The weekly tribune., 1892-04-02
The Method Employed by a Couple of
Russians for Making Away
With Their Victims.
About Forty Lives Have Been Traced
to Their Door by the
Police.
The Wife of One of the Mur-
derers Figures Prominently i'm
the Crime.
Wholesale Murder.

WARSAW, March 2S.-The police In
quiry into the case of the two brothers
named Korlikvosky, who are imprisoned
here on the charge Of numbering and
robbing peasant near Bielosterek. 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 pro-
ceeding. There have been many disap-
pearances OF late in the neighborhood of
the koulikvosky residence and the police
estimate that the two brothers have
murdered at least forty persons. Resi-
dents of Monki have been greatly
startled by the revelations concerning
the brothers and there is much excite
mcnt throughout the whole district.
The elder brother, who was 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 from
the unfortunate victims. The younger
brother has been soldier in the Rus
si4n army, but his time had expired He
took to smuggling across the frontier as
means of livelihood and naturally be-
came thoroughly acquainted with all the
various paths that led into the Prussian
territory away from the watchful front
ier guards. Many of the persons desir
Gus of leaving Russia, particularly emf
grants, were not supplied with the pass
ports required by the government before
Russians are allowed to leave the coun-
try, and in these persons the Koulikvous-
kys found their victims These persons
would approach the KoulikvOuskys and
bargain with them for safe conduct be-
vond Russian soil, and with his knowl-
edge of the frontier it was a compare
lively easy undertaking for the younger
brother to get them safely away from
Russian territory. Fugitives from JUS
tice also availed themselves of this OPP
portunity to escape from the officers of
the law. The method followed by the
brothers in cases Of persons desiring to
cross the frontier was as follows: They
would select as their victims only those
who had good outfits and money, the
others would be taken across the front
ier in safety. The victims, however,
would he be taken in charge by the
younger brother and slngly they would
be conducted along narrow path
through dense forests. In the mean
time the older bro her would hurry by
short route to the spot previously agreed
upon and when the victim approached
he would be attacked by his guide and
the man who hid in alnbesh. The un-
fortunate man wo uld be strangled and
then to make their work sure the broth
ers 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 became care
less add showed the bodies under brush
wood, after stripping them. But this
was not the only way they had Of Sc
brother would indulge in tlirtatlons
with strangers who came to Monki and
would make engagements for them to
visit her at her home She is a comely,
buyom woman and admirers would
hasten at night to her house. only to
meet death at the hands OF the husband
and his brother who awaited their
coming. The last victims Of the brothers
was peasant who had sought shelter
from inclement weather in their house.
He fell asleep and they attempted to
strangle him. The man awoke and made
desperate struggle for his life, as his
body showed. While he 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 stable where it was dis
covered before the brothers had had
time to carry it to the forest. The find
ing of this body led to the discovery of
five other bodies in the woods. The
woman was taken into custody with the
men but she is kept entirely separate
from them. All three have been sub
jected to a prolonged examination but