Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-10
SAYS WOMAN BABE
HIM KILL HUSBAND
Garfield Youth confesses Com
pIicity in Plot to Collect
Insurance.


HACKENSACK, Aug 10.-George
PRO. an eighteen year-o,d Garfield
youth. is being held by the police
here today after he voluntarily made
one of the most amazing confessions
IN local police annals. He implicated
Mrs Joseph Kuresa, formerly of Car
field. and said that he helped her
poison her former husband that she
might get the 5000 insurance and
then burned a barn at her bidding sc
she could collect $500 more.
Mrs Kuresa was arrested and ad-
mits her part in the arson plot, al
though she vigorously denies that
she had anything to do with the
death OF her former husband The
body will be exhumed, however. and
the stomach examined for traces Oh
poison.
George PRO became a boarder at
the home of Michael W. Soos. at Sc
Lama avenue. Garfield. in January
last. He SAYS he had been living
there but a short while when Mrs.
Sophie soes. the wife, eonfided In him
thai she was anxious to get rid OF
her husband. PRO says he was IN
duced to put poison in whiskey which
the husband drank while he was part
Is intoxicated, on March 26 last. Soos
became III and DR.. Samuel E. Harris
was called in and ordered the man
taken TO the hospital. Two days later
he died.
Drs Harris and MeDufiie, of the
hospital staff, seemed of the opinion
thai uremic poisoning caused death,
although at the time they both re-
garded it as a little suspicious. The
body however. was buried in Lodi
Cemetery a couple of days afterward-
and there was no attempt to invesu-
gate.
New Husband Put Him Out.
Three weeks ago the widow mar
ried Joseph Kuresa. Evidently the
new husband did not care to have
the Young boarder about the place
and he was requested to leave, which
ne did few days ago. PRO now says
mat his conscience troubled him and
he decided to ease his mind by max
ing a confession of the murder of
Soos and the arson. The police are
Of the opinion that the young mans
confession was more the result of
feeling of revenge for being thrown
out of the house
The lad went to the office of Justice
Of the Peace Weiss, in Garfield yes
terday and first made the confession.
lie was then brought over to Bergen
County, where he again told his story
10 the county authorities. He
was held while deputies went TO Gar
field and arrested the woman. Both
the young man and the woman were
brought to Hackensack. where they
are now held without bail, pending
the Investigation.
according to the Bergen County au-
thorities the woman admits that she
collected $500 insurance after her barn
had been set afire, but she was en-
phatic In her denial of any knowledge
Of the murder of her husband.
Prosecutor Wright will cause an
autopsy to be made on the body OF
Socs today after it is exhumed at
the Lodi Cemetery, and his future
action will depend upon what, if any,
kind of poison is found in the
Stomach.
The Bergen County authorities say
the youth seems rational and they
are inclined to believe his story.
PRO says he loves the woman
with his whole heart" Mrs. Kuresa
is forty-one years old. PRO told the
police: she said she would marry
me after Soos was out of the way"
says Woman Bought the Poison.
according to the boy Mrs. Kuresa-
then Mrs. Soos-bought the poison,
a -colorless liquid In his presence
she poured 1t in the whisky.
z"She collected the insurance on his