The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-08
CASE OF SUICIDE,
Pala Marecek Found
Hanging in a
Woodshed.
LIFE WAS EXTINCT.
LIFE WAS EXTINCT.
Clinton the Scene of An
other Grewsome
Tragedy.

Clinton, Dec. IA tragedy Of the
camps was enacted this afternoon,
when in the Hungarian colony, Pala
Marecek, a Slavonian, 81 years old,
hanged himself with a quarter-inch
rope, in the pantry of his home.
A man rushed into the police station
at 4.3O this afternoon, and informed
Chief Oren B. Bates, in English hardly
Ineligible. that his brothers throat
was cut. He carried note which said:
"A man from Hungary has hanged
himself at the Cunningham
The fellow said his name was Martin
Marecek. He cried and sobbed like
baby. Chief Bates ordered the patrol
wagon, and taking officer William
Johnson, and Marecek as a guide, went
to the spot-a rough one-story shanty
in the Hungarian colony, two miles out
Of town.
The body of the dead man lay at full
length upon the floor of the living
room. The lifeless form was surround
ed by Hungarian women, whose mourn
ing was uttered in piercing shrieks or
shrill wailing.
The wife, a rough woman, in brogans,
but with a world of sorrow in her face,
stood at the head of her husbands
form in an attitude of prayer, ex-
claiming over and over again, "Oh,
Pala, you were beautiful mani"
The police looked only long enough
to see that the man was dead, and
turned their attention to the manner
of his death
They were shown into small addi-
ton to the shanty which was used as
pantry and woodshed. An end of
rope dangled significantly from one of
the rafters of the low, slant roof. The
end was frayed, where the knife that
was used to cut the victim down had
done its work poorly.
There were none there who could talk
English except in the most insufficient
way, but little by little Chief Bates
extracted the story from the Ssavonians
who crowded into the little shed.
George Shuber said that Mrs. Mare
eek discovered the body She went into
the place to cut some meat, Shuber
said, from side of pork that lay upon
bench. She was confronted by the
dangling body of her husband, with
blackened face. Shuber saw her fall
upon her knees and heard her say:
My God, my beautiful Pala has hanged
kimself!"
He seized the meat knife and sawed
the rope in two The body dropped to
the floor and was lifted into the kitchen
and laid at the foot of the bed, where
the police found it,
Pala was employed by Moulton &
O'MahOney. The timekeeper says that
he left his work about o'clock He
must have predetermined the act of
destruction before he laid down his
pick. 1t was hardly later than 3
o'clock when his body was discovered
by his wife.
He had gone into the shed, where the
rope lay upon the floor He tied loop
in one end, pushed the end over the
beam and then put the other end
through the loop.
Instead of making a moose, he tied
the free end twice about his neck and /
tied knot above the coil
1t measured feet 4 inches from
the top of the shed, and Pola was five
feet and six inches tall. Short as the
rope was, it let him down upon the
fettr. 50 Tho he might have stood upon
his feet. Instead he elected to drop
half upon his knees and to remain in
that position until strangulation did its
work. When Shuber saw him, the face
was toward the door, the body was
almost half-doubed and the tips of the
victims toes rested upon the floor.
1t was clear case of suicide.
The police instructed the family to
let the body remain where it lay until
the medical examiner should arrive.
Palas wife kept a boarding house. |
She and her husband and seven other
men lived in two rooms, in which were
two beds. They had three children,
including an infant six days old. AS
the police drove away, the mourners
broke into louder wailing. The spec
tacle in the room where the body lay
was grotesque, but sad enough to draw
tears from the eyes of a brute. Mar
tin Marecek lives at 100 Grove street.
There was announcement of an in
crease of 10 per cent posted in the
Lancaster mills this afternoon. The
mills make ginghams. They employ
more than 1000 hands The pay roll is
in the neighborhood of $4,000 weekly.
The increase is in accordance with that
made In Fall River and the Rhode ISL
and mills
The police have a bicycle which they
took from small boy whose name is
John Kittridge. The wheel was stolen
from Joseph Gigure. one of the fire
sufferers, Monday afternoon, while the
fire was in progress. The boy declares
that he found the wheel.
District Attorney lockwood Hoar
appeared before the district court to
ask for a continuance of the case
against John l.. Murphy. Murphy is
charged with assault upon John F.
O'Malley, whose body was taken from
Big pond, Thanksgiving morning. The
district attorney said that it, was not
felt that there was much against the
accused, but that it was best to pro-
coed cautiously in a case where hui
man life was involved even though
the charge was but assault. The case
was continued until Jan. 10, which is
close upon the time when the grand |