The evening world., 1894-03-15
MRs. DUNN'SOEFENS
hammered Her Husband to Death
to Save Her Own Life.
m Prisoner Testifies in Her Own
Behalf To-Day.
Sltn esses Swear that Dunn Was q
Drunkard and Abused Her.

INK neT nuSudhu, oCoibc II. ''u'''' W
BEATING out his brains with a hammer
while he slept beside their fourteen
months -old baby. In their fiat. lOs West
street, the afternoon OF
Oct. IA last. took the witness-stand In
her own defense to-day.
Prosecutor James Osborne completed
the case for the people yesterday. the
chief witness against Mrs. Dunn being
Charles McGovern, her ten-year-old son
by her first husband. He told how his
mother had sent him repeatedly for
beer. which she drank herself. that day.
On returning the last time with a can
Of beer the lad found his stepfather
lying on the bed covered with blood and
Neighbors testified that though George
Dunn was bis. strong man, his
e had frequently bullied him. He
the engineer at the Hotel Marlbor-
VI. sober and Industrious. She was
II drinker, and had drank UP the
leeds OF the money obtained from her
aal,nd for the purchase of medicine
go,y before the homicide.
pit.emen. matron and others testified
DeeMrs. Dunn said after her arrest
ioyhe killed her husband because he
distilled her vile names and had re-
oetto take back the epithets. Others
Rob that she frequently locked her
outjd out Of their fiat. and had often
%lSS nlS ned to kill him with hammer.
Re calling witnesses. Lewis Stuy-
ri Chanler, her lawyer, addressed
yariry. He told them that he should
merOr to show that George II. Dunn
gag,t the big, gentle man that he had
Tha ictured. but brutal giant. He
upol that the woman on trial for muir
danad' been an Industrious. good
wire as the wife Of McGovern. At his
entr. she received some property.
has in order ,a to . get the he property, per.
wrolrinker and induced his wife to
tive He spent her 5000, took her
En- from her friends, who had de-
the her from n,i his so,ata attacks rnH and she
was making ready to leave the
H. got up from his bed. abused and at
Sed her. She had the hammer In her
81 belongings. She struck him. killed
t. in her own defense. The blood on
wbed was not from the wounds she in
we'd, but from hemorrhages brought
obert Henderson. of 22s Seventh
enue. was the first witness for the de-
lse He had been Mrs. Dunns next
or neighbor for four years, and said
r character Tor peace and quietness
{ BAD. '
Nr Osborne cross-examined. The
tness said he. never knew Of Dunn
at he knew several people who had
ID to interfere to protect Mrs. Dunn
ON him.
what do you know personally about
~ cha rf ar1 no aavap n
"i have seen him frequently take
anorr or beer into his house and have
Nine. Meianie somier, who had been
fitness for the prosecution. was called
It by Mr.. Chandler. He tried to
ow by her that she had seen Dunn
Nv Dunn come in with a pint of beer
le night before the murder, had seen
i'm drunk frequently, and had seen him
drunk that others carried him up
vice on the day Of the homicide. He
he staggered a little.
Mrs. Mary BicK. one OF the neighbors,
testified that once, two years ago, while
Mrs. Dunn was Ill In bed with a new
born babe. Dunn became furious be-
cause he could not find bank book, and
screamed vile epithets at her. She sent
DR.. George p. Biggs the pathologist,
Vas called out of the regular order by
Mr.; Osborne to describe, the wounds
which caused Dunn's death.
DR.. Biggs said the blood came from q
burst b.ood vessel in the head, not
from an old hemo,rrhage., But under
cross-examination he said that there
were ample evidences that Dunn was a
Mrs. Jennie Roche testified that she had
been been employed for five months by Mrs.
,Ssn pHnne as nurse, beginning in August;
heard Dunn threaten to take Mrs, Dunn's
HE on several occasions and had re.
mained with Mrs. Dunn one night to
%seh he5 Grn He Fot drunk SII
Mrs. Fannie Fellman. OF 226 Seventh
avenue. tested that while Mrs Dunn
reputation was good, Dunn was known
h was drunk ne 9uarreiled with and
abused his wife. She had seen Dunn
drunk frequently.
.,' Mrs Dunn came next to the witness
man once, but her face shows marke &c
traces Of dissipation. She was dressed
voice. She said she was born in Newark
I;orillari. at the tuxedo Club. Then
eleven years ago. she was married t'
Mi,6sss They had one shd chi whom 1a tn,
who testified against her yesterday.
went home to Ireland and died there
hhem Ihen, returned to work In IN no hoteis =
)unn,' SAID the woman.
We lived at 226 Seventh avenue: III.
worked at the Hotel Bartholdi. He dranl
10 excess and was discharged"
Did he maltreat you ?" asked Mr.
Chanle-.
About two months after We were
married, and he continued In auie
way all the time We lived In Seventh
evenue. We went to West Twenty
exth street In March. 1893: After tina
his abuse became more frequent ant
more Violent Whenever he visited hi
family he came home and abused me.
Il never drank to excess till after WI
noved to Twenty-sixth street. l wa
here two months before / drank any
ming: That was four months befor
pr. Dunn's death. Every time l ha'
rouble drank. 1t made me forget"
Mrs. Dunn told how one night a bo!
awakened her to tell her that Mr.
punn had been thrown ont of a salool
md was lying in the gutter drunk
Another time two boys took Dunn
pome helplessly drunk.
1t got worse towards the last" salt
ne witness. "He got drunk almos
fvery day. He abused me by word o
mouth and sometimes struck me ant
hreatened to kill me-"
Mrs. Dunn said that Dunn had de
lrlum tremens while she lived In Seventh
venue. and that he was subject to nose
Pieed. for which he carried a bottle O
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