The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-06-22
Mother Seek. Girl.

the body of Miss Polreis was the first
one he had seen which he was afraid
to touch"
Mother Seeks Girl.
To add to the pitiful scene of power
ty at the Polreis home, which is lust
out of Parkston, the mother of the Girl
is thought to be losing her mind. 1t
was while the states attorney was
examining the trunk that a woman
was sent after Mrs. Polreis, the girls
mother Failing to find her at home,
neighbor advised that some one be
arrived they found the woman pros
trate on the grave of her youngest
child, weeping and crying that she
wanted to follow her daughter. 1t was
the third time which friends have been
compelled to go to the cemetery and
force the mother away from the grave
of her youngest child.
The fact that foul play is suspected
has added to the mothers grief, for
only few years ago another daugh-
ter, as womanly and as good, she says,
as any girl who ever lived, was MUIR
dered in far off Vienna before the fam
lily left their Austrian home to seek a
new one in America. The girl was
shot, it has been learned here. by a
lover, who committed suicide after the
crime.
1t was disclosed today that the ply
sicians had taker the body of Miss
Polreis from the grave three times,
and had carefully listed, using ana
tomlcal terms, every wound, cut. bruise
and abrasion found on the girls body
and head. There We're fifteen wounds,
by actual count, found on the head, as
follows:
Six scalp wounds made with
some blunt instrument. three on top
of head and three over the right
ear; four bruises or wounds on the
forehead; abrasions over dorsum
Of nose; one broad abrasion on left
cheek and two at the angle of the
left jaw; the right side of the face
badly Scared, one large aad two
small cuts on the point of chin;
lips. both upper and lower, badly
right side and chin and face"
Cuts and Bruises on Body.
Among the wounds which We're found
on the body and listed by the physi-
clans, are the following:
"One abrasion on right side of the
neck; point of right shoulder cut
through to the bone about two and
one-half inches long from the point
of the back; muscles severed and
wound gaping; point of left elbow
cut, exposing capsule; thumb and
entire back of left hand, skin
Slipped easily as if scalded: third
or ring finger disjonted and bone
protruding; skin slipping off left foot
as though scalded; large abrasion at
left of center at patella. extending
down the left side of the patella."
Though this report of the girls
wounds has seemed too awful to be-
lieve, it is understood that 1T will be
signed by two physician,. - Siou3.
Falls, including DIR. Olney. chairman
of the state board of health, and by
two Parkston physicians.
Such Torture Incredible.
Many people refuse to believe that
any human being could be brutal
enough to infict such wounds on a
helpless girl, and one known to be in
offensive, Industrious and faithful to
everyone for whom she has worked.
Some of the wounds are described as
CHASTITY, and that forty-nine of them
should be found on the head and body
of the child seems almost beyond be-
lief
The theory that the girl was insane
and that the wounds were self-inflicted,
is scoffed at Physicians claim her
brain. save for the clot, was healthy.
and they remarked about it being SO
we'll developed
That she should have silently suf-
fered such abuse from anyone seems
as hard for some to accept but 1t has
developed here. according to the girls
father, that she wrote home for the
first three weeks she was working in
Sioux Falls, then her letters stopped
while she was living at the home Of
the Sioux Falls millionaire no word
was received from her, and at the end
of that time Mr.. Kaufman telephoned,
announcing the death of their daughter
in the hospital.