Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Wife's Mother Says Couple
viii Remain in D. C.
With Her.
MANS SC0RN WAIVERS
ON RETURN FROM JAIL
Husband Says He Is Glad to Be
Home and Will Always
Love His Family.
The Dulaneys have "made I'M. y

The Dulaneys have made up"
Hurtha Ira Dulaney, "a year old
father Of four small children, who was
exonerated by the grand jury yester-
day IN the fatal shooting of William
L. HUH, who he accused of trying to
break up" his home, has effected a re-
Cancellation with his wife, Mrs. Mary E.
Dulaney. and IS preparing to start life
all over again"
"Hurtha and Mary talked things over
last night" Mrs. Dulaney's mother,
Mrs. Madeline johnson, said this
morning, land I'm sure everything will
be all right.
Learned Her Lesson"
MARY has always been a good girl
know she was true to Hurtha until
Hun came along-and I'm sure she
has learned her lesson. Hurtha loves
her-why, he sat here last night and
told her, right In front of my husband
and !, that he loves her and always
will"
The Dulaneys plan to give up their
apartment at 1877 H street northeast,
where the shooting occurred Monday
night, and live with Mrs. Dulaney's
parents, Mrs. johnson said. The john
son apartment at 1904 H street north
east, Just block from the scene of
the shooting, is too small to accommo-
date the Dulaneys and their children,
Mrs. johnson explained, but she and
her husband, Edward johnson, plan
to rent a house.
Mother Tells Of Life.
"Then we can all be together" Mrs.
Johnson said. "Hurtha and Mary
lived with us, anyway, during the first
five years of their married life. It's
only during the last three years
since we took this small apartment
that we've been separated If we had
been together all along. IN sure this
terrible thing wouldn't have hap
pened.'
Dulaney was released from the Dis
trict Jail yesterday, Immediately after
the grand jury, upholding the 'un-
written law" had refused to indict him.
He went to the home of his parents-in-
law. where he was reunited with his
| wife, who was released from the House
| OF Detention later in the day.
AS he stepped from the jail. Du-
laney declared he had no intention of
effecting q reconciliation with his wife.
II could never take her back after
what has happened" he said.
| Waivers in Decision.
With his children grouped around
MIN, however, DuIaney waYered In his
| decision, even conSenting to pose for
| photographs with his wife. BY the time
Mrs. Dulaney reached the home of her
parents, her husband seemed to have
forgotten his previous statement. 81
don't know what I'm going to do" he
admitted. '"Tm still too much up In
the air to know whether I'm going or
coming. All ] can say is that I'm
darned glad to be here with the kids. I"
The kids" are Hurtha Ira, r., z
years old; Bessie, years old; Edward,
years old, and George, 6 months. All
OF them are suffering with whooping
cough.
Dulaney said he wasn't the least bit
surprised" when the grand jury refused
to indict him.
In written statement to the coron-
er's jury Mrs. Dulaney, who is ~ years
old, asserted her husband had been In
volved in affairs with other women. In
the statement, Mrs. Dulaney admitted
she had been intimate with HUFF, whom
she had known two months, and sought
TO assume the blame for the shooting.
Hun, who was IS years old and lived
at Hume Springs, Va, was shot when
Dulaney, returning Unexpectedly from
work, found him in Mrs. Dulaney's bed
room. Dulaney ran to the bed, pulled
.32-caliber revolver from beneath the
mattress and fired four times. HUFF,
wounded three times, sank to the floor.
He died several hours later at Casualty
Hospital.