The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-27
TG WEAVE WEB
AROUND M'CUE
MORE EVIDENCE ADDUCED
TO PROVE HIM GUILTY OF THE
MURDER OF HIS WIFE.

the Trial, but Announcement Was
Made That II Would BE Better for
Them to Stay Away from the
Court Room.
Charlottesville. Va, Oct. 26.-Mar-
shal Dinwiddie, the first witness called
to-day in the trial of ex-Mayor J.
Samuel McCue. testified that he and
his wife reached the McCue home
about IL: 80 O'Clock on the night of the
tragedy. He is an uncle of the de-
PENDANT by marriage. He had seen
Mr.. and Mrs. McCue together at
church earlier in the evening, and talk
ed with them for a moment at the
gate at McCue's home after church at
about o'clock.
When he reached the house after the
tragedy Mrs. McCue was dead and
he said the accused stated that he was
suffering from a blow on the head.
The defendant told him, he testified.
that he was standing at a chiffonier
in his room: that his wife was on the
side of a dresser: that some one came
into the room: that he first tried to
when the man took il away from him.
Continuing, the witness said Mr.. Nc
Cue said he had been knocked sense
less and his wife shot.
The defendant seemed rational, the
witness said He asked the accused
before the body had been fully dressed
IF he desired to view the remains, the
accused replying that he preferred to
remember her as he saw her in life,
but after the remains were placed in
coffin, the defendant on the afternoon
of the following day saw the remains,
that being the first time to the knowl-
edge of the witness. He heard no
statement about robbery.
Seemed on Good Terms.
On cross examination, the witness
said he saw no signs of strained rela-
tons between Mr.. and Mrs. McCue
while talking with them at the gate
and that the accused seemed distress
ed after the tragedy.
Charles Skinner, a negro, testified
that while in his room in the servants
house in the rear of the residence ad-
Joining that of McCue's, on the night
of the tragedy. he heard crying and
screaming, and said he found the
sounds came from the McCue house.
The voice sounded like that of a wom-
an, he said. Later, he heard a shot.
He was quite sure ne saw a light up
stairs in the McCue house. He was
not oss-examined.
DR.. j. E. Early reached the McCue
residence after the shooting. He said
he found the defendant lying on the
floor of his room, face downward and
crying. The witness made an examina-
tion of the defendant the next day, he
said from head to foot" at the in
stance of the coroner. The wound on
the cheek he characterized as an abra-
sion, without swelling or discoloration,
and said the blow that caused it was
not sufficient to produce insensibility.
He saw no other marks on the defend
ant.
In his opinion, Mrs. McCue dropped
dead in her tracks after being shot.
The wound on her ear, which he said
was cut nearly in two, could have been
produced by the baseball bat, which
was exhibited.
The witness did not see the defend
ants nose bleeding. He did not see
a piece of cloth on the floor of the
bathroom, but said he did not make
a close inspection of the floor.
As If 10 Wash Stain Away.
Continuing his testimony DIR. Early
testified that there We're indications
that some of the bloodstains on the
undershirts worn by the accused on
the night Of the tragedy had come
in contact with water and the
wrist bands had been wet. The de-
PENDANT was rational, he said. In his
opinion a blow on the head sufficient
to produce insensibility would have
left a mark, and when his attention
was directed to a contrary opinion eX-
pressed at the coroner's inquest, he
said he had given thought to the sub
ject since and now was of the opin-
ion stated. The accused, he said, was
l.
while the deceased wife weighed about
lis to 125 pounds. The marks on Mrs.
McCues throat, he said, indicated that
she had been choked by a left hand.
w. A. Biery, the undertaken, testi-
fed that he had washed his hands
after handling the body and before
handling the undershirts in evidence
that he did not see Mr.. McCue until
after he had placed the body in the
casket and that he observed finger
marks on Mrs. McCue's throat.
Policeman ID. G. Grady answered a
telephone summons on the night of
Sept. to hurry to the home of ex-
Mayor McCue the person calling
speaking of the robbery. He ran 10
the house. where he met ex-Mayor Nc
Cue, who told him that some one had
nearly killed him and probably had
killed his wife. The accused, he add
ed, was holding one hand on his head
and one on his breast and complained
more of the pain in his chest.
Then McCue Cried out.
The witness made a search OF the
house. He met DR.. McCue in the up
per hall. Going to the bath room he
said the accused was behind him. and
he heard DR.. McCue tell his brother
that his wife was dead, whereupon Mr.
McCue exclaimed, "Oh, my Maker:
who could have anything against me
TO do like this and Kill my wife?"
Mrs. McCues body, the witness said
had been laid out on the floor of the
bath room when he first saw it, The
policeman testified that he went dowr
stairs from the bath room, finding tho
doors leading out of doors open. He
also said that a window leading ou
on a roof from the room immediatelN
back of that occupied by the accused
was open; that tree was close enough
by which to go down; that a window
was open in front leading out on an.
other roof and near which was an
other tree. A Darlor window down
stairs also was open.
The witness said Mr. McCue told hin
that he was undressing in his room
when he heard a rattling at the door
that he looked around and saw a mar
whom he described as one wearing
greasy and dirty clothes, as II he .haC
been working on railroad or tramp
ing, and that he tried TO get out hii
gun, but the stranger got Il away from
him and knocked him senseless. II,
said Mr.. McCue was rational. bu