The evening world., 1894-03-16
EVIDENCE ALL HEARD.
Lawyer Chanler Makes His Final
Plea for Mrs. Dunn.
The Jury May Decide Upon Her
Fate Tonight.
Other Witnesses Were Called in
Rebuttal.

The concluding scenes In the trial OF
Mrs. Mary Dunn for killing her husband
III their fiat, 100 West Twenty-s.xth
street, last October, by pounding his
head with a hammer. fracturing the
skull, were enacted to-day in Part l. OF
the Court of General Sessions, where
Recorder smyth is sitting.
Mrs. Duna had made II good witness,
although 1t was plain that because Of long
weeks OF debauchery she had reached
such Il state on the day OF the homicide
that she is now unable to recall with
any distinctiveness the happenings of
that day. She claims that the tragedy
was the elimination of years of domestic
troubles.
That her husband frequently abused
and maltreated her, and that on the day
of the killing, while she was sitting on
the floor removing the tacks from the
carpet preparatory to leaving her hus-
band forever, he kicked her in the abdo-
men, and and on nho her II arising snr cintGhed her her
struck him with the hammer she had
been using in removing the carpet tacks.
and which she still retained in her hand.
of intelligence and some education. She
seemed a little bewildered on the wit
ness stand. as II her mind were still
affected by her bad habits: bad habits
drown her troubles, the greatest Of
which was hat her second husband
had ~squandered 5000 left to her by her
Mrs. Somier, the housekeeper at the
fats in T~wenty-sixth street. was re-
called in rebuttal by Prosecutor Osborne
kitchen door OF the, Dunn, apartment
instead of a small bolt. as described by
Mrs. Dunn. and to show that Dunn.
when Mnd found dying, lay not across the me
when she struck him, but straight on
the bed. his head at the foot of the bed
and his feet on the pillows. ,
Mrs. Dunn had said that her husband
attacked her when he came in from the
street, drunk. only waiting to remove
his shoes. Mrs. !Somier testified that h.
had only an undershirt on when found
Mrs. Somier also contradicted Mrs.
Dunn's story that her ten-year-old boy,
Charlie McGovern, had gone three times,
Somier's restaurant, and each time got
a tumbler of whiskey for his mother:
Adrian ForeGne, a Frenchman: living
fed to the same effect. lie was in Mrs.
Somier's restaurant when Mrs. Dunn's
little boy gay the alarm, running down
the stairs and crying out:
Mamma has killed papa"
F5regne was the first person TO reach
the Dunn apartment. Mrs. Dunn opened
the door. Dunn lay on the bed. his head
Dalitu III DloOl, DioJi ON llt DdDN LYNX
beside him and spattered m the val
over his head. ForeGne asked who did
II, and Mrs. Dunn replied:
"a i'd. nv husband called me a bad
name. | told him il he did not take it
back / would xii. him. Fe would not
take 1t back. so ] struck him"
Police Sergeant Michael Sheehan. of
the West Thirtieth street station, ties
titled that when Mrs. Dunn was brought
to the station, after the murder, she
answered all questions nationally and
intelligently.
II was | clio when Lewis Stuyve-
SAINT Chanler began his final Dlea to the
Jury for the life and liberty of Mrs.
mi
The case will be given to the jury be
fore nightfall, and Mrs. Dunn may know
her fate before another day.