The Conshohocken Recorder, August 27, 1909

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CONFESSES TO
SLAYING BABY
WEST SIDE POLISH GIRL CON-FESSED
TO HORRIBLE CRIME
DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO ASK
FOR INDICTMENT FOR FIRST
DEGREE MURDER.
The full story of the fate of 111 • > in-fant
boy of Mary Yablnska. B Polish
girl residing In Weal Conshohocken,
thai ii »as supposed the child had
met with foul play was announced ex-clusively
In the Recorder,
Mary had been employed as a do-meetlc
In the family of Leonard
Krusenski, who conducts a butcher
and provision store at the West Bind
of the Matson's Ford bridge, and has
with the family about tour years.
The family has always bad ImnUclte
faith In the girl, having trusted her
with large sums of money and left b< r
in entire charge of the store for sever*
;tl .lays at a time.
When Mary returned to her borne
on Saturday evening about six o'clock.
Instead of entering the house through
the store, site went to the rear and
Jmnped from n high stone wall into
the yard and gained entrance by the
door. When Kru/.enski was in-formed
of hi r presence he asked to
si the child, when Mary replied:
"The child was a girl and died in the
hospital.* Krusenski accepted her
statement as true, but on Sun.lay his
wife told him that Mary complained
that she did not sleep that night and
all during Sunday she sat in a chair
looking out the window commanding
a view of the river bridge. Kru/.en-s;
ki began to get suspicious by the
girl's actions and plied her "i"1 ques-tions
regardlni be baby, site told
him the baby had died in the hospital
and that she had called the West
Conshohocken station on the tel
live times to try and gel Into com-munication
with him to Inform him of
the child's death. Inquiry at the station
showed no such calls had been made.
Krusenski then accused bar of doing
away with the baby. Mary became
Indignant and replied, A dog would
bring its young home."
Kru/enski got into telephone com-munication
with the hospital and found
out the child was a boy and that
mother and child had left there In
good health.
ib told this information to Mary and
she became angered and said it was
not true us there were no telephones
in West Conshohocken through which
you could communicate Witt the hos-pital
and also told him it was none of
bis business what became of the ba-by.
Dr. Thomas, who was attending
Krusenski, stopped at the store and
askeil to see the, baby. He was told
that Mary said it died in the hospital,
but as tell doctor knew different he
advised the immediate notification of
the District Attorney. Assistant Ids
trict Attorney McAvoy was then noti-fied
of the case, who with Chief of
Police Ro.lenhaugh and a police officer
trom Norrlstown, came here and
placed her under arrest.
When she was convinced the offi-cers
knew her story was untrue she
broke down and through an Inter-preter
told the officers that she hail
placed the little one In the river just
below Norrlstown and had hurried
away, reaching her home before 6
o'clock that evening. She offered to
take the officers to the spot and she
was placed in the automobile. The
girl directed the officials and they
went to a lonely spot along the river
just below the plant of the old Nor-rlstown
Gas works. Peering into the
water there they saw a small objece
wrapped in a canvass like blanket ly
ing beneath the surface about IS
feet from the shore. The child was
taken out of the water and plao ri in
charge of Undertaker John J. Ferry.
Coroner King was at once notified and
he is making arrangements to conduct
an autopsy and hold an inquest. ,
Mary was placed aboard the automo-bile
and hurried to the office of Mag-istrate
O. F. Lenhardt where she made
a complete confession of her crime.
This follows: "A Polander named
Felix, and employed on a farm near
the Balligomingo mills, is the father
of the child. I told him that I was
about to become a mother and he
laughed at me. Now I have never had
a warrant issued for his arrest. The
child was born at Charity Hospital on
Wednesday. August 11. I left the hos-pital
with the child, a boy. and alive,
last Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock
and rode in the trolley car to the
Reading depot. I walked down the
tracks to the woods where I took the
i
I oil1,, ers and there I placed the chilil
Upon the water. 1 then hurried away
and went to my home in West Con-shohocken.''
Asked whether she did
not know that the baby would .Irown
she replied, "Yes, I placed it sideways
Upon the top Ol the water and ran
away." Mary was ask. .1 why she
had done this an.I she replied, "I
dldnt know what to do. 1 was dis-graced
for life and nobody would want
anything to do with me. I know that I
must either lose myself or the child.
Nobodj advised me to do it and I have
never told anyone that i did it."
Sh. was committed to jail for a furth-er
hearing next Tuesday afternoon. It
Is likely that the District Attorney will
ask the Grand Jury to find a true bill
for murder in the first degree,
Premeditated the Murder?
Leonard Kru/.enski told a represen-tative
ol the Record, r the story of the
girl's life as long as she- has been in
Ms family, which has been about five
years.
She came' from Mauavtmk and was
recommended to him and his wife as
a good servant. They employed her
and found her to be an excellent
vant, a good worker and entirely trust-worthy.
She spent nearly all her time
at home.
Last Christmas Krusenski and his
Wife made a live days trip lo Pitts
burg, ami before going bind a Polish
butcher by the name of r>lli (last
name unknown I to work on the butch-er
wagon, and placed Mary in entire
charge of the business, i'pon their
return home everything was In good
condition and showed the business had
not suffered any. Kru/enski and his
wife were delighted with Mary's man-agement
but heard reports from the
in Ighbora that Mary had had a good
time during their absence. She gave
several parties which were attended
by a number of young couples and she
and Felix occupied the house together.
It is this man she accuses of being
the father of the murdered child, and
who the p.diee arc now looking for.
It is said that he is now working In
town, sin- never made any at-tempt
to have I-lix arrested and it
Is believed In certain quarters thai
the girl had made up her mind to de-stroy
the child when it-was born.
The child was born in Charity Hos-pital
on Wednesday. August 11th.
Neither Kru/enski nor his wife wish-ed
her to go to the hospital, but about
two o'clock em thai morning Mary
insisted upon being removed to the
hospital. Krusenski came over to
Dr. Thomas' office and got the doctor
to have the ambulance sent for her
and arrange for her admittance lo the
hospital. About '.• o'clock the same
morning she gave birth to a line baby
boy, Which was much admired by the
hospital staff for its healthy and vig-orous
condition.
During the mother's convalescence
she did not communicate with the
Kruzenskis as she stated she would,
and did not attempt to as she said sh.
did.
H is believed her sole reason In
going to the hospital was to give her
an opportunity in doing away with the
chihl when she left the institution on
bar return home. Her ignorance made
her believe her story would be ac-cepted
and thought the Kruzenskis
could not find out different.
Before coming here the girl gave
birth to a child at West Manayunk.
which died. It is believed by those
who know her that this child died of
natural causes.
ALL DOGS
QUARANTINED
THE STATE LIVESTOCK SANITARY
BOARD HAS ORDERED A 100
DAYS QUARANTINE FOR ALL
DOGS IN THE BOROUGH.
In another column is printed the
quarantine proclamation issued bj the
State Livestock Sanitary Hoard over
the Signature of Slate Veterinarian
Leonard Pearson.
Several dags ago when a mad dog
was killed here. Burgess Raj issued
B proclamation ordering all dogs to
be muzzled while on the streets. The
citizens have not obeyed this proclama-tion
and the state Veterinarian has
ordered the 100-day quarantine placed
bere and will see that the quarantine
is enforced.
instruction! have been issued to
officers, and dogs found running at
a on the streets unmuzzled will
be shot.
FOUND DEAD ON RAILROAD
Shifting Crew Find Dead Body of Ply-mouth
Resident on Siding at Swede-land.
KXTKK LIENS
FOR TAXES
ABINGTON TOWNSHIP WILL
FORCE PAYMEN OF TAXES.
WINE MUST BE WINE A NEW FIRM
The dead body of Samuel W. Say-bold,
aged 87 years, and a well known
PI sklent eii Plymouth township, was
found by the crew of a shifting en
nine lying on the Pennsylvania rail-road
siding at Swede's Furnace, about
E o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
How he met his death is unknown.
and it is believed he had been dead
but a short time before his body was
found. He was seen walking l long
the tracks during the afternoon and it
is believed thai in-his attempt to gel
out of the way of an approaching train
he stepped onto the other track in
front of another train which killed
him.The body was badly man
After the body was viewed by the
Coroner, it was removed to the resl-of
Justice of the Peace John
K. Ennls. of Plymouth townsliip. from
whose home the1 funeral will be held
this afternoon.
Philadelphian Killed at Earnest.
BronesH Podloskl, residing at No.
2616 salmon street. Port Richmond,
Philadelphia, a Polander. aged about
:i:;. was struck by smith bound Penni j I
vanla passenger train No. 116 on the
Schuylklll Valley Railroad under the
Trenton Cut-off bridge near HJarnest
Itation Wednesday about 8 o'clock.
and instantly killed his skull being
crushed. The body was not mangled,
tin only marks being about the head.
There is a sharp curve In the rail-road
where the accident occurred and
the man evidently was unaware of the
approaching train.
Whether the Polander was walking
along the tracks or crossing over is a
matter of conjecture. He was well
dressed, denoting that he was not on
his way to work.
The engineer of the train on seeing
that he had struck the man stopp»d
the train and the body was placed
thereon and taken to this borough and
placed in a building here belonging to
the Railroad Company.
Coroner King investigated the acci-dent
and decided no inquest was nec-essary.
At a meeting of the Abington town-ship
commissioners, the treasurer re-ported
having collected 16463.06 in tax-es
since he received the hooks from
the Count) Commissioners.
An appropriation of $800, of which
|690 is to pay the stale tax on the
bonded loans ol the township, was
made.
The chief of |tolice called attention
to the dangerous condition of York
road and recommended that sidewalks
be laid. The matter was deferred for
the present, but must undoubtedl;
come up again in the near future.
It is of grave importance, as it is I a-p.
dally dangeroui for p< destrlana to
walk In the roadway with the many
whining automobiles.
The SOlidtOr reported that liens had
been filed against several lots, and! connection with the labeling of Ohio
unb ss taxes are paid the lots will Le and Missouri wines,
sold.
The highway committee and .1. Wal-ter
Rueldack we're directed to confer
with the Heading railway and John
Wanamaker and the township and
county commissioners in regard to the
bridge crossing (lie railroad at Switch
ville.
Food and Drug Board Decides It Can
Be Made of Grapes Only.
Upholding us contention that the
consumer Is, under the food anil drug
act, entitled to know the character
of the product he buys, the boar.1 of
food and drug Inspection of th° De-partment
ol Agriculture has Issued
a decision declaring that a beverage
cannot be labeled wine unless it is
made from 'the normal alcoholic fer-tii.
niation ol jni.e of sound ripe grapes
without addition or abstraction,
prior or subsequent iii fermentation."
The term wine can only he used for
a beverage made from the mare of
grapes if the beverage is labeled "im-itation."
A fermented bev.< rage pre-pared
from "grape must" by the addit-ion
Of sugar may be termed
wine'' according to the hoards di cia
ion.
The addition of water*to the ;
"must." will also require further char-acterization
then the term "wine.' The
decision waa reached |iy the board in
SUN PRANKS
Irregularities for Which Science Can-not
Altogether Account.
THE OLDEST WESTERN STATE
The White Man Settled in Wisconsin
Nearly Half Century Before Penn-sylvania
Had a White Settlement.
Pennsylvania is apt to pride Itsell
upon its honorable antiepiity. Not the
first of the States to be settled. It
is undoubtedly the greatest and mosl
Important, now and at all times, since
aspirations for political liberty were
born on this side of the water. But
The sun Is generally looked upon there are othei Wl cousin, for in-i
model of regularity which nev r stance, is just celebrating its 276th an
falls in its duly, but the ancient his- niveraary. Not aa a State, of course,
tortana mention several instanc s i,„, ,,, jls ,ils, settlement by while
when ii failed to give Hath its BSUal ,,,,.„ tn |,;::, whrI1 Uil. llrs, whit(1
amount of heat and light for periods man settled In Wisconsin (not un-varying
from three hours to several |0ngl there was not a white man In
months. Data on the subject have] wnat Is now Pennsylvania. There waa
been compiled by the St. l.ouis Re- a feeble struggling colony on the James
public. -^^ la BinaH settle nt at Plymouth and
According fb FmraV-'h, the year 14! other pioneers nionp th ■ coast. It was
B C. was one in which the sun was| ;,|ni(rM ti,,v yeara |;lI,,,. ,i,.|t ,]>,. nrg,
OF CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS
TO START IN BUSINESS ON
MONDAY.
The partnership of Atkinson and
Kowkalwoski has been formed to en-gage
in the contracting and building
business and the manufacture of con-crete
building blocks,
Th( partners are James H. Atkinson,
who for a number of years has been
superintendent or the tube depart-ment
of the Longmead iron Company,
and Ludwlk Kowkalwoski. Ihe well
known Polish contractor, ol this place.
Mr. Atkinson will sever his connec-tions
with the Longmead Iron Com
pany to-morrow, and will hereafter
de-vote hjs whole time tci the bu.-dlloss
Of the new linn.
The new linn starts With a great
man] contracts on hand ami will on
.Monday begin tie manufacture of con-crete
blocks suitable for all kinds of
work. Mr. Atkinson Will take charge
Ol the financial and block manufactur-ing
pan of the business, while his
partner, who is a pro tie al builder,
will look after all erection work
The block plant is located at Bam
and Maple streets and owing to the
amount ol orders on hand tor this ma-terial
a temporary plant has been se-oured,
The Hrm has been experimenting
with concrete blocks for some time
and it is their belief that they will
turn out a finished block which can-not
be excelled.
To begin their business. Ihe firm
will on Monday start with a working
force of twenty men and this force
will be increased as soon as the neces-sary
buildings can be erected.
PROCLAMATON
You are hereby notified that in ac-cordance
with the provisions of the
Act of May Slat, 18»B, ami the regula-tions
of the State Livestock Sanitary
Hoard, you are required to Isolate and
place in quarantine on your premises
all dogs in your possession or in your
keeping and on your premises, under
suspicion of having or having been ex-posed
to the disease known as rabies,
a contagious or infectious disease.
This quarantine remains in force 10»
days from the date thereof or until it
Is revoked by authority of the State
Uvestock Sanitary Board.
JAMES B. RAY, Burgess.
A HYPNOTIC SLEEP
J.BRESSEN
LAorar AND oarfrrr
TAtuottmo
I Weset Elm Street.
Conshohocken. Pa.
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Prof. Colvin, the hypnotist at Lit-tles
Opera House, as a special test to
openly prove his ability as a master
of his science, will give a free demon-stration
on Saturday afternoon. He
has engaged the window of the old
Bijou Theatre on lower Kayette street
and at 2 o'clock he will place his young
lady assistant in a hypnotic state and
will permit her to sleep undisturbed
until 8 o'clock Saturday night, when
she will be carried on her couch,
still sleeping, to the stage of the opera
house and after a number of tests to
prove that she' is still In a cataleptic
state, she will be awekened In the
presence of the audience. It will be
worth your while to watch putting her
to sleep in the afternoon as well as
the awakening at the night perform
ance.
Card of Thanks.
•weak and pale'' for a period ap-proximating
eleven months.
The Portuguese historians re . or I
several months of diminished sun-light
in the year KM A. D., and, at
cording to rlumboldt, this uncanny
period ended with "strange and start
ling sky phenomena, such as loud at
niosplieiic explosions, rills in the
vaulted canopy of blue above and in
divers other rare and unaccountable
in aks."
settleme nt under I'c un was
made in thia Stale, and by that time
there were many white men in Wis-consin.
We are- apt to look upon the French
of to-day as i nie. bled and unambi-tious,
That is simply because they
have given up development of colo-nies,
outside of Africa, and are con-tent
with their own country which is
large enough for the population and is
thrifty in the extreme. But three bun-
In the year 1091, on September lit ,|,.e,| years af»„ the French set no llm-
(see Humboldt's "Cosmos "l. the sun:|t to ln».|r ambitions. Their In
turned suddenly black and remained
so for three hours and did not regain
Its normal condition for several days.
According to the noted Helmuth's
"Solar Energy," the days of seeming
Inactivity on the part of the sun (the
day following the sudden blackening
of the great orb) were noted for a pe-culiar
greenish tinge and are marked
in old Spanish. French and Italian
records as "the days of the green sun.'
February, 1106 A. D.. Is noted in
the anuals of marvelous phenomena
as a month in which there were sev-eral
clays thut "the sun appeared dead
and black, like a grsat circular cinder
floating in the sky."
"On the last day of February,
1206," says an old Spanish writer on
astronomy, astrology and kindred
subjects, "the sun appeared suddenly
to go out, causing a darkness over Ihe
country for about six hours." In
1*41 the European countries experi-enced
another siege of supernatural
darkness, which the superstitious
writers ol that time attributed to
Cods displeasure over the result of
the great battle of Megnltz.
Even today there are certain ir-regularities
of the sun that science
cannot altogether account for. These
are the so-called sun spots—enor-mous
dark splotches which appeur
from time to time on the solar disk
and which are supposed to have
great influence on the atmospheric
conditions of the earth. Scientists
have long studied these phenomena,
but neither their extent nor periodi-city
have ever beeen determined.
Mrs. Martha 1-owrey and son Wil
Ham wish to thank the George Smith
Post No. 79. G. A. R., Co. F. First
Regiment. S. of V., the Columbia Flute
and Cornet Band, the Women's Relief
Corps and the many friends who ex-
I them aid and sympathy during
their recent bereavement.
Taking Pasteur Treatment.
Jennie Cefelli. of 418 Cherry street,
Norrlstown, who was bitten by a mad
dog recently, is taking the Pasteur
treatment at Charity Hospital.
Itch cured in SU minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary I^otlon. Never fails.
Sold by Wm. Neville, Druggist.
tion conquered the world, and they
set out to do as much of it as was pos-sible.
The French had been going up
the St. Lawrence anil the Great Lakes
into the Mississippi vall.-y for well
nigh on to one hundred and fifty years
before a Briton ever crossed the Al-ieghenies.
There was a thriving
French settlement at Green Bay, Wis-consin,
before Philadelphia was laid
out.
The intention of the French was to
make the new empire the great as
set of the kingdom. On that point
there was no hesitation by any of the
kings. Domestic troubles interfered
with their plans and finally brought
them to naught. Even Napoleon gave
up his dream of Western empire with
a pang. Had not Pitt come to the
fore in time it Is safe to say that the
Seven Years war would have ended
disastrously and we might now be in-heritors
of French rather than of Brit-ish
traditions. There is In Wisconsin
a remnant of descendants of the early
French voyageurs and traders, men
of great courage and fertile In re-source.
Following the national cus-tom
they made alliances with the In-dians
and some of the proudest names
in the history of Fiance are now borne
by those who are commonly called In-dians.
Wisconsin had Its chance for ISO
years but little came of it. It is now
simply one of the newer We D
States and Its ancient history is of
academic interest only as the tradi-tions
and customs of the French de
nomination have passed away. But
it is interesting to remember that WIs-consln
Is in a different category from
some of the newer commonwealths be
vond the Alleghenles.—Phila. Inquirer.
Anr *kln itching is a temper-teeter.
The more you scratch the worse it
lichee. Doan's Ointment caress piles,
ecsema—any skin Itching. At all drug
stores.
READ THE RECORDER, 11.00 a yr.
DEMAND CLEAN BALLOT
P. O. S. of A. Will Aid in Fight
Against Election Frauds.
The Patriotic Order Sons of Ameri-ca,
in convention al Washington. Pa.,
iplutiona calling on all i
bi is ol iii tier to Join In a united
effort to purity elections In nation,
state and municipal e !• ciions by pun-ishing
ail corrupt manipulators of the
ballot.
In the resolution it is stated that
"in rcc. nt yeara combinations and
trusts have been formed among politi-cal
parties to manipulate and control
iii. elections in the Interest of their
henchmen and for their own selfish
ends, by buying the franchise of Ig-norant
and corrupt citizens, by fraud-ulent
assessments, by employing re-p.
ate is. by Stuffing ballot boxes, by
making fraudulent returns and mak-ing
our electlona a curse instead of
a blessing."
The next State convention Will be
held at Easton. that town winning over
Pottsville by seven votes. Altoona
early dropped out of the running.
Following is result of balloting on
State officers: President. Eugene F.
Hendricka, Reading; vice-president.
William J. I^awson,"Philadelphia; mas-ter
of forms, William J. Mulr. Sliamo-kln;
treasurer, Irwin S. Smith. Read-ing;
State secretary, William Weand.
Philadelphia; State inspector B. F.
Banes. Altoona; State guard. David
S. Crumm. Washington; camp build-ing
trustees, David E. Sinister. Sham-okin;
John W. Reese, St. Clair. and
O. B. Wetherhold, Reading.
STABBING AFFRAY
Victim in Hospital and Assailant
Sent to Prison.
Julian Eyot. an Italian, residing at
Norristown, was held for a further
hearing by Magistrate Lenhardt. on
the charge Ol slabbing Nicholas De-cani!
three limes Wc,lnesda> e\ ening.
The wounded man was taken to Char-ity
Hospital. He was stabbed in the
neck and side.
The fight took place at Swedeland
an.I Special Officer Frank Baldwin cap-tured
Byot yesterday morning. The
man was getting ready to leave for
Philadelphia when the officer took him
into custody.
A specific for pain—Dr. Thomas
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