Dunn, Uriah

DUNN

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 12/31/2011 at 09:27:41

Dunn, Uriah -
Mrs. Uriah Dunn, who at, 82 routed two bandits from her farm home with a shotgun and the help of her dog, "Boy", died late Sunday, a victim of double pneumonia. She was 84. Mrs. Dunn was an Adams county pioneer having lived 56 years on the same farm six miles northwest of Corning. A widow, she had lived many years with Mrs. Frances Neal, whose husband also was dead.
In June of 1933, two men came to her home and asked for a "Mrs. Jones". Mrs. Dunn though suspecting they planned a robbery, simply took her shotgun, made in 1872, and sat up nights waiting for them to return.
Two nights later they did. When one of them broke into the house, Mrs. Dunn set the dog on him and exchanged shots with the second bandit outside the house, wounding him.
The robbers fled to their car and escaped. Mrs. Dunn calmly waited until the next day to inform officials.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday December 17, 1934