The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-11-26
TROUBLE between
DUNN ARD MORDEN
Cross Suits Between the Men Begun
Before Aldermen Howe and Mil
lar-Worden's Statement.

Alex Dunn, haberdasher. and T.. u.
Worden. architect, were the prlncipai
on Saturday in two rather sensational
aldermanic cases. Each caused the
arrest of the other and both are nov
under bail for their appearance in
court
The first to be arrested was Mr..
Dunn whom Mr.. Wordcn charged with
making threats. The warrant was
sworn out before Alderman Howe be-
fore whom Dunn was arraigned. Wore
den testified that Dunn had met him
on Wyoming avenue and threateded
him. afterwards following him into
Phelps drug store where he renewed
the verbal attack. The alderman held
Mr.. Dunn in 5000 bail
The latter went Immediately to AL
derman Miilar's office where he swore
ont a warrant for Mr.. Worden's arrest
charging him with obtaining SIG worth
OF gents furnishings under false pre-
lenses. He alleged that Mr.. Worden
ordered the goods sent up G.. 0. ID. and
only paid part of the bill. Mr.. Worden
appeared with his attorney, John F.
Scragg and. waving hearing. en-
tered bail in the sum of 5000.
Mr.. Worden last night gave out the
following statement concerning the
matter:
1T is irtie.G unfortunate that this
matter srould have been taken .ntn
court but since 1t has been | desire to
make an explanation of my connac-
tion with the matter and q rcfutatiOn
of the charge Mr.. Dunn has brought
against me The whole affair started
when Mrs. Dunn left her husband on
September last. Prior to that my
wife had been giving her vocal lessons.
Mrs. Dunn left her husband be-
cause of his treatm of her He
charges my wife and myself with fill
ing her with lies about him hut this
is absolutely and entirely false. My
wife nor ] had nothing to do with
her domestic affairs nor did we even
tell her anything against Nh Dunn or
persuade her to leave him. she Went
of her own accord.
'She went to Eoston, bat we did
not know this at first and were as
much at sea regarding her wherc-
abouts as was MI Dunn himself He
came to us and wanted us to assist
him in getting her back again, prOmiS-
ing that he would treat her right. We
said we would assist him because we
wanted to have no trouble with the
man.
''IIe insisted that we knew where
she was but we did not. Ny wife sug-
gested that she might be in Wilkes
Barre, which was her former home,
and he said he would pay all expenses
if we would go there and get her to
come back to him. We went there on
two occasions but found TO trace OF
her. When | suggested to Mr.. Dunn
that he pay our expenses as he had
promised, he told me to come into
his store and get an equal amount of
goods.
This | did but he was not there at
the time and l told the clerk to send
them IN c. O. n, but not to do 50
until Mr.. Dunn arrived. | did this
because ! didn't want the clerk TO
know about the arrangement and be-
cause | thought that when Mr.. Dunn
came in he would send Them IN as il
they had heen paid for. The goods We're
sent to my Office several times and
finally to my home, where they We're
taken by my wife,
THE goods We're not exactly what
I wanted and / was obliged to return
all of them with the exception OF
some small articles, the value of which
was insignificant. Instead Of my be-
ing in Mr. Dunn's debt, he is in mine,
There is absolutely no foundation Tor
his charge of false pretenses."
II was obliged to cause his arrest on
Saturday because he threatened me on
the street and because i was afraid that
he would do something desperate. His
arrest of me for false pretense was
spite action,
'rhe insinuations and intimations
in the sunday papers that l was try
ing to blackmail Mr., Dunn We're the di-
rect result of the bulldozing tactics
adopted by his attorney, Frank Boyle,
in his cross examination of me. He
threw out suggestions in his questions
which We're entirely uncalled for aud
which had no existence i'm fact"