The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-30
PRISONERS CONVICTED.
Jury Find Hojnacki Brothers
Guilty Of the Fiendish
Crime.
MRS. PREBITsKI TELLS HER STORY
Prisoners Throw the Blame
on the Woman---Tried the
Poison on a Dog
First.
MRS. PREBITSKI TELLS HER STORY


witness for the State yesterday afternoon
IN the Court of General Sessions, wnere
John Hojnack and his brother Adam
were on trial for helping the woman to
administer poison to her husband. She
pleaded guilty of the charge, and the
State used her to convict her companions.
Her evidence was given in English, and
she told her awful story nonchaiantly as
if she was describing a new hat or a
dress. 1T was noticeable that she always
tried to shield her lover o. and invari-
ably when telling some damaging thing
in connection with the case said emf
p~hatically, Adam did IT."
She actually smiled when she said that
the poison used on her husband had first
been tried on a dog, and when it was
found effective on the mongrel it was APP
piled to her husband. With a meaning
look at the elder prisoner Hojnacki, she
confessed her shameful relations with him
and said that they were to be married
after her husbands death.
s'Tell US your story said Prosecutor
Erwin to the woman who was dandling
her baby and arranging its cloak. She
looked up, n in a shrill, harsh voice
said ranidly:-
"John Hojnacki he ask to marry him,
but / say no and he say we kill my An
ton and he win marry NIT me l say no ]
want not tina and he say poison your
husband and no one know what he die of.
He say he give one poison and l give the
last. I say, Suppose my husband die and
you tire of me then you tell the story n
I am arrested He say he won't tell and
go with hifn for poison"
where did you get the poison?" inter-
rupted the Prosecutor.
cat drug store, Twenty-second street,
Bayonne. Eet was the something on
rats she replied.
The woman continuing, and without the
slightest trace of nervousness. calmly
said. that when they got home the poison
was given by Adam Hojnacki, in a glass
of water to Prebitski, who was at supper.
Then Adam. it was always Adam. g
gested. she said. that as the first dose
didn't work they should pour all the con-
tents of the box into the yolk of an egg,
and give it to him. That was done, and
when the husband swallowed it he fell
to the floor and rolled about in great
agony. She ran for a doctor, and assist
ed in removing him to the hospital.
s'Then I see my poor husband SO seek"
continued Mrs. Prebitski, looking coolly
at the paralytic victim in the chair a few
feet from her. II say. oh, my poor hus-
band. he die and / ask John to take me
to him. Then John say to me, I go to
Canada. but don't know the city there;
and he say I not to worry, but go away
and he come to me and marry me, but
I say oh, my poor husband, he's seek"
sDid you go to Canada?" asked Mr.. Err
win.
Eyes. I 60" quietly replied the woman,
whose story was substantially the same
on a skillful examination by Lawyer
Simpson
For the defense the brothers simply said
thai they knew nothing about the poison
ing of Anton until Mrs. Prebitski told
them. John, the elder. admitted his il
licit intercourse with the woman, but de-
MED that he ever advised her to poison
her husband. He didn't advise her to go
to Canada. but as soon as she told what
she had done they threatened to tell the
police. and she rushed to her husband and
threw the blame on them as well as her
self.
John Hojnacki then took the stand. He
is "a years of age, and was born IN Rus
sian Poland, and has the narrow, deep
sunk eyes. thick lips. low brow and mat
ted hair of the Slavish peasant type. He,
like the iendish creature with whom ne
consorted, grinned at the story of his re-
lations with her. and talked of the human
wreck sitting near the Prosecutor as
giibly as if the matter was a huge joke.
.Did Mrs. Prebitskf ask you to poison