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Of Nassau G>unty
Official Paper, Village of Freeport
FREEPORT, N. Y- SATURDAY, JUNE 25. 1921
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Vol XXIV, No. 105
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"SHOOT ME, SHOOT ME"
BEGS WIDOWS MURDERER
Lawrence JCubal, Austrian Pole, Admits He Killed Mrs. Bartlett-Motive Robbery
WIFE DELAMS LOVE FOR Hi; TELLS ALL SHE HEARD OF CRME
DIST. ATTORNEY WEEKS CALLS GRAND JURY FOR MONDAY TO SPEED HIM TO DEATH CHAIR
Says Need to Get Money Was Sole Motive-— Was Out of Work, Family in Hard Straits and Fact That Rich Widow Was Alone in House Sug¬ gested Way to Get Valuables—In¬ jured Mrsm Bartlett so Severely in Her Struggles With Him That He Killed Her With Chisel to Stop Her Sufferings—Told His Wife and Arrest Followedm
MRS. BARTLETTS FUNERAL AT ST. GEORGE'S. HEMPSTEAD, AT 2 O'aOCK THIS AFTERNOON
Hempstead, June 25,—"I killed the woman; I hit her with ohiiel," declared Lawrence Kubal, an Austsian Pole, 36 years old, of 160 Beech avenue, South Hempstead, as he sat in police headquarters here last night and calmly confessed to the murder of Mrs. Minnie'S. Bartlett, who was brutally assaulted and slain in'her home on Hempstead avenue Wednes¬ day afternoon, *?¦>
Kubal was arrested for the murder at 11 o'clock last night. After telling his story to the police and to District Attorney Charles E. Weeks, he was taken before Justice of the Peace, Edward T. Neu of Lynbrook, who had acted as coroner in the case, arraig:ned and held to await the action of the grand jury on the charge of murder in the first degree. He ii now ia
jail and carefully guarded, under the direction of Sheriff Charles W. Smith.
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Kobbery Ihe Motive
the
motive for the
Robbery ' crime.
Kubal, according to his own story, being out of work nnd broke, had gone to the house, representing himself to be a prospe<?tive purchaser. He told Mrs. Bartlett, he .said, that he fcud his brother had $22,000 to spend, that his name was Nicholas Steflln, that he was in the radiator and fender busi¬ ness in Hilton avenue.
He had left with the promise to bring his brother and wife back with him to see the house, returned the sec¬ ond time on a pretext that he had for¬ gotten something, each time lacklng- the nerve to carry out his plan to get money from a rich woman.
Returning the third time, he had at¬ tacked Mrs. IJartlett, pounded her nearly Into unronselousneas, attempted a foul assault upon her, then finished his Job with a chisel, as he said, be¬ cause he knew she would die anyway . and didn't want her to suffer. Wife ToM of Crhne
It was through his wife that the story of Kubal's gruesome crime came to light. Evidently suffering under the 'Strain and perhaps conscience stricken, if that wer« possible, he confided to hts wife yesterday momlng that he had murdered Mrs. Bartlett. Tho distracted wife, mother of two children and aoon again to become a mother, niahad to tha home of her siatar, Mrs. Martin Oartshefaky, of New Hyd^ Park, to whom she told th* story. "Tlia atater In turn told her husband, he want vrttb It to Deputy Sheriff A'jguat Krug or Nbw Hyde Park.
Knig. with Clarence Keefeo, alao of Hew H,vd<». Park, broiiaht Gariahefsky
to Hempstead, where he unfolded the story to Chief of Police P. A. Seaman, as he had received it from his wife and also from hie Bisterln-law.
Chief Seaman and Emil Morse, of SherifC Smith's staff. Jumped into a car, and, followed by Krug, Keefer and Garlshefsky, rushed to the home of Kubal on Beech avenue.
Kubal ^was not at home. After mak¬ ing a thorough search of the house and surrounding premises, they ques¬ tioned the man's wife, who admitted all she had told her sister- The police chief and party left the house and were but a short distance away when they met a man coming along the road.
Morse Arrests Kubal
Morse Jumped out of the car, rushed to the man and demanded to know his name. The other answered , readily that he was Lawrence KubaU There¬ upon Morse placed him under arrest and he waa taken to police headauar- ters.
Slight questioning and tho story he told voluntarily soon convinced the po¬ lice that they had the right man. Dis¬ trict Attorney Weeks was called at his home In Port Washington.
The district attorney, accompanied by Constable Leonard Thome and Ser¬ geant Bight of the State Police, made a quiqk trip 4o Hempatead police head¬ quarters, aud there, in the preaence of Chief Seaman. Morse, m«ml>er8 ot the State Police, 'rhomc, newspaper men and others. Kubal calnrJy unfolded his awful atory. ' ,
Na Marks «« WAet
The prisoner had had his mustache shaved oft to prerent recornltion and had had his hair eut. BDa face bore no marks oif aay d^mace dooe to him
Hempstead, June 25.—The funeral of Mrs. Bartlett was held from her late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock, and was in charge of I'ndertaker P, P.. Cornell, to whose morgue the body was taken after the crime.
The officiating clergyman wa.s tho Rev. H. W. Arm.<»trong of Woodhaven, who came In the absence of the Upv. Charles H. Snedecker, rector of Kt. Oeorge's Kpi.scopal church, who i.'ii away on his vacation.
The fuiteral wau private, only reli- tlves attending. Burial was In Green¬ wood cemetery.
by the woma|i, in her death struggle, and exploded the theory, which seem¬ ingly was supported by the stories of witnesses who had seen a man with .scratches on hia face, that the a.ssail- ant had been badly marked.
Kubal showed no emotion as he made his confession. Frequently he would ask for a cigarette and lighting it. would continue with the harrowing de¬ tails, both bo'ore the district attorney arrived and afterwu»'d.
DM Not Go io Kill
Kubal, according to his confession, did not intend to kill the woman when he went to the- place, although he ad¬ mitted he had planned the robbery since the previous day.
On Tuesday, he said, he was passing along Hempstead avenue, when he saw .some boys stealing cherries from a tree In the yard. He reached up, pulled down a branch and helped him¬ self to some cherries. Just then, he said, all autombblle. tontalnlng jtwo men came into the yard, probably a prospective customer for the property, which was for sale. They asked if there was anybody at home and the boys told them there 'was not.
Then the automobile and men went away and Kubal asked the boys, ac¬ cording to the story he told, who lived there, "Only a rich lady," they told him- That gave him an idea. Why not get some money out of this rich lady who ll'il'es alone? He went home and thought it over.
The next morning (Wednesday), he returned at 8:30. Mrs. Bartlett came to tho door and he broached the sub¬ ject of buying the property. Kubal told her he and his brother had $22,000 to spend on the house. They had some more money, but needed it In their radiator business. In which he claimed they were engaged. She asked $45,- 000, saying she wanted to sell It all. Nerve FaUed Him
Though the woman was alone, Ku- bar.>i nervie failed him- He was shown through the house by the lone woman, but left without harming her, saying he would bring his brother and his wife to look it over- v
Again he went to the house at 11 o'clock, thinking to gather courage to carry out his plan to get money. This time he told her he had forgotten to look at the heating apparatus and wanted to know whether it was steam or hot water. Be waa shown to the cellar, and again went through the wiMie houae, he BoiA, Imt aaaia bis serv* failed hlra and he muM A6 ad- ranoa toward fettlnir ttmi^ay.
Then he went to the bencK"by the
trolley tracka and sat down, smoked a
cigarette jand fell asleep. It is here
that persona stated they had seen him.
(Continued on Page Two)
ITHIRD MAN ACCUSED OF TAKING PARTS
Lieut. Jokn P. RouIIot, of Mitchel
Field Air Forces Held in $1500
Bail for Hearing
iMIneola, June 25.— I.ieul. John 1'. RouUot, of the Uniled States air forces at Mitchel Field, was held yesterdny in Brooklyn by 1'. .S. Commissioner .Mc Calie on a charge of approprlatinx gov ernment property to his r.wn use. His bail la fl.xed at $1,500.
JtouUot, who ia 27 years old, and a member of a wealthy California family was arrested by Agent Maher, of the Department of Justice. llearinK w<is .<<ei for July 7.
He was In charge of the fepalr de partment of the aviation works at Mil chel Field and it is alleged that he took airplane parts for use in his or .some automobile business which it is said he conducted as a side line.
It waa only recently that Lieut. Roul lot was interested in the charges against William Donnellan and Stephen Csut- oros, former West Point cadets who were arrested, charged with the larcenv of airplane parts from Mitchel Field. These two last named also admitted that they tried to steal a ship from the field.
HEMPSTEAD HRE AURM S.Oi. BOY SCOUTS CALL TO SERVICE
Hempstead. June 25.—The Ilempstead Boy Scouts now have a special call bv which they aro summoned to aid in finding lost persons, keeping order and for other services. When the flre whis¬ tle blows S. O, S. (three short blasts, three long blasts and three short blasts) the Scouts will assemble in imlform for duty.
COUNTY JUDGE THREATENS TO ADJOURN COURT IF CASES ARE NOT READY MONDAY
Atineola, June 25.—Judge Lewis .1. .'-imith, plainly annoyed by the fact thm he cannot get attorneys to try their cases now, announced from the bench yesierd.'iy morning (list he wuuld ad journ conrt until next fall, next Mon¬ day if attorneys were nol ready lo gu lo trial. This announcement was miide when tho calendar was called and of .'ill these cases to be tried, not one nf them could be begun.
if the court Is adjourned for the term j on .Monday il means there will be rm | more sessions until September.
Til a man in jail who is awaiting trial a wait from now until Septeml>er Is a long time, a court attache remarked to day, and it Is expecte<i that some of the nttorneys will want to try their cases when II Is known that unless they do go to trial quickly, their clients must wait until fall.
Assistant District Attorney Elvin N. EMwards, who looks after the county court criminal cases, for the most part. Is ready to clean uj) those charges that are awaiting and have the jail cleared out liefore the summer adjournment Is taken.
With Brother-in-Law Makes No Attempt to Con¬ ceal Facts or Save Man Who Committed Mur¬ der-Squalor and Dire Need-Three Nude Chil¬ dren Playing on Floor When Daily Review Men Called Today
AUTOMOBILES COLUDE
AT HEMPSTEAD CORNER
Hemi)stead, Juno 25.—.\n automobile owned and operated by Hamuel Resnick. of Oreenwlch street, and another owned by Eugene 1'. Hawkins and operated by Tames Sealey, came together at Oreen¬ wlch and Prospect streets yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, while attempt¬ ing to avoid two other cars. The dash¬ board of Resnick'a car was broken and | the radiator of the Hawkins car smash ed. Fenders on both cars were dam aged.
REWARD FOR KUBALKAPTDRE MAY BE CLAIMED BY SEVERAL
Wife and Brother-in-Law of Confessed Killer, As Well As Numerous Peace Officers May Be En¬ titled to the $1,000 Offered by Town Officials For His Arrest
Hempstead, June 25.—The capture of the murderer may have been due to any one of several indirect causes, but the fact remains that the fears of his wife, told to her brother-in- law Galshefsky, brought about his actual arrest.
Whether or not Galshefsky was actuated by a desire to bring a killer to justice cannot be known. There is the fact that the reward so promptly offered by Supervisor Hiram R. Smith, Supervisor G. Wilbur Doughty and the Town Board of Hempstead spurred on everybody connected with the search for the fugitive and the fact that all thes^ people had been reading the newspapers which told of the progress of the search and all events transpiring after the murder, had a large bearing on the final capture and arrest.
Just how the reward 'will be divided i^-
can only be guessed at now. The 'wife of the slayer, of course, gave the flrst tip. Sho is soon to become a mother for the third time and whUe it is true that AlBA wn Mrvotted by the story hor husband told her. It la also true that if any part of the reward money went'to her there will t>e a likelihood that tt can t>e used in defense of the man who committed tbe crime. Oalshefsky and his wife might easily
claim a share of the reward, as might Deputy Sheriff Krug, who brought the informants to the Hempstead police. Chief of Police Seaman, whose friends and neighbors in Nasaau County have always t>elleved In him and whose ac. tivities since the day the crime waa oommitted right up until the preaent hour, has never lessehed, is surjeiy en¬ titled to a share In the re'ward, as la Deputy Sheriff Kmil Horse, who hits worked unOagglngly on the trial of the murderer and actually made, the arrest.
".Shoot Me" Begs Prisoner
Fearing some outbreak because of the aroused state of mind of the people In and around this section, the prison¬ er has been heavily guarded ever since he has been in tho jail.
This morning, knowing tbi\ conse¬ quences of his act, Kubal begged Sher¬ iff Charles W. Smith to kill him.
"Shoot me, sh(x»t me", the man shouted as he was led away to n cell after he hod been finger printed and pictures had been taken.
The cold chisel with which Kubal says he committed the crime was found this morning by Deputy Emil .Morse who went into the Fulton avenue woods where, at the direction of the murderer, It was picked up.
The bloody shirt sleeve which Kubal cut off with his pocket knife to avoid detection was found sluffed into an old and rusted tomato can.
Jamaicans To Testify.
AssLstant District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards arranged to_ get the j>eo|ile from Jamaica who have knowledge ol the stolen property which wus recover ed this morning.
Moo S. Levy, 19 Harrison avenue, M. Gordon, 414 Fulton street, and I..aw- rence Pletra, of 27 Canal street, all In Jamaica,
Find .Shirt Sleeve and ChisW
From Jamaica the officers headed their automobile back to Hempstead, where they went to Kubal's home on Beaoh street. He showed them where he had put the blood-stained coat, hat, trousers and shirt which he wore when he beat Mrs. Bartlett to death with a chisel In her home last Wednesday aftemoon. ,
Kubal was thea taken to Mineola, where be wms locked up in the county Jail.
The chisel usad to kill Mrs. Bart lett waa found not far from the pUce where the bloody shirtsleert: was Bicked up. It WAS about Ave inches long. It waa foend^'by Deputy Sheriff Morse, wtw wmpped It In a piece of paper and eventually deltrered it lo
the o<IRce of District Attorney Charles W. Weeks here.
Kubal showed no emotion when the chisel was found.'
"You know I am the man Ihat liiUe<t> that lady, In that ca.se," Mrs Kuhal quoted her hushand as saying through her broth^rJn-law, Martin Oarlsliefsky, of New HJjlle Park, who acted as au interfireter Tho brother-in-law says that because ne Is a good mnn he wanted to tell the police of the mur¬ derer and his whereabouts.
Family in Actual Want
The place Is the poorest that could be imagined, the squalor is below what Ihe average per.son could picture and the barefooted wifo, with two naked children at her feet and a third ex¬ pected any time within the nexl two weeks, faces starvation.
There was not a cent of money In the house and whatever the murderer got for the wretched loot that he took from the Bartlett home went Into Il¬ licit liquor rather than to relieve the famished family of which he was fhe head.
Temporary relief was given this morning by a representative of The Dally Review who, having no sympathy for the murderer, would not see the innocent children suffer through lack of food.
. Boys lo Identify Kubai
District Attorney Charles R, Weeks this morning asked that an appeal be. made to the boys who saw Kubal on the morning of the crime.
He asks that these parents bring the Ijoys to the ofllcials, not because they are charged with anything, but because It is hoped that their identification of the murderer will be positive.
The slayer talked to the boys, he .says. In the morning on the day of the crime, and they told him that only a rich lady lived in the house.
These boy witnesses are important because they furnish the connecting links In the chain of evidence thet Is being forged about the killer.
Wlf* Hays "I No Care for Him"
In a wretched hovel in the rear of 150 Bench street, the wife of the mtir derer toid her story to representatives of The Dally Review.
"1 DO care for him,"' the woman »,ob»>ed, "but I have no money and I starve with my babies."
Two naked children played about the floor of the thfceroom hut and they cooed and gurgled, all unconscious of the tragedy that was being eaaetad i about them.
Murder Was Oa HQa Narva
"He was wild, he was talking aw¬ ful", said the woman and It ""was re¬ peated through the Interpretfr In his own broken English.
Tbls was Friday morning, the day^ that Mrs. Kuhal says ber 'husband
