South Bend news-times., 1915-04-12


better for me. II he does live and
leaves me then some other poor
woman might have to suffer the
way l have suffered
Mrs. Andrew BOszori. % years old. |
sitting in a cell in the county Jail /
where she awaits the outcome of the |
wound inflicted when she shot her |
husband, Andrew BOsZOri, when he |
was returning early Sunday morning |
after a night Of gayety at Washing
ton hall. talked freely TO a reporter
Monday regarding her act. In the
sentences above she summed up her
attitude regarding the crime. Shortly
after the shooting, however, she was
hystericat and according TO officers
she wept bitterly and prayed for her
husbands recovery.
Mrs. Lena Strobbeleire Of Mish-
awaka, the assailant in the other
week end tragedy which came as a
climax to domestic difficulties Mon
| day morning admitted that she fired
the shot which probably fatally
wounded her husband, Paul StrOb-
belerie, who is lying in a critical con-
ditiOn at st. Joseph's hospital, Mish-
awaka. She made her statement to
| Deputy Pros. Samuel Schwartz The
shooting occurred when Strobbeleire
returned early Sunday morning from
! his work and found his wife with an
other woman and and two men drink
| ing at a table.
BosLOri in Serious Condition.
Andrew BoszOTi is in a serious con-
dition at Epworth hospital according
TO attending physicians.
Mr.. and Mrs. BOszori lived at S12
/ w. Sample st. About o'clock Sun
day morning the wife met Boszori at
! $. Chaplin and Orchard SITS. Il al
/ going to Kill YOU" she is said TO have
cried as she pulled the gun and nred.
The shot was fired at such close
range that the powder burned through
BOszori's clothes. The bullet took eff
He was hurried to the EpwOrth hos
/ pital and his wife, with her To-
months-old baby, was taken to the
| jail. The mans condition did not
improve Monday.
Three times the wife had gone Sat
urday night to where her husband
was spending his time in sport and
had tried to get him TO return home,
but to no avail. 1t was not alone be-
cause he remained that night that she
| shot him; it was the thought that she
must bear the same treatment all her
days that finally caused her to decide
that she must do something TO arouse
her husband TO what he was doing TO
her the woman explained Monday.
Woman Tells story
Hesitatingly and in broken English
the little woman went into detail CON
corning the year that she had spent
with Andrew BOszori whom she had
married despite the protest of neigh
bOrs who said. "he was so mean when
he was drunk"
For a time after their marriage. ex-
planned the wife, Andrew did not
drink much for he was afraid that
an Innx ~
a while he decided that she would
not want to be left alone and so he
began to drink and habe a good time
with his pals"
Mrs. BoszOri had been married be-
fore and she had with her year-old
daughter, Margaret, when she married
Andrew. II was when he began TO
abuse her little girl that she first pro-
tested to him. He would walk right
by me when 4 was holding the little
girl" the mother related, land he
would just hit her and then just laugh
If say the girl amt done nothing to
him.
And then he would never give me
any money at all. He made some
times SIS at the factory but he would
put the money in his trunk and lock il
up and never give me any. I say to
him what can do If have no money
and then ne say he earn his money
can earn money too. / can flirt with
the men that board with US and they
will give me money. He say / can do
rs 1 d. please but L amt the kind
OF woman that can do such things"
Once Kicked Her.
He would hit me many times and
| then one time he kicked me in the
stomach and, when l was lying on the
= floor, he was going TO jump on me but
the neighbors they come in and made
him quit
She had not meant TO kill her hus-
! band. Mrs Boszori said. but she
thought that perhaps If she hurt him
then he might be better TO her.
She could not admit that she was
! sorry for what she had done. i think
maybe that IT would be better If he
died" said she. better for him and
for me and then IL he does live and
leaves me then some other poor
2 woman would have TO suffer the way
l have suffered.
The gun that the woman used be-
l Ionged TO her brother-in-law, Louis
Boszori, who boarded with them.
Louis. she said. had always been good
10 her and had often tried TO get his
brother TO be better 20 her and not TO
spend all OF his time with his bad
I companions.
SUNDAY morning at 1880 o'clock.
Dr. j. B. Berteling, assisted by DR..
oscar Won Barandy, who was called
| TO attend the wounded man. extracted
the bullet from BoSzori's body. II had
. penetrated his kidneys and liver and
lhad nearly broken the flesh IN his
lower left side.
officer Czenkusch. who was near the
scene of the shooting when II occur
red sent in hurry patrol call Bo-
. jori was hurried 20 the hospital and
DR.. Won Barandy was called 10 at
tend him. Mrs. BosZori was placed
under arrest by officer Earl Parker
and taken 20 the county Jail.
Fl only Man For Her"
Il don't want Andrew 20 die" she