The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-12-18
IN A SWEAT COX.

never snew anything 70 equal what o.
tuFrsd in a town II Wisconsin. Ii
lie 2 story from ire dark ages.
The wife o. 4 Polish farmer name
Oazk owski. who lived at the town {
e, near Green Bay. suddenly disaI
peared The farmer was arrested o
Uspicion OF havirs made away wit
Ter; bur. there being 10 evidence assins
sim. he was let 90 after awhile. and q
aue 70 Chicago lcoi ing for his wife
Iere he met a fellow Pole. a big pow
-ful man. but a worthless character
Who had been discharged from the polio
0rce on account Of his drinking habits
mis- ex-po.iceman told DsZkowsti tha
he lac-er's wife was working in a tai
or's shop near the stockya-ds. So 70
few days the pair wandered about h
city, until. becoming aware that hi
companion was merely imposing On him
! DaZkovsli had him arrested for obtain
Ing money under false preterses. Their
the big fellow. In revenge or TO Obtain
/ sufficient standing 20 get back on tbs
police force. said that DazFowsli had
confessed that tie had killed his wife
and buried her under an apple tree or
The Wisconsin farm
'Dazl-owski was Immediately arrest
ed and taken back TO Green Bay. ! was
engaged in the case and went up there
TO defend him. When saw him il the
county Jail he seemed quite cheerful. He
,old ME that on the day of her 6isap-
pearance he had a quarrel with his wife
on account of her letting the calves war
der into the crops and that probe bly,
she rad gone away temporarily in anger
IS she had done on two occasions be-
tore left him as found him, in good
spirits.
Next morning I called on him again.
He told me OF the ordeal he bad under
gone during the night His cell was on
the second floor of the jail. At night
fall be was alarmed by a great noise
of hammering, climbing and crashing on
the floor below. as Of doors being broFen,
a loud rafting of chains, and the roar
Of many voices shouting: Give us Daz-
towsFi,' Take him out ard hang him,
He killed HIS wife, Then the sheriff
came rushing into his cell and told hin
that the Jail was besfeged by several
hundred people from E and Green
Bay, with crowbars. axes. hammers ard
ropes who were intent on lynchine him.
They'll surely put you TO death said
the sheriff. so, rot to die unprepared
you'd better send for priest and make
your confession
THE terrified prisoner asked for 9
Polish priest and the sheriff left. saytrP
he would try to get one Meantime thu
rafting ard shouting cor
tinued. Bv ard by the sheriff returned |
and said that the Polish priest was rot |
at home but that he had got German |
priest Then a man in dsrk cIoal. q
Roman collar was ushered into the csil |
e~~F-irg Q PRAYER boot ard beads Tho |
seeming clergyman took his seat near i
he cell door. which ives afar. and Dez-
.owsli. whila the babel below contirre6
melt down humbly ard hastily accused
tins elf of every sin he remembered CON-
hitting In his life. But the stranger
oppressed himself dissatisf~d 'Nol,e
God confession he s~i' md tell re
hat YOU Filled your VII But ! dc
OF Kill her: she left ne protested naz-
owslri. oh, you did lilI her declared
he stranrer. They'll hang you in 9
minute. Confess now that you fiIled
our wife But DaZkowskf was firm ir
his innocence
"Goirg out to DazFowsFf's fern,
ound the place in possession Of game
{ men who had dug holes under ever,
pple tree on the place and also in thr
nuse and barn In search If the missing |
'omans Dody. aTter TWO Gays WORT
mong the people found four witnesses |
0me of whom bad seen Dazkows''i driv
lg his team to the woods the morning of
Is wifes disappearance before she went
way. Others saw her later I'm neigh
st l also found a man who. meeting
ar on tho road offered her seat In his |
agon to Green Bay.
"A bout 1000 persons crowded the large
,urtroom when DazfowsFi's case was
llled. Some witnesses testified that
ev had heard screams at the deferd-
It's house the right before hfs wifes !
sappec -arco hnother wit"css DE-
AIRED that he bod seen the 6efer6ar'
his orchard choppine up what lco'ef
,e a human body. Then the ey-polce :,
an came on with his story OF the cor
ssion of murder and burial under tn, =
pie tree
Your ho~cr.' I said 70 the irfee
am not afraid for my own safety. bur =
ere are irrocort people il this cour,
10 may lose their lives through the e
of this armed r., fiiar &C. u
md that RI b. seP~chcd ard Cisar1red.
'Bv the 'r6~e's fire ctiCre the witress L
IS searched by court ba'ifrs ard gre !
s the sensation when his huge revolver Y
IS brought 70 light.
BY close work 7 had discovered tn
nifty of the BOGUS priest who heprf
: confession CT naz owsri He bcrsef
eously TO be excused. but Justice Dc ,
rdsd that he should tell the Who'll, +.
tn. so | had him on the stard arc !,
unfolded the plot. told how no oh. =
ned the Roman collar. the prayer bool
! the beads ard went into the cell ir