The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-01
MUSIC, ONIONS AND CARBOLIC,
LIkEHISE FRIED LIVER AND
ANONYMOUS LETTERS.

The war Of the DuEans and sIcCormirhs
Transferred From the DumbVaitcr
shaft &c Jefferson Market Court
Il Concert and a Journey 20 Europe.
Somebody sent, Of late several anony-
NOUS letters TO Edward Dugan, Il special
policeman Mt the Lafayette Brevoort. Mrs.
Dugan got a summons for Mrs. B. Nc
Cor1nck and both appeared in the Jefferson
Market police court yesterday. The hus-
bands were there, too. but no one paid
any attention to them The two families
live at Of Grove street. Both are musical.
Mrs. Dugan sings and plays. Mr. Mo
Corrnick is employed in boiler factory.
Mrs. Dugan's children arc forevW prac-
Using on the piano till nobody near them
can have any peace, said Mrs. McCor-
mick, when she was asked to explain about
the letters
Mrs. Dugan shook her head and declared
that her boy was only 10 years old She
has two children. The McCormioks have
three.
lie plays nothing she said. 1T is
who sing and play
Social rivalry, 1t Is alleged. had much
to do with the disoord that prevailed in
spite Of the pianos which the two families
own and actively utilize. The Dugans
Mt first seemed TO have rather the best Of IL.
Then the McCorrnioks added fiddle to the
family equipment and every one felt that
they had gained distln Ct lead.
II was not for long. In May, 1904, the
Dugans went TO a concert in Tammhny
Hall. They not only went to 1t, but Mrs.
Dugan sang at It. Further, there IL the
authority OF Mrs. DuGan herself for saying
that abe frequently went to the theatre
and that carriages drew up to take her
there and in bringing her home. But
when the Dugans made n trip to Europe
last summer-then 1t was, according to
Mrs. Dugan, that tho relations, already
strained, snapped. and war In real earnest
began.
II was revealed TO Magistrate Flammcr
yesterday that some OF the letters which
Dugan received were very offensive In
tone. II was further charged that the
McCormlcks operated on their plano morn
ing noon and night extorting from the
reluctant instrument THE Suwanee River
Maybe and 'Bedelia. 1t was charged,
moreover. that the McCo1nicks cooked
fried liver and onions and boiled cabbage
with their dumbwaiter shaft open.
1t was charged by tho McCorrnlcks that
the dumbwaiter was soaked with carbolio
acid to their great injury and annoyance,
and that the Dugans caused email boys
has been made to kidnap the family fiddle
Judge Flammer sent both sides about
their business, telling the Dugans to let !
the court know If any moro anonymous
letters arrived.
Mrs. Dugan discussed the difficulty |
exhaustiyely. and with surprising fiuency |
yesterday afternoon. Said she:
i had nothing to do with those people,
though did oier TO give Mrs. Mccormick |
ticket TO the concert where / sang and /
Hha 6nid No / thanh rr,,i nd
Very well, them and carriages came for
me and took me to the theatre and II
had diamonds and they asked where /
got them that was not their business and
the smell OF the onions and the liver was
all through the house and / did not put
the carbollc acid on the dumbwaiter; that
was somebody else. because the janltor
told them to, to kill the smell Of that fried
liver. and I'm sure l never want to hear
the 'Suwanee River or Maybe or 'Bedella'
again, with IL going from morning until
night and children in from the street to
dtnce walk-rounds, and II child rang
Mrs McCornick's doorbel by mistake
Il wasn't my fault and it's all Jealousy
because weAwent to Europe last summer;
indeed, I've been to Europe twice, and
my boy went with me last summer and
my husband In a Catholic and I'm a
Protestant, and he can't go TO church be-
cause he works at night and they 60 all
the time, and that's another reason and
the anonymous letters began coming just
after got back from Europe, telling my
husband to watch his wife, and he insa nelly
jealous anyway and stayed away from
homo for three days on account OF them,
and then writing one to him and signing
II, and that's why we took the law on them,
and I'd been TO Mr.. jerome with the letters
before and never stopped to listen to
any gossip in the house, and when a woman
came 70 tell me some, shutting the door
In her face and saying: No. don't want
to hear It, and the Judge said II we got
any more anonymous letters to let him
know, and | never had anything TO say
TO those people, anyway
The clan Mccormick refused 10 talk
were rigidly neutral yesterday.