The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-27
As Repeated bya Witness,
Marshal DidWiddie.
SAW SOME ONE ENTER
Reached for His Gun, Twas Wrested
from Him and Himself Knock
ed SenseIess. His Wife
Near. Negro Heard
Screams, Shot.
(By the Associated Press.)

Charlottesville, Va, Oct. 26.-Mar-
shall Dinwiddie, the first witness called
to-day in the trial of ex-mayor j..
his wife reached the McCue home
about 11.30 o'clock on the night of
the tragedy. He is an uncle of the
defendant by marriage.
lie had seen Mr.. and Mrs. McCue
together at church earlier in the even
ing and talked with them for a mo-
ment at the gate at McCues home
after church at about o'clock.
When he reached the house after
the tragedy Mrs. McCue was dead.
and he said the accused stated that he
was suffering from a blow on the head.
The defendant told him. he testi-
fed, that he was standino at chiff-
onier in his room; that his wife was
on the side of a dresser; that some
one came into the room; that he first
tried to get his gun but got it only
partly out When the man took 1t
away from him.
Continuing, witness said Mr.. Nc
Cue said he had been knocked
senseless' and his wife shot.
The defendant seemed rational, wit
ness said. He asked the accused be-
fore the body had been fully dressed
accused replying that. he preferred
10 remember her as he saw her in
life, but after the remains were place i
in a coffin the defendant on the after
noon of the following day saw the
remains. that being the first time to
the knowledge of the witness. lie
heard no statement about robbery.
On cross-examination witness said
he saw no signs of strained relations
between Mr.. and Mrs. McCue while
talking with them at the gate and
that the accused seemed distressed
after the tragedy
skinner Heard Screams.
Charles. Skinner. a negro. testified
that while in his room in the servants
house in the rear of the residence ad-
joining that of McCue's, on the night
of the tragedv. he heard crying and
screaming, and said he found the
sounds came from the McCue house.
The voice sounded like that of wo-
man, he said. Later he heard a shot.
He was quite sure he saw a light
upstairs in the McCue house. He was
not cross examined.
Not Hard Enough to Stun.
DR.. ]. Early reached the McCue
residence after the shooting He said
he found the defendant lying on the
floor of his room face downward and
CRYING The witness made an eXanli-
nation of the defendant the next day,
he said, from head to foot at the
instance of the coroner. The Woun l
on the cheek he characterized as on
abrasion, without swelling or di5coi-
grafton, and said the blow that caused
# was not sufficient to produce insen-
sibilitv He saw no other marks on
the defendant. III his opinion Mrs.
McCue dropped dead in her tracks
after being shot. The wound on her
ear which he said was cut nearly IN
two. could have been produced by the
baseball bat which was eXhlblted.
The witness did not see the defend
ants nose bleeding. He did not see
a piece of cloth on the floor Of the
bath room but said he did not make
a close inspection of the floor.
Continuing his testimony DR.. Early
testified that there were indications
that some of the blood stains on the
undershirt worn by the accused on the
night of the tragedy had come in con-
tact with water and with wrist bands
handled wet. The defendant was ra-
tional he said. In his opinion blow
on the head sufficient to produce in
sensibility would have left marx ana
when his attention was directed to a
contrary opinion expressed at the cor
Ners' inquest he said he had giVef'
thought TO the subject since and now
was of the opinion stated. The accus-
ed he said was Il man of about loo
hounds in weight, while the deceased
wife weighed about I15 to 125 pounds
The marks on Mrs. Mcue's throat, ne
said. indicated that she had been chok'
ed by left hand.
w. A Biery, the undertaken, teStlneo
that he had washed his hands after
handling the body and before handing
the undershirt in evidence, that he dlo
not see Mr.. McCue until after he nae
placed the body in the casket and tha'
he observed finger marks on Mrs. Nc
Cues throat.
Policeman d. c. Grady answered e
telephone summons on tile night OF
September 4th, TO hurry to the home
OF cx-Mayor McCue, the person calling
speaking of the robbery He ran tc
the house, where he met ex-Mayor Nc
Cue, who told him that some one had
nearly killed him and probably had
killed his wife. The accused, he add
ed, was holding one hand on his head
and one on his breast and complained
more of the pain in his chest Witness
rIade search of the house. He mel
DR.. McCue in the upper hall Going to
the bath room he said the accused was
behind him and he heard him and he
heard DR.. McCue tell his brother tina:
his wife was dead whereupon Mr.. Nc
Cue exclaimed: OH Ny Maker; who
could have anything against me to do
like this and kill my wife," Wrs
McCue's body the witness said had