not come to him to discuss subjects about which he had talked freely to the investigating com- mittee and promised to have a little chat with the Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry when he returned from @ week's vacation. SHIFTS ALL BLAME FOR RUSBY TO WILEY. | In appointing the Pure Food and Drug | Inspe n Board and in the creation of the referee board Secretary Wilson said” he considered Dr. Wiley had been done a kindness rather than insulted as @ chemist Secretary Wilson shifted all responal- bility for the employment of Dr, H. H. Rusby to Wiley. \ he Secretary said that Dr. Wiley was without question the head of the bureau. Asked about his object in creating @ Pure Food and Drug Inspection Board, the Secretary said that he felt more power attached to a board dectsion than to @ one-man decision, There are people who criticise me,” said the Secretary, “Even the President three times, He had informed her that bo was about to marry a girl in Yonk- ers and she got out her revolver and | tried consctentiously to keep him from cing It. Her alm was bad. Murray went to Flower Hospital, where the doctors took @ bullet out of his face and prepared to day him up and remove two other bullets, one from his right wrist and another fom his back, but Murray haf other designs. Carrying the two bullets, he left the hospital, got his flance, took her to the | City Hall, got @ license and married | her. The next day he went to Yonkers | and received the congratulations of his friends | In the meantime Ray Mitchell wan un- | der arrest. Murray refused to prosecute | her, and the case against her was al-| lowed to lapse. 8! did not bother Mur- ray until this morning, when she ap- Peared in his saloon, | There were about half a dozen cus-| tomers in the place. Miss Mitchell opened proceedings by hurling a: bostle. enough to ascertain that the family has | not been as’ happy as it might have! bee Hair, but Not Hold On, of Willlam W. Hinsdale, twenty-six years old, a New York| broker, who w drowned yesterday in) Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks by the overturning of a canoe, was brought to- | day to his home at Pine Plains, near Poughkeepsie. The canoe capsized by the wind. | With Mr. Hinsdale a young woman| who gave her name as Mary Gleason, but Coroner Royce withheld what 1d was her real name. Sh¢ was saved by Mr. Plerson of the Jackson Autome- | bile Company, who was near in a motor | boa Miss Connolly of Syracuse, also in a motor boat, selzed Mr. Hinsdale by the hatr, but could not keep her grasp. Four hours after the drowning the body was! recovered and taken to Boonville, where Mr. Hinsdale's brother, Egbert 8. Hins- dale, went last night. ‘The accident ocourred in front of the| Arrowhead Hotel pler at Inlet. Miss | Gleason had been a guest at Camp Cuba, where Mr. Hinsdale stopped two day: before. She collapsed after the accident. | A heavy sea prevented parties in other | nearby boats from effecting arescue. | Man’s Could | Secketary was asked about his phrase in a letter touching the Indiana litigation over benzoate of soda in which he referred to Séllettor McCabe and Dr, Dunlap aa “our people on the board.” ‘ou are pretty well aware that there was friction on the board,” replied the Secretary. “It would have been an in- sult to Dr, Wiley to consult him in re- gard to benzoate of soda.” “Why? asked Representative Floyd of Arkansas. “Because he despised it and every- thing in regard to It, He felt that his work was reflected on when we appoint- ed the Referee Board to reconsider the benzoate of soda question, but It was no! Secretary Wilson said he consulted freely with Dr, Wiley regarding appro- priations for the Bureau of Chemistry, but in years like this he was likely to gay to all bureaus: “Now go @ little slow with your estimates; this is a Democratic House." He declared that he himself and not | The body she Solicitor McCabe was responsible for in- LE, . -qeeneeeead creasing the powers of the Solictor.|“SHOT UP” LODGING HOUSE. | He dented that in so doing he was — | getting back to the objectionable one-| Insane Man's Balle All Missed, | man | DROPPED IN RACE TO SEE HUSBAND WHO DIED. Mrs. Jacobs Taken to Same Hos- pital and Ward Where | His Life Ended, | Im the same ward of the Williamsburg Hospital where her husband died of |neart disease early this morning Mrs. power, Then He Killed Himself. BOSTON, Aug. 21.—Ernest L.\ Knox, |torty years of age, who roomed in a \jodging house on South Russell street became violently insane early to-day lana selzing a revolver ran through the house, firing at every person he saw The lodgers rushed to the street, all Jescaping the bullets, Knox then set fire to the furniture in his room, When the firemen appeared the man fired several shots at them, but none took effect. ‘Then he turned the revolver acobs of Gi on himself and fired a bullet into his Lillan Jacobs of Grand and Roebling |on Mmaclt Alt ty ® ne bidse was streets is dy to-day of the same mi way. Bhe was stricken just before dawn |@uicKiY extinguished with slight dam- while running to the hospital, from which word had just come that her hus- band had passed away sudaenly, J bs, who was in the drygoods business at the address given, re- moved to the heapital several days ago. | Before retiring night his wife got | word that he ‘=, making satisfactory \progress, 5) aroused several | hours later by the arrival of a messen- | wer bost with & telegram announeing her | husband's death, Hardly waiting to dress, Mrs, ‘started for the hospital, ac antod by her mother, Mrs. Goldstein, She was rine a RL teo, impatient to wait for a street car Ti TERRE AR and began ruming so fast that her| MM iD*pacc ode u's taNT! mother dropped far behind, She had gone hardly a block when she collapsed in front of No, 376 Grand street. 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