The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-03
ISN'T TRUE:
DUNNS ANSWER
TO PLOT CHARGE
Montanans Tell Details Of Revolt
ing Crime Which They Say
Prisoner Planned
ALLEGED MURDERER
ADMITS KNOWING MEN
Threads of Evidence Being Knit
Stronger Around Husband Of
Dead Woman

st. Paul. MINI. May 3.-Facc to
face with his accrScrS in Chief of Po-
lice OVonllor's office yesterday after
noon. Frank j. Dunn, suspected Of com
plicity in the murder Of his wife, Mrs.
Alice McQuillan Dunn, was forced to
listen while the two MOntana ranchcrS
told in detail their story of how more
than IL year ago he plotted with them
to Sluy her and her father, J. T.. Nc
Qnillan.;
MANY CHARGES MADE
Confronted by County Attorney o.
Bricn, Chief of Police O'COnnor, De
1octivcs Dawson and Layalle and his
two alleged conspiratorS, Dunn heard
the ranclers assert he offered them
$4,000 to murder his wife: that he
asked them to get her father; that
he outlined in detail the murder plot
so her death should he certain and that
he framed All alibi for himself thar
he considered would be airtiEht.
:.,f DENN APPEARS DETECTED
" Hasgatd md detected. clinging TO
the arms Of his chair and feverisEly
claSI,ing and unclasping his hands,
avoiding the eyes Of the mcn in the
circle about him. Struggling. it al-
pearcd. to keep back his emotions,
Dunn silently listened while the ranch
rrs told their story, police say.
TELL OF GETTING MONEY
"And then we got him for $4,000;
S 1900 at first. $1,000 when we came to
st. Paul and then 500 to kill his
wife, said one ranchcr, facing Dunn.
at is true. Dunn. and you know it,
County Attorney O1Bricn said. turn
ing on the accused man quickly.
DUNN IS SILENT
But Dunn did not admit Mr..
O'Brien'S assertion. Instead, his head
dropped and he maintained his silence.
II was just Il few minutes after >
p. NJ. when Dunn was taken to Cen
trail police station from the county
jail by Jailcr Ed Quinlivan. Dunn
was not handcuifed.
SEVERAL CONFER
" A few minutes later his attorney,
Percy d. Godfrey, arrived, followed
later by County Attorney O'Brien,
the two MOntananS and Detectives
Dawson and Lavulle. who brought
them to st. Paul to aid in solving the
mystery.
Afternoon papers already were on
the street and newsboys were shout
ing the news of Dunn's alleged wife
murder plot as he left the Jail to hear
the story told in detail.
KNEW HIS ACCUSERS
When the gathering was complete,
Chief O'Connor signallcd to Dunn's ac-
cusers and they stepped from behind
q screen, greeting him.
Dunn admitted he knew them. say
ing that they had looked up some
land there for him and that he paid
$50 to them for their search for a
ranch location. He said he has Il re-
ceipt in full for the amount paid them.
STRAIN TELLS ON DUNN
As the men continued with their
story. interpolated here and there with
questions from one or another of those
present or words or explanation by
his attorney. the strain told more and
more plainly on Dunn and more than
, once; the revolving details of the scheme
his aGclSers asserted was worked out
by him, seemed on the point of over
coming him. e.
PLOT LIKE FICTION
Rivaling fiction to its elimination
in the search for the white-maSked as
session of Mrs. Dunn. who was shot to
death in her bed early last Thursday
morning. and almost as horrible as
that deed, the plot was r%eeounted be-
fore the man accused of its inception.
-. When the %ranchers. with the detect
ives, left the chiefs office by a side