The evening world., 1911-02-01
MOTHER ACCUSES
SU|T0RO Of Staying
HER LITTLE SON
Three Year-O Old Boy Shot as
He Was Kissing Absent
Fathers Picture.
IsfiE REFUSED TO WED.
He Returned Later to Kill
Woman and Was Nabbed
4 by Waiting Police.
SIZE REFUSED TO WED.

pymetro o%strofsky stood mute ana
sullen In the Coroner's court to-day
when he was ~arraigned for the MUIR
der OF three-year-oid willie Pelcowa
VINO died last night at Bellevue Hos
tpitai. two hours after he had been
taken from a tenement at No. 100 East
Third street with wv bullet holes In
his skull. A. chief accuser against the
: prisoner there appeared the little VIC
ttm's mother. Mrs. Katarsno Peicowa.
a her surviving child. Anna. eight
years old.
According to the woman's story. a.
told through an interpreter. her hus-
band. Antoine. al away nearly a year
ago. A woman who lived In the same
block and who had been a friend OF
the Pelcowas disappeared the same
day.
Ostrofsky. who hailed from the same
town In Poland that the Pelcowas
came from. and who had known them
in the old country. helped her hunt for
the runaways.
Shortly after. ostrofsky. who was
known IN the ~neigbborhood as Mrs.
~ ~ ~
n the little household as a boarder.
THE woman says that lately he has
lbsen begging her to marry him. Until
tshe knew whether Antoine was living
Or dead she refused to listen to him.
4 Husband In Chicago.
Yesterday morning. as she tells It.
the told her he was tired Of waiting.
He left the nat, saying he would be
!. back In the afternoon for his swe
An hour later the postmen brought
Mrs. Peicowa a letter from her hus-
Hands brother In Warsaw. He wro'e
that the truant Antoine had finally
ben located In Chicago. hat he was
: ed of wandering about and expected
q return to New York and rejoin his
Il amply within three weeks.
little boy loved his father
clearly, SO the interpreter translated
the woman's account. and when I told
him Antoine was coming back he got
down my husbands picture rom the
dresser and stood at the window kissing
ut, and saying over and over again. MY
papa viii soon be home. my pap wall
soon be home
Just then Dymetro anne in. lie
asked me II ! was ready to 20 with him
and be married and I pointed to Willie.
Al that he pulled out a pistol and point
all.
II II ran to save my child. and ! Old
hs shot twice and While fell over on the
SHoor. I threw myself on top Of him &c
protect him. and ! think he would havf
ldllad me ton anis A.~~H NY Httie
daughter ran In. screaming. He cursed
an y ran out OF the nat"
Slayer Came Back.
While the mother mourned over her
chlid little Anna ran into the street and
Found Patrolman Schneider. The police.
man called an ambulance and the dyins
child was taken 10 the hospital.
The mother said she believed Ostrofsk,
would be bsck. Detective Monahan o.
the East Fifth street station according'
~ went tothe fiat and hid himself In 81
inner room. Sure enough. about dari
Ostrofsky came slipping In.
He had his pistol with him. but be.
fore no could use It Monahan came on
FUSED TO say that Ostrofsky had don,
Ahe choosing. She wouldn't even admi
che knew him. But when they told he
willie was dead she broke down an,
accused her lover OF the murder.
Coroner Heliens,ein held the prisons
without bond for the Grand Jury an,
sent him to the Toinbs, Tie Corone
declined TO allow the man to make
statement. saying his ignorance OF Eng
fish and OF the law might lead him int
odfniasfOnS damaginR 70 his oWn In