The Sentinel=record., 1911-10-31
MRS. M'REE
 TELLS STORY
SAYS ALLAN GARLAND WAS ADJ VANcINe UPON HER WHEN
 SHE FIRED FATAL SHOT.
Did Not Know How All Three Shots Came to be in His HacI-Admits
 He Very Frequently Vis- : ited House.

Opelousas, La. Oct. 90. --Reiter- ating her statement that she killed Allan Garland to protect her honor and because she feared he would do her bodily injury, Mrs. Zee Runge Mckee sat six hours i'll the witness chair here today telling a dramatic story of the incidents leading up to the tragedy.
 Several times she became excited and spoke so rapidly the expert court stenographer was unable to l take down her statement. The room was jammed with spectators, many standing on their chairs to get a view of the woman accused Of mur der.
 Only two or three times were em- ibarrassing questions put to Ser by the prosecution one for an explanas ltion of the three wounds in Gar lands back following her statement that the young man was advancing upon her when she fired. She was too excited, she said, to remember exactly what happened.
 Mrs. McRee dened absolutely any undue friendship between herself and Garland and explained the circum stances under which he spent three or four nights at her home.
 She admitted that Garland and herself were together often, adding that her children were always with them.
 She was asked by Acting District Attorney Dubiss if she thought that Garland intended to attack her in her home at ten o'clock in the morn- ing, with all the doors open with her children and two servants in the yard.
 Mrs. Mckee replied that she did not know what Garland might do, as he had said, he was not afraid of her that she could not scare him and that he was advancing toward her; that she fired thrice and she supposed he must have turned just as she raised the revolver to fire.
 4Did you think he was going to tt..r crd {has.o
 Yes sir. A man who makes such proposal to a woman-I don't know what he would do to woman"
 Now, you are positive that was why you shot him?"
 "Yes sir. to defend my honor. I shot him to defend my honor, said she emphatically.
 Why did Allan come to your home and spend three rights?"
 sWhy, I'll tell you'', replied Mrs. Mckee. His uncle was visiting the Garlands and Allan had had some trobule with a young lady and he ordered Allan out of the house. AL Ian asked me if I wouldn't let hin come to my house and stay for the next few nights. I didn't want to do anything that would cause friction between the two families so I went to Mrs. Garland, asked her whether lthere would be any objection to Al llan's staying there until his uncle went home. She said no and that was why Allan stayed at my house. 7"
 Mrs. McRee identified the revolver with which she killed Garland as she resumed the stand for the after noon session and continuance of the cross examination.
 After admitting that she was a good shot and that she and Garland had been shooting at targets. She was asked:
 Now just one question. Aren't you stouter and stronger than Allan and Ididnt you tell NE Dubisson this morning that you were?" asked Yea sy, for the prosecution.
 T said was fleshier and bigger lbut I don't know what Is the strength lof a man as compared with that of woman, Mrs. Mckee replied. | Now tell me, couldn't you have lpicked this boy up by the arms ant pushed him out of the house?"
 T might have if I had had tha much time MT. veasey. Do you thinl la woman is going to get into ifs light with man who has insulte' her. Why. I don't think so, and ldon't think the wives Of any of thes' jusors would have done it' declare' lthe accused with a rising linflectioi