The Sun

RETRACTS M'CARREN CHARGES
MRS. DIXON TAKES BACK ALL
SHE SAID OF THE SENATOR.
At First She Reiterates That He Is the
Father of Her Child, but Finally Says
She Is Willing to Say He Isn't-Declares
That She Must Have Been Crazy.

Mrs. Mary A. Dixon, who recently instituted an action to recover $200,000 damages against Senator Patrick H. McCarren charging him with deceiving her and also alleging that he was the father of her two-year-old boy, changed her tactics yesterday and made a retraction of everything she had said about the Senator. She is still living at 82 Lenox road, Flatbush, and in an interview said she wanted to take back everything she had said about the Senator, and to convince others that she meant just what she said she wrote:

"Mrs. Dixon desires to make a full retraction of all that she has said against Senator McCarren."

Mrs. Dixon was then pressed to tell just what she meant by the retraction. She was asked if she meant that Senator McCarren was not the father of the child.

"Why should I put that in my statement?" she said. "The Senator himself wouldn't like to have me repudiate him as the boy's father. He has never denied the paternity before. Why should he be glad to do so now?"

Subsequently Mrs. Dixon said that the paternity of the child could also be included in the retraction.

"I am willing to say," she added, "that the Senator is not the father of the child."

Mrs. Dixon declined to say what had caused her to make the charges against the Senator.

"I don't mind saying," she said, "that those whose words I listened to were never as good friends to me as the Senator has been. But I sha'n't tell their names. I am fully determined on that."

Mrs. Dixon was then asked how she could reconcile the fact that she had made the charges against the Senator and now repudiated them. Her friend, Miss Leslie, helped her out by suggesting that she was out of her head when she made the charges.

"Yes," added Mrs. Dixon, "I guess I was crazy when I made them."

Samuel S. Whitehouse, counsel for Senator McCarren, said subsequently that he believed the wording of the retraction covered everything that she had charged against the Senator, and indicated, he intimated, that she would now withdraw the suit. He also said that the existence of Mrs. Dixon's husband had fully destroyed the alleged cause for action.

Owing to the retraction of Mrs. Dixon it may be that her husband, Dr. Dixon of Manhattan, will not appear before the referee to-day, as Mr. Whitehouse said Mrs. Dixon's counsel had asked for a week's postponement. He understood also that Dr. Dixon was away on a fishing trip.