The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-11
WAR HERO SHOT IN ROOM WITH
 BEAUTIFUL GIRL
Police Chief of Washington, Pa, Victim in Mystery of
 the External Triangle SHE AND MOTHER ARRESTED
Amazed Friends of Army Man Comfort Prostrated
 Wife and Five Children

Police William J. Dulaney, Philippine war hero. and captain of Company H, Tenth Pennsylvania National Guard, was shot to death before dawn yes- terday in the presence of. young and beautiful woman.
 Whether he shot himself or was slain by another person-possibly a rival admirer of the girl-is a ques- tion which is absorbing the activities Of all members of his former com- mand-the Washington police
 Chief Dulaney met his death in 8 house only short distance from his own home, where his wife and five children were asleep at the time of the tragedy.
 Du1aney was Miss Ada Lennox, one of the most handsome and popular girls in the city. She and her mother. Mrs. Rose LennOx, who was the first person to enter the room after the shooting, are locked up to await the result of the Coroner's inquest.
 HE WAS HER ONLY FRIEND'
 Miss Lennox at first said, accord ing to the police, that Dulaney had killed himself. Later she became ab- solutely mute, and last night she sat in her cell with an expression of des- pair on her once lovely face, which has become drawn and sallow in a day. It is said she wept and fought with the officer who arrested her, declaring that she loved Dulaney and he was the only person who had ever been kind to her.
 When an examination showed that a big A calibre Colt revolver was the fatal weapon, and that no perceptible powder marks were near the wound in the side of Dulaney's, the police immediately instituted a sweeping in- quiry on the suspicion that the man had been slain by some one in the house.
 It was regarded as a peculiar cir cumstance that the revolver--a hand- some pearl mounted weapon which Dulaney had won in. a raffle-was not found immediately after the shooting. It was produced later by Mrs. Len- nox. who said that she had put it away in the fear that her daughter would attempt suicide.
 Mrs. Dulaney was> prostrated when she learned of her husbands death. His friends were amazed as much by the circumstances as by the fact of the tragedy. None seemed to have known of his friendship for Miss Len nox. If it was a tragedy of the "eter- nal triangle" the first acts of the drama had been played in utter se- crecy.
 POLICE SUSPECT
 FOURTH PERSON
 But the police are alert to the pos- sibility that 8 fourth person may have had part in the affair. Miss Lennox was a undetermined young woman.
 Immediately after the tragedy Miss Lennox said, according to the police, that Dulaney had arrived at her home about Il o'clock.
 She said they been talking togeth- CT for several hours, when he sud- denly drew the revolver from his pocket, and declared he was going to end his life. He merely showed her the weapon, she said, and told her he would go home before shooting him. self.
 Miss Lennox informed the police that she took the revolver from Du- fancy and placed in on table. Later he began to joke about the fright he had given her, and she said he had no such intention in the world.
 Then she gave the revolver back to him. and abruptly he announced, she said, that he would kill her and him. self. She screamed and started to run from the room Before she had reach ed the door, Dulaney had fired bull let into his brain, she declared.
 Mrs. Lennox ran in and found her daughter in a state of collapse.
 DELANEY VERY POPULAR
 On Thursday, Dulaney was prepar- ing to leave next morning for Greens burg. to attend the meeting of the officers of the Tenth Infantry. He had seemed to be in cheerful mood. He spent most of the evening with Corporal Charles W. Boyer, of the Tenth They were in the armory to- gether. and Dulaney was polishing his accountrements for the morrow. While there, he was called on the telephone by a friend, who was start ing on a hunting trip, and wanted to borrow a knapsack. The last thing Dulaney said to him over the wire was:
 Mind you don't shoot yourself"
 Dulaney was very popular in both civic and military circles. He was one of the command that was almost anihiliated in the fearful campaign of Samar in the Philippines. He was one of the National Guard officers who were assigned to go the maneu- vers in Texas during the Mexican re- volt
 Microscopic examination 1.-the hair on the side of Dulaneys head, near the wound will be made today to determine whether or not there are any traces of powder. It is the be- lief of experts that the big revolver would "spit flame" for two feet, and