Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-10-01
LOSES HEART and
THEN HIS SAVINGS
FORMER WISCONSIN MAN A PRIN-
CIPAL IN MELODRAMATIC
SKETCH IN EAST.
BOTH LEAVE AT SAME TIME
Romance and Alleged Subsequent Theft
Began in Menomonie and Ends
in Court.
DOCTOR AND "NIECE" ARRESTED.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept 2S.-
All the essentials of a pOpular-price
meIodrama are present in the case now
on trial in the superior court involving
the theft of $4,000, the savings of six
teen years toll i'll the mines and woods
of Wisconsin and Michigan, from Anton
Borudziak of HoIyoke. A love story
that enters into the case is highly i'm
portant, as until Borudziak lost his
heart, his money was entirely safe.
In the prisoners dock are DR.. +. j.
Korniejewskie and Il strikingly hand
some woman, who Korniejewskie says is
his niece. The former is charged with
stealing $2IOO of the missing money and
the woman with taking the rest of Bor-
udziak's savings. Borudziak's story
leading up to the loss of the money is
as follows:
He was accosted not long ago in a
street of Menomonie Wis, by the doc
tor, who asked him if he could speak
Polish. BOrudziak met the doctor again
and told him he had a few thousand
dollars in bank.
introduced to Niece
DR.. KOrniejewskie invited Borudziak to
his apartments and there introduced him
to his alleged niece. The doctor sug-
geSted according to the story, that the
three go to Holyoke to live and assured
Borudziak that his niece was deeply in
love with him and had confded the fact
to the doctor, who promised that after
they reached HolyOke he would arrange
a marriage between Borudziak and the
young woman.
Arriving in Holyoke, Korniejewskie
rented fiat, established his alleged
niece as hOusekeeper, and invited Borud-
Zlak to live with them. Meantime, act
ing upon the advice of the doctor, Be-
rudziak says he unwillingly had drawn
his money from the bank The doctor
and his niece both told, he says, that all
eastern banks were unsafe and that those
IN Holyoke and vicinity were VIGOROUSLY
weak and likely to close at any time
without warning.
One night Borudziak attended a Polish
dance with his intended bride. On his
return he found DR.. Kornijewskie in his
room. he says, and the morning after
missed $500 He alleges that he called
to the doctors niece to help him count
the money to verify the loss. but that
the young woman declined with an in
dignant toss of the head, saying she
had counted it enough times already"
Leaves Money in House.
A few evenings later Borudziak says
he took the young woman to a theater.
but was deferred from taking his
money with him by the dOctorls niece.
plan would be to leave it in the house,
as the city was infested with highway
men with unerring instinct when it
came to singing out a newcomer with a
bank roll
On the return from the theater, he
says, the young woman, as she opened
the door, exclaimed, We've been
robbed!' The fiat apparently had been
ransacked, but the door was locked.
Borudziak says when he expressed the
intention of notifying the police, the in
dignation of the alleged niece knew no
bounds He says she told him it would
be useless. and if he failed to prove his
case the judge would send him to prison
for a long term.
Disheartened by his misforunes and
downcast by the curt refusal of the
doctors niece to consider marriage then
or at any other time, Borudziak says he
returned to Pennsylvania to begin life
anew The more he pOndered the more
the injustice of his situation impressed
him. He returned to Holyoke and told
his story to the police. who. it is said.
found that soon after the disappearance
of Borudziaks money DR.. korniej ewski
deposited S270O in a Holyoke bank and
that the young woman had $500 to her
credit in the same bank. The arrest of
the doctor and his alleged niece followed.