The San Francisco call., 1906-08-17
SAY WOMAN RULED
FOR THREE DAYS.
Witnesses Tell Details
of Dunn's Orgie1 on
Board independence
TRIAL OF OFFICER
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO TIE CALL

VALLEJO, Aug. 16.-Edward Poore'
pay clerk, was the main witness IN the
hearing of the charges OF scandaious
conduct against Lieutenant EdWaiu
Dunn at the Mare Island navy yaIu'
begun this afternoon Testimony ina.
cannot be printed was addueed during :
the hearing. 1t formed the story Oh
an orgy lasting through three days
and nights in the quarters OF the ac-
cused officer with notorious woman
of the local Tenderioin--a woman Ut
terly unattractiye and an occupant %
one of the meanest bretheis on the
water front section
Chief Boatswain August Rettie ot
the Independence, efficer of the deck on
July 1S, last, when Marion INV lli, enill'
the woman In the case, first called upon
Dunn. was the first witness. de told
of being informed by Dunn that ne was
expecting a visit from lady fr1ena-
When the woman arrived, she was
shown to Dunn's quarters was
about p. m. when she arrived anu
Rettig was on watch until a. m. next
morning. but did net see the woman
leave the ship. He admitted that she
might have done SO.
Pay Clerk Poore, who followed Ret-
tig, said he saw the woman nrst IN
Dunn's room on the afternoon OF Jnly
IA Dunn was then In bad state OF
intoxicatien and Poore, who liked him.
pleaded with the woman to return TO
shore and save the officer from dis
grace She refused to do so, saying
She was enjoying herself. The evidence
given by Poore about the conduct OF
the woman and Dunn Is unfit to be
published
Poore told how Dunn had sent word
to him that he would bring the woman
to the officers mess that evening and
requested that Poore treat her de-
Gently Poore sent back word that he
would leave the table II the woman
came, but she came with Dunn and ate
her meal just the same. Dunn was so
drunk that he was almost unable TO
sit up and hardly recognized any one.
The woman was the worse for liquor,
nut was not as intoxicated as the ae-
cused officer. Poore toad of seeing the
woman again in the Office of Paymaster
Risworth Nicholson, when both she
and Dunn were drunk. This was on
July 16.
The admission of testimony by Poore
that he had visited the Churchill wom-
an in her quarters in the local tender
loin district in company with Dunn on
three different occasions and that Dunn
had remained all night with the woman
was brought out only after strenuous
objections ona the part of Attorney
Ryan for the defense.
At the opening of the afternoon ses-
sion Mate Gustav Johnson, officer OF
the deck on July Is, said he had seen
Dunn and the woman together In
Dunn's apartments. drinking heavliy.
Surgeon Farenhoit testified that he
had been called by Dunn 10 his quar-
.ers to give professional treatment and
that he had seen Dunn sitting on the
bed in his nightclothes. while the wom-
an sat on chair. Farenholt took a
survey of the room and withdrew, re-
fusing to have anything to do with
Dunn or the woman. Dunn called the
medical man in the next evening about
o'clock, but when Farenholt entered
the room he did not see the woman
about. He saw her again the next
morning. however, She was about the
ship with Dunn.
The prosecution will resume its case
tomorrow morning.