Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-03-08
is ROSE ZOLDOSKE GUILTY.
Newly Discovered Evidence Through
Miss rIinnie Braddock.

While in Wausau the last time
we were shown a letter received
by M. H. Barnum, from said
Minnie Braddock, in which she
claimed that Ella Maly took her
own life and gave facts to prove
her statement They have all
been verified except Minnie Brad
docks identity and real name:
The following account taken from
the Marshheld Times is nearly
correct:
disclosures have recently been
made in the Ella Maly poisoning
case at Richland Center, that if
they can be substantiated, will
doubtless result in the release of
Rose Zoldoske from the peni-
tertiary, where she is serving
life sentence on conviction of
having poisoned her friend. Dur
ing the past ten days, attorneys
and detectives representing the
defense in this now celebrated case,
have been at Rhinelander making
a thorough investigation of the
circumstances that have come to
light, and if one or two links that
are still missing can be discovered
says the correspondent, facts will
be submitted to Gov. Peck, which
in addition to those laid before
him at the recent application for a
pardon, will convince him that
Miss Zoldoske is innocent of the
crime of which she stands con-
victed These disclosures may
also lead to another arrest in the
case, but that is not considered
probable. 1t is said that an out
line Of the newly discovered
evidence has been laid before Gov.
Peck, and that he is delaying
action on the petition for pardon
until those engaged in examining
into the affair have had an oppor-
tunity to thoroughly investigate
the disclosures that have been
made.
The evidence that has come to
light in the case tends to show
that Ella Maly was not murdered.
This is the statement made by
men who have been employed to
make the investigation. There is,
or was until within a day or two,
a woman living in Rhinelader who
was an intimate friend of Ella
| Maly, Rose Zoldoske, Dr. Mitchell
and others closely connected with
the case. This woman, it is said,
has voluntarily informed the
attorneys who conducted the de-
tense Of Miss Zoldoske on her
trial for the murder, that Ella
Maly, some days previous to her
death had told the 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 dispon-
dent, and this she has laid before
the attorneys. 1t is also stated
that there are number of circum-
stances which seem to corroborate
the claims made by the woman,
but which are not made public.
The woman in question recently
communicated these facts and
further details to one of the attor-
neys in the case. She stated in
her letter that she went to Rhine
lander from Richland Center with
her brother, and on March 10th
following the death of Ella Maly,
she gave birth to a child which
was adopted by 1eter Emo, of that
place. She assumed the name of
Minnie Braddock. The investi-
cations substantiates these facts.
The woman said she had written
the letter to secure the release of
Rose Zoldoske from prison, as she
was certain the girl was innocent.
She said that for personal reasons
she would not become openly in
volved IN the case and declared |
that she would never publicly give
testimony. The woman has left |
Rhinelander evidently fearing
arrest.
Investigation had in the mean
time been made at the Richland |
Center end of the case, and it is
said that the fact was learned that
woman who was an intimate friend |
of Ella Maly and Rose Zoldoske
left Richland Center about the
time that the woman calling her
self Minnie Braddock arrived at
Rhinelander. She went to some
point in Northern Wisconsin and |