The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-29
Was it of His Wife
McCue Spoke?
STORIES OF JEALOUSY
Willie McCue on the Stand Denies
Statements Tending to InCrimin-
ate His Father and Which the
Boy is Said to Have
Made.
Made.
(By the Associated Press }

Made.
(By the Associated Press.)
Charlottesville. Va. Oct 27.-The
corporation court room was crowded
when the trial of ex-Mayor McCue,
charged with the murder of his wife
was resumed to-day. No women
were present. At the request of ono
of the jurors DR.. McCue, a brother
of the accused, was recalled. Reply
ing 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 defense
! the witness said that st after the
! body had been removed from the bath
| tub on the night of the tragedy ana
laid on a bed the accused went into
the room TO see her. DR.. McCue sad
he lifted the sheet but when he saw
| his brother breaking down he TOOK
him back to his own room.
Charles Skinner. the negro who
testified that he heard the crying OF
a woman and then a shot coming
from the McCue house, recounted his
testimor~ at request of jurors In an
sWer to a question he said he heard
the coarse" crying like that of a
man, q little time after the shot was
fired and before he heard a man run
ming down the street.
Mrs. Antrim saw Mrs. McCue at
| church on the evening of September
4, Mr. McCue entering the church
later. AS they walked home from
church she thought Mrs. McCue I'M
usually quiet.
w. r. Stevens met Mr.. and Mrs.
McCue ~oing home from church. He
| got a slight i'm "ession that Mrs. NC
Cues voice showed depression, but on
! croSs-examination said he had never
heard her voice before
! w. j. Keller testified that he and
his wife entered their home next door
! to the McCue residence about twenty
minutes to nine on the night of Sep
| TENDER 4th and were in the front OF
their house some little time before.
He said he heard no crying and no
alarm until they were informed of the
shooting by a passerby.
\ Terrible Phone Message.
Virginil Bra a telephone operator
| testified that on the night of Septem-
Der 4th the defendant rang in" and
his first remark was "Give me some
one" Then he asked for the resi-
dence of Mro r. j. Williams. Miss
Bragg said she informed Mr.. McCue
/
said not to tell him the phone was
busy as some one was in his house
and had shot and probably killed mis-
wife Witness then gave him the Will
J liamS' residence when he repeated that
some one was in the house and prob
ably had killed Fannie" At the IN
| stance of Mrs Williams witness 'phon-
ed to the police station to send some
one to MIR. McCue's residence at once.
! The witness had no recollection that
| Mr.. McCue called up DIR. McCue, the
police station or anyone else, but she
| would not say positively that he had
not On ss-eXamination she sald
! the statement she made at the inquest
to the effect that she might have con-
nected the defendants phone with that
of DR.. McCue and not have noticed II
Vas NOT correct. The defendant
residence was on her switch board
/ Little Buse, who operated the tele-
| phone switchboard upon when was
! Mr.. McCue'S number, said she ana not
recall a call for DR.. McCue from the
! accused.
! A v Conway. business manager OF
| the Daily Progress, testified to a re-
ward Of 81 600 offered by the accused.
Said She Made Life Il Hell.
! J. S. White, an attorney, said that
| iii the course of a conversation WIN
the accused in Jail, The latter SAID 10
him that for the last four or five years
his life had been "a perfect hell" and
that that woman" was the most 1eal
Gus he ever knew, and that he had
! worked hard to build a happy nome.
While he could not say that the accuS-
ed spoke of his wife in an e1ectlonaIe
| way, the witness said he spoke Oh hef
| in a respectful manner.
| William Hurley, a negro VINO lau
|
! three or four years ago he heafd MI
| McCue say something about his VIE
being Jealous: something about ms
life or his pleasure, witness coulu
not remember refnitely what the
language was. This witness SAID NC
| One told him that he saw the man VINO
came in the house in the mirror as
the latter passed his door ana lildt
| Mrs McCue was in the bath room
aIso that the accused told h m at the
iail that he thought too much Oh ms
wife and family to do what he was ac-
cusad of doing. The shotgun IN EVIL
dence. he said was kept between the
wardrobe and the wall ana the car
tridges in the wardrobe.
r. r. w. Duke, formerly judge ol d
[ Caurt in which the McCue lrldl 10 ny y
being conducted, said the dccuSei 10Y.
hin, that he heard a noise Wneh liS Sot
|
tragedy and that he grappled WIN
man in the passageWay, broke away
from him, went for the gun Dut was
knocked down and the gun taken away
from him. ,,
H. 4. Nelson was questioned at some
/ length as an expert as TO the eiiect "
a blow from a sandbag. he ana Iot
think the blow on the cheek when ne
characterized as scratched suflclent 10
cause Inconsistencies
\ Demonstration Checked
During this testimony the first de-
monstration that has marked inc l lLid,
occurred. but was promptly checked
by Judge Morris, who in stern man an :
Iner directed the officers 10 DilIS me
first person before him VINO shou!e az
tempt to make a demonstration OF ap-
prevail or sapproval. some ol me ne
spectators mad started a ci2pp'ng OF
hands when Captain Woods had maze ,IlS
a reply to counsel for the delense' ne
defense asked that the record SHOW Nv
thar a demonstration followed captain
Woods remarks, which was Done;
Miss Bette Crawford, sister OF the lt
late Mrs, McCue. clad in mournlng'
ltaetifiad that the treatment OF the ue-