The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-15
WOMAN BOUND AND KILLED
HtRkS 90 STRINGLERS HOID
az HER THROtr.

MURDER sasnsIatrd Evairatly 20 t:st the
FaaaIly sas mEs That ~he HAD IN ttrr
Iprs-a waist PSll.e lIssklRg foe q
strange Nan seen In ler nouse.
sir-. Rosie Lucasik. % years old. who
k-pt house for her husband jacob. their
twenty .year-old son Adam and Frank
and Amelia Ofabowski. newly w-d
boarder-. In three Tuoms nj 3n5 Wash
ington street. Jersey City. Was found dead
early yesterday afternoon stretched
across a bed in a small hall room with
her feet and hands tied. fingernail
marks on her chin and neck Indicated that
she had be-n choked To- death 10y strong
hands The fact that a roll Of money repre-
senting the family saving was missing
FROM it's accustomed place In her bosom
satisfied the detectives On the job that
robbery was the motive for the brutal
killing The murderer succeeded in max
ing n getaway
Mrs Pela Pilip. who ives on the first
floor. went zap stairs t. Mrs Lucasiks
APARTMENTS at Sl5 4. NJ. To- ask her 60
mind the Youngest member 81 the Pilip
family while she went 20 the store. She
walked in without knocking and saw
strange man who volunteered the in
formation in Polish that Mrs. Lucasik
had gone out.
Three hours later Mrs. Pilip returned
20 the rooms and found Mrs. Lucasik
lying diagonRlly across the mattress OF
an rnamelled iron bedstead. She had
been dead only few minutes. The
bedclothes were In disorder and there
were signs Of desperate struggle.
The won,an's feet rested on the floor.
Her ankles were bound together with
heavy twins. Her knees were tied To.
g"ther with what appeared to Ira strips
of a womans underclothes. Her hands
were secured 10y twine across the lower
part Of her abdomen and twine was
tightly drawn around the hips. binding
the arms.
Mrs PiIip got a good look az the strange
POlack when she made her first visit To
the room and the police think that he ~
the murderer. She described him as a
Rwarthv man Of Is or ". ) feet II inches
tall and of medium build. tie had curly
dark hair and his face had bcen badly
pitt..d by SMALLPOX He wore "A faded
blue coat. dark colored trousers with a
light stripe and a green soft hat.
Jacob IlCasik. the murdered woman's
husband. was found by Detective Ser
ssant Tom Collins al work on North River
Pier Of the Jersey Central Railroad !
He said he had no reason to suspect any |
particular individual Of the crime. Luca- |
six went "a Jersey City headquarters. |
where he informed Chief Of Police Mona |
han that his wife told HIM about three |
months ago that the family roll. which !
Wis carried la her dress for Safskeeping /
amounted then To- $50 lie thought that |
probably u had increased 20 over S2O
since, but he wasn't sure Later he CON
iided To- a newspaper reporter that Mrs
IuCasik had saved about $3.50.
The police made a roundup Of PolaCks !
with and without smallpox marks All /
gave satisfactory accounts Of them
selves Al a late hour last night they /
were looking for "A former boarder at the |
Lucasik house whom they suspect vas ac- !
quainted with Mrs luCasiks habit nf /
tOtinK around the family savings In her
dress
Mrs LuCasiks mel ghbors all spoke we'll /
of her az a Wife. mother and housskeepeT