The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-01-21
Wanted TO Get
GIRLS SAVINGS
Bride BrutaIIy Treated by Two
Men as Soon as Welded
HER HUSBAND IS IMPLICATED
Woman Feigned Death After One
Held Her Down While the other
Kicked Her In the Head-Tried to
Conceal What They Thought Was
Murder by Throwing Her Into
Well, Where She Revived

Murder by Throwing Her Into {
Well, Where She Revived
Springfield, Mass, Jan. 1S.-Jo-
seph Marok and Bartoni Laski OF
Chicopee, wanted in connection with
a murderous attack on Marok's bride
formerly Miss Annie Maskai of Chico
pee and Salem, and leaving her fol
dead in a well in Bridgeport, Conn.
were arrested Monday at the baggage
room window of the Union station in
this city.
They came to the station and pre-
sented baggage check for the trunk
which the unfortunate bride had taken
with her from Chicopee when she left
there last Thursday to be married
The Springfield police had been
tipped off from Bridgeport that the
trunk had been sent to Springfield.
Watch had been kept at the Spring
field baggage room for them.
1t was learned that Mrs. Marok
formerly lived in Salem. She had
saved her money in that city and had
a deposit book calling for $3.50 on the
Salem Savings bank. From Salem she
moved to Chicopee, where she saved
$3.50 to put in the Chicopee Falls Saw
ings bank.
Two deputy sheriffs who came to
Springfield in pursuit Of the two men
said that Mrs. Marok was in a criti-
cal condition In the Bridgeport hos
pital.
Marok and Lasd were held on a
technical charge of being fugitives
from justice.
From the previous reports and from
new facts told by the Bridgeport depu-
ties at Springfield the story charged
against the two men runs thus:
Marok and Laski found out that
Miss Maskai had saved 5000. Marok
proposed marriage to her and was ac-
cepted. Last Wednesday the girl drew
$3.50 from the Chicopee Falls Savings
bank. She put that in her trunk,
with her $3.50 bank cook on the Salem
Savings bank.
I1dShdl anu JlO SlIi dI ohSO "ChI W
Hartford, where Marok and the girl
were married. Friday all three went
to Bridgeport. The men let the girl
wait in the Bridgeport station all day,
then started her out toward Fairfield
at night on pretext they we're to visit
relatives.
When out on the Fairfield road, ac-
cording to the police story, the men
attacked the girl. One held her down
and the other kicked her in the head.
The girl told the Bridgeport hospital
surgeons that she feigned death in
order to have them let her alone. Be-
lieving her dead, the men threw her
over wall and walked away. A few
rods beyond, they came across a we'll
on the William Ferris farm. They
returned to the woman, who had not
dared move, carried her to the we'll
and threw her in, leaving her this
time for good.
This was about 9 o'clock Friday
night. There was a little water in
the bottom of the well. The girl re-
vived on being chilled by the water,
climbed to a thick rim on the top
of the water and held onto a small F..
pine. She was too weak. however,
to try to get ont. There she chung !
all night, her feet freezing.
At daylight she threw her muff and |
shoes up over the mouth of the well |
so it would attract attention. She
was too hoarse to scream.
Saturday noon William Ferris saw
the muff and shoes, found the wom-
an and dragged her out of the well
more dead than alive.