The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-06-03
County Officials Refuse to
Permit Her To Have
COURT HOUSE NURSERY
Totan Had Set Limit Upon
Yasco's Life Neighbors
Say.

With Jaw set and defiant eye, Mrs.
Andrew Yasco, widow and confessed
slayer of her husband Andrew Yasco,
miner employed at Hutchinson, PAGES
her cell today, little worried over her
predicament and only asking for her
four.months'-old baby. Pleading with
all earnestness with Prosecuting At.
torney Walter Haggerty and other
county officials, the Humane society
asks that the baby which Is in need
OF q mothers care, be taken into the
Jail cell to the mother.
This the county refuses as the rules
are plain that no children not charged
with crime OF any sort be taken into
5 the cells.
The child's godmother has taken the
infant together with the other three
small children belonging to Mrs. Vas.
co, and is caring for them in the lobby
of the Court House while about 15
or IS neighbor women friends of the
;Yasco family assist In comforting the
young ones.
The Oldest child q boy who Is per.
haps eight years OF age, Is terribly at.
hicted, being sub.normal mentally. The
neighbors who have known Mrs. Vas.
CO for some time claim that this de-
flciency In the boy Is a direct inherl.
tance from the mother.
Mrs. Yasco told Prosecuting Attor.
ney Walter Haggerty last evening
through on Interpreter that she had
killed her husband with revolver fur
nished by John Totan, who she claims
insisted that she kill her husband,
get his insurance and fly with Totan.
Twice before has Totan given her the
revolver she says and by his superior.
itylof Twill almost forced her to murder
her husband but she failed to do so.
John Yokimichuc, boarder in the
Yasco home, says that he saw Totan
and Mrs. Yasco cleaning and loading
The gun the evening previously to the
murder. Neighboring Italians (Yas.
CO and family are Austrans) told
Sheriff Conaway that they had often
heard Totan tell Yasco that you'll
be dead before Green Sunday" They
informed the sheriff that Green Sun
day will be tomorrow. When asked
how he knew that Yasco would be
dead before tomorrow Totan dropped
his head and after thinking said he
knew nothing about It.
An attempt was made against the
life of Yasco last Sunday when Totan
Z took the four Yasco children for a
walk! Before leaving the house he
and Mrs. Yasco had prepared a poison
potion consisting chiefly Of lye which
It was intended that Yasco should
drink. In what manner 1t was prepar-
ed or how the poison was to be dis
quised' could not be learned, Mrs. Yas-
CO simply saying that she tried to
kill him for he didn't want to drink"
& She also says that Totan, should she
y fail In her attempts on her husbands
life,f intended to have fall Of slate
kill him In the mine In which both
were working. How this was to be
) done she does not know. only saying
that Totan knew that It could be done
and that 1t would before Green Sun.
day"
Yasco Is described by the people
knowing him as a home.loving. hard
working man who always treated his
wife with the greatest kindness, and
!, who never suspicioned that all was not
well In the relations of Totan and Mrs.
Yasco.
John Totan and Mrs. Elizabeth Vas.
co both were indicted on true bills
this afternoon by the Grand Jury.
Yokimichuc Is still held as witness.
The Yasco case will come before the
present term OF court, being placed
on the Criminal docket for this term,