The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-30

/ SnerlHS parlor. Witness did not recOl-
lect all that was said she was so.
scared. She was told that no one
present could help her. She was asked
if she had put the poison in the coffee
and she replied she did When asked
if she really put the poison there she .
said no. The next day, Sunday, Mrs.
Zimany and Mrs. Korabek called at
the jail and asked her why she was,
suffering for those fools. They then
conversed with the sheriff Witness,
HAD met Mr.. Krizek at the police STA +
ton. He was introduced by the sher-
if, Witness spoke to him first. Told
Mr.. Krizek to make matters short she,
wanted TO go into a higher court and
she would tell. Spoke thus to Mr..
Krizek because she thought he was her
lawyer, He had asked witness how
this thing happened and she told him
of her life with her husband. She did
not recollect much that was said at the
time she was so scared. She knew
Denika after Easter. She sent him to
a drug store to get poison because she
had rats in the basement of the house.
She gave him a ST. and he brought
back three boxes. She hid the boxes
in her trunk. Never had had anything
to do with poison before in her life.
She simply knew that the poison was
for mice. She had never heard of
rough on rats before. She put the
boxes in her trunk because she was
afraid her husband might get it to
suicide with. She used two and one
half boxes of it and the other half was
placed in the trunk. Her husband
had access to the trunk. She had
never put any of that stuff in her hus-
bands coffee.
Saturday Morning Session.
When the court opened it was found
that Attorney Lloyd was not present.
He was on the sick list and the defense
was conducted by Attorney Kral, of
Racine, and G.. r. Mcdowell In fact,
it had been most of Friday.
Mrs. Pleva was still on the stand and
the district attorney opened the cross
examination. She said she did not
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plant at the police station against
Devetzcka and Trenowski: Her entire
conduct on the stand was such as to
lead to the inference that she had been
carefully coached in her story. She
stated that John Trenowski had told
her that her husband said he would
hang himself and she replied: Well,
let him." In relation to a box of
poison in the house she said she knew
nothing of what was in it. She got
considerably mixed about whether she
had ordered the poison by reference to
box of it or some other way. She
could not explain how it was that
knowing nothing about what the poison
was she was able to order more of it.
She later stated that Deneika had done
all the business for her. Concerning
the question about Deneika's being in
town after the poisoning she said that
was nothing to her. She denied hav-
ing told Krzc, Korbel, AbramoWski
and others prior to the death that she
wished she had some arsenic. Hell
memory proved very defective con
corning testimony she had given at the
coroner's inquest concerning material
points about the coffee pots, but she
finally admitted having poured some
thing out of one of the pots
after her husband was through
with it and washed it so as tC
cook coffee for the next day. Then
she stated that her memory was better
today than it was the day of the coro-
ner's inquest, though she showed
remarkable facility in evading ques-
tions put to her. She said she did nos
recollect anything of what she said al
that time, and denied ever having useC
the fatal coffee pot for making tea
She said she did not see her husband
vomit at all May % until after she haC
got to bed. Then she noticed the
vomit was green, but did not speak t.
her husband because she was angry a
him. She admitted the trouble will
her husband and said he had got ontt
his knees and swore never to live witt
her any more. When she was asked
about her confession at the jail tina
she had put the poison into tin par
with the coffee and boiled it, she sale
she did not know whether she had sale
so or not, but if she did she said it be-
cause she was scared. She remember.
ed that she cried when she said it, but
did not remember having said that she
knew she had done wrong. She did
not remember having told Trenowski
that she had put the coffee on the table
with the poison in it and said that ii
her husband drank it all right, and if
not all right. On all points concerning
material matters she declared she
could not recollect. She demonstrated
that she had a most convenient mem
ory, but she was careful to repeat fire.