The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-09
MRS. UNWlN MAKES STATEMENT
 OF TRAGEDY TO CORONER DOTEN
Reconciliation Had Been Arranged With Her
 Husband; She Told Hopkinson to Leave.
This Apparently Caused Dead Man to Seek Her Death
 and Cause His Own==Hopkinson's Body Claimed by. Wife by Telegram from Cleveland, 0. == Funeral of Suicide TOmorrow==Wife Arrives Today. 7

The statement of MEs. Robert Un- morning at the Bridgeport hospital throws light upon the probable motive which actuated William Henry Hop kinson, yesterday, when he attempted to kill Mrs. Unwin and afterwards succeeded in destroying his own life. ,
 Mrs. Unwin is much improved in con- dition today. She will recover from the terrible wound in her neck inflict- ed by the razor in the hands of the suicide, and also from the broken arm which she suffered when she jumped from the roof of the porch, after es- caping from the clutches of the en- ragged man.
 Mrs. Unwin's statement shows that Hopkinson was cOgnizant of a recon ciliation which had taken place be- tween Robert Unwin and his wife. He was enraged by this information and his desperate act was not only the re- suit of the probable loss of what money he had, but also of the breaking up of his relations with Mrs. Unwin.
 Mrs. Unwin was able to talk to Coro- ner Doten this morning. Her state ment was as follows:
 "Hopkinson came to board with us three years ago. He was a friend of my husband. A year ago my husband left me and has not lived at home since. HoDkiDson came in for his dinner at about five minutes after F yesterday. I told him he could have no dinner there. He said he would have it, and sat down and ate, getting the meal for himself. After he had eaten he went to his room on the sec ond floor. Soon after he called to me and I went up stairs. l went into his room.
 He locked the door and said he was going ito kill me and also himself. I tried to get to the door, but he stood in the way with the razor in his hand. He finally caught me and slashed my throat. When he saw the blood he cut himself in the throat. I was near the window, and I raised the sash and crawled out saw him cut his own throat. l. got on the roof of the porch and fell off to the ground. Robert is a good man."
 The examination of Mrs. UnWin was made as brief as possible on account of her condition She was able, how ever, to make the coroner understand that a reconciliation with her husband had been effected.
 Robert Unwin had @ conference with
  conference was brought about by friends of the couple and paved the way to another talk Sunday. What took place at these conferences is known only to Mrs. Unwin and her MT. UnWin is inaccessible and Mrs. Unwin stated only the bare facts. Unwin has been stopping with his brother, Joshua Unwin, who lives with his family on Park street, Strat- ford.
 Unwin came to Bridgeport this and had a conference with his attorney, Judge Carl Foster. After wards he went to the home of E. w. Walsh, fl Maiden Lane. Walsh is friend of all the parties concerned in the tragedy. Walsh refused to give any information this morning. He would not say word concerning the case He said UnWin was not at his house, and would not be there today.
 Coroner DOten asked Mrs. Unwln what her husband had said to her yes- terday when he visited her at the hos oital, after she had been wounded, but she could not remember what was said.