■ FEARING FATHER,
LETS MOTHER DIE
Son Explains VVSiy He Did Not
Answer Plea of Dying ,
Woman.
' IS SLAIN BY HUSBAND
Boy Contradicts Story of Father, Who
.Insists Spouse Tried to Kill Him
by Administering Witch
V Poison.
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Detroit, Mich.—Mrs. Anna Eobrow
eki, hands and feet bound, fatally
wounded by the blows of her hus
band Martin, lay on the floor of her
desolate Sumpter township home and
begged her son Theodore, seventeen, to
untie her.
Before Assistant Prosecutor Popiel
Theodore admitted he had not an
^’swered her plea because he was
“afraid of the old man.” Theodore
and his sister, Celia, fifteen, made
formal statements against their father,
a prisoner in the county jail. ^
“And you let your mother lie there
without helping her?” repeated the
prosecutor.
“Sure,” said Theodore. “I started
to do what she asked me, but the old
man came In and I ran upstairs. I
was afraid of him.”
Slayer Describes Death.
The remaining moments of Mrs.
^ptobrowski’s life were described to Mr,
Popiel by the slayer.
“I took her in and tied her down
on the floor and sat with her,” he
said. “She asked me: ‘Martin, why
do you kill me?’ I told her: ‘That’s
just what you wanted to do to me;
you put the witch poison in my bread
and tried to kill me.’
“She said she didn’t, but I know she
Ad. Then she kept still till she
rifled.”
Bobrowsld said the witch poison
was a decoction known in the old
country and used by women to poi
son their husbands. Women can eat
it without harm; but if a man eats it
he becomes palsied and dies, he ex
plained.
Bobrowski said his wife fed him the
poison after they had quarreled about
possession of $360. He said he be
came ill.
Boy Contradicts Father.
Theodore was brought in to confront
his father. The boy, who evi
dently did not know what a sheriff
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“I Ran Upstairs."
was wrhen Sheriff Coffin visited him,
had learned something of the protec
tion given by the law.
“You weren’t sick, either,” lie de
clared, looking his parent in the eye.
“Mother did not have any poison, and
you know it.”
A coroner’s jury at Sumpter re
turned a verdict that Mrs. Bobrow
(*i died from blows from a poker in
the hands of her husband. The bat
tered body was taken to Belleville for
burial.
Investigation showed he first had
washed the body, put on the dead
woman’s best dress, placed her hands
across her breast and then made his
son drive him to Detroit in quest of
a burial permit.
MOUSE SAVES THE BURGLAR
Got Into Trap and Delayed Armed
p Man Who Was Pur
suing.
Fort Dodge, la.—A wounded negro,
now under arrest in a Cherokee hos
pital, is believed to be the man who
antered the A. H. Woodard home here,
and at whom Woodard fired one night.
| Woodard was awakened by the
sound of someone in his room and saw
| a man standing near the foot of the
bed. He grabbed his revolver from
under the pillow and fired at the in
truder.
The thief started to run, with Wood
ard after him. A mouse probably
salfctl the thief’s life. While Wood
ard was following the intruder a mouse
got into a trap in the Woodard kitchen.
The noise led Woodard to believe
there was another robber in the kitch
en and he hesitated long enough so
that tiie man made his escape.
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Baby Ribbon and Angora Collar and
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Sweaters are doing so many things
these days that it’s hard to keep up
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made herself what she properly calls
her “real sjlk sweater,” and it is one
of the things which you may not have
seen a sweater do before.
Instead of using wool or silk floss,
this young lady used baby ribbon and
gave it angora collar and cuffs after
the combination vogue of the present
day sweater. She expects to make a
scarf collar for it after she has tired
of the angora one, for she didn’t knit
the collar and cuffs right onto the
sweater; she only snapped them on
with snap-fasteners. Being very tem
peramental, she anticipated her on
coming wish for a “change.”
She is going to knit the scarf of em
broidery ribbon instead of baby rib
bon. and snap it to the back of the
sweater neck. The cuffs to go with it
will be made turn-back ones just as
the ones of angora which are now on
the sweater.
It really is a fascinatingly pretty
thing to wear with her silk skirts, and
when she wears a ribbon sash with it
—well, her costume would win ad
miration most anywhere!
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Cleaning Velvet.
Stretch the velvet dress out flat on
the table or on anything on which it
can be stretched full length'. If pos
si. .e hold it down with heavy weights.
Hold a boiling kettle of water near
the material. This is the best known
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other stains may be removed by apply
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pentine, raw potato, yolk of egg, etc.
Lay the article on a flat surface and
apply the cleansing fluid with a small
brush, nail brush, hand brush, etc.
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