The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-19
MAN MURDERS A. LITTLE BOY
POLACK'S CRIME IN A MEAN QUAR-
TER or BAYONNE.

Others In tn GridlrOn." where Knife Play
Us sudden, Might Have Killed the MUIR
derer Had Not the Police Got Him Into
Cell quickly, for They Hated Him.
Frank Kwiakoski. a short. bull necked.
stupid Pole who has lived with Mrs. Annie
Bruzinski in Bayonne's Polish quarter, The
Gridiron. since Bruzinski died unpleasantly
from nitric acid poisoning, killed the
woman's eldest son Joe. early yesterday
morning. A pair Of policemen snatched
him to the police headquarters Just in time
to save his life,
Kwiakoski, or Frank Foreman, az he was
known before he found a soft map and
figured out that work was Unnecessary IL
there was a woman around. was bitterly
disliked in The Gridiron. 1t Is a quarter
Of sudden fights and knife plays and the
morals Of The Gridiron are not Of the best.
but even the loose living Polacks couldn't
blink at Kwiakoski's conduct with the
widow of the man who found a glass OF
poison conveniently near when he really
wanted water. They would ave strung
him up in a minute or slashed him to pieces
with the long knives they carry If Police
meu Finnerty and Bose hadn't robbed them
OF the pleasure.
Bruzinski. who was a big. ~easygoing
fellow. with muscles and Just enough brains
70 make a dollar and a quarter a day in an oil
refinery. admitted Kwiakoski as a boarder
over a year ago In a few weeks Kwiakoski
was giving him orders around the house
and entertaining Mrs. Annie while her hus-
band earned enough to keep them all. She
is a thin. pallid woman with a blank and
homely face. straw oolored hair. pale blue
eyes and a constant, foolish smile. She
had the same smile yesterday when she
heard Kwiakoski was locked up. and il was
on her face when she looked at the body of
her son. About a year ago Bruzinski was
eliminated. kwiakoski taking charge Of the
funeral such as it was, but nobody around
the dark, Ill smelling apartment missed him
except his sons.
Joe. who was IA. and John, two years
younger. knew a short time after X wiakoski
went to live at their house that they had
reason TO he ashamed whenever they showed
their faces at the parish school or when
the other kids got TO talking in the street.
They were both bright boys who had been
we'll taught blythe priest and sisters, They
said things both to their mother and Kwis-
kosld. speaking with lowered eyes and
red cheeks, ashamed and embarrassed.
Their mother smiled. Kwiskoski slapped
their faces more than once. He didn't
like either one of them. They knew he
was lazy and worthless, and he hated them
because they knew a good deal more than
that. |
Wednesday night they went to a circus
in Bayonne with half a dozen boy friends
John. the younger brother. told Chief John
Yore OF -Bayonne what happened after
that. He In a small. sharp featured boy,
with very bright eyes and the manner OF
ME and Joe walked right in the back
room. he said slowly. and then we backed
out Of the door because we couldn't stand
what We saw. Just look at that Joe said
TO me. with something else that Kwiakoski
heard. Mother didn't say anything, but
Kwiskoski yelled out to Joe. You little
snake. I'll fix you for that kwiakoski
was 30 mad his face was as red as fire and
his red mustache stuck straight out.
honest IL did.
He went ana got a shotgun. out by the
time he had it Joe was down in the pack
yard, hiding, scared TO death. Twas scared, |
TOO. but Kwiakoski didn't pay any attention
TO me; he vas after Joe.
4 guess Joe must have hid in the wood
shed or in the cellar. because Kwiakoski
couldn't find him and came back up stairs, |
swearing awful. l went TO bed, but | heard
Joe sneak up stairs after a while and go
into the front room. Then I heard Kwis-
koeki go IN, too. and got up and stuck
my head in the door.
Joe was sitting all crouched down in a
chair in the corner with his hands over his
face. and kwiakoski was standing abou six
feet away from him with the shot gun pointed
right at Joe's head. Then all at once
the big devil let the gun go of, and | saw
Joe just slide down in the chair and flop
over on the moor. ] ran back to bed and
pulled a cover over my head"
kwiakoski fired another shot after he
had blown the top of the boys head OF.
but the second load of bucksSot went wild
and crashed into the wall near the ceiling,
tearing a three inch hole in the plaster.
Finnerty and Bose, always looking for
trouble in The Grdiron. heard the roar Of
the shotgun and ran into rs East Twenty
second street before the quarter was
aroused. kwiakoski was husting into his
clothes. They grabbed him. let him get
his coat and trousers on and ran him down
stairs and into a back street just as East
Twenty-second street filled with excited
Poles.
A dozen Of them who ran into the Bru-
xinski fat and saw Joe's body in the front
room shouted the news out Of the windows.
Then others yelled which way me police
men had gone with Kwiakoski and a mob
started toward the police station. The
headquarters is only a few blocks from
rs East Twenty-second street and Finnerty
and Bose had just time to make il before
the mob got there two or three hundred
POLES who were exceedingly anxious TO
lynch K~wiakoski. Chief Yore turned out
bis reserves and scattered the crowd
easily enough when they found they had
no chance to get the murderer.
K~wiakoski was badly scared, so fright
ened he couldn't ak at first. When they
convinced him that he was safe enough
he said he didn't really mean TO shoot the
boy; hat he just did il for fun. He said
he didn't even know the gun was loaded.
Mrs. Bruzinski Was arrested. She told the
police that she was asleep when the shots
were fired and that John had lied about
her and Kwiakoskis Recorder Lazarus
remanded Kwtakoski until to-day without
bail.