New Britain herald., 1915-06-18
Two Confessions Sal
 Been Made by Mon|
 Read in Superior
KRAKAS ACCUSED O|
 ACTUAL SLAYER

We're Only Persons
 Woman Made No Rcsas
 Krakas strangicd Her.
 According to a confessi|
 Bernard Montvid to Statf
 Hurley. only twenty mind
 cupied in killing Rev. Jn4
 and his housekeeper. MiH
 manaitis, in ths city on
 of February 8. The conf introduced in superior co
 ford, today, during the fri6
 vid for the double murder|
 The confession Is alleged
 been given to Policemnu
 a train between Nv York
 ford on March, s1 and reIi
 tall how the priest and
 keeper were murdered. It
 Montvid, Peter Krakas. u|
 Joe Schultz and another Mi
 John Gilman went to t1/ house at 7:10 on the evenifI
 rurary g. Miss Gilmanaif|1 the door. When the qia1I ed Krakas demanded monz
 Father Zebris. Tn priest
 shout and Krakas shot hif15I
 In the meantime Schultz ! ing the woman, the confe4. while she was struggling to' 7 After the priest had been four went into the next roe| Schultz found s7 in a drox skas struck the. woman in| and demanded to know 41 rest of { he money was hid5 said t.U pstaire. Kr8kas eu; told her to lead the way s| followed. They were sonc{ eight minutes. confession E. on their return Krakas sf,no<| he had been forced to kilI manaitis. They than ranea S house. extinguished tho llx| using a pocket fiashlieht. 01 the house Krakas distributed He kept Father zebris' waie| he had taken from the pfi6e ct, gave Montyid SIPS and of keys. gave Schultz the <5 found and Gilman the nri< They left the house at 714 the confession said.
 Another confession alleged q been given to Interpreter M. nowski at the Wilmington H' was read. It said that Mon Krakas went to Father zebk. On Sunday. February 2, and about getting married. Il merely a ruse to secure a pia house. On February 8. the c< said, they went again to the M the priest and his housekeer 10th at the door. Kralas cd them with revolver and de money. Father Zebris began and was shot. The despereX manded of Miss Gflmlnaitis the money was and z she thought it was upstaife went up and Montvid pried 6 &ttic door. No money was f6| and strangled. her. She di6 Krakas said; i've will hays Ter or she will tell all. ~Krai cut some srope from a cloth. placed it around the woma Ii and strangled her. She did sist, the confession says.
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 Before court this morning at placidly in an acute roor< t cigar furnished him by II Ie seemed more calm today. tuards say that he is graduoI|x ng down under the strain. 'ast few nights he has bees ng poorly and last night h< nd tossed about in his cot [ fas in a highly nervoue eta. ering on hysterja. It Wa< ecessary for prison attend1u<< i'm a sedative powder tn of< e might secure any sleep af riminologist present in the oom stated that he has noticed Id particularly and finds that that is known as a "pe' oint". to his ears, a charo< ommon to criminals.
 Paper Expert TcstIfics. Today's initial witness was UT Langdon. of Hartford, h xpert employed by the Fl a paper manufacfurif srn. Assistant States A| Ialtbie took up the examinal ie witness and under his ques ,e witness Identified stationery n Montvid positively as tba , write the threateninR lettf ather Boinowski. Thux. VI Ipewriter and paper both ia. !, Montrid's property. th@ to have proved thai Ie accused who wrote the let ataher Rojrowski. The le,tt' n to Vinikaitis. the Sprin9