New Britain herald., 1915-02-09

N-Fouliy murdered, Rev. Father I loser ph Zebris and his housekeeper, Miss Eva Gilman. who lived in St. AndreW,s Lithuanian Roman Catholic , ehurehI pArfsh house at No. 396 Churcl street. were found by neigh lors aS,d Roliee Offcer Herbert Lyons Sat $50 ossioek this morning. This double murder is one of the most dastardls ofrenses against society that, has ever taken place in New EnglAntaa and II Is made more terrible by the fact that the police are left with practically no clues to work --l:pcn. Rev. Father Zebris was found s IyiAx pfostrate on the floor of the paSlpr ef his little home, shot through tlsf heSrt and strangled with cord A(5put bis neck. He was dressed and had on rubbers over house slippers. H& faithful housekeeper was found
 sk on tho attic floor. minor shot Rr knife wound in her right arm, and two lengths of heavy clothes line bound tightly about her neck. AL lhough there was no means of ascer- lainirg accurately, Chief W. J. Raw lngst of the police department is or the belief that the bodies had been lead six or seven hours. While the. . thordughness with which the house had tyeen "a rarlsacked gives the impress pion that robbery was the motive, 3~ariles about dissensions in the church 1far->S made against Father lepr's Ie'>s color to the theory that revenge haa s'-<os played a part in this N terrible crime. &-.
 Teacher Becomes n>snicious.
 Rev. Father zebris has>~.a 1u5..,s s i,,fo ho Vs. jng of St Andrews Parochial schooi ; and his housekeeper had always att tended 10 the heating of the school. When the morning session opened today Miss Anne Gulauskas, of 237 Whiting street, one of the teachers. Thought it queer that the priest was not to be seen and that no heat had = been turned into the school building. When neither put in an appearance E she left her room and went to the ! priests house, finding it locked. She then visited Mrs. Frederick o. Schneider, who lives next to the !. parish house, and asked her if she V1lad seen Father Zebris or Eva this Z morning. A negative answer made ell parties feel a premonition of fear and Miss Gulauskas determined to effect an entrance to the house to see for herself what was wrong. All doors were locked and she went to the rear of the building to try the cellar door. This gave way little but there twas a barrel of potatoes against it which prevented it from swinging open. As she made this discovery one of her boy. pupils noticed that one of the small cellar windows, on the southeast front corner of the house, was swinging open. On her advice the boy wriggled through this narrow opening into the coal bin and thence k into the cellar He moved the barrel >of potatoes ana Miss Gulauskas then s entered the cellar and went up the sg stairs into the first floor of the house N A moment later she threw open the | front door and in a mortified voice in- formed Mrs. Schneider, who was anxiously waiting without, that the priest was dead murdered.
 Officer Herbert Lyon Notified.
 This was ten minutes to nine o'clock and as Officer Herbert Lyon was just passing Mrs. Schneider called to him ' and appraised him of the terrible facts. glance at the prostrate and bloody figure of the priest lying or : the front room floor gave mute evil
 dence as to what had taken place and
 the officer at once began a search for 2 the housekeeper. Into every room of
 the house he went, everywhere finding
 bureau drawers pulled out and
 dumped over and general disorder
 reigning. When Miss Gilman was no
 to be found on the second floor Officer Lyon pushed upon the door leading
 from the priests bed room to the at
 tic. Blood stains on the wall told hin
 that the object of his search would be
 found on the floor above and as nt
 raced up the stairs the first object
 that met his gaze was the body of the sdead housekeeper, lying flat on the z floor, 8 few feet from the head of the stairs. Around her neck was two S