The Washington times., 1921-10-05
OFFICIALS PLAN
PROBE |NDEATH
Of MRS..DWYER
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charges that he ha dassaulted his wife
before her death, and of the state
ments that he Is unable to provide
and support amply for the education
and maintenance Of his children. He
claims 70 be victim of a frame-up.
Among the witnesses who will give
testimony when he is brought to trial
on the assault charges as to conditions
found at the Dwyer home are Police
men Michael J. Dowd and William f..
Taylor, of the Seventh precinct. who
arrested the plasterer on several &C.
casions after they had been sum-
moned on complaint of neighbors. who
charged that he had attacked his wife.
Used Gas In Attempt.
Three months before Mrs. Dwyer
was found dead, hanging by a strip
of bedsheet to the rafter in the cellar
of her home, she had attempted to
end her life by inhaling illuminating
gas. She recovered at the George
town Hospital and later was sent 70
the Washington Asylum Hospital be-
cause II was believed she suffered
from insanity.
Her husband. however, obtained
her release from the latter hospital,
although DIR. Donohue, of George
town Hospital, and DIR. Crawford, of
the Washington Asylum Hospital,
had declared she was suffering from
a form of insanity which brought
about suicidal tendencies and urged
that she be committed to an institu
ton for the insane.
Early Sunday morning, the day be-
fore Mrs. Dwyer was found hanging
an the cellar Of her home, the plas'
terer left his home with the Coyle
girl and remained away, visiting
friends, they said, at Frederick, Nd.
On September s, at about o'clock,
his home and found that his wife
was dead.
Aunt Prefers Charges.
It was several days later that Po-
liccmen Dowd and Taylor reported to
Mrs. Elmore, of the Board of Chill
dren's Guardians, that they did not
believe Dwyer was a fit person to
rear his children. Following an in
the children-Paul, 10; Elmer, IA,
and Ethel. 10. were detained at the
House of Detention pending the
hearing set for today in the juvenile
Court. Another son, Harry, who is
seventeen years old, lives at the
Dwyer home with his father and
young bride. He is employed by an
automobile firm.
The charges Of assaulting his wife
were preferred against Dwyer by
Miss Emma May, aunt OF the deaQ
woman. One of her principal wit
nesses, who has talked with Assist.
ant District Attorney Ralph Given,
Is DR.. William J. Stanton. 1923 o
street northwest, who claims to
have treated Mrs. Dwyer for a frac-
ture of the skull. DIR. Stanton will
testify at Dryers trial 1T is said,
not only to the treatment of the frac.
tured skull, but as to statements
made to him by the plasterer's wife.
II am dissatisfied with the verde
OF the coroner" declared Arthur MAJ
the brother. Two days after m,
sisters death. after the coroner haG
given a certificate of suicide, |
urged that he perform an autopsy
He said. She committed suicide. |
would be wasting the district
torney's money to hold an u
topsy.'
Brother Suspicious.
Last night my brother John
John NJ. May. connected with tn
firm of T. T. Keane Company, mea
packers, Gls Pennsylvania avenu
northwest-decided to make arrange
ments today for the exhuming of my