St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-27

The Wife Also Said to Have
Had Another Lover on
the Flats.
The West side flats were all agOg
with excitement yesterday morning,
when the news of the wholesale poison
ing at the residence of Andrew Zuretski
was made general. Every person liv-
ing Oh the flats seemed to have a strong
personal interest i'll the case, and
crowded into the house where the sick
people lay. All seemed to be deeply
| affected by the occurrence and talked
of the affairs in whispers. When the
physicians left the house early in the
morning all the persons who had par
taken of the poison were suffering most
intensely, but Miss Lizzie Hlavach. the
cousin of Mrs. Martin, was in the worst
condition. The poison seemed to have af-
fected her worse than it had the others,
and when not turning in agony she
lay as one dead. When morning
daWned it saw considerable change in
the scene. Mr.. ZuretSki. George Mar
iii diIi hCOI hdluNNOh lictu IC|ONClCd
sufficiently TO be able to walk about,
and rs the morning wore on, Zuretski
and katuScok went to work. leaving
Martin at home to look after the FAM
lily. Mrs. Zuretski and her baby recOv-
cred sufficiently during the morning to
| be around the house a little, and at 3
o'clock in the afternoon the baby was
laughing and Growing, as though no
cOwardly assessing had nearly succeed
ed in sending all the inmates of the
house to eternity.
TIE BRIDE POISONED.
But there was another surprise in
store for all concerned, and it came
from a quarter least expected. As
stated in the GLOBE yesterday morning,
Mrs. Martin did not take supper at
home, but went to her cousins, Maik
KahanOfSky, and ate there. After be-
ing told of the poisoning she went TO
Zuretski'S house, and remained there
until morning. Early III the day she
went to her cousins house again. and
returned to Zuretski'S about noon.
Soon after coming into the house she
was taken with pains in her head and
stomach, and in q few moments was
rolling over and over on the floor.
imploring her husband to send
for a physician. DIR. Hanson
and Police Surgeon Kelly were at once
summoned. On arriving at the house
they found Mrs. Martin in pretty bad
shape, but not as bad as they had eX-
pected from the reports which had
reached them. A stomach pump was
brought into use and in few moments
the young brides stomach was relieved
of It's contents. A small quantity of
Rough on Rats" was found in what
was pumped out. The woman was
made as comfortable as possible, and
after attending to the other patients the
doctors left the place. Miss Illavach
was in the worst condition last night,
but there is no danger OF her dying.
Since the awful occurrence there have
been any number of theories set atloat
as to who did the deed. 1t was stated
soon after the affair was made public
that little boy named SmeaShek, liv
ing near by, had been seen around the
flour barrel. and the idea gained ground
that he had put poison into the flour at
the instance of some older person. The
boy was seen yesterday at the Peabody
school. He was badly frightened, but
emphaticallv denied that he knew any
thing of the affair. He had not, he
said, been anywhere near the house.
TIE POISON FOUND.
Soon after Mrs. Martin had returned
to the ZuretSkI house. about noon. and
was taken sick, a small boy. Frank
Shiler, while playing around Maik Ka-
hanOfSky'S house, found a box of
Trough on Rats" the contents being
about half used mp. This box he at
once gave the patrOlman on the beat.
Mrs. Martin was asked If she knew any
thing about this box of poison, and le
piled that she did not. Before leaving
KahanOfSky'S house she had eaten. she
said, piece of bread and butter. This
led to train of thought not at all cal
culated to make things look bright for
Mrs. Martin. When it was learned
during the afternoon that on the day
previous, she had purchased box of
the poison, many of those interested
in the case were not slow TO advance
the theory that Mrs. Martin had become
Jealous of her husband because he
would not accompany her over to Maik
KahanOfsky'S to take supper, and had
put the poison in the food at Zuretski'S
house in order to be revenged upon her
husband. The suppOStiOn is that she
became TcmOTSe-Stricken yesterday
morning, and ate some of the poison on
her bread and butter. This view of the
matter is strengthened by the fact that
she purchased the poison and the find
ing Vi TIE DOA IcStI NDtIt SllC NstS oldA
Ing. When questioned about the mat
ter yesterday, Mrs. Martin said:
THE reason L did not take supper
with my husband Thursday evening
was because l had gone over to my
Cousins, Maik KahanOfsky's, to get
dress | had there. He wanted me TO
take supper there and did SO. / can-
not imagine who it was that put this
poison in our food. Neither my hus-
band nor / have any enemies that /
know of. was taken sick about half
an hour after eating piece of bread
and butter at my Cousins"
THEORIES AND SCRNISES.
Another theory is that Maik Kahanof-
sky is the man who did the poisoning.
Mrs. Martin formerly lived with him,
and ii is generally known that he was
in love with her and wanted her to
marry him. Some claim that he invited
the woman to visit his house in order
that he might poison the rest, and that
when he saw the others were not going
to die he determined that Mrs. Martin
should not live with another man, and
so gave her the poison on the breaG and
butter she ate. Kahanofsfy could not
be found yesterday, so his side of