The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-28
M'CUE'S BROTHER
AGAIN ON STAND
IESTlF!ES AS TO SCENE THAT
MET HIS EYES WHEN HE WENT
TO THE HOUSE AFTER THE
MURDER.

Charlottesville, Va, October 27.-The
corporation court room was crowded
when the trial of ex-Mayor McCue,
charged WITH the murder of his wife was
resumed today. No women were present.
At the request of one of the jurors. DIR.
McCue, brother of the accused, was re-
called. Replying to a juror, Dr. McCue
said when he first saw the body, the
hair was done up and had number of
combs in it. Replying to counsel for the
defense the witness said that just after
the body had been removed from the bath
tub on the night of the tragedy and laid
on a bed the accused went into the room
to see her. DIR. McCue said he litter the
sheet but when he saw his brother break
ing down he took him back to his own
room.
Charles Skinner, the negro who testi-
fed that he heard the cry of a woman
and shot coming from the McCue
house, repeated his testimony at the re-
quest of jurors. In answer to a question
he said he heard voice crying like that
of man little after the shot was fired
and before he heard a man running down
the street.
Virginia Bragg, a telephone operator,
testified that on the night of september
4, the defendant rang in and his first
remark was give me some one" Then
he asked for the residence of Mrs. Z. j.
Williams. Miss Bragg said she informed
Mr. McCue that the line was busy,
whereupon he said not to tell him the tel
ephone was busy, as some one was in his
house and Rad shot and probably killed
his wife. Witness then gave him the
Williams residence, when he repeated
III.
had killed Fannie" At the instance of
Mrs. Williams, witness telephoned the
police station to send someone to Mr.. Nc
Cues residence al once
j. s. White, an attorney, said that
in the course of q conversation with the
accused at the jail the latter said to him
that for the last four or five years his
life had been a perfect hell" and that
that woman was the most jealous he
ever knew. The witness said the accused
spoke of his wife in a respectful manner
William Hurry, negro, who had
worked for McCue, said Mr.. McCue told
him that he saw the man who came in
the house in the mirror as the latter
passed his door, and that Mrs McCue
| was in the bath room; also that the ac-
cused told him at the Jail that he thought
too much of his wife and family to DO
what he was accused of doing.
X. I. w. Duke, formerly judge of the
court in which the McCue trial is now
| being conducted, said that the accused
told him that he heard noise when he
got home from church the night of the
| tragedy and that he grappled with a man
| in the passage way, broke way from him,
went for the gun, but was knocked down
and the gun taken away from him.
H. T. Nelson was questioned at some
length as an expert as to the effect of
a blow from sandbag. He did not think
the blow on the cheek was sufficient to
cause Inconsistencies. During this testi-
mony the first demonstration that has
marked the trial occurred but was
promptly checked by Judge Morris who
directed the officers to bring the first
person before him who should attempt
to make a demonstration of approval or
disapproval
Miss BERTHE Crawford. a sister of the
late Mrs. McCue testified that the treat
ment of the defendant towards his wife
had been inconsiderate of her.
Willie McCue. 16 years old and the eld-
est son of the defendant, testified that
the shells for the gun laid all about the
house and that the baseball bat in evil
dence usually laid in the yard. After
Captain Woods for the commonwealth
had questioned the son about the situation
at the supper table on the Sunday even
ing of the tragedy, the witness stating no
untoward incident, he announced that he
had been taken by surprise at the state
ments of the witness and demanded the
right to treat him as an adverse wit
ness, which right was accorded. This
development bordered on the sensation
al
The son emphatically denied that he had
stated that his father and mother had had
many violent quarrels prior to the shoot
ing, that they were mad with each other
at the table SUNDAY evening. and that
his father went out on the porch after
supper and said that he would be damn
ed If he would put up with it another
day." He denied with emphasis that he
had stated that as soon as he heard of
his mothers death he knew his father
had killed her. At this point witness
said his uncle. Earnest Crawford had
tried to get an untrue statement from
him. but that he never did, and never
would. Replying to cross-examination,
the young man denied that he had told
Mr.. Crawford and the Baldwins that his
father had killed his mother; that his
mother came into his room, and that his
father rushed L. with pistol He denied
further that he had stated that If he
told the truth, ais statement would hang
his father.