Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-26
MURDERER COURTS
DEATH UPON ROOF
Attempts to End Life After
Shooting Bride and Kill
ing Her Father.

father begged for his supper it was
placed oil the table.
Hardly had the victuals been placed
on the table when the door burst open
Kulick stared wildly at his wife and
made his third demand of the day for
money.
You only married me fer the money
you thought 1 had. and you will get
zone of it" she replied.
II want money and will have it," she
said he replied.
There is no use making such a de-
mand. for you will"
shoots Brides Father Dead.
The words were not finished when
Mrs. Kulick was felled by being struck
on the head with the butt end of a
new .~32-calibre hammerless revolver,
which he had taken from his hip
pocket. This 81 incensed the aged man
that he tried to strike Kulick. The
almost frenzied man then turned The
gun and aimed point blank at his
fatner-in-law. The bullet entered near
the heart and the victim dropped dead,
Recovered from the stunning blow,
Mrs. Kuliek arose from the floor and
made a dash for the door. Her hand
was on the knob when she was COM
manded to halt, but she did not heed
the command. Opening the door, she
had just put her foot outside the
treshhold when a bullet struck her in
the shoulder blade.
Wounded. she kept on going, but be-
came exhausted from the loss of blood
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door was thrown open to her and she
fell upon a bed. John Buchan. a friend
of the family, who was in the house at
the time of the tragedy, fled, out was
later arrested by the Fourth precinct
police. He was held without bail as a
witness.
The shots and the shrieks of the
woman aroused the neighborhood.
which is thickly populated. Kulick
was desperate. and seeing what he had
done picked the old man from the floor
and carried him to a chair. This was
evident from blood stains found on the
floor.
Peter Benechler. of 81 Belmont ave
nue., was just feeding his horses when
he saw a mai with a revolver and a
Ratchet. Blunecher saw him place sew
eral cartridges in the revolver. The
text seen of him was when the man
placed the weapon against his forehead
and pulled the trigger.
A clicking was heard but there was
report. In the darkness Blunecher
saw the mar hurl from him the gun
and hatchet and then leap from the
shed and disappear in Livingston
street, a short distance from the Fourth
precinct police station.
Police on Trail of Slayer.
With the arrival of the police the
throngs gathered and they were handi-
capped in their work. The woman was
quickly removed to the City Hospital,
the physicians extracted the bull
let. Her condition is still serious to-
day. Pla'nclothesmen Lunny, Kass and
Cort worked on the cas- and followed
a trial to Elizabethport. Nothing vas
gained there and they returned to this
city. They were Joined by Sergeants
Tuite, Maier and Fohs, of the detec-
tive bureau, and Prosecutors Detec-
tive Louis Slutsky. A search of the
neighborhood was made and Plain
clothesman Lunny found the Ratchet
and revolver.
Vas1li Kulick, a brother of the man
sought, is at police headquarters. He
was brought from Netcong and is being
questioned Mrs A0pastaoia
Poslofsky, who, with her husband, was
in Netcong yesterday, have returned
and We're questioned by the police. The
woman is a sister of the injured bride
Her two youngest children, Wadlaus
I years old, and Anna, 2 years old
were in the room at the time of the
ira gedy.
The police have sent broadcast to-
day pictures of the man wanted Ad-
jacent towns and suburbs. where there
are Polish sett ements. have been asked
to keep a careful watch for the man
Court Interpreter Isadore Rosenblueth
of the First Criminal Court, has been
pressed into service.