The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-28

police officer in sight, a situation Of
serious import
Hang her" shouted somebody back
In the crowd.
Mrs. Kaufman palod and looked to
her husband for protection.
He placed his arm about her and
started across the street to Mayer
Burnside's livery barn.
Mob Breaks Into Fury.
AS she started away the surging
mob appeared to lose all semblance of
control. Those in front We're pushed
against the prisoner and her feeble eS-
Cort.
String her up!" came the cry, fol-
owed by falsetto screams of the fran
lie women, who shrieked:
Tear her to pieces!"
They varied this expression with
forms OF feminine denunciation.
Several strong women, With hats
nw4y from being pushed and crowded
N the throng, struggled near the prie-
oner and spat on her.
There was only the lack of leader
ship 10 make the throng one which
would have wreaked VEN
gerce on the woman. practically help
less in this emergency. But none APP
peared to take the initiative in doing
! ;iolence and Mrs. Kaufman was al
most pushed into the livery BARN.
Feared further Outbreak.
From here Mrs. Kaufman was driv-
N to her home II later. as has been
old. to the Jail. 1t was feared that
would have done something desperate.
some fearing that the house would have
been burned down.
William Fish, justice Of the peace
from ParkstOn. near whose nome the
Polreis girl lived, and representing the
general temper Of the whole COM
! nunity. declared that the members of
he Parllston delegation would not
leave Sioux Falls until Mrs. Kaufman
was in Jail.
1t is announced that no Immediate
effort will be made to secure the re-
lease of Mrs. Kaufman, not until the
intense feeling against her in this city
subsidies. Then it is expected that ap-
piication will be made to Judge Jones,
IF the circuit court for her release on,
bail, and if this fails to resort to habeasl
corpus proceedings.
The Alleged Crime.
The crime. of which Mrs. Kaufman
s alleged to be guilty, is that she
treated her 16-year-old servant, Agnes
Polreis. so brutality. fendishly, in fact,
that the girl died after great suffering.
Twelve weeks after the girl am from
her home near Parkston, strong and
rudy, her body was sent back in 4
coffin. Discovery. almost by accident,
hat there We're wounds on the young
body, investigation showed there were
f~orty-nine cuts, abrasions and bruises,
loose flesh from being scalded, and
flesh burned as if by acid.
Peter Erickson, hired man at the
Kaufman home, has testified he saw
his mistress peat the Polreis girl with
a poker and with q broom stick; that
he found her in a pool of water on the
kitchen floor, unconscious, and it is
suspected this had been hot water; that
he carried her upstairs and at the
command of Mrs. Kaufman anointed
the wounds with turpentine and ap-
piled water and wood ashes to the ten
der flesh.
Anna Jensen and Mrs. Oscar Larson,
former servants OF Mrs. Kaufman, tell
of her violent, almost demoniacal tenn
per and strange treatment of them.
Mrs. Kaufman claims the girl fell
down stairs.
Mr.. and Mrs. job Polreis, parents
Of the dead girl, are poor but their
cause has been CharrpiOned by all the
people of their home town. and money
in plenty has been pledged to carry on
the prosecution.