The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-21
SEEKS DEATH At
CRAVE Of CHILD
Stricken Mother Found Pros
trate on Ground Where
Polreis Girl Lies.
ISA TALE OF HORROR
Arrest of Mrs. Kaufman, Wife Of Rich
Brewer for Manslaughter, 1t is
Said, viii Be Followed by
Others Being Accused.
is TALE OF HORROR

Parkston, s. D, June ia small
trunk of wet, torn and bloOd-covered
clothing, belonging to Agnes Polreis
before her mysterious death at the
home of Millionaire Moses Kaufman
in Sioux Falls Jun l, which was re-
Ceived from Sioux Falls and opened
today by States Attorney j. L. Quinn,
is considered as conclusive evidence by
the attorney for the prosecution and
the people of Parkston that the girls
last three weeks on earth were the most
horrible which could have been endured
by a human being, and hat the girl
was the victim of foul play, so das-
tardly and cruel as to defy criminal
annals anywhere.
When it was learned that the trunk
of the 17-year-old Austrian girl, who
twelve weeks 6 went to the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Kaufman as a
servant, and whose death has resulted
in the m~illionaire's wife being arrested
Il charged with m"anSlaughter, feel
ing became intense here, and there is a
renewed determination to probe the
crime, if crime it be, that caused
death, to the last thread, and to fight
for justice at any cost.
The board OF supervisors of Hutch
inSOn county has agreed to stand by
the attorneys and determined citizens,
and Attorney Quinn are working day
and night to get new evidence in the
case.
Will Be Used as Evidence.
The wardrobe of the girl will be TAX
en- to Sioux Falls and offered as evil
dence that the girl did not die a nat
ural death. Attorney Quinn ~grievous-
ly emarks that if the girl died from
loss of blood, he is convinced she lost
the blood because of the forty-nine
cuts he and the physicians nave counted
on her head and body.
Today, before half a dozen witnesses,
including Charles Zehnphennig and
Anton Fergen, who made the first trip
to Sioux Falls to Investigate the mat
ter, Attorney Quinn opened the trunk
with the key given to the girls father
in Sioux Falls by Moses Kaufman.
1t was a grewsome sight for those
who examined the trunk. The girls
wardrobe was merely q pile of torn
and tattered rags, covered with blo1d
and there coated with wood ashes,
turned to I've, which a eaten the
garments. and the whole contents Of
the trunk as damp and SOggy as
though they had been hurriedly
washed and dumped into the trunk
without giving them time to dry.
Neat, Clean in Habits.
hiS u. loI "litIIl Tie SlTl
worked in Parkston before going to
Sioux Falls, was present. She exam
lned the trunk critically, and also the
clothing. She declared it to be the
same trunk, but the clothing was so
covered with blood and dirt it was with
difficulty she found the girls nanc on
some of the garments. She declared
the girl was neat: never had q sore
on her body or soiled clothes in her
room for any length Of time, when she
worked for her, and that was only a
little over three months ago.
One by one the blood stained and
t%attered garments We're drawn from
the trunk, men turning their faces
away from the horrible sight and wom-
en- not pretending to keep back the
Tears, at the spectacle Of the girls
undergarments covered with coagu-
lated blood, and showing only too
plainly that the girl suffered the su-
periatlVe of human misery during the
last few days of her life. whether the
wounds We're inflicted by another, or
whether they We're just ulcers, as
claimed by DR.. GERMAN, through
which the poison was thrown out Of
the SYSTEM
Fearful Wound on Shoulder.
A cotton suit of underclothing was
taken out by the states attorney. It
was Wrlnglng wet. On the right
shoulder of the m was = blood
~ t'S q l. 4
location of the stain correspondent to
the wound, which was a cut to the
bone, on the girls right shoulder. A
pair OF stockings in the bottom of the
trunk We're found to be covered with
wood ashes, Which had become a I've
n eaten holes in them. The ashes
on the stockings We're accounted for
by Attorney Quinn from the testimony
given at the preliminary hearing by
young Erickson, the Kaufman hired
man, who stated that Mrs. Kaufman
compelled the girl to battle her feet,
covered with wounds, in wa
ter in Which q quantity of
ashes had been thrown. It is
thought the girl put her feet in the
solution OF ashes with the stockings
on, because they We're so stuck to the
wounds on her feet and legs that she
could not remove them without suffer-
ing pain.
Blood Stains Everywhere.
The knit shawl, which it is said the
Cir! wore over her head in Sioux Fails,
had several blood stains in the middle
I. or IT, as from wounds on the head
which We're bleeding. Il was also damn
as though it had peen dipped in water
z previous to packing. Then there were
muslin undergarments, covered with
blood stains and even clots of b1oo5
where they had touched the wounds
on the hips n legs; there was a blue
kitchen apron which, it is said, was
!, tied about the girls neck when she
was taken to the hospital, and it bore
the marks OF blood. The little hand
kerchiefs OF the sufferer bore blood
stains; the only wooden dress skirt in
the wardrobe had blood on it.
: no wonder Undertaken A. SnashnalI
of Sioux Falls told us the girls body,
Whlch he removed from the hospital.
: was the worst he had seen in ten
years, said h attorney, as he laid The
garments back. THE undertaken said
: the body of Miss Polreis was the 6r.t
, one ne had seen which he was az aid
to touch
Mother Seeks Girl.
~ ada to the pitiful scene of pover-
u OF Parkston. the mother of the girl
/ Is thought to be losing her mind. It
was while the states attorney was