Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-07-28 | Page 14 | Woman Who Killed Son to Serve One Year

WOMAN WHO KILLED SON TO SERVE ONE YEAR I Wife of Author Withdraws Not Guilty Plea on Husbands Husband's Husband Husbands Husband's Hus Hus- bands band's 5 Solicitation By Associated Press PITTSFIELD Mass July 28 Mrs Gladys C. C Dunn on trial in the su superIor superior su- su I court here for second degree murder for the shooting of her son Joseph Allan Dunn Jr August 11 1918 pleaded guilty to manslaughter today and was sentenced to one year In jail Mrs Dunn withdrew her plea of I not guilty in the indictment at the tho thoI solicitation of her husband J. J Allan Dunn her attorneys and fri friends who I feared a Jury verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity requiring her Incarceration In a state hospital for forthe forthe the criminally insane might prove J fatal to her in a short time because of her nervous temperament Mrs Dunn who is the wife of J. J Allan Dunn of oC New York an author killed d her son at their summer home in Lenox last August The boy was 2 years of age i The parents had quarreled it appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap i in evidence and anti the wife in I anger said she would kill the child I Ii and herself She rushed to her room obtained a revolver and according to j I Ithe the statement of her counsel in his opening address held it to her head When her husband called to her she turned and discharged the revolver The child was killed Mrs Dunn said I she had intended to shoot herself