Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-10-16
MARIE VIVOID NARRATES A STORY
OF MALTREATDIENT.
FieDdIsh CrueIties, She Says, Were
Inflicted by Italians Near
This City.

brutally and cruelty maltreated.
The woman is "a years of age, and an
ignorant Pole. She can speak but lew
words of English, and when seen yester-
day by a Spokesman-Review reporter
was so weak that she could hardly tillk'
hut made strenuous. efforts to, tell her
story and how she received her present
injuries.
Five months ago Marie Vivoid, then
living In little town in Poland, having
lost her husband, came to America at the
request of her brother-in-law, who sent
her money for the passage. He was |
then in Spokane, and she at once came
to this western city, among strangers
and unable to speak with or understand |
them The brother-in-law evidently was
not as we'll pleased with his late broth
er's wife as he expected. He took her to
the Sacred Heart hospital, where he pre-
vailed upon the sisters to let her work
for her board, at the same time telling
the girl she was to get s12 per month. and
that he was going away 10 get work and
would write to her as SON as he could.
When she discovered she was receiving
no pay she left the hospital and fell IN
with a Polish woman whose identity or
residence is unknown.
Here lombard an Italian gardener,
with ranch some six miles west of the
| city came looking for a girl, and hired
| her This was three months ago Last
| Sunday morning the barn on LombardiS
place burned. He said he had lot of
money hidden in the barn, and that the
woman had stolen 1t and set fire to the
| barn to conceal the crime.
| Wednesday he came to the city and
swore out a warrant for her arrest for
stealing the money. The same day d,
7. Ballard, a farmer living about four
miles from Lombardrs place, also appear
ed at the court house and told the Off
Gals that the woman in question had
been most brutally beaten, and was then
at his house. Constable Fink went out
with the warrant for her arrest sworn
to by lombard, while DR.. Newman went
along to attend the wounded woman.
AS she could not move, the warrant was
not served.
FrightfuIIy MaItreated.
Yesterday a SpoXesman-Review report
er, accompanied by Max Fox as inter
prefer, went out to see the woman. She
is still at the house of Mr.. Ballard, I'M
, able even to turn over in bed. She is
strong looking Polish woman "a years
; of age. with the constitution of a big
|
peculiar dialect of Polish so that she
, is hard to understand even by one speak,
ing her language. She knows but a few
words in English. AS she told her story
she several times started to raise her
! head from the pillow to emphasize some
word, but dropped back exhausted and
called for water In whisper Several
times she came near swooning.
She presents a frightful appearance
. Her throat shows the prints of hand
where she said she had been cholIed. and
the skin is scratched as if with finger
4 nails The back of her head is badly
( swollen, where she says she was STRUCK
i by her assailant. On her face are mum
l. Der of cuts from a knife blade. There
Z are two slashes across her lip from Tho
I nose down to the corner of her mouth
= another under the nose, and still anothe
small cut on the bridge of the nose Thei
I there are several marks as though thu
sharp point of a knife had been stucl
/ into her face. There is a cut on lie
e breast, another on her abdomen, witt
g quite q deep one on her left hip. He
abdomen is black and blue, while iron
! her waist to her feet she is almost solidl
black and blue. Her ankles are badl.
= swollen and bruised, with the skin cut i
several places. Her back is also alnos
j. solid mass of bruises.
She was quite weak, and spoke wit
If some difficulty, but through the inter
IS prefer, her few English words and he
? dramatic way of illustrating things, tn
e. following story was secured from her
The wOman's story.
=, Il came to America as my brother-ir
g. law wanted me to. He got me a pac
. | In, ha oil nd of r5c 7 al
s. Polish woman. 1 could not talk Ell
* glish. and she said she would get me
c. place, and lombard came and hired m
~ - did not want to go, and cried thrC
W. days, but she told me he was a goo
Ne man. and 1 could do nothing else so
as went. When l went out he told me
ne should occupy his room, but l told hi
L I came to work, and not to be his wifi
IN He had a glass needle, in which he p,
40 some white medicine (she meant q hyp
dermic syringe and morphine) and |
said If 1 did not yield to his deman,
" he would stick me with that. 1 said
AS would not do it, and when l turned n
back he put some of the white medicil
. in my coffee but threw the cup ava
and would not drink it. He made n
80 | occupy the room with him. Last Sunds
!. morning at o'clock 1 was sleeping, al
lombard had his arm over me so 1 cou
- not get away, when John (another Ita
- an) came into the room and said Il
=. barn was af1re. We got up, and Lor
bardi said he would lose his money, al
asked me If 1 took 1t. / did not kno
% where he had any money, and said il
took it they could take me to town al
put me in jail 1 then said 1 would
to town. but lombard said No Il
AR Marie. l no want you to go away.
he like you, Marie. You stay here Tn
at he did not say any more about the none
e. Monday night he came in and got
NJ. coat, and said he was going to Five NJ
no prairie to get load of hay and wou
be back in the morning at o'clock
wash the dishes and the cook say mt
come to his room. told him no. but
ed took me in the room, locked the do
or and tied handkerchief over my mou
"a, so 1 could not make any noise. All I
d. night could not sleep, and once
ne looked at the window and saw Lombal
- looking In. About o'clock in the mon
ing Invent out. and lombard was the
He grabbed me by the throat and chok
he me and hit me with his fist on the 81
an of the head. Then he make me put
he a dress and my shoes and he push
across the road, choking me all