A DEGRADING EXHIBITION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, 11 December 1911, Page 2

A DEGRADING EXHIBITION.

Beulah Binford, who figured prominantly in the motor murder trial in Virginia, in which the young millionaire banker Henry i Beattie was found guilty .and condemned to deaths for the murder of. his wifi, spent a few'days by i posing for a i cinematograph company,!, and 011 September ,10th ion initial exhibition wasi given of the result.. The sketch shown began ' with the childhood of the Virginian beauty, showing her bringing-up and her home life, which was of a rather primitive character, and her life as a young girl. The sketch their proceeded to show her meeting. Henry ißeattio, her intimacy with him, while the whole was brought up to a climax by moving pictures of the murder of Mrs Beattie and the young millionaire hurrying liom,o' r witli dead body; in the,: motor," car. The,juext . scepp/.showed young Beattie in. prison; with, the girl Beulah" Binford Jx'hind the. bars of an ‘adjoining cell; Rapid hud suggestive pictures of j,the trial were given, after which the massive gate of Beulah’s prison dissolved, and she emerged samt-like and purified by her prison experience. ■ A movement has.already been started in New York, among clergymen and church societies to prevent the exhibition of moving pictures depicting the crime or connected in any way with the alleged career of the girl. It is doubtful, however, whether they will be able to induce the authorities to stop any such show.