The New York Times/1916/11/22/Bart Dunn Loses Suit
Must Pay Rockland County for Detectives Hired to Run Him Down.
Special to The New York Times.
BART DUNN LOSES SUIT.
Must Pay Rockland County for Detectives Hired to Run Him Down.
Special to The New York Times.
NYACK, N. Y., Nov. 21.—Supreme Court Justice Tompkins, in a decision handed down today, directed Bart Dunn, the former Tammany leader in the Seventeenth Assembly District, to pay $1,035.35 to Rockland County or his $5,000 bail bond would be forfeited.
Dunn was convicted of defrauding Rockland County on highway work. His appeal was denied in January, 1915, and he escaped to New Jersey, where he was concealed in a sanitarium in Butler, N. J. He left the sanitarium and went to the home of Mrs. Olivia Lakeland, in Summit. After Dunn had served eight months at Blackwell’s Island he married Mrs. Lakeland.
The money Dunn must return to Rockland County was spent by District Attorney Gagan for private detectives.