The evening world., 1911-05-06
HUSBAND ABUSED
HIS SLAIN WIFE,,
HER SISTER SAYS
Forced Her to Work and 10
Submit to Operation
Last Winter.
T FOR MURDER.
Description of Molnar's Actions
Given by Wife's Kin
Constitutes a Crime.
MOTIVE FOR MURDER.

A sister OF Mrs. Anna Molnsr. the
comeiy little Hungarian woman who
was stabbed TO death in the basement
apartment at No. SIS West One Hun
dred and T~wenty-third street on We'd
nesday afternoon. declared to an Eve
ming World reporter to-day that ste-
phen Molnar. the husband OF the muir
dered woman, had been consistently
cruel instead OF devoted to his bride
and that last January he compelled his
wife to submit TO an operation and then
destroyed the evidence Of It with =
butcher knife and nre.
The sister OF the slain woman who
made this statement II Mrs. Anton
Puyki of No. b33 West F~ifty-eecond
street. Her husban. Anton. was present
when she described In detail Stephen
Moinar's cruelty to the little woman he
married hast August. n he backed up
every declaration made by his wife.
Both the Puykis asserted hat they
a witnessed what they had described.
They said furthermore that Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Linn. cousins OF Mrs. Mol
mar. would corroboruts everything they
said.
Made His wife Work.
At the time referred to by the Puy-
kiss the Molnars lived at No. 56 West
Fifty-sscond street. Molnar had lost.G lis
job a machine operator in a plano
factory and while he had no work he
insisted that his young wife. though In
delicate health. 20 out and wash while
he losfed.
MY sister," said Mrs. Puyki. was
looking forward to the day when she
would be . mother. Stephen swore to
her that this would never happen. He
told her hat Il would interfere with
her ability to work. He wanted her
10 earn money washing, to come home
and do the housework Ind to turn over
svery cent she made to him. lie did
not give her . penny to spend. and
when he got any money he spent 1t out
side on himself. Often my husband
and I v her bread.
After this terrible thing happened last
January I would have nothing more to
do with either OF them. I could not
bear tho saght OF that man MolnAr, 90
I ala not look upon my sbter's face
again until I saw her lying dead after
the police had come and got ms."
"Ev@ything - Just a. my wdfs says."
c~ouoborated Anton Puyki. and then
went on to describe actions Of Molnar
that constitute . crime OF the nst
magnitude.
Motive for Crime.
Coroners Physician Leblanc reported
10 the police after his autopsy that
when Mrs. Molnsr was murdered sho
was In the same delicate health Is at
the time described by tho Puykis. Dep
uty COMMISSIONS Dougherty. who has
taken personal charge Of tho investi-
CATION OF the murder. IL convinced that
the statements Of the Puykis. taken
with the report Of the Coroner's Physi-
clan. supply a motive for the crime.
Before The Evening World reporter
and the detectives drew out from the
Puyhs the true story OF Molnar's at
titude toward his bride there seemed
absolutely no motive that might have
induced him to slay. His friend. Louis
Harra. had assisted him In establishing
an almost perfect abb.
MOlnar was the first to the
discovery OF the crime and when he
rushed into the West One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth street police station he
was accompanied by his friend Harra.
This was about s o'clock Wednesday
night.
lie left the Welser Bros plano fac
tory on West Forty-third street shortly
before 80 o'clock. He was able to pro
duce one witness to swear that after
leaving the factory he had stonnad IN