The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-27
KICKS His
WIFE TILL
SHE DIES
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Tullock dwell repeated the assertion
that he had killed.
"Who did you kill?' asked Tullock.
MY wife," replied dwell.
"Where?'
"At 29 Grand street"
Tullock took Olwell to the furnished
room house and to his room, where the
woman was found lying in a small bed
room, one of two which Olwell rented.
She was on the floor near the door which
opened at the foot of the bed in the larger
room. in which her three older children,
Mary, 10 years: Thomas. Z years, and
James, 0 years old, slept. Mary was weep
ing on the bed. her body shaking with
fear and grief. She had discovered hat
her mother was dead after the father
had leff the house, She feared he would
return and do her and the other chill
dren harm. She had not yet aroused the
other inmates Of the house.
Mrs. Dwell was lying in a pool of blood.
her head an unrecognizable battered mass
of flesh and protruding bone. When he
discovered the dead body Tullock looked
for the weapon with which the deed was
done. He glanced at Olwells shoes and
found them caked with blood. They told
the story. The little girl Mary told the
missing details. She heard the quarrel.
which resulted in the murder, but she did
not know the result at the time It hap
pened. Her father and mother and the
baby occupied the little room. Quarrels
between the parents were of almost daily
occurrence, and she knew beeser than to
interfere. She had interfered before and
been black and blue for days as a result.
Mrs. dwell was as liable to strike her
as was the brutal father. She had seen
her mother strike her father with t
back of his 'longshoreman's hook more
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blow after blow upon the woman with his
fists in return. Fists and feet she had
seen In play between the pair often. She
saw part of the quarrel last night-all of
1t, in fact. 1t did not last long, and she
was glad It did not. She did not know
why her mother did not scream more than
once or twice, or why her father was able
to go calmly to sleep without any retail
tory attacks from the woman. She saw
blows struck. the door was closed and all
was quiet again.
She wen to sleep, quieting her younger
brothers. who had been awakened by the
quarrel. None of the other tenants in the
house paid any attention to the struggle
or the fall of the body. Such things are
more common than meals In furnished
room houses.
1t was between 9 and 10 O'Clock, accord.
ing to the story of the girl Mary, that
CtfNA NaAAl hOlliN NILS. OlWtil WIS lYIIB
in bed nursing the three-month -old baby.
dwell went into the room and demanded
hve cents of her. He said he wanted TO
buy tobacco. He had been drinking Mrs.
dwell told him she would not give him
the money. He insisted upon having II.
and when she refused him a second time
he seized her by the throat and choked
her. She struggled and the baby was
torn from her breast.
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throat, dragged her from the bed and to
the floor. She landed head first over by
the window. a few feet from the door.
Mary saw her father raise his foot aud
saw him kick several times. She saw her
mother raise up and roll over by the
door. Then she lay there.
dwell calmly took off his shoes and
crawled into bed with all his other clothes
on. first closing the door into the room In
which the children lay. Before retiring he
handed the baby to Mary, who stopped its
crying and soon fell asleep. An hour later
Mary heard her father stumbling In his
room. He hunted for his wife's pocket
book and took what money there was in It.
Il am going out he told Mary. There
Is something the matter with your
mother
1t was not fifteen minutes later that the
policeman returned with him, but in that
fifteen minutes Mary had tried in vain
TO arouse her mother and had OWNED the
truth.
dwell deried that he had kicked his
wife or struck her with any weapon. He
said he auarreled with her and just struck
her once in the face with the fiat of his
hand. He said that after hitting her he
went to sleep. and OH Weakening an hour
later found her lying there. without
lighting a lamp to see what was the mat
ter with her he went out. When his state
ment WINS taken after due warning, how
ever. he said in response to the question:.
You have heard the statement OF your
daughter; what have you to say about it2"
Il do not care to contradict the child"
dwell and his wife drank heavily for
years. They were arrested three times IN
eighteen months last past for neglect of
children on complaint of 2. A. Ransom,
Jr., of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children The three children
spent months in the home of the society.
1853 Grand street, Each time the parents
Strengthened up and kept sober long enough
to be given another chance. 1t was
thought that the arrival OF the new baby
would make matters better in the home.
The woman did try to behave. The chill.
dren when taken TO the home Of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children last night after the murder were
found to be clean and well kept.
The baby is the first TO occupy the new
crib donated to the home by the Mothers
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