Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-31
Wife Murderer Schid|ofski
in State Of Collapse.
Admits That Present Situation
Was Caused by Drink.
SchidIOfski Arrives al BostOn..-Now in Cell
Next 10 Charles Tucker.

Boston. July 30.-John Schidlofski, alias
John Kline, who confessed to numbering
his wife, Marciana, in Belmont, July u,
is locked in the cell in the East Cam
bridge Jail next to the one occupied by
Charles l.. Tucker, the convicted MUIR
dered of Mabel Page of Weston.
Schidlofski. handcuffed to Gen. Jopha-
nus III. Whitney. and guarded by Fred
Rhoades, the state police detectives who
brought him from La Junta, Col, where
he was arrested, arrived at the North
station, yesterday morning. at 9.5j. A
large crowd was gathered at the station
to see Schidofski. The detectives and
their prisoner at once entered q carriage
drew the curtains and were driven to the
state house.
The self-corfessed murderer was taken
to the office of Chief Shaw of the state
police, and remained there under a fire
of questions for 80 minutes. Then the de-
tectives took him back to the carriage
and were driven to the Jail at East Cam
bridge, arriving shortly before IL. and
turning the prisoner over to the care of
Sheriff Fairbairn.
Schdlofski broke down completely
when he was taken into the guard room
at the Jail. but recovered his composure
before his brother. Dominic, of North Alb
ington. arrived to see him with repre-
sentative Of John w. McAnarney OF Cam
bridge. who may be the prisoners coun-
sci.
One of the first requests made by the
prisoner of the sheriff was for razor
for he had four days growth of beard
The request was refused. though the
sheriff promised to have Schidlofski at
tended to by barber.
Sheriff Tairbairn permitted Dominic
Schidlofski to talk in a cell with his
brother. They talked mostly in Polish
hut Dominic told the reporters after the
conversation that John had said tho
crime was due to whiskny john he said
had been heavy drinker for seven or
eight years. and that he was under tho
influence of liquor when the crime was
committed.
1t is the deprivation Of liquor the de-
tectives think. that has reduced Schidlof-
ski to the verge of collapse since his ar
rest. Dominic says John has lost Is
pounds since he was arrested and several
times on the journey from La Junta he
ternoon, he was in bad shape and became
hysterical in the railroad station. But
for the handcuff which held him to Gen
Whitney he would have fallen at full
length on the platform in the middle OF
the crowd that had gathered to see him.
The detectives got him aboard the train
with difficulty, and had hard time to
got him claimed down.
Since his arrest Schidlofski has had very
little sleep. He has doZed off q number
of times, but always walked again in
mortal terror. declaring he had dreamed
Of his wife. The dread of his fate never
leaves him for Il moment and it is now
increased by the knowledge. which he has
only lately gained, that in Massachusetts
death by electricity for murderers has ST.
perseded hanging.
Chief Shaw refused to say what was
the result of his talk with the prisoner
The question of the weapon has been
taken up. hCwever, by the detectives. The
police were never able to find a weapon.
near the scene of the murder. Schidlofski
says it was a knife, that it belonged to
his wife. and that he doesn't know what
became of it.