Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-15
ALLEGED WOMAN
SLAYER ON TRIAL
Kubaazewski Starts Fight for
Life-Accused of Killing
Mary Belinska.
On an indlctment charglng aim WIN

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On an Indictment charging him with
the murder of the woman who, re-
pentant, deserted him and returned
to her husband and children, Adolph
| Kubaszewslki. was placed on trial be-
| fore Judge William p Martin and a
| jury in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer today.
The tragedy occurred In Kubaszew-
skis fiat. at sc Charlton street, on
April 10. three days after Mary Be-
| linska. who had been living with him,
had gone back to a forgtving hus-
| band. She went to the house to get
her clothes and other possessions. A
violent quarrel arose between her and
Kubaszewski. ~
During the quarrel the heighbor-
hood was startled by several re-
volver shots People ran upstairs,
stumbling over the man grooming, In
o pool of blood in the hallway. With
in the room the body of Mrs. Be-
linska's body, withssa bullet woun
through the chest, another through
the stomach and a third In the leg,
was found She was dead, but there
was still life in the man and the City
Hospital ambulance was summoned.
of the neck did not prove fatal and
his recovery was rapid.
The contention of the prosecution,
as stated by Assistant Prosecutor
Van Blarcom, in his opening to the
jury, Is that Kubaszewski in a At of
jealousy. began the quarrel that end
ed fatally for her and was intended
for a dual tragedy.
To bear out this theory that he shot
her and then attempted his own life
the State will put on as witnesses the
policemen who found bullet en-
bedded In the floor directly beneath
the wound In the woman's leg. The
bullet could only have got In this po-
sition by being shot at the woman
while she was prosti ate on the floor.
The defense, 1t Is said, will be that
the woman was killed in q struggle
over the revolver and that she shot
Kubaszewski during the melee.
Nine of the twelve jurymen chosen
are residents of the suburbs, leaving
only three Newarkers in the box. John
II Day, of 10 Conover terrace, East
Orange was the first selected. The
others were Albert F. Blood, a banker,
of Old Short Hills road, Millburn;
John Reeves, a moulder, of 531s
Bruen street, Newark; Landreth H.
King. clerk, of 157 Park place, Or
ange: William L. Neff salesman of
256 North Twenty third street. East
ORANGE; Thomas Fl. Davis. manufac-
turer, of lis North Nineteenth street,
East ORANGE; Russell H. Harrison.
clerk. of so Harrison place, Irvington;
John Connolly, rach'nist. of Wash
lngton street, West Orange: Fred
Koenie clerk. of SO West street. New
ark; Edward A. Albertis salesman, 8
Ridgeway avenue. West Orange;
Timothy Barrett, mason, of 348 Val
lev street, South Orange. and John
Wallace, grocer, of 1896 Warren street,
Newark
Thomas Rott, a choir singer of 1874
Mt. Prospect avenue. Newark. was
excused because Judge Martin remem-
bered that he had been taken i'll dur
irg murder trial two years ago. l.
Alper of 1856 High street. was excused
from all Jury service because ne was
not citizen. and Robert F. Reeve
was released when he said he thought
he could not bring in first degree
verdict even II the evidence warrant
ed 1t. He did not believe In capital
punishment, he said.