The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-03-31
MANY MURDERED.
Two Brothers in Russia Charged
With Killing Numerous
Emigrants.
A Least Forty Persons Thought
to Have Been Killed and
Robbed by Them.

WARSAW, MafCn Z9.-IOllce mo ulrleS into
the case Of two brothers named Koulik-
yosky, who are imprisoned here on the
charge of numbering and robbing peasant
near Belostock, has revealed the practice
of the wholesale murder of emigrants on
the frontier.
Already the naked bodies of five victims
have been discovered in the snow in the
woods adjacent to the house occupied by
the brothers, who lived in the village of
Monki The search for bodies is proceed
ing. There have been many disappear
| ances O: late in the neghborhood of the
Koulikvosl1y residence, and the police esti-
mate that the two brothers have murdered
at least forty persons. The residents of
Monki have been greatly startled by the
revelations concerning the brothers. and
there is much excitement throughout the
whole district. The elder brother who was
a peasant farmer, has young wife,
who, it is charged, took advantage of her
sex to abet her husband in his crimes, re-
ceiving her share of the spoils secured from
the unfortunate victims. The younger
brother had been a soldier in the Russian
army, but his time had expired. He took
to smuggling across the frontier as means
Of livelihood, and naturally became thor
oughly acquainted with all the various
paths that led into Prusslan territory away
from
THE WATCHFUL FRONTIER GUARDS
Many Of the persons DESTROYS of leaving
Russia, particularly emigrants, were not
supplied with the passports required by the
ort hafn P,1.c l1o1
leave the country, and in these persons the
Koulikvouskys found their victims. These
persons would approach the Koulikvouskys
and bargain for a safe conduct beyond Rus
sian soil, and with his knowledge of the
frontier it was a comparatively easy under
taking for the younger brother 10 get them
safe away from Russian territory Furi-
tives from justice also availe themselves Of
Koulikvousky's knowledge 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 follow: They would select
as their victims only those who had good
outfits and money. The others would he
taken across the frontier in safety. The
} victims would be taken in charge by the
younger brother, and sinSly they would be
conducted along narrow path through a
dense forest. In the meantime the elder
brother would hurry by a short route to
spot previously agreed upon, and when the
victim approached he would be attacked by
his guide and the man who hid in ambush.
The unfortunate man .-
WOULD BE sTRANGLED A.
and then, to make their work sure, the
brothers would beat 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 became careless and showed
the bodies under the brushwood, alter
stripping them. But this was not
victims. The wife of the elder brother
would indulge in firtations with strangers
who came to Monki, and would make en-
gagenerts for them to visit her at her
home. She is a comely, buxom woman,
and admirers would hasten at night to her
house, only 10 meet death at the hands Of
the husband and his brother who awaited
their coming. .
Among the last victims of the brothers
was a peasant who had "lght shelter from
inclement weather in their house. He fell
asleep and the brothers attempted to
strangle him. He awoke and made most
desperate struggle for his lite, as his BODY
showed. While he was held so he could
not escape boiling water was poured over
his head and ace. and the murderers then
succeeded in strangling HIM: The BODY
was hidden beneath some straw in a stable,
where it was accidentally discovered be-
fore the brothers 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.