The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-28
STANDS BY FATHER
WILLIE McCUE SURPRISES PaOsE.
 CUTION BY HIS EVIDENCE.
Denies That He TeIA Anyone Thst If He Recounted All He Knew it
 Would Hang His Fsther.

Charlottesville, Va, Oct 71.--The cor 2 sporation court room was crowded when the trial of ex-Mayor McCue charged with the murder of his wife was open cd today
 By request of one of the jurors. Dr. McCue. a brother of the accused was recalled. Replying to a juror, Dr. Mc- Cue said when he first saw the body the hair was done up and had a num- Der of combs in it. Replying to coun- sel for defense. the witness said that just after the body had been removed from the bath tub on the night of the tragedy and laid on q bed the accused went into the room to see her. pr. McCue said he lifted the sheet put when he saw his brother breaking down he took his back to his own room.
 Charles skinner. the negro wno tes- tified that he heard the cry of woman and then shot coming from the Ms :. Cue house. recouuted his testimony at the request of jurors In answer to question he said he heard the ~ crying like that of af man h.tie .inls after the shot was fired ana pss ,. 2 he heard a man running oo"n street" .,xa~a .
 virrtnis Bragg, telephone opera tor. testified that on the night or sep. tennber 4, the defendant. rang m anu lie first remak was: Give me some one" Then he asked for the residence of Mrs. T. J. Williams. MISS brass said she informed Mir. McCue tna. tne line was busy whereupon ne sald hos to fell him the phone was busy as sor,a one was in his house and had sbot and probably killed his wire. witness then gave him the Williams resjdence when he repeated that some me was ia the house and probapiy .had killed Fannie" At the instance of Mrs. Williams. witness teiephoned the police station to send some one to Mfr. McCues residence atonce.
 J. s. White. an attorney, saio Una. in the course of a conversation with the aocused at the jail. the latter said f, him that for the last four or hve wears his life had been perfect hell" and that "that woman" was the most Jealous he ever knew. The Wit ness said the accused spoke of his wife in a respectful manner.
 William Hurley, a negro who had worked for McCue, said MT. McCue told him that he saw the man who came in the house in the mirror as the lat- ter passed his door, and that Mrs. NC Cue was in the bath room; also that the accused told him at the Jail tnaL he thought too much of his wife and 1Am1ty IO uO WhoS HS 'N~ doing.
 R. T. W. Duke. formmerly judge of the court in which the McCue trial IS now being conducted. said the accused told him that he heard noise when he got home from church the night or the tragedy and that he grappled with a man in the passage way, broke away from him, went for the gun but was knocked down and the gun taken away from him.
 H. T. Nelson was questioned at some length as an expert as to the effect of A blow from sand bag. He did not think the blow on the cheek suf- 6cient to cause inconsistencies. During this testimony the first de. monstration that has marked the trial occurred, but was promptly checked by Judge Morris who directed the officers to bring the first person before him who should attemot to make demon stration of approval or disapprovaL
 Miss Bertie Crawford. sister of the late Mrs. McCue. testified that the trsatnsnt of the defendant toward hi his wife had been inconsiderate of her.
 Willie McCue, IS years old, and the eldest son of the defendant, testified that Che shells for the gun lay all about the house, and that the baseball bat In evidence usually laid in the yard.
 After Captain Wood. for the common wealth had questioned the son about