The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-28
M'REE CASE
 TESTIMONY
SECOND CHAPTER OF oPELou. sAs TRAGEDY BEING ENACTED
 IN THE COURT ROOM.
States Testimony Shows Defendant Shot When Improper Proposal Was Made by the sIaln
 Man.

l Opelousaa La, Oct P. 7.--Before lan audience that packed the old par fish court house Albert Garland today idonned the bloodstained shirt worr Iby his dead brother Allan, on Sep tember 2l, last, and re-enacted the Iscenes of the tragedy for which Mrs Zee Runge Mckee, mother of foul lchildJen and wife of a prominent railroad official is asked to pay the death penalty.
 Mrs. Mckee, whose defense is that she killed Allan Garland in defense of her honor was visible nervous and lconstantly turned with an appealing look toward the seven lawyers whl a1e defending her, or grasped the of her honor, was visible nervous and constantly turned with an appealing look toward the seven lawyers who hand of her husband.
 This grim scene came with the ex amination of the first witness in | murder trial, which in many of its features already is without preceden in the legal history of this parish.
 Today's testimony offered by the prosecution concerned iFirgely the position in which Garlands body was found, the location of the three bull llet wounds, Mrs. McRees' jemeanor as observed by the first persons to arrive on the scene. the preparation. of diagram of the room in the McRee home in which the lalins occurred the way the furniture was placed and the absence of any eyi- dence of a struggle.
 The jury visited the McRee home lin company with the defendant, her husband, opposing counsel and she court officials and observed the set tiug of the tragedy on September l21.
 There was no hint in the testimony of the motive which the prosecution must establish before Mrs Mckee lis subject to conviction On first de lgree murder.
 The first witness was Coroner Lit tell, who described in detail the scenes at the Mckee home as he found them thirty minutes after the shooting II was during Dr Lttel's testimony that Albert Garland fig Iuratively stood in the shoes of his dead brother, wearing the blood stained shirt of the deceased, while lthe coroner related tne details of the scene that he encountered when he reached the prisoners home R. Lee Garland. district attorney and uncle of the deceased question ed Dr. Littel for the prosecution.
 Except for the overturned rockin2 chair, the furniture in the room hao lnot been disturbed when the witness reached the scene. There were two beds in the room. one a child's bed. The witness said the bed had moi been disturbed and there was no in dioation in the room of a struggle of any kind
 Shortly after he told Mrs. McRet that she would have to 20 to jail the coroner said, she stated
 T shot Allen to defend my hon or. 2
 Dr B A Littel, brother of tho coroner Austin Fontenot an attor. ney of opelousas, and R. Lee Gar land, the district attorney, also tes tified but no additional facts of i'm portance were developed
 Mrs. Henry c. Garland, the T year old grandmother of the deat man was the last witness of the day
 '1 went down 10 the house., salt ithe witness, Mrs siHiefRsee aid Ae husband were in the yard In God name Mrs. Mckee what's the mat ter?' I asked.
 "'T have just shot and killed Al Ian Garland she said.
 Why in Gods name did you d thatg | asked, and she said: 'I shot him to protect my honor
 q turned to her and said, Mrs Mckee. every woman has the righ to defend her honor, but what fl Gods name did he say that cause you 10 shoot him2' She said he ha asked her if her husband was goin 10 be home that night and that sin asked him what he meant 9y sue lan inquiry and that Allan had replIe