The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-03
WEALTHY WOMAN is
CHARGED WITH MURDER.


Sioux Falls. S. D., June Enlarged
with a crime. for fiendiSn and inhu-
man cruelty, can scarcely be surpass-
ed IN the criminal annals of South
Dakota, Mrs. Moses Kaufman. wife of
a millionaire brewer of this city, will
be placed on trial for her life at Elan
dreau, in Moody county, this week.
The case will be called tomorrow,
when attorneys for h accused wo-
man will probably attempt to secure
another delay. The case ives set for
trial here Oh May 81, last, but Judge
Smith brought the proceedings to a
sudden end by declaring a fair trial
impossible in this county n grant
ing a change of venue to Moody coun-
ty, which adjoinS this county on the
north.
The crime for which this woman of
wealth and fashion is facing the gal
lows is the murder of Agnes Poloris,
aged 16, a Bohemian girl VINO died
under terrible and suspicious circum
anc at a Sioux Falls hospital ear
ly last year. Prior to her death the
victim had cen employed as a domes-
tic by Mrs. Kaufman. Rumors of
fiendish brutalitieS practiced on the
maid by the brewers wife caused the
body to be exhumed. 1t was found
to be a mass of bruises, scalds n
cuts and there was every appearance
that the girl had met deatn by VIC
Ience. At the preliminary hearing 9th
er servants of the Kaufman household
testified that Mrs. Kaufman, ANNA
ed apparently by an insane hatred to-
word the girl, had often beaten II
otherwise abused her and upon N
occasion mad forced her to take a
bath in scalding water.
Mrs. Kaufman was arrested i
lodged in Jail to protect her from the
furry of a mob, composed mainly of
women, which hooted and AowIed and
spat upon the former society leader.
threatening terrible punishments.
When the clamor had subsidized Mrs.
Kaufman was released on a bail of
$25, 900, and has since spent o of
her time at a northern summer resort
Last winter it was rumOred that the
incident against h woman would
be qJlashed and all proceedings against
her be dropped because of a of
sufficient evidence Recent actions
of the prosecuting officials belle this
rumor, although many Sioux Fails PEG
pie still believe that Mrs. Kaufman
will never be tried.
1t is rumored that attorneys for the
accused who include some of
the leading legal lights of Il North
west, will as a final resort enter a plea
of insanity. alleging that Mrs. Kauf-
mans mind was temporarily derang-
ed by the untimely death of her daugh
ter, thus leading to a mad hatred OF
all young girls. This theory is borne
out by the statements of young wo-
men formerly employed at the Kauff-
man mansion. VINO assert that they
were often awakened in the middle of
the night to find b brewers wife
beside their bed. gfaring with the mai
evolent light of insanity cleaning in
her ferocious Eyes, until the frightenen
ed victim of her hatred fed from the
house. At other times. friends of Mrs
Kaufman declare IN would sit
broodiag for hours at a time before
a life-sized portrait of her deceased
daughter, occasionally breaking forth
into wild, demoniacal blasphemies
against God for depriving her of her
loved one.
Agnes Polores IA a Bohemian girl
and could speak a lithle English. On
the night before her death, 1t is al