The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-03-12
At PEACE
WITH HIS VICTIM
FOR 25 YEARS
Son Says When Sober
He Was Kind-Hearted
and lndulgent.

ROCKVILLE. Nd, March l2-The de-
tense Of William II. Mckay for the
fiendish doing TO death of his mother-in-
law. Mary Long. with cleaver Will be
insanity.
Acting upon the request Of Attorney
+. Q. Peters, who has been retained TO
defend Mckay. Drs. o. NJ. Linthicum
and c. II. Mannar, OF this town. are
making an examination into the prison
ers mental condition for the purpose
OF upholding the theory Of the defend
ants attorney that his client was in a
frenzy Of insanity when ne committed
the awful murder.
Mckay Does Not Remember"
Mckay stl persists I'm his declaration
that ne does rot remember having COM
mitted the awful crime with which he
is charged. He remembers nothing after
arriving home Saturday night. when. he
admits. his motheT-in-lag was "a bit
lussy' and upbraided nirl for being in
an intoxicated condition. He admits
he was insanely drunk. and his first re-
turn TO a consciousness OF his surround
ings was when Deputy Sheriff Joseph
Quinter awakened him from his sleep
by slipping the handouts on his wrists.
Lived With Victim twenty-five Years.
Mckay disclaims ever having had
trouble with his mother-in-law. In fact.
she had lived with him and his family
/ FOR more than a quarter Of a century.
He says she had no fear Of him. for.
when his family left him last THURSDAY
night in dread that he would execute
his demon lac threats To slay them all
to remain.
For the past eighteen years Mckay
has been a victim of excessive drink
OF late years his drunken sprees have
been almost continual ind a year ago
he had a severe attack of grip. whiCb
appears TO have affected his mind Re-
Gently he was similarly affected bv a
return Of the grip, and when he was
In liquor he made dire threats
Kind-Hearted When Sober.
His sCn. John Mckay, who is married
and resides in this city. at go Park
avenue, where his mother and the four
younger members OF the family fed
for refuge last Thursday night. uhen
the el Ter Mckay had so frightened
them by his rawlings that they feared
for their lives, declares that his father
was kind-hearted and indulgent when
SOBER.
He has made threats against ms All
time and time again" said the son
but We never paid any attention to
them. When mother came 10 the house
late Thursday night she said father
looked so wild and frenzied that she
feared he would do harm il She re
maiued. Grandmother seemed to have
control over him, and when he was in
one OF his spells he appea red never to
have any hatred OF dislike Cor her The
fact that all her money was found aboll-
her untouched shows that father aid
not want that" W.
When Oscar. the sixteen-year-oId son
went TO the house Sunday morning and
discovered the murder. his father an
peared at the head Of the stairway and
coaNed him to come up 10 where he
was standing. The lad had. already
seen the blood-bespattered bed clothes
lying about him at the foot of tie stair
way. ana there was an unnatural tone
70 his fathers voice that frightened
him. 40N
Oscar Feared for His Life.
L believe he intended to get me To 90
up the stairs and kill me, like he did
grandma" says the boy He looked so
wild 1 nearly sank down in fright. as I
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