The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-03
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| IL you wish. Please go out after thu
letters, Nir. Walker.
| Just Il minute IL you please, sait
| Captain Woods, iii effect. THE .injec
| ton of evidence at this time has beer
expressly forestalled by the court. You
know I'LL along that the letters wero prop
| or as evidence. Why did you not intro.
luce them before?'
After a brief absence Mr.. Walker re.
turned with a packet Of letters. Captalt
Woods proceeded With his speech. liz
dwclt at length upon the domestic con.
dtions reigning III the McCuc household
and reverted to tho statements OF wit.
ncsses to substantiatc his Ndeclaraticn
that the prisoner was a brutal and I'M
kind husband. He went. thoroughly over
what young Crawford and his sister had
said and also referred to tho statements
or Mr. Brand, the negro janitor, Thomas,
and others. Finally he reached The testi-
mony Of Mr.. White, who conretsed with
McCue In tho cell. Here Captain Woods
was stern ana terrible III his dcn,ncia.
tion Of the accused.
Called Her That Woman.
Gentlemen" lie said. this loving
wife. this mother Of his children and
mistress Of his home, had gone to the
bourne from which no traveller returns.
l1eT tSplIll5 uuN WDl6cu llS NuS w - ~
lcstial home Her body was cold and
still in DEATH And what did he do?
Did lie strike down the one that spoke
slightingly of her? Did he refer to her
with tenderness and lover No, gcntle-
mon of the jury, he called her that wo-
man. and he called her jealous? Gentle.
men, he said, that for four or five years
his life had been perfect hell!
McCue was straining forward In his
l,,{n ,,f1 ~ All
Captain Woods. HIS moved uneasily from
place TO place on the chair.
AS soon as he had treated this phase
of the cnse--the relations between Me-
Cue and his wfe--with adequate full
ness, Captain Woods went on TO touch
upon other matters. 1to went carefully
over the ground again, and Indicated
what he called stlnws that pointed to.
the character OF tho relations between
McCue anu his vito. Looked upon as
isolated facts. they meant little; reckoneu
in connection with what had gone before
and what came after they meant much.
Among these straws were n half dozen
little incidents-the failure Of McCue to
walk to church that night with his wife;
their attitude toward each other after
wards the depression Of Mrs McCue
while OH her way back home and other
things.
Night Of the Murder.
After this Captain Woods went on 10
picture the happenings of the night OF
the homicide. He poin.c,l to the husband
ana the wife entering the house together
1t was tho last time shs was seen alive.
He called attention to the significance
Of this interval between che time McGuc
and his wife entered the house and the
time his brother, the physician, was seen
to enter. What did 1t not mean to the
woman?!It meant life itself. And what
Of her husband:
..There under the roof with his wife
he was her sole protector ana guardian
He must be held responsible for her
safety Gentlemen, unless he was sense
less from blow, unless his physical con a
dtion was such that he cou'l not 60 to
her aid: gentlemen unless body and mind
we're alike insensble. then ln murdered
her himsef rs certain as the sun rose
or God created the Garth.
Mrs. McCue's Pleadings.
The words Of Charles Skinner were
read to the jury. Captain Woods used
them to draw wildly the picture of the
wife sobbing, begging FOR her life. The
negro boy had heard her FOR %cvel.a ms