The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-29
LURED TO THEIR DEATH.
FOR THEIR MONEY AND OUTFITS.
Two Brothers Taken Into Custody Charged
with Awful Crimss-The New German
Ministry IL not Harmonious-A ver-
dict Of Murder Against Dseming.

WARSAW, March 29.-Police inquiries
into the case Of two brothers named
Kouiikvosky, imprisoned here on the
charge of numbering and robbing peas
ant near Bielostock, has revealed the
practice Of wholesale murder OF emil
grants on the frontier.
Already the naked bodies OF FIVE vic
Tins have been discovered in the snow
in the woods adjacent to tho house occu-
pied by the Koulikvoskys, wAo lived in
the village OF Monki. The search for
bodies is proceeding.
There have been many disappearances
OF late in that neig borhood and the po-
lice estimate that the two brothers have
murdered at least 40 persons. The reve-
throughout the whole district.
The elder brother was peasant farmer.
The younger brother had been a soldier
in the Russian army, but his time had
expired.
He Took to Smuggling
across the frontier and became acquaint-
ed with all the devious paths that led in
to Prussian territory away from the eyes
OF the watchful frontier guards.
Many persons dersirous of leaving Rus
sia, particularly emigrants, were not sup
piled with the necessary passports. These
persons would bargain with the Koulik-
voskys for safe and secret conduct be-
yond Russian soil. Fugitives from jus
tice also availed themselves of Koulikvos-
ky's knowledge of tho frontier to escape
from the officers OF the law.
The brothers would select as their vic
Tins only those who had good outfits and
money. Tho others would be taken
across the frontier in safety. The victims
would be taken in charge by the
singly along narrow path through q
dense forest.
The elder brother would hurry by a
short route to spot agreed upon, and
when the victim approached
He Would be Attacked
by his guide and the man who was in
ambush. The unfortunate would be
strangled and the brothers would beat In
his skull with clubs. The body would
then be robbed.
At the outset the brothers carefully
buried the bodies, but as time went by
they became more careless and showed
the bodies under the brushwood after
stripping them. The elder brother has a
young wife and she, it is charged, helped
the brothers in their crimes. She would
indulge in fiirtations with strangers who
came to Monki, and would make engage
ments for them to visit her at her home.
She is a comely, buxom woman and ad-
mirers would hasten at night to her
house, only to meet death at the hands
Of the husband and his brother.
Among the last of the Koulikvosky's
victims was peasant who sought shelter
from inclement weather in their hut.
He fell asleep and the brothers attempted
to strangle him. The man awoke, made q
desperate struggle for his life.
While he was held SO
He Could Not Escape.
boiling water was poured over his head
and face, and the murderers then sue
oeeded in strangling him. The body was
hidden beneath some straw in a stable,
where IL was accidently discovered before
the brothers had had time TO carry il to
the forest. The finding of this body led
TO the discovery Of the five other bodies
in the woods.
The woman was also taken into custody
and is kept separate from the two men
All three have been subjected to a pro-
longed examination, but they refuse to
confess anything.