Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-29
A CHAIN OF MURDERS
More Blood Curdling Than Those of
Jack the Ripper Disclosed
ON THE DARK POLISH FRONTIER.
Refugees Travelling Without Passports the
Chief VictimA
NEWS FROM THE EUROPEAN CAPITALS

Yosky, who are imprisoned here on the
charge of numbering and robbing peasant
near Bielostock, have revealed the practice
of the wholesale murder of emigrants or
the frontier. Already the naked bodies o.
five victims have been discovered In the
snow in the woods adjacent to the house
occupied by the Koulikvoskys, who lived
in the village Of Monki. The search oi
bodies is proceeding.
There have been many disappearances OF
late in the neighborhood of the Koulik-
vosky residence, and the police estimate
that they have murdered at least 40 per-
sons The residents of Monki have been
greatly startled by the revelations concern
ing the brothers, and there is much excite
ment throughout the whole district. The
elder brother, who was q peasant farmer,
has young wife, who, it is charged, took
advantage Of her sex to abet her husband in
his crimes, receiving her share of the spoils
secured from the unfortunate victims of her
wiles
Smuggling Emigrants Out Of the Country.
The youngest brother had been soldier
In the Russian army, but his time had ex-
pired. He took to smuggling across the
frontier as means of livelihood, and, natu-
rally, became thoroughly acquainted with
all the paths that led into Prussian terri
tory away from the eyes of the watchful
frontiergu Many persons desirous of
leaving Russia, particularly emigrants,
were not supplied with the passports re-
quired by the Government before Russians
oil N IN,
these persons the Koulikvoskys found
their victims
These persons would approach the
Koulikvoskys and bargain with them for a
safe conduct beyond Russian soil; and with
his knowledge Of the frontier, it was a COM
paratively easy undertaking for the younger
brother to get them safe away from Russian
territory. .Fugitives from justice, also,
availed themselves of Koplikvosky s knowl-
edge to escape from the officers Of the law.
The method followed by the brothers in
the cases Of persons desiring to cross the
frontier was as follows: They would select
outfits and money. The others would be
taken across the frontier in safety.
Ambushed in Lonely Places.
The victims, however, would be taken in
charge by the younger brother, and singly
they would be conducted along narrow
path through dense forest. In the mean
short route to spot previously agreed on,
and when the victim approached he would
be attacked by his guide and the man who
laid in ambush. The unfortunate man
would be strangled, and then, to make their
work sure, the brothers would beat in his
skull with clubs. He would then be robbed
of everything in his possession.
At the outset the brothers carefully
buried the bodies, but, as time went by,
they, being undetected, became careless and
showed the bodies under the brushwood
after stripping them.
But this was not the only way they had
OF securing victims. The wife Of the elder
brother would firt with strangers who came
to Monkl, and would make engagements
for them to visit her at her home. She is o
comely, buxom woman, and admirers would
haste2 at night to her house, only to meet
death at the hands of husband and his
brother, who waited their coming.
How tho Villains Were Found Out.
Among the last of the victims was a
peasant who had sought shelter from in
clement weather in their hut He fell
asleep and the brothers attempted to
strangle him. The man awoke and made a
most desperate struggle for his life, as his
body showed. While ne was held so he
could not escape, boiling water was poured
over his head and face, and the murderers
then succeeded in strangling him. The
body was hidden beneath some straw in a
stable, where it was accidentally discov-
cred before the brothers had had time to
carry it to the forest The finding of this
body led to the discovery. of the five other
bodies in the woods.
The woman was taken into custody with
he men, but she is kept entirely separate
rom them. All three have been subjected
o prolonged examination, but they re-
use to confess anything.