The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-06
PROMINENT LADY
KILLED in Her HOME
alling Iragcdy and and Foul Foul
Murdcri,l8 the City of
Charlottesville.
Ex.MAYoR's WIFESTHHHE Il / VICTIM. 7 L \
Husband Knocked Senseless and
Cannot Distinctly Recall the
Character Of His Assaila1lt.
Charlottesville.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE +, A.,,s septem
/ 81 slrs. Fannie McCue. wife otsex-A1ayor
Samuel alcc,lef was rnrrde cred cruelty In
her own home about 10 o'clock Sunday:
night and her husband was knocked
senselcss BY the same hand that killed
the lady. .f
Of the appalling affair only adds to and
darkens the mystery that has surrounded
The case since Its occurrence. The case
as far as It can be determined was as
follows: t si &
Mr.. Mccue was preparing to retire and
was taking off his shirt when he saw a
man. whom he n low thinks Is wi ite.8 en-
ter his room carrying a baseball bat
behind him. Before he could disengage
himself from his partly removed shirt,
he was knocked senseless. i3 Just as he be-
came unconscious he heard his wife
scream. Recovering consciousness. he
f'phoned to his brother. DR.. Frank c..
5AcCue, who lives nearby on the same
street, When the doctor arrived. he
found the cx-Afayor standing halfway
$up tho stairway. unable to speak. DR..
Mccue searched the house finding Mrs.
5McCue In the bath tub. The bat th-room
was not lighted. The lifcless woman was
IN the tub in her night dress, one leg
thrown over the side OF the tub and the
other bent under body, supporting It in
I q stopping posture. Water was running
from the spigot and was halfway up her
body In addition to a horrible gun shot
wound In tho breast, which must have
caused instant death, the lady's nose
was broken and there was an ugly bruise
on the ear, which the doctor regarded as
inflicted before the gun shot. The as,
$sault on the ex-Mayor was made Just
inside Of his bedroom. 1t consisted OF
a blow delivered across tho right check
and temple. KS f's 5iss3 WI stEi 5.sa3
IA MRS M,CuE's MURDER.
1t is not clear where Mrs. McCue was
when she screamed /. but 1t seems evi-
dent that tho fatal shot was fired In
tho bathroom. by the door OF which the
gun was standing when found, This bath
room, is at the end OF a hall, some twen-
ty, feet from the door, Of the bedroom
entering tho hall, the only way of ap-
proath to 1t. 53,8 Ii.
The above is the account given by VIII
liam McCue, the clghteen-year-old son
Of he murdered woman. His conf lecture
is that his mother got the gun, which
was a Winchester belonging to his father
and kept by the wardrobe In the bed
room, IN H " hichA 4 Mr.. aNdcCue was assault
ed . and that the mscreant struck her.
ending his murderous assault by shoot
4 ing,
s5g Of course, The town is rife with conjec.
4 lures as to how the drama proceed ded at
ter the blow which rendered Mr.. McCue
&insensble. * Il 35 n & @sis 5s 81
I AZ Among the Sundeternined points arc
whether she, was In the same room.
whether she, on being, hit on the nose and
car. ran to the bathroom and was fol-
lowed by the murderer, 4 or Whet her she
was shot In the bedroom and carried to
the bathroom, and. II so, why, nd how
1 if was accomplished without blood stains
OH the floor. and why, In that case, the
gun was by the bathroom door; why
he more terrible We ne geance, X sveng geance
n It was, was wreaked upon her, The mo-
tive Is yet to seck and no conjecture sat-
isfactory. to any one has been indulged
in. s5tSS8 a ls i$s 5ls Il, .y , 81
n Y Young Mr., A1cCue states that 1t Is his
belief that the murderer concealed hinl-
self in his sisters room across the hall
from his father's bedroom, Two WIN
dows In this room were open, providing
q way Of exit over roof porch to the
ground. |, The gas was turned on very low
in this room. a window was also open
in the parlor on the first floor, H 3si
A COLOREDg BOY. s5. q
Except the three Immediate actors In