Monday, Feb. 17, 1941

Frustratress

Mildred Dunn, pretty, 21-year-old Chicago divorcee, is either the most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape her.

Mildred slept on a cot in the same room with her sister and brother-in-law. "Every other night, when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. . . . When he got in one side of the bed, I jumped out the other. He would run after me, trying to rape me." Attorney Norman Becker asked why she did not scream. "I didn't want to wake my sister." Attorney Robert Cantwell Jr. asked why she did not leave the Feiler household. "They needed somebody to take care of their daughter." Attorney Becker asked if her sister ever found out about these nocturnal chases. "Yes, I would tell her every morning after it happened. . . . When he took me to the movies he tried the same thing. He always tried to rape me." Commented Attorney Cantwell: "I don't think you can be raped." Said Mildred: "Oh, you don't, eh?" The judge intervened.

Mildred told of another frustrated assault, in a parked car. Attorney Cantwell asked if her brother-in-law had never been successful in his assaults. "Never," said Mildred. "He never even got to kiss me." Baffled Attorney Cantwell asked why she continued to go to the movies with her indefatigable assailant. Said Mildred: "I didn't have anybody else to take me to the movies."

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