The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-18
||NHUMAN CRUELTY
10. GIRL SERVANT
Alleged That Turpcntiile Was.
Poured Into Cuts OH Her
Body.
Ss:LAsHEs 40 IN IN NUMBER II E:
Supervisors Of own Will Prose -':s.e.-
cute Millionaire's Wife, Ac-
cused Of Shocking Crime.

(speclnl To The Times Dispntch.)
SIOUX FALLS 8. D., June IL That
Agnes Polreis, 10 years old, Tie servant
who died in the home of Moses knuff-
man, millionaire brewer. and for whose
death Mrs. Emme Kaufman is held on
q charge Of granddaughter. had been sub
jected to inhuman treatment in the mil
lionaire's home, was indicated yesterday
by the flnding OF blood-stained clothing
of the dead girl and the report OF the
sphysician who had examined ner body
after It's removal from the grave. Almost
beyond belief Is tho story of cruelty re-
ivealed by the finding Of the garments
and the report OF the physic Ian. It Is
thought the clothing will prove the mos;
damaging evidence of the state against
the brewers wife. ., N
a When the case comes up for hearing
OF, next Wednesday.3i It Is expected one OF
the most prominent physicians of the city
Will be arrested as an accessory after the
fact. THIS physician made out the death
certificate and said Agnes had died from
3ailaemin, superinduced by diabetes. But
examination Of the body has revealed
forty-nine cuts as well as other wounds.
all inflicted before death.
Town Board Will Pay.
The board OF supervisors Of Parktiston,
the home, OF the girl mother. has voted n.1
TO furnish all the necessary money with
which to prosecute all those responsible
for Agnes s death, as we'll as those VINO
helped III the effort to hide the facts.
D The bloodsstalned garments OF the girl
were found in the Kaufman home by
- - ~, Quinn TonrkStOn. 1je
found the clothing locked II, a closet. +
was apparent an attempt had been made
to cleanse theS clothing, for the garments
ismelled OF turpentine and also showed the
presence OF I've. ~
This evidence Is In line with testimony
given by Peter Erickson, the hired mar
that Mrs. Kaufman had beaten the girl
with, a a B poker and with broonst ~
and then had poured turpentine Into the
wounds and made Agnes bathe IN water
containing wood nshes.5
The report Of the physician OF the
State health department. who examined
the body Of the servant, was turned over
to e the prosecuting attorney yesterday,
and 1t 5onumerates the Wounds & PM the
body follows: 1.st
iit553'''Six scalp wounds, made wit a. blunt
Instrument, three on top Of the head
and three over the right ear: four bruises
or wounds on the forehead, aHasionS
over bridge OF X the nose. one abrasion
/ on the left cheek and two at the angle
OF, the left Jaw; right side Of the face
badly Scared !: one large and two small
cuts 3at point Of the chin: both lips badly
cut and bruised /: d scratch on right side
of the chin and face; one abrasion on
right side Of neck point of ri htI shoul-
Fder8cutIl through to the bone-cut abont
~ 1.,%,
vered and wound gaping: point Of left
I'll CIV cut. exposing capsule; on. thumb
and back OF left hand skin slipped, ms II
3scalded 4 large abrasion at left of center
of patalla, skin slipped or left foot, as
.if scalded: third finger OF left hand dis
3jointed and bone protrudtng.
Suffered Without Doctor.
Though the girl was III for more than
a week, no ply siclan was called until two
days before she died. " The only one who
attended her was the hired man, ard he
had d difficult time inducing Mrs. Kaufr-
man to send for q physician. The UNDER
taker who TOOK charge Of the body said
1T was the worst mutilated corpse he
ever had seen. 1t was because OF the
stories told by the undertaken and the
hired man, after the girl was buried, that
the body was taken up and tho charge
of manslaughter made against the wife
OF the brewer.
In a pitiab1e condition. She said that for
nine weeks her daughter had been IRE
vented from writing home. and that when
finally she telephoned to the Kaufman
8touae and demanded permission o talk.o
Agnes, she was Informed the girl waa
dead. Mrs. Polreis visited the grave OF
the daughter every day, throwing har-
gelf on the ground and begging that she
be permitted To die. Agnes's death comes
aa q double blow To The mother, for
yfirt and kt1ftI fYu a 3ea1n11s adnnirer $50