The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-07-29
IMPRISONED IN A CELLAR.
POLICE CALLED UPON TO PROTECT
AN HPILEPTIC GIRL.
Her Mother Shut Her In the Cellar when
She Was Violent and Her Twin Brother
Dcured Her There with Cold Water.

Her Mother Shut Her In the Cellar when
She was vioient and Her Twin Brother
Dou.ed Her There with Cold Water.
Mamie Dunk. an opiloptic. 10 years old. was
taken to the Flatbush Hospital from her homo
at 391 Grand street. WilllamsburRh. last night,
In conseou ence OF complaint made by neigh
bors that she was being treated cruelty. 1t is
alleged that she was imprisoned in q dark
cellar. and that her twin brother doused her
with pailfuls OF cold water
Tho neighbors have been talking OF the case
for some time. Tho girls mother, Mrs. j.
Dunk, keeps secondhand clothing store.
william Strauss, the owner of the house, went
there on Thursday afternoon. and discovered
that the young woman was in the cellar. He
went to the Bedford avenue police station. and
told Sergeant Kieran about the case.
Policeman Thomas Tracy was sent to the
house. He saw Mrs. Dunk. who told him that
her daughter was SO violent ut times that
It was necessary to put her into the cellar for
safe keeping. She added that at night her
hood awake. while in the daytime the girl
was 90 violent ut times that the six Dress
makers employed in the store were afraid for
their lives.
When the policeman asked Mrs. Dunk where
her daughter wns. the woman promptly re-
plied. In the cellar" While she was show
ing Tracy the way into the hall. he heard
moaning in the cellar and asked Mrs. Dunk II
that was the girl.
Yes" said Mrs. Dunk. that's her. She had
q pretty bad spell and tried to kill us with an
axe Then {, we put her down there until she
When tho policeman got to the cellar door n
the hall he found the twi H. brother there with
ead wntSe sss said twin brother
Tracy. Don't 80 down. for she'll brain YOU
Just then nj the i policeman heard weak voice
saying. "oh. help me; I'm dying"
Come here; won wont hurt YOU want to
cellar rH Mss piteS dark After listening
po1f e siisld Ssd again lwAn' to help you
la hSy Hn Wsy w ycSed eHe
Slowly she came to tho cellar stairs. BY a
light from windows In the rear Tracy saw
thin. emaciated woman, She looked appeal
arms and said:
"Plesse don. hurt me; please don't throw
As tho woman said this, the, tyin, brother
raised the pail o. water and asked the police
What are you going to do?" asked Tracy.
she gets out Of her At replied the young man;
and had disappeared in the darkness, The
policeman ordered young Dunk to put the pail
succeeded in inducing the woman to come to
the stairs again She was continually saying:
You want to kill me! You are killing me-"
Not until Tracy told her that he was police
man did she come to the stairs again. He went
part OF the way down and led her up Into the
was shivering.
Oh, how cold 1 am" she said. feehly.
" Take me away from here. They are killing
mo-"
Mrs Dunk appeared. and the young woman
shrunk from her and begged the policeman
again to take her away.
The policeman urbraided Mrs. Dunk for her
treatment OF her daughter. and the woman
promised to call in a doctor with view OF
having the girl removed to a hospital Mrs.
Dunk did call in doctor and last evening
Mamie was taken to the hospital.
Tracy went into the cellar and found several
inches OF water on the floor. Mrs. Dunk de-
MED last evening story that she sometimes
kept her daughter in the cellar for long time.
She said she simply put the girl down the cell
lar stairs until she got over her violent spells.