manrtnacried man"of 'thirty years, answered Benson: "We let women vote out here. They claim to be our equals in everything. They ought to be our equals when 'it comes to paying the-penalty of their crimes." Mysj Patterson leaned her head 'on the table, and her sobs could be heard all over the room. In the stillness, a voice rose plain- 1?: y " "What ha's become of the chiv alry of the West?" And before the bailiff's .gavel rapped on the table, the"ahswer in a man's voice : "Woman suffrage!" It is expected that the jury will be selected tonight A new jury is in vogue in Denver, and all of the taleVmen drawn so far have beea young men, instead of the usual professional jurors. O. N. Hilton, attorney for Mrs. Patterson, counts much on this. He expects to appeal to the sym pathy of J the men, most of whom are parried, to draw for them a picture of a broken woman, driven to shame and disgrace and insan ity by a dissolute, cowardly husband. BE'ATTIE LOSES NERVE; CONFESSION RUMORED t i Richmond, Va., Nov. 21. Throughout the day there was a persistent repor.t that Henry Clay Beattie, sentenced to die in the electj-jc chair Friday, had con- fessed'the murder of his wife. i Itjis rumored he is much nearer , a physical and mental . collapse ' tbanrhas been generally known. ,t- His air of bravado "has entire- ry disappeared,- and practically every minute of his, time is put in either in praying or in reading the Bible and other religious litera- ture selected for him by Rev,M Benjamin Dennis. It is said the alleged confession v was made J&' Dr. Dennis bu there is no confirmation available 0 SEN. REED DENOUNCES SUPREME COURT , Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 21. 0 "I will not bow to tlje dictum of5 any court that never has taken the trouble to read the record inr- a, case on which it has passed." United States Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, special1 prosecutor in the second trial ofJ Dr. B. Clark Hyde for the mur der of Col. Thomas H. Swope. Senator Reed referred to the"3 Supreme Court of Missouri, and' -his denunciation of that court hasn caused consternation among law- yers. ' Never before has aa attorney5, of national prominence referred to a supreme cburt in such un-'. measured terms in open court. The cause7 of Senator Reed's wrath was the ruling out of all1T testimony in regard to the death' of Chrisman Swope, whom the Supreme Court decided died oFs typhoid fever. , ' -- Senator Reed said flatly the Supreme Court didn't know what it was talking about in the first" place, and was wrong in the sec ond. 3' The whole day was "given up tot the opening addresses of the prosecution. "