The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-01

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Don also that the accused to,a MIN
I the tatE that nc thought too much
OF MS wife and family TO do that he
was accused of doing.
W Duke. formerly Judge az
ene court IN which the McCue trial n
no. pelns conducted. said the ccuee
.oio n snat he heard n noise when
ne so1 h'n'e rom church the night OF
the uaeeoy and that he grappled with
man III the passage way. broke from
hiin' wen, Tor the gun blu was knock
Gu down ana the u taken away
from him.
H. T. Nelson was questioned n. Soma
length as an expert as TO the eject
OF a blow from q sandsay He ara no,
think the blow OF tho check vvh,~h
he characterixed as scratches ~uas-
cient 20 cause Inconsistencies. Dur.
ing this testimony the hrst Sernon-
stration that has marked the trial o.
CURED. but was promptly checked hv
Judge Morris. who In n stern ma,ne-
directed the officers 20 hiring he nrst
person before him who should attema,
10 make n demonstration OF approval
or disapproval.
Some OF the spectators had started
a clapping OF hands when Captain
woods had made a reply TO eounse,
for the defense. The defense asked
that the record show that n demon
stration followed Captain Woods re-
marks, which was done.
Miss Bessie Crawford. n sister OF the
late Mrs McCue. clad I'm mourning.
testified that the treatment OF the de-
endant toward his wife had not been
that ~ a husband toward his wife,
and that ne had been inconsiderate
OF her. She said that she had visited
at the NcCue home a week before the
tragedy and that when she arrived
she found her sister Frustrated and
in a nervous state: that Mr.. McCue
came home from a trip north: that
Mrs. McCuc was too III 20 come to sup
per and that after supper she brought
her down on the porch. and that Mr..
McCue. who was III the yard, did not
go to speak To her or pay any atten-
ton to her. She said when Mrs. Nc
Cue smoke TO him about his trip he
replied that II was not necessary for
her to know anything about It. She
testified relative 10 another trip. OF
which she said he was disposed to
talk. She added that Mrs. McCue re-
cetved one letter from her
while he was way and that she was
very Indignant about II. She was not
cross examined.
y. r. Martin. the taiier. testified tn
n conversation which he said he heard
AT the Jail between the accused and
his son. Willie. some OF the defend
ants brothers being present. saying
he heard the accused say that what
Ernest Crawford had said about his
drawing n pistol on Mrs. McCue was
not so. h witness quoted the son
as asking why his mother ran to his
room. asking him not TO let HIS father
shoot. and that the father then asked
how he could nave drawn q pistol
when Mrs. McCue held IL and the boy
asking why she ran 20 his rooui. TIL
witness further quoted the boy n, say
ing in answer to the father thar the
fuss was about that but
what woman the son did not know.
Willie McCue. 1s years old. and the
eldest SON OF the defendant. testified
hat shells for the gun aid all about
the house and that the baseball bat
in evidence usually laid in the yard.
After Captain Woods for the Com
monweaith had questioned the son
about the situation at the supper Ia
BILE on the Sunday evening of the trag-
edy, the witness stating no untoward
incident, he announced tina he had
been taken by surprise at the state
ments OF the witness and demanded
the right TO treat him as an adverse
witness. which right was accorded.
This development bordered on the SEN
satiohaI. Captain woads then CUES
toned the witness relative TO a num-
Der of statements which he asked him
IL he had not made to Ernest Craw-
ford, his nephew. William and Alber
Baldwin. detectives. some TO one and
others 10 ELL three. The son emphat-
ically denied that he had. to Mr.. Craw-
ford n the Baldwfns the day follow
ing the tragedy. stated that HIS ia
ther and mother had a many vfo-
lent quarrels pror TO the shooting.
that they were mad with each other
at the table Sunday evening and that
his father went ont on the porch after
supper and said he would be damned
II he would put up with II another
day. The boy said his father came
out on the porch and reprimanded
him Cor allowing the negro boy TO
take n team into the country during
his absence and did not refer to his
mother at all He denied with en-
phasis that he had stated that as soon
az he heard of his mothers death he
knew his father had killed her. At
this point witness said his uncle. Ern-
est Crawford, had tried 10 get John
Perry. a servant to make a statement
and said Perry had told him ~fwftnexs)
that he had made a wrong statement
and was going TO ton the truth. He
added that his uncle had tried to get
a statement from him. but that he
never lid md would. He de-
c1ared that he told his uncle that he
was going to tell the truth and that
he was doing 50 on The stand.
Renlying 10 the Cross examination