Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-24
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Interest in the Leconey muIdsr case
j was revived in Camden, yesterdsy week
by sensational story told bytMrs. tAuuu
Durham, q colored woman, that her 500
ln-law, Joseph Dunn, is the murderer oil
Annie Leconey. Dnnn, who is ia tht
Camden Jail on the charge of boating his
wife, is short, thick.set mulatto, with 0
small moustache aud gostse and som
1 what forbidding countenanoe. He lives
with his wife and her mother, at TinRa
and Vanhook streets, In the negro quar-
ter OF Camden.
Rebecca Dunn, the wife OF the suspect,
sppeared before Justice Chester, in ~the
Eighth ward Of Camden, late on Tuesday
night and complained that her hu band
had brutally attacked her, breaking her
nose and otherwise ipjuring her In q
fight growing out of the division Of
some money they had en- ned in picking
tomatoes for farmer. Dunn was ar
rested early yesterday morning and sen.
to jail.
Mrs. Durham, the prisoners mother
in-law, went to Justice Chester's office
and made a long, rambling statement,
accusing her son. in-law of various
crimes, including the murder of man in
Philadelphia and other murders. The
gist Of her story, which WINS maGe under
oath, follows:
Dunn was formerly in the employ of
Ohalkley Leconey at the farm near Coles
town, Nd, by whom he was discharged. He
came home grumbling over thu amount
OF money Lsconey paid him, and said
there was plenty Of money in the
Leconey house and he meant to have
some of 1t.
There was only one thing in the way
OF his getting IT," said Mrs. Durham,
land he said he W uld get somsbody to
heip get that out of the way. This was
about week before the murdes OF Annie
Leeoney. did not see joe again until
the Sunday night before the murder.
lie was at home for few minutes and
again disappeared, Two weeks after the
murder he came back, and saw him in
the street opposite the house. He was
crossed In different clothos and was with
two other mon. He came to the house,
and when spoke to him he said:
: I've got the nlonsy-all bnt what's
PAD 20 them thaps got to keep their
mouths shut
Joseph told me once that il he ever
did murder anybody he would mover wear
any OF the bloody clothes away, but
wouid leave them where they would
throw suspicion on Ohalklsy heconey."
From his cell In the county jail Dunn
emphaticaily denied all knowledge OF the
Leooney tragsdy. He declared that he
had never worked for Chelkley Leconey,
and had never been at the farm. As to |
his mother-in-law's accusations, Dunn |
said they wsrs lies, and that his mother.
in-law was crazy. He could not recall |
where he was at work in August last
Chslkley Leconey was seen at his farm
last evening, and asked about Dunn.
Il do not rem smbeE," said he, asyer
having man by the name of Dam work
Tor me. II is q1ite possible, however,
that this man may have worked for me |
under an assumed mans. / have had /
dozsns Of farm hands who have given
names other than their right ones. They
DO this to hide previous bad record, /
suppose"