The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-02-11
.CARBOLIC ACID
 VICTIM BLAMES
 HIS OWN FATHER
Police Mystif1ed By Unusual Circumstances of Strang-
 er's Death

Deep mystery became involved to-. day, in the death of Joseph Salaczyn- ski, a Russian recently employed in the U. M. c. factory. who expired in Lesko's saloon Hallett & William street at 7:so this morning after call | ing for doctor and stating to bar tender and five witnesses in the place that he had been poisoned by his | father. The case became more cloud ed later in the day when memoranda Iin cipher was found in his pockets. The victim entered two saloons call ing for aid and finally collapsed on the floor in front of the Les1o bar be- 1 fore anyone believed that he was ser iously Ill.
 Emergency Surgeon E. B. Weldon. called in haste to the scene, found the man writhing in the acute agonies of earbolie poisoning and though heroic efforts were made to save his life he died within ten minutes after the sur- geon's arrival.
 1 Medical Examiner s. M. GarIick who was notified Of the case at once per mitted removal of the body to the un- dertaKing establishment of Cul1inan & Mullins. and ordered the police to con- duct an investigation. An autopsy will 1 be performed.
 Detective George Simons detailed on the case ,and aided by officers from the Second precinct station, estab- lished the fact that the poison victim for the last two nights has been room l ing at the home of Annie Lankowski, 23S EIaIlet street, and that previous to that time and for a period of about three weeks, he had lived at the home of Michael Geenski, 66 Hamilton street, from which he had been evicted two days ago because he had not worked and refused to pay board.
 The detectives have further learned l had a fT71 r. che1 The latter has been located and establishes the additional information that he came from Pennsylvania, where he has a brother. The trunk has not been found.
 All effort to find the man whom the victim called father has been fruit
 less today and the signffcance of the | tragedy grows deeper as clue after
 clue is being traced down, for it is
 not known in any place why he left 1 nificance of the figures and letters
 kept so carefully in the book.
 As far as can be learned at the last home of the victim he slept
 there last night and arose early today l with the intention of getting his satch-
 el or dresssuit case at his previous Eresfdence. He shortly afterwards en-
 tered the house with it, and after going over some letters contained I therein as if to ascertain if they had
 been tempered with wrote some
 memoranda in the little pocket diary l which those who saw it supposed to l contain dreams.
 The next seen of him was in the 1 Smigelsky saloon where he staggered through the doorway and asked a bar l tender to call a doctor and an annbu- lance, saying that he had been pois- oned. The Ioungers here thought him drunk and he reeIed across the street. to the other saloon. There he nearly sWooned upon the bar while he re-
 peated his request for medical assist
 ance.
 l Inquiry at the various places at 1 which the poisoded man resided tends
 to show that he was believed an ec- I centric character and was constantly l prow1ing about the east side at night.
 He worked for the U. M. c. Go. until
 three weeks ago, for a period of two I weeks It cannot be ascertained today l whether he was discharged or left of l his own free will.