The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-28

Dawson 10 Put the Pts7ek Away ara
Paid Tor the Advice with HIS LIfe-wits
warned ma He Means 20 kin Her.
With q new revolver whch the poiSe
believe he had bought 70 kill his wife,
George Dawson. the ne'sr do well member
OF a respectable BROOKLYN family. Shot
doxn his friend Thomas Harvey IN cold
blood IN the back room Of q saloon az So
Marcy avenue, Brooklyn early yesterday
morning. Harvey. VINO was q travelling
salesman and OF late had been the constant
companion Of the man who murdered him.
died an hour Atar il the B1shwick Hospital
According 70 Dawson. Harvey had made
an insulting remark about Davison's vie
although witnesses said hat he had been
shot while trying TO gss hs friend % puS
away a r~evolver which he had drawn after
a dispute over a bes which he had had With
mother man N the place
Dawson has been a frequenter Of the race
tracks and says hat ne once was a sheet
writer for Sol L~ichtenssein- He has been
a rather wel known character IN that part
OF Brooklyn. His father vas 2 Ia;
prominent IN politics in Brooklyn some
years ago and left his family web os. Some
years ago George got into trouble over
soue bad checks and his family had 20
come forward and strengthen things out.
Later he attempted ID COMMITS suicide
while on a spree, Ir - said. When az
raizue q at that time N court he said It
vas an accident and was released. He has
a wife and a lXraen-m mon ths-od son. Ac-
cordink % his wife be has been abusing
her and has been spending weeks away
from home.
prom What the police could gather Harvey
had known Dawson for a long time and the
two returned only recently from travelling
IN the South. They seldom had ueen seen
apart lately.
Harvev, Dawson. a man named Higgins
and the proprietor OF the saloon. Edward
Curiey, Sere n the back room OF the place
ABOUT midnight when. according to the
story OF Higgins and the ether witnesses,
a dispute arose ecEee Dawson and dig
gins over an election bet Dawson owed
Higgins. IL was then that Dawson drew
a revolver. He had previously. II vas said,
made threats thai he was going 20 kill Dis
VIE. When Harvey. who was pretty sober,
saw mis- friend begin TO flourish thep pistol.
he went up TO him and quietly asSed him
to put it away. Dawson. VINO had been
laughing and joking With him only a few
minutes before, wheeled around.
AL right. III let yoG have IL, he said.
az the same time sticking the mUzzle right
10 against Harvey, Just under his heart
aad firing. Harvey fell 20 the foo- with a
xroAn- Then Dawson turned around and
began threatening the other men, who
tried 70 get behind tables and chairs.
Right outside Of the place was Policeman
Charles J. WaDcltng. He rushed IN when
ne heard The shot. As be came az him
Davisop kveIled che revolver a. him. bur
WandHnS. Who Is young and agile, vas too
QUICK for hun. He made a leap and got
MIN oy ths revolver arm. The two men
zrapplAd and fought all over the floor.
Dawson all the tine trying 70 gee his pistol
over the pohcemAn's shoulder 50 that n
~ - - 1870 - haaG Ma
Of the others IN the place tired 20 help and
ling. but be finally gave Dawson a bow
with ms nixntstlcs that aid nm out.
Harvey opened rms syes a few minutes
later. The policeman lent oyer nm and
ASKED him who hA1 shot nun.
My srenS, George Dawson. he sad.
looking az Dawson. who vas sitting On
the edge Of a billiard table.
Yes I shot hum Dawson said. I'm
sorry for IL nov. Dot he made a remark
about my wife which woudn'r stand FOR.
/ led her "a the altar and l Eoa stand
for it. II I've done wrong III have 70
pay for it
Harvey quickly relapsed into uncoa-
SctousneSs. He died soon after reaching
the hospital
DAWSON told the poEce that he had a
Lot Of domestic trouble, DIt.thst ne didn't
~ant % talk about IL. The police learned
that al Monday evening be bad been rdinS
around in a can f~ourshing the revolver
and ouce had started IN the direction ot
his wifs's home az - Brooklyn avenue.
Mrs. Dawson had been warned to look
out FOR him and she passed the night in
terror. Yesterday morning she appeared
early az the Gates avenue police court
20 get a wa.ran: Tor her husbands ARES.
Then she learned for the hrsJ time that
De rad murdered his freud.
Mrs. Dawson said her hus had
frequently been in a sanitarium on account
1t his habits. She sad thar there was no
reason for his killing Harvey. Dawson
was arraixued in the Gates avenue coqrr>
and held without hail. Harvey lived az
10 Cambridge place, Brooklyn. he was
- years Old.