The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-09-09
FACTS FACE
FORMER MAYOR M'CUE

nave commended them most warmly for
their conservative and well-considered
behavior in such a crisis.
While refraining from any heated
talk, however. they have let 70 be
/ known that they are here on business,
and that this business is bringing a
murderer 10 justice They have said
/ that they viii spare neither money nor
time 10 have their sisters murderer
| hanged by the neck until dead.
In regard TO what Ernest Crawford
characterized i'm his testimony as Nc
Cues unfaithful life" all sorts OF ru-
mors are afioat today.
Had Visited Washington.
One. which obtains universal credence.
Is that within the past six months Nc
Cue has made fourteen trips 20 Wash
ington TO meet women. His name Is
also unpieasantly coupled with two
women Of this town.
Young Crawford also sworc on the
witness stand that he had advised his
sister several times 10 get a divorce.
ana That ne knew then Of two women
who could have been named as core
spondents in divorce suit.
Another rumOr IS that MCCue was in
Washington last Saturday and "A part
OF Sunday. StiI another Is that he
came back here with the idea that Mrs
McCue and the children were fin the
country, his design being to hold a rem
devious with a woman IN his own
house that fatal Sunday night.
II has been announced by close friends
I Of the CraWfOrds that the detectives
! have already traced McCue's conduct
l with Two women and that they are at
/ work on a third.
A Devoted Wife.
( As 10 Mrs McCue. everyone speaks
/ only good Of her name She IS praised
now. as she was before her death. as a
J faithful and devoted wife and "A model
( of the loving mother. She was a devout
/ church member. and spent her time
/ making comfortable and beautiful the
/ home that has since been desecrated.
/ Mrs. McCue was fOrty-tWO years old.
/ She was the daughter of the late DR..
/ William NJ. Crawford, Of Mount Sidney,
/ Augusta county, Va. where the family
/ IN social and business circles. Ger father
/ pracdced there thirty-nine years.
Besides her four children. who were
/ devoted 10 her. she Is survived by four
/ brothers and two sisters-Dr. Frank H..
| or Mount Sidney, Edgar A.. Of COvug-
/ ton, Va, James A. OF Augusta county
| Ernest r., Of Harrisonburg, Va: Mrs -.
I J.. Griggs Of Athens, Ca. and Miss
/ Roberta NJ. Crawford, OF WaynesbOr0,
/ Va.
Her four children are between the ages
1 Of ten and eighteen. They are James
W; samuel D.. Ruby Grigsby. and
/ Harry NJ.
McCue has a large family connection
/ IN Charlottesville and the surrounding
J county OF Albemarle. Two Of his broth
/ ers live in Charlottesville. on the same
! street that his house fronts on. All OF
them are prominent people socially and
/ professionally.
| He himself has an1assed a large for
tune. judged by the standard OF q small
I place like this. He had established IN
his business dealings a reputation for
hardness. and he made several bitter
enemies here. He was tOlerably sue
| cessful AS lawyer. but accumulated
most Of his money by investments and
land deals. Ie was three times elected
mayor OF this city, managing the town
finances well during his administrations.