Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 December 1911 — Page 7

BEATTIE CONFESSES

VIRGINIAN GOES TO ELECTRIC CHAIR LEAVES STATEMENT WITH MINISTERS. SORRY HE COMMITTED CRIME Walks to Chair Refusing Life Lease an Admission of Slaying Earned Maintains His Nerve to End of Ordeal. Ki bmond, Va.. Nov. 26. Honry Clay Lt-jtUf. Jr., diod In the electric chair v. ,'h the fact that hu had confessed l, .iiK his wife July IS last a secret i'. wti only to his spiritual advisers, . i. d father and himself. A i icomlng doath us a relief from . inrment he declared ho was sufferi . he walked bravely to the death , iir, scorning the thirty-day reprieve t, vnior Mann had protnlsod as a rev, i for confessing his guilt. Confession Made Public. Peutiie's confession was made public following a conference between f.tf ministers who counseled the prlsor r ?n his last hours and Henry Clay p.atno. Sr. The ministers and the cp'.i father decided that the confession should be made public, and this was Jone flje confession was as follows. I. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., desirous of s-tanding right before God and man. d. oa this, the twenty-third day of N )'. mler. confess ray guilt of the crirw charged against me. Much that wjs published concerning the details wa not true, but the awful fact, wlth- . the harrowing circumstances, rer .i.ns. For this action I am truly rry and. believing that I am at ; ict with God and am soon to pass ::." his presence, this statement Is Signed) HENRY CLAY BEATTIE. JR." To the confession was appended a ir-U' from the clergymen: This statoment was signed in the i t st'nce of the two attending minis t- and is the only statement that ( !. and will be made public by them. Mr Beattie desires to thank the c any for kind letters and expressions of interest and the public for what-t-r sympathy waB felt or expressed." According to Rev. Dennis, Beattie first confessod to him the day aftor he was received In the death chamber -t the penitentiary, November 9. The o nfession, however, was at that time h'M.l as a secret confidence by the n.inisters and neither felt at liberty to sa anything about IL And for that reason the final statement was prepared and signed. Meets Death Bravely. Iattie went to his doath calmly, rawing not a trace of a breakdown Ju the iron will which had sustained h:rn since he was arrested for tho slaying of his wife. He was executed at 7:23 a. ra. in the -'tie house of tho prison where were Füth red only the necessary officials a: ! the 12 jurors selected by loL Just one minuto was required to iff out the life of the condemned man. Beattie did not utter a sound a- he entered tho chamber accotnpai if, I by two guards and the two minis-t'-rs. His great nerve did not dosert h n. even when he reached the Instrun.oit of death. He walked with firm ". took the soat and seemed the ! at excited of the attendants and officers. The body was taken in charge by an undertaker and was taken away from tN prison within an hour after the xeviition. MORSE SENT TO HOSPITAL Former Banker May Be Pardoned by President If Condition of Health Warrants. Washington, Nov. 25. President Taft directed the warden of the Atlanta penitentiary to transfer Charles w" Morse, the New York banker, to fnltod States army hospital at Fort Mcpherson, near Atlanta, where h will remain under federal authority and will be given medical treatmenL Tho transfer Is to be made because of poor health. It is understood that if the banker's condition warrants It President Taft w'll pardon him after the observations at hr hospital as to Morse's condition are reported to the chief executive. rlct Attorney Wise of New York an'I H. P. Dougherty, one of Morse's attorneys, were called In consulatlon a 'he White House. The attorney general told the preslnt that Morse was in bad condition. Y Wlckersham recently made a hurrd and unannounced trip to Atlanta. It develops now that It was to see Morse personally. GIRL SAVES LIVES OF MANY F'ags Passenger Train When She Finds Bridge Burned Gets Purse of $100. Purccll. Okla., Nov. 25. Eva Hall, a ten rear-old girl, saved a passenger train on the Oklahoma Central railroad from going into a ditch three miles east of here. She was on the way from school when she discovered " a bridge over a deep gulch had n burned out. 't was only a few minutes until the Passenger train would be along, for she aways met It half a mile farther down the rond. she dragged some pieces ties which had not ben burned and stood upon them and flagged the train. i,Cn passcnScrs made up a purse of W and gave It to the glrL

LONDON SUFFRAGETTES

STORM HOUSE OF COMMONS Two Hundred and Twenty-Three Arrested They Refused to Pay Fines and Are Jailed. London. England. Nov. 23 lurepontaat suflragettos to the number of 223. many of whom apparently are still in their teens, appeared at the Bow street police court to answer for their acts of violence lo their assault on the house of commons, and were . sentenced to fines or alternative terms , of imprisonment, varying from a fort-1 night to a month. The women invari-1 ably chose prison Instead of a fine. In their charge on parliament the ; women fought most desperately but were repulsed by a large force of police after they bad done much damage 'by stone throwing. For a time, the police withstood tho attack and rrevontod the women from entering the house of commons. The effi cors finally charged the crowds an 1 hundreds of persons were hurt by Hying missiles. Tho situation grew so menacing aft cr tho window smashing was begun that the police reserves were called out. and as they came dashing upon the scene in patrol wacons the crowd scattered and Inside half an hour bad dispersed. The demonstration was nlanned against the manhood suffrage bill which now is in a fair way of nasslne parllamenL - LABOR CHIEFS FACE TRIAL Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison Fall to Obtain Relief at Capital Nov. 24. Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank ' Morrison, the labor leaders, niust stand trial again In the supreme i court of the District of Columbia on charges of contempt arising out or the Bucks Stove and Range case. Justice Wright handed down a de cision overruling the motion of the labor leaders for a dismissal of the proceedings under the statute of limi tations. The court held that contempt of court is not classed as crim inal and consequently not subject to the bar of the statute of limitations. "FARM HOME" IS THEME Problems of Rural Communities Dis cussed at Country Life Congress in Spokane. Spokane. Nov. 25. This was "farm home day" on the program of the National Country Life congress. In session in this city, and it Included the discussion of a wide variety of questions relating to home life in the rural communities and the work of the grange. Prominent among those who contributed papers or addresses were Joseph E. Wing of Mcchanicsburg, Ohio; Professor P. G. Holden, bead of the agricultural extension department of Iowa State college; Mrs. Clara H. Waldo of Portland. Ore., and Clifford Willis of Minneapolis. AID ASKED FOR M'NAMARAS Federation of Labor Requests Every Paid Union Official to Contribute Week's Wages to Fund. Atlanta. Ga., Nov. 24. Every paid official of a labor union in the United States and Canada was asked by the American Federation of Labor convention to contribute one week's wages to the fund for the defense of the McNamara brothers. President Gompers said it was Impossible to estimate the amount that would be raised from the trade union officers, but thought it would reach at least $60.000. SHIP WRECKED; SIXTY DIE News of Disaster to Austrian Vessel Reaches Vienna Slroeco Rages. Vienna. Austria. Nov. 25. The Austrian steamer Romania was wrecked near Rovigno. It Is reported that sixty persons were drowned. A sirocco has swept the coast of the Adriatic for three days and caused much damage to shipping. Carries Dead Son Five Days. Ottawa. OnU Nov. 25. Thomas Taylor has Just reached New Llskcard. after carrying the dead body of his twenty-one-year-old son for five days, bringing it from a northern region where there was no train. The son was drowned.

Samuel Gompers.

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Mrs. Beattie. Beulah Birford. TMHEffS TO JUL FOUR, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED GUILT, ARE GIVEN TERM Or ONE YEAR. TWO GUILTY, ONE ACQUITTED Jury Returns Verdict In Trial of Three Charged With Attack on Kansas School Teacher Sentence Is Stated. Lincoln Center. Kan., Nov. 25. The three men who confessed to the tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain, the school teacher, were sentenced to a year each in jail by Judge G rover. They are E. G. Clark. Jay Fitrwater i and Watson Scrantoa. "Ed." Rlcord. who decoyed the girl to the place of the attack: and who already has been 79 days in Jail, also was given a year. Says -Sentence Is Excessive. The three were told they would be given ample time to arrange their business affairs before being committed. Attorney MUlikln excepted to the sentence. saying he considered It exces sive. Thirty days, he suggested, would have been severe enough paaisaaeat. None of the men seemed surprised at the action of the court. They thlak paroles will be exercised after they have served a short time. It is said. The Jury In the cases of Sherrfll Clark. John Schmidt and A. N. Strains, who admitted knowledge of the attack but denied participation in iL reported Clark and Schmidt found guilty of assault and battery, under the indictment, but acquitted SIraras. Ask for New Trial. Sentence upon Clark aad Schmidt was reserved until the hearing of a motion by the defense for a sew triaL which will be heard December IS. The Jury proceeded In a methodical manner, taking 42 ballots In all and voted on the defendants In the following order: Schnaidt. Clark and Slmms. It was decided thnt, although aot present at the actual tarring. Clark bad furnished the tar used la tarring Miss Mary Chamberlain the night of August 7 and that Schmidt had been one of the conspirators. "We gave SI rums the benefit of the doubt. one of the Jurors declared, "although most of us believe him really to have been concerned in the mobbing." EX-SENATOR DRYDEN DIES Head of Prudential Life Sinks After Operation Son May Succeed Him as PresidentNew York, Nov. 25. Former United States Senator John F. Dryden. president of the Prudential Life Insurance company, died at his home In Newark following an operation last Sunday. For sevei-l days following the operation Mr. Dryden was In a critical condition, but Thursday he rallied and his physicians and family bad strong hopes for his recovery. Mr. Dryden was seventy-two years old. He Is survived by his wife, one daughter. Mrs. Anthony R. Kuser. and a son. Forest Dryden. who Is first vicepresident of the Prudential company, and probably will succeed bis father as president Ex-Senator Pryden Dying. "Newark. N J-. Nov 24. Former United States Senator John F. Dryden. president of the Prudential Insurance company, who was operated on last Saturday at his home here for the removal of gallstones, was said to be sinking and It was feared that he could sot live aaother 24 hours.

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BEATTIE CASE

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THIRTY DIE IN PLUNGE OF TRAIN INTO RIVER Breakdown of Bridge Causes Disaster cm French State Railway Twenty Bodies Recovered. Paris. Nov. 24. Thirty passengers lost their lives by the breaking down of a bridge over which a train was passing on the State railway near Säumer. The train, which was bound from Angers to Poitiers, carried about 100 passengers. While crossing the bridge over the Taouet river the structure, which bad been weakened by recent floods, gave way, sending the entire train into the swollen stream. Three of the cars immediately disappeared, bet the roof of the fourth Is visible aad on it twelve passengers clang for several hours before they were rescued by a detachment of military. Some of the passengers wno were swept ovt of the cars by the force of the water tried to cling to the branches of trees along the river beak, but the current was so swift that they were washed away. Several small boats were launched In an attempt at a rescue, bet were nearly swamped. Twenty bodies have been recovered. PACKERS ARE REFUSED STAY Chief Justice White Says Full Supreme Court Bench Must Pass on Case. Washington. Nov. 21. Chief Justice White refused to grant a stay la the trial of the Chicago beef packers ladies ed for violations of the Sherman aatl-trast law. He asked the attorneys to make tne application to the fall beach, as he considered the matter of too mecn Chief Justice White. Importance for him to pass upon atone. Justice White, however, consented to have the plea of the packers for a writ of habeas corpus heard on December 4 before the entire court. In the meantime the case Is set for trial in Chicago, but Attorney John Miller said that he surmised another delay might be granted, in view of the action of Chief Justice White. If the trial Is not begun before the application Is filed with the Supreme court it is expected that a prompt decision will be forthcoming In order to expedite the hearing of the case. PRISON FOR EX-TRUST HEAD William J. Cummins Must Serve at Least Four Years and Eight Months in Sing Sing. New York. Nov. 25. William J. Cummins, convicted last week of stealing '$140.000 froir the Carnegie Trust company of which he was formerly president, was sentenced to Sing Sing prison for not less than four rears and eight months and not more ttaa eight years and eight raostfc.

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MRS. GERTRUDE PATTERSON TELLS STORY OF LIFE IN OPEN COURT. BRINGS IN STROUSS' NAME Woman Says Husband Sold Her to Wealthy Chicago Man for $1.500 Who Took Her on a Trip to Europe. Denver, Colo., Nor. 24. Gertrude j cson Patterson, charged with the murder of her husband, Charles A. Patterson, took the stand In her own detente aad commenced the recital of her married life by which her counsel hopes to free her. She told of her marriage to Pattorson at Curmel-by the-Sea, Cal.. In September. 1SOS, after a three months' acquaintance, and of her return to Chicago soon after. Accuses Her Husband. In November, she declared, Patterson began to make incessant demands for money, which she was unable to give him. "One day he said to me," she told the jury, leaning forward in her chair: " "I know how to fix It so we neither of us will have to work You go down to George's place (a Chicago resort). An attractive girl like you can get lots of money. I don't care what you do so long as I am in on iL' "Some time afterward." Mrs. Patterson went on, "Mr. Patterson came to me and asked me to make a proposition to Emil W. Strouss. of whose friendship for me he knew. He said: You tell Strouss to rent an apartment and lire with you as bis wife and have rae live under the same roof and enjoy the same privileges." I ordered him from the fiat and he gave me my first beating, from which I was In bed for two days. Says She Met Strouss. Then Mrs. Patterson told the jury how she had met Strouss casually on the street and had told him of the unhappiness of her married life. "He said he pitied me." Mrs. Patterson continued, "and that be was going to Europe and wished he could take me with him. I told Mr. Patterson, and he said: 'Tell Strouss he can take you to Europe with him If he gives me J1.5(W.' And when I refused he flew at me and called me vile names." Her husband, then Mrs. Patterson said, tried to throw her In a grate fire and beat her. After this experience. Mrs. Patterson continued, she again saw Strouss and told him what had happened and he agreed to give Patterson the 31,500 and take her to Europe with him, provided Patterson gave him a written statement freeing blm of blame In the matter. Says She Paid the Money. "I telephoned my husband," Mrs Patterson continued, "and agreed to meet him at the bank, where I gave him the $1.509. which he deposited to his crediL" When she asked Patterson for the statement that Strouss wanted she said he called Strouss a name and refused to give It to her. Then Mrs. Patterson described how Patterson had taken her to the train when she was to leave for her trip abroad with Strouss and said she met Strouss on board the steamer in New York. At Paris, she said, she found a letter from her husband. I have about come to the conclusion that you don't Intend to come back to me." she said the letter read, "and if you don't return at once III follow you and kill you. "I showed the letter to Strouss," said Mrs. Patterson, "and he gave me J5.r.KH and sent me back on the next steamer. I have never seen him since." On her return to Chicago, she said. Patterson met her at the train. He asked her bow much money she had brought back, and when she told him she bad brought none back and asked him what he bad done with the $1.500 he flew into a rage and. she said, beat her. TO SET CONVENTION DATE Chairman Mack Issues Call for Meeting of Democratic National Com mlttee on January 8. Xount Clemens. Mich.. Nov. 25. Chairman Norman Mack of the Democratic national committee, who Is here for a thre- weeks' course of baths, announced that he had sent out a call for the national committee to meet In Washington on January JJ, 1912. to select a date and place for the next Democratic national convention. The committee meeting will be held In connection with a Jackson day banquet VV. J. CUMMINS IS SENTENCED Suspended Carnegie Trust Official to Serve Four to Eight Years in Prison. New York. Nov. 25. William J. Cummins, the Nashville (Tenn.) banker and the head of the suspended Carnegie Trost company of this city, recently convicted of the theft of $140.000 from a trust fund held by the Carnegie company, was sentenced by Justice Davis in the supreme court to an indeterminate term in the state prison of four years and eight months to eight years ana eight months.

SPARKS FROM LIVE WIRES

Three persons were killed and two seriously injured when an Inbound train wrecked an automobile at a grade crossing In San Berardlno, Cal. Heads of all railroads operating la Missouri have agreed to abolish common drinking cups on trains If tho state board of health makes tho requesL An express package containing $10.000 was stolen from the office of tho Canadian Northern Express company at Regina, Manitoba, during the absence of the clerk. Miss Alta Scott, a young teacher near Custer, S. D., Is proudly displaying the skin of a coyote she caught with a lasso, to show that she can throw a lariat as well as teach schooL Ten seal pups from Unalaska, consigned to the government zoological gardens In Washington, D. C, wero passengers on the revenue cutter LJear, which arrived at Port Townscnd, Wash. The will of August Uihlein, tho brewer, covering an estate of S1.000. 0M. was filed for problato at Milwaukee. The entire estate is left to tho six children three sons and three daughters. New canals have appeared on Mars, the Sabaeus. Sinus and Mareicarum. according to an announcement from Lowell observatory at Flagstaff, Ariz. They were seen and photographed November 21. Archduke Franz Salvator, the Austrian emperor's son-in-law, has resigned his command of the cavalry division of Vienna and retired to private life In consequence of a squabble with the heir apparent Charges of collecting vice tribute and permitting gambling and prize fights have been filed against Mayor A. R. Turnbull of Canton, Ohio, who won his placo by lot from Harry Schilling, Socialist Surrounded by flowers and the congratulatory mesages of 'official and personal friends. United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois celebrated at Washington the eighty-second anniversary of his birth. Detroit was selected as the meeting' place- of the 1912 convention of tho American Bankers' association. Tho time of the next convention will bo named by the executive council at Its meeting In the spring. Harold Kountze, son of the late Charles Kountze of Denver, will receive 32 per cent of his father's Interest In the New York brokerage firm of Kountze Brothers. The Kountze estate is estimated at $10.000,000. General Tejera, the assassin of President Caceres of San Domingo, was captured and put to death, and General Pimentel, an accessor)', also was executed, according to reports to the state department at Washington. Virgil Noland. a student at the University of Oregon, whose home was at Klamath Falls, was burned to death In a fire caused by an overheated electric bath robe. Noland was left guard on the university football team. BANK MEN ELECT OFFICERS Arthur Reynolds of Des Moines, la., Is Chosen Chairman of Executive Council. New Orleans, Nov. 25. Arthur Reynolds, president of the National bank of Des Moines, la., was elected chairman of the executive council of tho American Bankers" association by 39 votes over William George, president of the old Second National bank of Aurora. 111., by the councllmen. William Livingstone of Detroit. Mich., was elected president The amendment to provide for an Investment bankers' section was postponed until the next convention and tho currency commission reported favorably on the Aldrlch bill, the report being unanimously adopted. Resolutions Indorsing the monetary plan and urging congress to pass tho bill, as an economic measure and not political, were adopted, there being but one dissenting vote. THE MARKETS. New York. Nov. 14. LIVE STOCK-Stecfs 4 CO & 7 75 Hors 1 6 3 ? G 5 Sheep ! 1 7S 0 3 FIjOUR Winter Straights.. 4 CO 4 S WHEAT December 99 t 9W4 COHN 70 ft 70fc OATS-No. 2 aiQ 4 RYE-No. 2 79 O SO nt'TTER-Creamery 13 & 3 KOGS 12 0 25 CHEESE 9 15 CHICAGO. CATTLE Native Steers Fair Iteevcs Fancy Yearlings Feeding Steers Heavy Catve , HOGS-Paekera Butcher Hors I, riKS BUTrER Creamery Dairy LIVE POt'LTRY EC5GS POTATOES fpr bu.) KI.otR -Sorlnir Wheat. Si' GRAIN wheat . Decerobar. corn, uecemuer Oats, December MILWAUKEE. GRAIN Wheat No. 1 Nor'n OW? 1 (914 Ö W (3 St 65H 4Sa 43 95 O Mtt December Corn. December Oats. Standard Rye KANSAS CITY. GRAIN What. No. 2 Hard No. 5 Rrnl Corn. No. 2 White Oats. No. 2 White Uye ST. LOUIS. CATTLK Native Steers Texas Steers W fir 73 O 73 43W M 95 0 HOG S Parkers Hutchers ... SHEEPr-Nattves

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