Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-08-19
SHOOTS WIFE,
Then KILLS SELF
Double Crime Occurred In the
Presence Of Children.
WOMAN HAD FEARED HER FATE
Accused of Robbery, and Fearing
Arrest, Young Foreigner Committed
Double Crime.

Two children, aged four and six
years, saw Bartko BednaHky fire two
shots into his wife, Manee, and then
kill himself in the third-story back
room of the house at S27 North Frank
lin street, Philadelphia.
The six-year-old boy picked up the
ugly-blued steel weapon, fully twelve
inches long and of .44calibre, with
which the shooting was done, and
was holding it in his hands when
Policeman Regan, of the Tenth and
Buttonwood streets station, burst into
the room.
Lying across the floor of the little
room where Mrs. Bednarsky died, was
her body, blood pouring from a two
inch hole at the back of her head and
from the wound in her breast made by
the heavy slugs.
In a room to the rear of this was
he murderer and suicide, fallen upon
. bed, which was dyed red. He had
blown half of his head and all of his
face off, shooting himself in the throat
directly under the chin, the bullet
smashing through his head to the cell
ing above, where it lodged.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Bednarsky
went to the Franklin street place,
which is run as an apartment house
by Max Shodowsky. She had known
Mrs. Wilszwisky, who leases the first
floor, in Galicia, before she came to
this country. ten months ago.
tl, h,
back rooms, told her friends that her
husband had become a criminal and
was wanted for several robberies in
Buffalo. She had left that city be-
cause she could no longer stand his
way of obtaining a living. But she
wrote from Franklin street to him,
telling him that if he would be honest
and get work he could come to this
city and start again.
He answered her. agreeing to her
proposal, and said he would come to
this city as soon as he could go to
work and earn the necessary money.
At this time he was living in Buffalo
with a man named Carol Fabian,
with whom he was very friendly.
bell at the Franklin street house and
was admitted by Mrs. Wilczwisky.
Husband and wife met joyfully, but
when he left after two hours stay,
Mrs. Bednarsky told her friend that
she was not happy, as she did not know
where he had obtained the fare to
this city. Bednarsky came again on
Of nd
afternoon. Carol Fabian came from
Buffalo to her and said that Bednar
sky had stolen $133 from him, which
he had buried in a can in the back
yard. He asked her to get the money
back.
Bednarskr came to see his wife. He
had been pleading with her to go to
housekeeping with him. saying that
he would work and support her. She |
had told Mrs. Wilczwisky that he was
bad man in Galicia, and had been
in trouble there. She knew he was
armed, and would not hesitate to
shoot At least she told her friend |
that she was afraid he would some |
day kill her.
third floor Mrs. Wilszwisky was also
upstairs. Her three children. Stanley. |
aged six; Stephana, aged ten and |
Lily, four years old, were playing in !
the Bednarsky rooms. Stephana left |
when Mrs. Bednarsky told her husband |
of the visit of Fabian.
81 will not live with you unless you
return the money you STOLE" she said |
clearly. 81 can't do it," he answered. |
according to Mrs. Wilczwisky. 81 have |
only $7S left. I paid $14 for a re-
volver in Buffalo"
Then followed hot, angry words. |
She told him her opinion, that he !
was not fit to live with a decent wom-
an. and that she preferred to go to |
work to support herself rather than