The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-29

PENDANT toward his wife had not been
mat of 4 husband toward his wife
ana that he had been incOnsiderate OF
her. She said she had visited at the
McCue home a week before the tfaS-
coy, and that when she arrived she
round her sister Frustrated ana III Il
nervous state; that Mr.. McCue CAME
nome from a trip North that MT.
McCue was too i'll to come 10 SUPP
and that after supper she brought iitT
down on the porch, and that Mr.. NC
Cue who was sitting in the YaFu' uid
not go to speak to her or pay any
attention to her. She Sald WheH MI .
McCue spoke to him about ms "Trip ne
replied that it was not necessary LoI
her to know anything about 1t she
tastifad relative to another trip. Of
which she said he was disposed 10
talk. She added that Mrs. McCue re-
.ceivad one letter from her huspand
while he was away and that she was
very Indignant about it. She was not
cross examined.
Hurts the Fathers Cause.
", r Marry, the jailOr, referred To
q conversation he had heard at the
ial between the accused ana ms son
While some of the defendants BROTH
ars being present, saying he heard the
accused
said about his drawing pistol on Mrs.
McCue was not so. The witness quot
ing the son as asking why his mother
ran to his room asking him not 10
let the father shoot, that the father
then asked how he chOuld have drawn
q pistol when Mrs. McCue held it and
the boy asking why she ran to ms
room. The witness further quoted the
bow as saying in answer to the father
a hon IN a
but what woman the son ola NOT
know.
Willie McCue 16 years old. ana the
eldest son of the defendant, testified
that the shells for the gun lay all
about the house that the base ball bat
i'm evidence usually lay in the yard
After CAPTAIN Woods, for the COM
monwealth, had questioned the son
about the situation at the supper
table on the Sunday evening of the
tragedy. the witness stating no unto
ward incident. he announced that ne
had been taken by surprise at the
statements of the witness ana de-
handed the right to treat him as an
adverse witness, which right was ac-
corded. This development pofdereo
on the sensational.
Willie Under Cross Fire.
CAPTAIN Woods then questioned the
1oentS which he asked him if he had
not made to Ernest Crawford, his
nephew, William and Albert Baldwin.
detectives some to one and others 10
AN three. The son enphatically de-
MED that he. had to Mr.. Crawford ana
the BaldWins the day following hc
tragedy stated that his father ana
mother had had mary violent quarfels
prior to the shooting, that they were
1t,ith nh n
:}ay evening and that his father went
out on the porch after supper ana
said he would be damned If he would
put up with it another day. inc o"y
said mis- father came ont on the porch
and reprimanded MIN for allowing the
negro boy to take q team into the
country during his absence and did not
refer 10 his mother at all. He denied
with emphasis that he had
stated that as soon as he heard of his
mothers death he knew his father mac
BILLED her.
At this point witness said MS uncle.
Ernest Crawford had tried to get joint
Perry a servant, to make certain
statement and said Perry had told him
(witness), that he made a wrong state
ment and was going to tell the truth.
He added that his uncle mad tried to
get a statement from him but that he
never did and never would. He de-
clared that he told his uncle that he
was going to tell the truth and that he
vas going on the stand.
Replying to the cross-examination OF
capt Crawford, who continued TO con
front rim with statements and ask him
If he did not make them, the young man
Genied that he had told Mir. Crawford
and the BaldWins that his father had
killed his mother, that his mother
came into his room and that his father
rushed in with a pistol. He denied
further that he had Stated that if he
told the truth his statement would
hang his father and that he would be
pointed to in consequence. The wit
ness denied that he told William Bald
win that he had seen as many as FOUR
teen letters written TO his father by
women. He said he had given certain
letters to Mr.. Baldwin, but added that
they were purely business letters.