Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-07
DROWNED NEAR
SPOT WHERE SON
MET SAME FATE
Mrs. Clark, Boating With Hns-
bands Friend, Falls Into
Branch Brook Lake.
HER COMPANION CLINGS
TO OVERTURNED BOAT
His Wife Declares He Had Be-
come infatuated With
the Victim

While boating with a friend of her
husband, Mrs Bridget Clark 81 years
old, of 10 North Thirteenth street,
was drowned in Branch Brook Park
lake. Her body was removed from
the City Hospital to her home today.
Mrs. Clark was taken. out rowing
last night by Patrick Dunn. 81 years
old, of 26 North Eleventh street.
They were returning from Willow
Island to the landing, when Mrs.
Clark attempted to take an oar.
Her efforts resulted in capsizing
the craft. Park Policemen Clarken
and Carrolton heard Dunn's cries and
swan to the rescue. They dived for
Mrs. Clark, but she was found to be
dead when they brought her ashore.
BY clinging to the overturned row.
boat, Dunn kept above water until
he was taken off.
The Clark and Dunn families had
been the closest of friends, but, ac-
cording to Mrs. Dunn today, her hus-
band had become infatuated with
Mrs. Clark.
1T warned him again and again"
she sobbed,i "that the wages of sin
Is death. 1 feared for him-but it
was Mrs. Clark who paid the pen
atty"
The tragedy of Mrs. Ciark's death
Is heightened by the fact that Philip
Clark, jr., one of her sons, was
drowned about seven years ago in
the Morris canal not many hundred
yards distant from where last nights
accident happened.
She is survived by her husband and
four children, Bernard IA years old;
John, II; James, 10, and Anna May, 8.
Mr.. Clark asserted today that Mr..
and Mrs. Dunn had been both close
friends of both himself and his wife.
zone family would entertain the
other he said, irrespective of
whether every member of both
families was present"
Mrs. Dunn, however, denied today
that the two families were on such
friendly footing
My husband first met Mrs. Clark, .
she said. about a year ago when
was taken Ill and had to go to my
sisters home for three months. Mr..
Dunn and the three children, Eliza
beth, Mary and Henry, went to board
with the Clarks.
"For a while we were all good
friends, but I family found that my
husband was spending too much time
with the Dunns. | went to their place
on March IA and I saw his coat in
the hall, but Mrs. Clark denied that
he was with her.
Last Saturday 1 went to meet him
at the car barns and I saw that Mrs.
Clark was there ahead of me. My
b,tc nd with har n har
He didn't come home at all that
night.
Il have not seen him since Tuesday
evening and 1 do not know where he
has been since then"
Dunn, who had been held at the
Fifth precinct police station as a wit
ness. was released today. Chief Gill
hooly, of the park police, was con-
vinced that the boat had been cap
sized accidentally.
THE two had been drinking in a
saloon at Duryee and Orange streets.
ne said, "and Dunn bought half
pint flask of whiskey. Mrs. Clark
told him playfully that he couldn't
row, and said she would show him
how Her efforts to do so resulted in
upturning the boat.
The two park policemen who swan
to Mrs. Clark's rescue said that they
her out of the water three min
after the accident and that she
.emed to have a glimmer of life
County Physician McKenzie's
sy will show whether 1t was
q. ally drowning or heart failure,
: caused by the shock. that caused her
death.
There were several bruises on her
body, but they are thought to have
been caused by contact with the boat
I In ner struggles to save herself.