The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-12
ANNIE GARsKI,

on entering the house was, "Why,. you're
poisonedp The speedy use Of antidotes
brought the victims out OF danger Then
the physician tackled the healthy Miss
O'Keefe with searching accusation On
her confessing that she had systematically
hosed the women, the medical man locked
her in a chamber and called the police
The bird had flown when they arrived.
She had managed to reach the r.of and
get to the street by means. of a fire escape.
Investigation disclosed the cause for the
attempted murders. Mrs. Elliott has sew
eral thousands of dollars worth. of gems
and silver. Miss OKeefe was in league
with a gang OF thieves and 1t WAS her task
to make the family so i'll that they could
offer no resistance when the robbers were
admitted to the house. The whofeplo was
calculating, cold blooded and mnrderous,
and, to use the language Of Virgil. "a
woman was leader in the deed"
Mrs. Annie Garski held rank until few
days ago as respectable woman Now
she is In a Chicago jail and six charges Of
burglary have so far been preferred against
her. All information goes to show that
Mr.. Garski Is decent laborfng man who
earns fair livelihood as an iron molder.
He thought his wife model of propriety.
and naturally the exposure and disgrace
have broken him all up" Yet the wom-
ans criminal career has continued for
months and possibly for years.
Last spring she told her husband. that
with his consent, and in order to lessen
their living expenses, she would take
boarder. He acquiesced, and returning
from work one evening found stranger
in the house, who was introduced to him
as Joseph Homan, an electrician Who
worked nights" The latter part of Nhe
statement was true, for the fellow aid
"work nights"
Whenever Garsk could be induced to
attend a meeting of his unioBoT to call on
a friend his wife and the boarder m@1e a
raid on some store. The man effected the
entrance and brought out the goods. Tho
woman packed thensAp large satohel
and then the pair would go home. A man
lugging a big valise along the streets late
at night would naturally have been sus-
pected, but the police never thought OF
halting the respectable looking coupleap-
parently returning from visit to Che
suburbs.
But the exposure came at last, as it al
ways does to such yillainy A store was
plundered and detectives found part of the
booty concealed under q sidewalk. They
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night along came Mrs. Garsk and Homan.
Tney oegan 60 pack the satchel when the
officers pounced ON them. The man got
away but the woman WAS captured and
confessed. Over 81 900 worth OF goods was
recovered from the boarder's room.
Little or no mystery attaches TO the
above affairs. They are simply Instances
OF feminine depravity, but good deal Of
doubt shadows the accusation brought
against Mile Pfaffman, who resides at
Armourdale, suburb of Kansas City.
Mile is fairly good looking girl Of
twenty. Two years ago she became ao-
quainted with j. NJ. Juvenal. He was
married man, but did not live with hts
wife, from whom he was subsequently, d.
vorced
After getting the decree be did not, as
seems to have besn expected, wed Miss
Pfaffman. but forined d union with an
othez Momsp- A day or tMo afteK Tbs