New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-16
WAS 1T A SUICIDES
noupTs AS TO MISS KEIsERs DEATH.

Hotel on Thursday night, with pistol-wound in
her head, remained in the undertaking shop at No.
IeS Bowery, until 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Early in the day Paul Keiser, the eldest
brother of the dead woman called at the shop
and asked that the body should be sent to the
Grand Central Depot In time for the 1880 a. m.
train for Utica. At that hour Mr.. Keiser received
his sisters body at the depot and started with it
for her birth place, where it will be buried.
MRS. DUNNs ACCOUNT OF THE SHOOTING.
When q TRIBUNE reporter called at the Windsor
Hotel last evening he told for the hrst
time that Mr.. Dunn was in. In room 3l4,
however he found Mrs. Dunn alone. She
is handsome woman of about thirty, with rich
color and dark brown hair brought low down on her
forehead. She was dressed in black and white
plaid wrapper trimmed down the front with white
lace. 81 have persuaded Mr.. Dunn" she said,
"to see you, for l feel that by his silence he
is doing himself an injustice. His own sense of
what is honorable led him resolutely to refuse to
say a single word which should add pang to the
already keen suferings Of the dead woman's
mother myself have seen the woman's letters to
my husband and was told the whole story by
him before my marriage, and am convinced that he
has acted In thoroughly honorable, upright and
Just manner He tried to break off the connection
In a graceful way but the woman was determined
TO make trouble for him. Some months ago, when
he first told her that he must break with
her she was living an improper life
somewhere 1 believe in Fiitieth-st., but as
soon as she found that he going to leave her,
che moved and assumedan air of respectabiity This
was am convinced mere scheme on her part to
enable her to prosecute him the more About two or
three weeks ago she came to me and told me
lot of falsehoods about my husband. had
lust heard a sermon on Charity at Grace
Church and felt that l had now an
opportunity to show it. Therefore told her that
she was young and had life before her in which
to retrieve herself and that in me she would always
have a friend. She refused my profered
friendship and went out with threats on her
lips. She was utterly bad woman. She
was driven from home by her family
after she had threatened her own brother with
pistol He utterly disowned her, and believe still
does so. William Dunn persuaded his mother to
take an interest in her and she gave her some MILL
merry work to do. For the last four months she has
presented him daily by sending notes, calling
waylaying him in the street, and doing everything
In her power to annoy him.
"On Thursday / was sitting here with my
husband when she burst into the room. My hus-
band rose from his seat and ordered her out. but
lsked him to let me speakk indy to her. After
long TRADE of abuse she said she would ruin him
and me- When he asked her how, she said: " Look
in to-morrow's apers and you will sce You have
injured me and will have revenge" said that l
was Mr.. Dunn had not injured her, to which she
repIied "You lie! you lie! you lie!" By this
time she was at the door, and putting her hand
down began as thought, to tumble with the lock.
Ibeard a sharp click and in an Instant her right
hand was raised to her temple and she fell in heap
The door twas opened by some outside, and l
said TO nv husband: she has shot herself He
was sitting by the window and ran forward, reach
ing the body just as the hotel officers entered"
At this moment the mother of Mr.. Dunn entered
the ROOM She is pleasant looking old lady and
speaks with pronounced German accent. After
going over much of the ground her daughter-ln-law
had already covered the old lady said: "The girl
forced her way to my room about two weeks ago
md acted like a crazy person She said she had come
to saw goodbye to my son, and ourishing pistol,
said that was what she going to
saw goodbye with. reminded her of the future
life and she said that she lived in -- here ana
might as well live in - afterwards She followed
Ms TO Saratoga last summer and threatened to kill
my daughter-in-law, who was thenAirs Alexandra"
DUNNs OWN STORY.
few minutes later BIZ. Dunn entered the room
visiblv excited. He is a tall, muscular man with
elose-cropped dark beard, thick dark hair, and
strongly marked features.
81 have been very angry during the past two
daysn said he "and don't want to say word
about this / do not wish to blacken dead
woman's character. AS to what has been SAID
about me in the papers, do not care. My friends
know me and care not a jot for other peoples
opinions This girl has bothered and an
moved me for four months, and the whole af-
fair is an Internal outrage. She was crazy ON
the subject of suicide and always threatening
il. AS to my ever having taken money from her,
that is absurd. She was always talking to me
about her other lovers and the attentions she re-
ceved from them, and perhaps because did not
fatter her she fell crafty in love with me- l did
all an honorable man could to help her to live
proper life but it is impossible to reason
with crazy woman. When she forced her way
In ON Thursday was angry that told her 10
leave the room instantly and wanted to take her
by the arm and put her out of the hotel publlcly'
Nv wife restrained me and sat down by the
window and kept quiet. Eventually, after a long
airing of lies she walked toward the door ana
the corner of the alcove hid her from me-
In moment heard the sound OF the shot and my
wife exclaimed: she has shot herselfP l ran
forward to the body and at that instant
the hotel officer entered the room. tell you the
woman was raving maniac on that one point and
her family will bear my statements out she had
got hold of a detective, believe and stuffed him
full of lies about me. She never paid my bill at
Saratoga as has been stated, and my mother has
never visited her except to see her about bonnet
she was making"
MORE ABOUT DUNN's CAREER.
Mr. Dunn added that he had nothing to say in
reputation of the stories printed about his past life
save that he had injured a soul in his life
and had always behaved himself as an hon.
CRADLE man. 1t was learned, however, that Dunn
was born in Philadelphia and was graduated from
the High School of that city. He was employed
fTst "a shippino clerk by Messrs. Falk Il Co.. OF
Philadelpha, and about six or seven years ago came
to New-York bringing with him notorious woman
of that city He took a room III Waton.s ST.
James Hotel, and had it fitted up as private
gambling room. At this time he was visited by
ouch men as ex-Police Commissioners n Td%drd