Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11

occasions and had gone to the movies
with him once. She described him as
. welcome visitor" In the statement
she referred to Hun Is "the boy and
also as Bill"
The statement detailed how HUI came
to see her in the apartment about $50
o'clock on the fatal night and how HUFF
was startled when some one raped On
the door. She said BIZ heard the ran,
but she did not, and when he insisted
that he had heard some one knock at
the door she told him not 10 bother,
that it was probably Just q girl.
Then, the statement continued, the
pair heard = key turned in the lock, and
Mrs. Dulaney immediately realized It
was her husband. She said she told
''Btll' to leave by the rear entrance
and she turned TO confront her husband.
When he came in" the statement
recounted, he began shooting so quick
could do nothing.
II said: 'Hurtha, why did you shoot
him? Why didn't you shoot me? I
deserved it,"
Took Own Residence.
The remainder of the statement was
devoted to recital Of friendship with
HUI and Of the quarrels she had with
her husband as 3 result of which abe
left Dulaney for about q week and took
another apartment. Dulaney went
after her and induced her to return,
her statement continued.
WAS your husband good to your"
Mrs. Dulaney was asked according to
the statement.
Yes" she replied. che was . good
husband in lots Of ways, 3 good pro-
wider, but he had several affairs with
other women"
Mrs. Dulaney scarcely glanced in the
direction Of her husband when she took
the stand. DulaTley was plainly heg-
gard from the ordeal he has been
through and his eyes were infiamed
from weeping. Several times during
the hearing, he touched his fingers to
his eyes to wipe away the tears, and
Attorney O'Shea, sitting near him, pat
ted him on the knee TO brace him up.
Seated beside the defendant were his
fAther-in-law and mother-inslaw, Mr.,
and Mrs. Edward II. Johnson. At in
terVals, one or the other of them would
lean over to whisper something to Du-
laney or to grip his hand. The wtfe's
parents have said they will stand by
their son-in-law TO the limit.
Policeman Testihes.
A graphic account of incidents i'm
medtately preceding the shooting was
given by Policeman Walter l.. Dant of
the ninth precinct, who responded TO an
emergency call which Dulaney tele-
phoned to the precinct station Monday
night Dant said he met pulaney al tAe
corner Of Thirteenth and II sn0eCs
northeast and that Dulaney told him
there was q man in his home.
"Dulaney told me the man might
run out the back way and suggested
that ] 20 around to guard the rear"
Dant testified. He left me and went
UP the front steps and as went around
to the steps at the rear I heard shots
I ran upstairs and entered the apart
his hand and q man lying on the floor
and q woman standing beside him.
why did you do this?" Dant asked
Dulaney.
This man broke my home up" the
policeman quoted Dulaney as replying.
Shot Three Times.
The conductor had found his wife
entertaining HUI, while the two
younger children, Edward, years, and
George, months old, lay asleep In
their beds. Dulaney said HUFF threat
ened him, whereupon he reached under
a mattress, grabbed q revolver and fred
four shots. Hun sank to the fioor with
three bullets in his body. Hun died
later at Casualty Hospital.
Mrs. Dulaney was then taken to the
House Of Detention and held Is q mate
rial witness. When interviewed she In
sisted that mo one Is to blame but me"
and praised her husband with glowing
words. She told of her husbands ef-
forts 10 prevent Hun from meeting her
on previous occasions, and explained
under the circumstances heR husband
probably was justified" In shooting her
companion.