The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-15
SAYS SHE'S A COMMON SC0LD.
ACCUSATIONS THAT LED TO THE
ARREST OF MRS. APPLICABLE.
Her Children Said TO Have Stood In no"
:. and Put Their Fingers 10 Their Noses
n = NeiEhbOr-One Man says she
Called Him Nhisker.WOrn Hinky Dink

DuMoNr, NJ j.. JUNE H-This village
passed quiet Sunday Nobody was
reviled on their way TO church; no doors
or windows were beaten in with rocks'
SQUIRE Christcomb. who speaks seven
different languages. didn't have to use any
OF them In self -defence; Mayor Dickson took
his afternoon walk without being told that
he was "whisker-worn hinky-dink,
and all the other 500 persons Of Dumont
spent a peaceful Sabbath
This was 40. people here say, because
Mr. Catherine Apologize, who was locked
up In the county Jail in Hackcnsack on Sat
urday under the accusation of being com
mon scold, hasn't got out yet. Now that
she is out OF the town her neighbors are
willing to talk about her and to give some
Of the narrowing details OF her Dumont
career, from the time she reached here
newly wed fifteen years ago to the moment
che brought the law down on her head by
being a party as II is alleged, to an act of
violence on one of Joseph Camptellos
fine spring chickens,
Mrs. Onderdonk the wife of D. Ajax
Onderdonk who lives two doors away from
the Apologize house, says the relations be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. Apologize have been
strained Mrs. Apologize, according to
this neighbor, has shown signs of jealousy
which have increased, until many women
in the neighhorhood wives, widows and
their daughters stand accused by her OF
trying to steal her husband
This unwarranted jealousy, the neighbors
saw, has caused her to do all sorts of absurd
and disagreeable things and is directly
responsible for her being locked up now
as common scold. She was arrested
..4tI nlJ ia. ,lynI
sack wouldn't hold her, and in the words
OF Mayor Dickson, "she beat the marshal
back to town"
Mrs Apologize abou, two weeks ago,
it is said, threw rock as big as mans
head against Ajax Onderdonk's front door
one night when her husband was visiting
there.
Onderdonk has the stone on his parlor
mantel now as a souvenir. along with the
skin of the legs Of the biggest bull frog
his eldest boy ever caught. Soon after
her attack on the front door, she dubbed
ment OF Mrs. Onderdonk herself, "the
Rip" and persisted in screaming that
name at her every time she went up the
street. A few nights later she visited
the Onderdonk house again looking for
Ajax. she instructed her three little girls
and her little boy TO yell murder at the
top Of their voices They did so and the
nelghbors came running in from all direc-
lions The next day Mr. Onderdonk'
ten-year.old daughter was set upon by
the Apologize children, the Onderdonks
say, and beaten.
She was angry at Mrs. Dickson. widow
who lives next door and accused her along
with Camptello's wife and others. of being
after her husband. She came to Mrs.
says, and called her an "old Dutch plough
woman" and other names
.She Is red-haired and shes got temper
~ fiery as her hair" said Mrs. Dickson,
.and whenever ] could kept out of her way
But & she couldn't get at me herself, she
would stick their fingers up TO their noses,
all standing in row. Why, the other night
my daughter was sitting ON the front stoop
with a young man and Mrs. Apologize
came In and talked so the children had to
get away from her
sOnly the other day she dressed up
dummy in his best clothes and put it out
on the front fence, so that we neighbors
might see it. Goodness. me! I'm sure l
never spoke to him but three times, and then
s ssss along the street and just tipped his
Mrs. Apologize. according. to Dumont
reports, kept up running fire OF words
With Mrs. Ca,npitello, who is an Italian
and whose back door open up only few
Ieot away TOIl NIS. pd'h
door. Between the houses is picket
fence. The Apologize children would, on
their mothers advice, according to Cam
pitello, get his chickens to stick their heads
between the pickets and then pull on their
neoks until they had stretched them to the
limit and the chickens were dead. 1t was
this act which directly inspired Campitello
to swear out the warrant for his neigh
boris arrest He has one or two chickens
with elongated necks, it is said, as evidence.
Mrs. Applegate explains away the evil
dence by saying that the chickens necks
were stretched reaching through the fence
TO pick up food on her side.
Bssides reviling her neighbors Mrs.
Apologize, the people say. used to scream
at the Mayor every time she cav him:
Here he comes. here he comes, the
whisker-worn hinky-dnk
Persons here say that the woman s
perfectly rational.
II she comes back" said Mayor Dick
son, something awful is liable to happen
and I'm going to do all can to keep her
where she is"
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