The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-04
Wrecks DillaWay's Portrait
and Cleans Out tie
House With a
Pistol.
SAYS GODFREY RUINED HER
Ex-Constable and Ex-Lieutenant
Involved in a Nasty Sauabble
Miss Vsrnon's Story.

| Maggie Vernon, an attractive looking
young woman, with fair hair and wear
| ing gold-rimmed glasses and fashion
| able clothes, rang the door bell at No.
1856 Forrest street, on Saturday after
noon last. Godfrey w. DiIlaway, ex-
| Constable, lives there with his wife and
| daughter
| Mrs. Dillaway opened the door. When
| she saw the blonde-haired woman she
tried to shut the door. but the caller
pushed it in and rushed into the pas
sage.
Il want to see Godfrey demanded the
visitor, and Mrs. Dillaway, who seemed
thoroughly frightened, stammered:-
.lMr. Dillaway. my husband, Is not at
| home"
HE may be your husband. said the
young woman. "but I have a claim on
him Also
Mrs Dillaway begged the woman to
| go away. but she scornfully said she
proposed to see that wretch Godfrey
On the parlor wall the visitor spied
| through the open door crayon por-
| trait of Dillaway in the uniform of First
! Lieutenant of Company d, Fourth Regi-
| ment, to which he formerly belonged
| through the glass. After few viger-
az wreck. Mrs. M D%ilaway % In impdiored dor ed her g
irrascibie visitor to leave. but she re-
fused until she saw Dillaway. That in
his wife to face Miss Vernon. When he
heard the smashing of glass he sneaked
out Of the back door for policeman
says, the Vernon woman took out a re-
volver from her satcheI and said she
\ was going to search the house. Mrs.
| Dillaway ran into back room and then
out into a neighbor's house for proteo-
| ton, leaving Miss Vernon hunting
| who had fled before. Miss Vernon came
out few minutes afterward and stood
in the front yard. Mrs. Dillaway says,
| denouncing her and her husband She
| started to go away, but returned and
went through an alley toward the en-
umbrella on side window, smashing
| both the window and the umbrella. The
Dillaways have the broken handle of the
\ umbrella as evidence against her.
| Before she could do any further dam
age a policeman arrived and took her to
the Communipaw avenue station, and
from there transferred to the womanS
| ward in the Oakland avenue station.
| This morning Miss Vernon was brought
| before Justice Douglass and charged with
4 malicious mischief and assault Mrs Dill
| laway was the complainant. Miss Vernon
| simply said she had norning to say The
hearing was adjourned until Friday next
| She was interviewed this morning. and
this is her story:-She said she had been
| living with Dillaway as his wife for nine
years. She knew ne was a married man,
| but he told her he was suing for a di-
voree, and as soon asthe secured it he
would make her his wife.
Il trusted him. she said with tears in
| her eyes. "and he treated me kindly until
| three years ago. and provided for me-
| Then he got into trouble with Hanley,
| the furniture man. You remember that
/ time. even sold my furniture to help
| got into trouble in ASbury Park His
sister and I raised money at that time
to help him. When i first met him he
told me that he was divorced, but when
/ found out that he was not he said he
was suing for a divorce. I know now
! that that was not true, because Mrs.
4 He has treated me shamefully. He had
| the key to the door of the house in
which l live. and few days, ago when
all my silver, and pawned it He left
the pawn ticket on the table: That Is
what made me angry. ana | MADE @ up
| When Mrs. Dillaway opened the door for
me I told her I would like to see. her
to come In. We sat down in the parlor
and was telling Mrs. Dillaway about
| what her husband had done, when saw
1t with my umbrella. Godfrey was up
| stairs, and when he heard my voice he
| came down and cholked me. He tried to
/ throw me out.
II did not know that the revolver was fn
| the ssatched. I had been to see a lady
| friend Of mine and her little boy was play-
! ing with the revolver. I told his mother
| about 1t, and she said there was no dam
| ser, as 1t WAS not loaded. I was afraid
that it might be, so put it in my satchek
| and forgot all about it. don't think Mrs.
! Dillaway will appear against me. She and
| her daughters have known of the relations
| which existed between her husband and
me, and have often visited her daughter
| Jessie"
a reporter told Miss Vernon that
| the police had found one chamber of thu
revolver loaded, and she said she was
not aware of it. She declared that she
! had no intention Of shooting anybody.
When she saw Dillaways picture on the
| wall she could not refrain from spelling
| it, and the window she broke was bro
| ken, she says, from the inside and not
| from the outside.
Dillaway was formerly a constable. A
| few years ago he was prominent IN poll
| tics and was a Lieutenant in Company D..
Fourth Regiment. He became involved
| in some trouble and was arrested and
| convicted, but he escaped with a light
| punishment. He was known in Brooklyn
| under the name of Morris. and was a
| special detective at Bergen Beach last
| summer.
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