Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-05-28
HAlCHET AS A
NEW CLUE IN
MURDER CASE
Blood-Stained Implement Is
Found in Cellar of Millburn
Home Today.
JULIA ANTUSlAK'S SKULL
SHATTERED BY BLOWS
Girl Friend and Sweetheart
Being Detained at -
Witnesses.

Being Detained at b..
Witnesses.
A blood stained hatchet found in
the celleT at the home of Mervin Il.
Schenck. SO Prospect avenue, in the
Wyoming section of Millburn. may
lead to the slayer, of Julia Antusiak,
/ twenty-five years old, whose muir
dered body was found about fit-
teen feet from the hennerY on
the schenck property yesterday
afternoon. Prosecutors detectives,
who found the hatchet in the cellar
of the Schenck home. believe that the
back of this weapon was used TO-
sether with a large club, stained "'th
blood and found near the scene. That
/ the girl met her death from several
blows ON the head is the staTsmen
| of County Physician Mckenzie, W.io
| performed an autopsy ON the buuA'
/ Mary prusiak, the servant AT tue
:, SchenclS home. companion OF the dcau
woman. and whom il is alleged, saw
| the body of her companion early yes
terday morning. but owing to fear
did not warn the police, is held as q
material witness. Ladislaw Wrop-
! lewski. of So Eastman street, Newark,
! tic police say, was engaged to marry
Mary Prusiak some time ago and
afterwards turned his attentions to
! the murdered girl. is also held. They
were arraigned before Recorder Felix
McGee, of Millburn, yesterday. and
brought to the home of detention III
! this city.
According to information given the
| Mlllbun police, the last seer ot
Julia" as the murdered woman was
familiarly called, was about o'clock
on Tuesday evening when she left the
home of her employer, Horatio Oh
colt supposedly &c visit at the
Schenck home to chat with Mary
Prusiak. As yet the police have not
ascartained if the murdered girl ever
reached the kitchen Of the Schenek
/ home In an effort to establish this
| fact the county authorities will close
| ly question Miss Prusialt today I,
No Definite Clue.
| Although the police have no dehnit te
/ clue with which to work upon other
/ than the Ratchet and sticks and the
imprint of foot-marks about the
scene where ihe4 body was To-
/ Gated. they are of the opinion that
4 the material witnesses can shed some
light on the mystery,
/ A story prevalent in Alillburn TO-
/ day is to the effect that The Newark
! man several months ago was en-
ga ged to marry Miss Prusiak aud
had set q date for wedding. For
scme unexplained cause, the engage
lnent was declared off and the affec-
| ton was diverted TO the murdered
girl. This did not break off the
! friendship of the two servants. as
! they spent evenings in each others
| company.
! on Tuesday evening the girls had
| an engagement some where in New
ark. As vet Miss Prusiak will not
| say where. About 5 o'clock Miss
| Piusial1 went over to the Olcott
/ home to inform Miss Antusiak that
/ she could not keep the appointment,
| as her mistress was going to enter
tain and needed her services This
! broke off the scheduled trip to New
| ark.
When the girl started for the
| Schenck home, supposedly to visit
| the Prusiak girl, she wore no\ hat
| She had "a gray sweater thrown
about her, shoulders, and black
skirt, with black ties, This is taken
| to show that the girl did not intend
to travel very far out of the neigh
! borhood.
| Girl Missing Since Tuesday Night.
The Antusiak girl has been re-
| ported missing since Tuesday night,
+, Those i'm the Schenck home heard
/ noises about the place on Tuesday
/ night but thought nothing of them
at that time.
! As is her custom, Miss Prusiak
| went out to feed the chickens early
yesterday morning. She returned
! pale in face and said to her mis-
| tress 'sMan-nan." Believing that
! her servant had been frightened,
/ Mrs Schenck sent another servant TO
feed the chicks.
About 130 O'Clock yesterday after
noon Mrs. Schenck. while raking
over the garden. saw the form Of "a
girl lying face downward abo1t
/ fifteen feet from the hennery. She
! called to a male servant. who, in
! turn. notified the police. '
Whether the girl was struck by
her assailants from behind or
whether she had a scuffle. are points
to be determined by the police. The
ground was torn UP for several feet
where the body was found, leading
| one to believe that there was a
| scuffle. On the other hand, the police
! say that the nature of the marks on
! the head indicates that the blows
/ were struck from behind, Telling the
! girl una wares. Two large holes were
caused by the blow. ....
How Girl Was Attacked.
From indications il seems that the
! girl was first attacked near the barn
Parts of the girls torn dress were
| found near there. The ground also
indicates that scuffle took place
near that site. From where pool Of
blood was found 10 where the body
was located is about 100 feet. AS no
marks of blood connect the two
! points, it is supposed that the
| murderer or mt rrderers carried the
body for that distance -
/ Mrs Schencil said today that she
does not know how she missed see
/ ing the body earlier in the day. for
I she was working near the spot where
it. lay. t
AS soon as the body was found
Captain George Brodessor. Of the
Millburn police, notified the prose-
outor's Office. George 0. Howard and
Louis Slutsky, of the prosecutors
staff. were dispatched to the scene,
| In, spite of the heavy rain Wednes-
day. the clothes on the body showed
no sign of having been wet. according
to, County Physician Mckenzie. The
girls body was cold when found and
II was impossible. to ascertain wheth-
er she had been dead for one day or
two.
The condition of the girls clothing
coupled with the fact that the body
was not seen when the pool Of blood
was discovered, led the authorities to