New Britain herald., 1919-07-28
Mrs. Gladys Dunn Of PittS6eld
 Enters Plea Of ManSlau6hter WAS THRICE MARRIED
Changed Her Plea At Request of Friends Who Feared She Might Be Adjud9cd Insane and Sent to Rc- treat.

Pittsfield, Mass, July 2S.-Mrs. Gladys C. Dunn, on trial in superior court here for second degree murder for the shooting of her son, Joseph Allan Dunn. Jr, August Il, 1918, pleaded guilty to manslaughtcr short ly after the opening of court this morning.
 Changes Her Plea.
 Mrs. Dunn withdrew her plea of not guilty to the indictment at the earnest solicitation of her husband, J. Allan Dunn, her attorneys and inti- mate friends, who feared a jury yer dict of mot guilty by reason of in sanity" requiring her incarceration in a state hospital for the criminally in sane might prove fatal to her in a very short time because of her high ly nervous temperament.
 Gets Year in Jail.
 Mrs. Dunn was sentenced to one year in jail.
 Judge BrOWnes sentence, he said, was imposed with the idea of making it as easy as possible for the woman, following a plea of leniency by her counsel, Thomas F. Cassidy, which brought tears and SobS from court attendants and the audience. Attor- ney Cassidy took exception to Dist. Attorneys statement concerning Mrs. Dunn's lack of faith, irreligion-say ing that Mrs. Dunn was not on trial for ,heresy and District Attorney Ely, after MT. Cassidy had finished said he had no thought of heresy but be- lieved the defendant lost her power of resistance when she lost her faith.
 Judge Brown, after complimenting the district attorney and the defend- ants counsel for their fairness and splendid conduct of the trial imposed sentence, one year in the House of Correction in this city, a county in StitutiOn.
 The Dunn case started on Wednes- day of last week an adjournment be- ing taken Friday noon until this morning when the defendant collaps- ed in court.
 Married Three Times.
 Mrs. Dunn is a Niles, Calif., native daughter of wealthy San Francisco art dealer Her name is Gladys COur- voisir- -Madden-Laf1er-Du as she has been thrice married, the first tim e to Lieut. Wilson Eric Madden, whom she divorced for cruelty; the second time to Henry Anson Lafler, whom she divorced for cruelty in July, 1913. She married Dunn in September, 1913, in California.
 Dunn is Well Known.
 J. Allan Dunn is a scion of a wealthy Irish family; was born in England, came to America at the age of ? and went west; was rancher, neWspa- perman, artist, editor of Sunset maga- zine, advertising manager Southern Pacific, Associated Press correspond ent in Honolulu, personal friend of Jack and Charmion London and since 1913 has written largely for Adven- ture st ory magazine also novels, pub lished in London.
 In 1913 the Dunns went to New York where they lived at the Gregor- ian hotel after a brief residence in Greenwich Village, and in 1916 they came to Lanesboro, a little town three miles north of here, living there until Christmas, 1917, when they moved to LenOX.
 Mrs. Dunn Very Nervous. temperament had been warned by physicians that child bearing would be fatal but she isister on becoming mother for she feared her husband would go bac kto England to fight for his mother country. Her son was born September, 1913, by a Caeseran operation at Roosevelt hospital New York city, prior to their coming here