The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-18
ANNIE NI0SkIL TELLS HER
 STORY
Graphic Description of How She Was, Thrown Into We'll After Assault By Illus and His Ally.

the we'll on the Ferris farm in Fair field. on the evening of Jan. 15 and the morning of Jan. Is, in clear voice told the jury in the Superior court yesterday afternoon the story of her life from the time she met her hus- band, Joe Marock, in Chicopee last
 October. till Tuesday of this week
 when she was released from the hos pital. The court room was thronged with spectators eager to get a look at Annie Moskil and at the accused.
 . Every available seat was taken up. there was not an inch of room to spare within the space allotted to the 1 lawyers, while the spectators even crowded the prisoners pen. Outside it was just the same. throngs of reo- pie snatching glances at the court room whenever the door was opened. When tfe name of Miss Moskif was called out, a sudden hush fell over the
 room. As she wended her way to ] the witness stand her SOW step ind+- cated that she had not fully recovered from the effects Of hours of intense suffering in the, well.
 7 The witness stated that her name was Annie Moskil. she was 2S years of age, coming to this country from Austria Poland to New Bedford seven years ago. She had worked in Bos- ton. Salem. Indian Orchard Ipswich, and in Chicopee. She met Marock at l the home of a friend. Kittie Werner. two months before last Christmas. B. fore that time she had heep keeping company with one Joe Polinski who :! had robbed her of $1S0. She knew Marock at the time. and he helped her search for Polinski. and told her he was bad man and not to go around with him. Two weeks after Ma"ook called he proposed marriage to her. l He told her that he had a farm in the old country, and showed her a let l ter from his mother speaking about the farm. His father had just died and his mother wanted him to come and i've Sn the farm. She read the letter and agreed to marry him after ] he called only three times. They went l to Boston to get married.
 Marock didn't like Boston beca use he could not get work and they went 1 to Lynn. Miss Moskl was asked why l she did not get married in Chicopee. l Because" she answered. Joe had made a bet of s100 that he would not l to stay in Lynn for three weeks as it 1 was necessary to have the bans of marriage announced from the pulpit l three times. From Lynn they went 1 to worcester, thence to Palmer. Joe | all the time looking for work Ma fCck III JuIfhptDS ITCIfl tOWH ID tOWA forgot that he was about to get mar ried. In Worcester he had 8 declara- ton of intention to marry drawn up by a priest Later he went away and said that he would not get married in that town as the priest asked too many questions. Morook told witness to wait in Wor- cester till Friday when he would re- turn. He did not show up on that |, day but did on Saturday when wit ness was buying a ticket to go back to Chicopee. Miss Moskil went to the priest in Worcester and told him that Joe was rot going to marry her. She then went back to Chicopee. going to work. Two weeks later she met Ma rock on the street. He told her that he would marry her after Christmas. He called on Ter every day for two weeks. One day she received a letter from him stating that he must go back to the old country at once and that he wanted to marry her before he went. He told her to get ready Co., ing on, with her story that led to the marriage. she said that she met Ma
 rock and I-aski at the railroad station in Springfield on Thursday morning.
 Jan, 13. They took a train for Hart ford about o'clock. In Hartford when the town clerks office opened
 they got their marriage license. They
 then went to another office and were
 married. Afterwards they went to a
 photographers. Miss Mos6il stated
 that she paid for the railroad fares.
 marriage license and the photogra phs
 Marock told the man at the gallery
 to send some of the photos to South
 An1hoy. That night she returned to
 Chicopee and packed all her belong
 ings. Marock and Laski stopped off
 at Sprinfigeld. She went to the Chico
 pee Savings Bank and got her bank
 book and also secured a draft for $260
 on the bank in Salem. On Friday
 Joe came to her and told her to get
 ready to go to South Amboy. It was
 showing hard all that day. but Ma
 Chicopee that night at 6:90. She met
 the two men at Springfield, leaving
 there at 2 o'clock in the early morn
 ing She boueht tickets for Bridge
 port, as Joe had told her that he was
 going to get off here to see a friend.
 Continuing. witness said:
 Tt was 5:30 a. m. when we reached
 the Bridgeport depot. Joe and Laski went away but returned about two
 hours later. Joe said they were go- ing to stay that evening at a cousin s
 of Laski's who owned farm in Fair
 field Both went away again. They
 came back at different times. five
 times I think in all during the day.
 Around o'clock in the evening they
 came back for the last car They said
 that they would t9 ke the 6:l2 train for
 Fairfield. Before we went Joe want
 ed to bet that he had more money
 than I did. He showed me about S100
 in bills, but I would not let him know
 where kept the money. Joe asked
 me for 30 cents and paid the fares to
 Fairfield. We got on the smoker @hd got off at Fairfield. saw nobody
 at the station and we walked along
 the railroad tracks. It was very dark
 and the snow was very deep. up to
 my knees in places We saw two men
 ahead of us near bridge. Joe said
 to me if they talk to me. not to no-
 tice them Joe left Laeki and I ard
 walked behind. Very soon he was out
 of sight. Whether he went up to the
 two men I don't know He later
 joined us. and we continued to walk
 further I was getting tired and cold
 and told Joe so He said that 1t was not much further, only on the other
 side of the hill When we got there
 we could have a good rest
 'As we were going up the hill Joe
 came up to me and said that he would
 help me climb the hiIl At the same
 time he grabbed me by the shoulders
 and threw me to the ground. He and
 Laski pounded snow into my mouth
 and one of them choked me. They
 took hold of my huff to get my pocket
 book. l tried to scream but could
 not. When they had me on the snow
 I cried out. You can have my pocket