The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-14
A Horrible Crime.


believe to have been a brutal muir
der of a young lady of that town,
named Agnes Polreis. The girl
was a Hungarian about seventeen
years of age, who came to this
country with her parents about a
year ago. About four months ago
she went to Sioux Falls and engag-
ed as a domestic in the home of
Nose kaufman. For some time
her parents heard from her often,
but finally the letters ceased COM
ing and for nine weeks they heard
nothing from her. On Friday,
June LIST, they received a message
that she was dead. The body was
shipped home, with instructions
that the casket should not be open
ed. These instructions the friends
refused to obey aud the casket was
opened, when it was found that the
body bore marks of what appeared
to be terrible violence. Clashes
were found in her scalp, a deep
cash on each shoulder penetrating
to the bone, one finger broken and
the bone protruding, while the feet
and spots on the lower limbs bore
evidence of severe scalding. Some
of the injuries appeared to have
been inflicted very recently, while
some of them were. apparently
starting to heal.
A delegation of citizens went to
Sioux Falls to investigate the mat.
ter and found that she had died IN
the hospital, having been brought
there only about four hours before
her death. TIE explanation given
at the Kaufman home was that she
had been troubled with vertigo, and
that the wounds were caused by
falling down stairs. The hospital
physicians attributed her death to
diabetes, resulting in anemia. The
five physicians who conducted the
post mortem examination state
that there wcrc no signs of diabetes.
The citizens Of Parkston are very
indignant and they declare that a
cold blooded murder has been com
mltted and they will spare no ex-
pense in seeing that the guilty Jar.
ty is punished.
On Tuesday Of this week aswar-
rant was issued for Mrs. Kaufman.
charging her with murder. The
preliminary hearing was held on.
Tuesday and Wednesday, and the
evidence produced showed that the
girl had suffered the most Efiendish
tortnres at the hands Of Mrs. Kauf-
man, so-brutal aud inhuman that
1t is almost beyond belief in a civ
llized country. After the doctors,
who had held the post norton ex-
animation, had explained the hor
rible mutilations found on the
body, Peter Erickson, a hired man
in the Kaufman household, was
called. He testified to seeing Mrs.
Kaufman at various times beat
the GIRL into INCONSISTENCIES will,
a broom stick, and then throw wa
ter onto her PROSTATE form to make
her get up, and from the effect mp
on the body it is apparent that the
water was hot. That he had seen
the girl kneeling before her enraged.
mistress pleading for mercy while
the cruel blows were being shower
ed upon her. That when at last
the girl was no longer able to leave
her bed the fend poured turpene
tine into the gaping wounds, and.
then sent the hired man to her
room to attend to her injuries. AL
though these things happened sew
eral days before the girl died, not
until the day of her death, when
she was in u semi conscious con
dition, was a doctor permitted to
see her.
The case has been continu a to
Wednesday Of next week, and the
defendant remanded to the care Of
Sheriff Phillips.