The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-11-05
ATTORNEY WOODS BRINGS
TEARS TO JURORS EYES.
In Powerful Arrangement Counsel
Declared No Other Hand Than the
Prisoners Could Have Committed
the Murder.

we're also guilty of lachrymal weakness
Capt. Woods began by saying:
Gentlemen of the jury. from the ev
dence in the case, as sure AZ God IL ID
heaven. and stand here before you.
Samuel McCue murdered his wife on the
night of September and deserves the
punishment OF the law at your hands
The man who hit the deceased with bat
and put his murderOus tingers on her
throat aud later pointed gun at her
pure bosom il a. guilty a. any destardly
murderer that ever dangled from rope.
There can be but two issues-it Is either
life or death.
GRUpGE THEOM rNrENABLE.
when you come 10 reason about THE
matter you have to apply common
sense, said Capt. Wood Don't you
know that if any man had a grudge
against the accused lie never would have
gone TO the house unarrnei at such al
hour? No Outsiter who hated either MIR
or Mrs. McCue would have dared 10 have
gone to lighted house 81 people walked
the streets Remember that the murder
was committed about $3.50 o'clock AMI
that he who killed carried no weapon
with him, but found them al ready.
"lOu heard the account given by kr-
nest Crawford of the domestic conditions
in the McCue household; of the quarrels,
and threats, and accusations. To reiuW
his statements of III unhappy home there
were brought in letters, but one II which
vas written in the year 1901.
Not one Of you could have failed 10
have been touched by the tender senti-
ments of the letters OF the deceased
Those letters for tenderness and purity
and love could not have been surpassed
but what did Miss BERTHE Crawford, sls-
ter of the deceased say, She told Ut the
absence Of the husband for week. and
his indifference 10 her and 10 her illress
upon return He gave no greeting TO HE
wife. the mother Of his Children after an
absence OF a week-only harshness anc
Indifference
Cspt. Woods here referred 10 the effort
OF the defense TO picture the happy rela-
tiOns' existing between Mr.. and Mrs
Me ne. tie said that domestic discOrd II
kept strictly secret. is kept within the
sacred precincts OF the home where the
outside world cannot see or hear tie
quoted the testimony Of W. W Brand. o
respected Charlottesville citizen, who
swore he had heard The G-isncant Rd-
dress his wife in the toughest language.
like he would have kil.ed her ina second '
Capt. Woods quoted the evidence of
Lawyer John :. White 20 the effect thai
" hen he went 10 see the defendant IN ysi
McCue said that for iOur or five wears h's
life had been perfect hell, that thai
woman speaking Of his vile was fh,
most jealous woman that BE- ever new.
The speaker then turned TO another
phase OF the saying:
III the accused was not Knocked sense
less on that night, be as certainly iOully
murdered his wife a. the sun l. shining
IN the heavens today.
N'ctE'S Absences
MIR. McCue had been away from home
from Thursday or Friday before, and
reached home in the aiternOOn OF that
Sunday. His wife. with her little daUgh
ter Ruby, had also been On q visit 10
Mrs. Anderson, near Red Hill, in this
county. and had reached home an hour
or so ahead OF her husband. Mark you
they had been absent, and he had been
on one of his trips Capt. " GODS WA
very sarcastic here. NO one knew what
happened between husband and vile II
he interval up to the time OF the supper
But we have had testimony as 10 what
happened Just after Here was this man.
who has since stated that his life was
hell on earth with that woman, as ne
called her. Here was a dark night, anc
IL was nearly : O'Clock.
The evidence has indicated that THE
husband permitted his vile 10 leave thai
home all by herself to walk up the street
in the dark. She was seen alone. There
must have been something wrong there
at that time. They returned from church
The testimony of Charles skinner, who
heard the screams, and later the shot
proves that Mrs. McCue did not come TO
a sudden death; she begged and pleaded
for her life, and that any man who had
2, ne to DO MIR McCue AL injury would
never have remained 20 torture the wife
of the victim. The man who killed Mrs
McCue that night had, by beating her
gone to a point from which be could no.
retreat. and he shot her TO conceal the
evidence of his brutality.
Suppose be had been knocked tempo.
rarily senseless, there wGs necessarily
but few minutes which could have
elapsed before be recovered. The frs
impulse OF every true man would have
been TO raise an alarm. Although Grady
got there after DR.. Frank McLue, the
first man to arrive, there was perfect
quiet in that household for some time
after the tragedy.
These are facts you can tget around.
These people were in that home-husbano
and brother-for several minutes before
any one came TO the house. And yet the
stillness of death itself surrounded the
premises where this dead woman lay.
"No alarm was raised. Why? The first
impulse with ordinary people, when even
a mere servant is stricken, IL to yell from
the windows to call the neigbbors to
their porches. Yet not single alarm OF
any character escaped any man in con
nection with this horrid, this terrible,
this startling tragedy | repeat, / car
not whom or where this blow may strike,
say, il this brother had found the con.
ditiOns testified to-ais brother struck
and his sister killed-unles- he had found
that that brother had stained bis hands
in his wite's blood, you could not have
stopped him from raising q hue and cry;
from seeking to catch the internal feloI
who had slaughtered noble woman.
DIR. McCue was sitting just behind the
accused when this ringing charge wa
made.
THE DEFENSE.
At the night session Of the court, held
at the request Of the jusy g. Burnley Sin
clair opened the.case for the defense:
The courtroom again WAS packed, AZ
one time as he grew eloquent the accused
burst into tears, but quickly Iegained
his composure The speaker command.
ed the strict attention Of the jury, and
when 10 p. IN, the hour fxeu for ad-
tournament, had arrived and the court
asked II be cared TO proceed longer, the
jury expressed q Willingness to let him
conclude.
MIR Sinclair made an extended review