Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-01
SOMETHING NEW IN THE zOL
DOSKI CASE.

RHINELANDER, Wis, Feb. 24.-Spec-
ial Telegram have re-
Gently been made in the Ella Maiy
poisoning case at Richland Center,
which, if they can be substantiated,
will result in the release of Rose Zol-
dosk from the penitentiary, where
she is serving a life sentence on con-
yiction of having poisoned her friend.
During the past ten days attorneys
and detectives representing the de-
Tense in this case hare been here MAX
ing thorough investigation. The
disclosures may lead TO another ar
rest. The evidence that has come to
light in the case tends to show that
Ella Maly was not murdered. There
is, or was until within a day or two
ago, a woman living here who was an
intimate friend of Ella Maly, Rose
Zoldoski, DIR. Mitchell, and others
closely connected with the case. This
woman, it is said, has voluntarily in
formed the attorneys who conducted
the case of Miss Zoldoski on her trial
for the murder, that Ella Maly some
days previous to her death had told
this witness that she wished herself
dead, and had made other remarks
that tended to convince the woman
that Miss Maly contemplated suicide.
The woman, it is said, also knows
what caused Miss Maly to be despond-
ent, and this she has laid before the
attorneys.
1t is also stated that there are cir
cumstances which corroborate the
claims made by the woman, but which
ar not made public. The first hint
of the new evidence was in a letter
sent from here to one of the attor-
neys in the case. The writer was a
woman. She made a statement of
her relations with the parties most
prominent in the history of the Rich
land Center case-Ella Maly, Rose Zol-
doski and DIR. Mitchell She detailed
infinitely, it is said, circumstances
connected with her acquaintance with
the persons named, and her reason for
leaving Richland Center and falling to
appear at the trial or inform any one
of what she knew
The letter then details certain con-
versations alleged to have been held
between the writer and Ella Maly and
makes other statements that are said
to have an important bearing on the
case. The letter was signed Minnie
Braddock, which the woman admitted
was an assumed name.
When the lawyers who had conduct
ed the case for the defendant receiv-
ed this letter they first placed no con-
fidence in it, but they felt under obli-
cation to make some investigation.
Ten days ago the first inquiry was
made here, and it was found that a
part of the story told by the woman
was true. Investigation had in the
meantime been made at the Richland
Center end of the case, and it is said
the fact was learned that woman
who was an intimate friend of Ella
Maly and Rose Zoldoski left Richland
Center about the time that the woman
calling herself Minnie Braddock ar
rived here. She went to some point
in Northern Wisconsin, and is said not
to have returned 70 Richland Center
An effort is being made to locate
this woman and if she is found it is
believed that she viii reveal enough
favorable to Rose Zoldoski that can be
substantiated to convince all familiar
with the case that the Richland Cen
ter milliner is innocent of the murder
of her friend.