Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-08-23
TRAGEDY AT AMADOR CITY.
A Deserted Woman Kills Her Para
mOur While Asleep.

a terrible tragedy occurred in an
Austrian boarding house at Amador
City at an early hour Monday morn
ing. The manslayer is a young
woman, an Austrian, named Marie
Clavioh, and her victim a young man,
also native of Austria, named Martin
Yojetich. Both we're comparative
strangers in AmadoI county. The
deceased had been in Amador City
about six weeks, and the woman only
three days.
Back of this homicide there IS a
story of matrimonial infelicity, elop-
ment, and subsequent desertion, that
is truly deplorable, creating in the
public mind a good deal of Sympathy
for the woman now lodged in the
county Jail with the charge of murder
against her.
1t seems that Marie Petrack left
her native land about eighteen months
ago, and soon after reaching this
country proceeded to Los Angeles.
Shortly thereafter she met in that
city young man named Clavich.
Whether the pair had met before COM
ing to this country we know not. AT
any rate an attachment grew up
between them shortly after the lady's
arrival in the southern city, resulting
in a wedding about nineteen days
after she got there. The husband
worked at common labor. A bone of
discnrd speedily appeared to jar the
matrimonial life. Martin Yojetich
became a boarder or roomer at the
same house. The story goes that her
husband did not treat her kindly
This is simply one-sided statement,
and given to excuse su 6sequent IN Owe
ments. -Four months after Der Wedd-
ing, Mrs CIavich eloped with. Yoje-
itch, and fled to Oakland. There the
pair lived together for ten months,
according to the woman's story. The
deserted husband it is said advertised
in the papers to discover the where
abouts of his wife, without result
Mrs Clavich says she worked in Oak
land at cleaning Pullman cars at 81. 10
per day, and continued this work
until she was no longer able to do SO,
on account of approaching maternity.
Provided with money from her earn
ings. about 500 she says, Yojetich
once visited Los Angeles to see a
relative, which he never repaid.
Some six weeks ago, Yojetich, pro-
badly firing of the woman, and in
the face of her delicate condition,
determined to get rid of her. He
made his way to Amador county. and
applied for and secured work at the
keystone mine. He is said to have
left Oakland the 18th of July. The
deserted woman was at length ar
prIsed of his whereabouts by friend
at Amador City. She resolved to
follow MIN. She arrived in Amador
City last Friday evening, and hired a
room at the Imperial hotel, only a
few steps from the boarding house
where her iparamour was stopping
That same evening she met YoJetich
near the boarding house. She wanted
him to provide for her, at least to see
her through her trouble. Current
rumor is that she demanded that he
hurry her, but this is hardly pro-
babIe, as it does not appear that she
had been divorced; at any rate the
statutory limit of one year had not
and could not have elapsed from the
decree of divorce. She carried with
her small handbag. In this was a
pistol which she had brought from
Oakland. 1t belonged to Yojetlch.
He left it when he fled to escape her.
1t was fiVe-shooter. Whether she
told him that she carried the weapon,
we do not know. But she admits
that she told if he did not support
her. she would kill him. She says a
struggle ens1ed on their first meet
ing, that he threw her down, and
took the pistol away and fired one
shot in the air. He afterwards re-
stored the weapon to her. They met
several times between Friday and
Monday, but he seems to have been
unyielding in refusing to listen to
her claims.
Sunday he went to work on night
shift at the mine. lie got through at
three O'Clock. Before going to his
room at the boarding house he called
at Mrs Clarlch's room at the hotel,
for the purpose, she says, of getting
her to leave town. She again entreat-
ed him to provide for her and the
anborn child, and gave vent to tears
In SO doing. He is said to have
laughed at her distress, and said he
had other women and babies, and left.
he proceeded to his room, went to
bed and was soon asleep. it must
have been about o'clock when he
reached his room. The woman was
now desperate, without friends or
even means to pay for her room.
The Shooting.
She must have started to dress
Immediately after he lett, resolved
upon her course. 1t was about 6
O'Clock when she appeared at the
deceased's boarding house. She knew
the room he occupied, and the way