The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-29
THE McCUES QUARRELED
THAT HOME WAS NOT A
 HAPPY ONE.
Son of Accused Man Sticks to Story That He Had Not Implicated His Father in the Murder <
 of Ills Mother.

Charlottesville, Va, Oct. 2S.-Mrs. F. A. Massey, whose residence Is directly opposite the McCue residence, was the first witness called when the trial of exMayor McCue was resumed today, the examination of William McCue, the defendants son, who was on the stand when court adjourned yesterday, being temporarily suspended.
 Mrs. Massey said she saw Mir. and Mrs. McCue entering the McCue house about g o'clock the evening of the tragedy. After the killing of Mrs. McCue, she and her husband went to the McCue home. The defendant, she said, was ''dreadfully agitated" and nervous. and told them that a burglar had shot and killed Fanny" Mrs. Massey saw blood dripping from the wound on Mrs. McCue's cheek. When the examination of Willie Mo Cue was resumed, he denied making a Statement that his mother asked him to hide 8 pistol and he received letter from hts father upbraiding him for hid ing 1t.
 During a discussion by counsel as to tho status of the witness. Colonel Wood. for the commonwealth, said he was astounded yesterday at the testi- mony given by the witness, as 1t was not what he had anticipated. that
 
 an adverse witness and laying the foundation for impeachment. The son denied having held a con- versation with his father at the jail as detailed by the jailor on the stand yesterday and denied that he had told Detective Baldwin that his father had ! been trying to get him to forget and not state that his mother had run into his room.
 ,k | torney, the witness said he and the | other children left home about two weeks after the death of their mother and went to the home of Newton Dixon, | in West Virginia, the latter being the | father-in- law of William McCue, an uncle. Witness declared they went of their own accord, because of the strain l on them here.
 He testified that the relations be- tween his father and mother were al- ways cordial that they had occasional differences about the children and l horses, but nothing serious. He said his father gave his mother everything she wished for and that his father all ways kissed his wife and children when leaving the house.
 Edgar Crawford, a brother of Mrs. McCue testified that he had heard Will lie McCue say that his home had been
 "a perfect hell" and that his father and mother lived like dogs and cats"
 Ernest Crawford, another brother of Mrs. McCue, said he had lived at the McCue home during 1899 and 1901 and that he heard numerous quarrels and that 1t was the most unpleasant house he had ever lived in. The trouble, he said. seemed to be about women. He said the accused never struck or knocked his wife. but that he had heard him curse and abuse her in g. brutal manner.
 Willie McCue denied saying that his mother was very Jealous and had ask also denied saying when viewing his mothers remains that she wore the first peaceful look he had seen on her face.
 c. J. Paoli. a druggist, said Willie McCue had said to him that if he told the truth and his father was hanged. people will point at him and say his evidence hanged his father.
 A. H. Baldwin, a detective, who said his services were being paid for by the city of Charlottesville. testified that Willie McCue had stated in his pres ence that he believed his father had killed his mother and that they had had quarrels. The witness asserted that Willie had told him practically everything he (Wllie) had denied on the stand.
 W. G. Baldwin, a detective and the brother of the former witness. said he was employed by the city and by the McCues as we'll. He said he withdrew from the McCue side of the case two days after the shooting.
 Willie told in his presence, he said. that his father and mother had lived unhappily "on account of females" and that he had interrupted letters, and that Willie remarked as they viewed the remains that that was the first peaceful look on his mothers face in four or five years.