Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-15
CONFESSES HUSBAND
MURDERED EDELSTE|N
Mrs. KOwaleski Breaks Down In
Grilling By Detectives.
BODY WAS LEFT IN ROAD
Gives All Details Saying Crime Result
ed From a Quarrel Over Money
PAYMENT.

My husband killed Mr.. Edelstein.
He told me he had murdered the cat
tie dealer and had buried his body in
the field" declared Mrs. Frank Ko-
walewski, also known as Smith. oe
Clarke's Station, this county, to
Deputy Marshal of Police Samuel w.
House and Headquarters Detectives
Kohler and Freeman in Marshal Car
ter's office, Baltimore. late yesterday
afternoon
Il have lied,' she said, but now for
the sake of my child | intend to tell
the truth. Yes, my husband killed the
cattle dealer after an argument about
paying for two mules He shot him
twice after cutting him with a scythe.
He left the man lying in the road of
our farm until O'Clock in the morn
ing, when he took the body to the fielG
and buried it. He then took a plow
and worked the ground about the
body so it would not be thought a
grave
Did Not Pay Cattle Dealer.
Further questioned, the woman
stated that her husband did not pay
the cattle dealer $500; that all the
money in their home was $40, one dol
lar of which her husband took from
her pocketbook when he left home
and went to Baltimore on Monday
morning.
Mrs. Kowalewski made these ad-
missions after she had been grilled
for several hours by Deputy Marshal
House and the detectives. Her hus-
band, former detective in the en-
ploy of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, is charged with having mur-
dered and robbed Abraham EdeIstein,
a cattle dealers of Baltimore, who
lived on the Philadelphia road. Ko-
walewsh is now fugitive, but his
arrest in "a hours is expected.
As has been stated in The Capital,
Mr.. Edelstein went to the farm of Ko-
walewski last Friday evening to coll
lect $3.50 from the farmer He ar
rived at the house, but was not seen
alive again by any OF his friends or
relatives His disappearance caused
a search to be made 1t was suspect
ed that he had been murdered. When
he left home he had more than $500
in his pockets.
Makes Statement To Marshal.
In her statement to Marshal Carter
after she had been questioned by Dep
uty Marshal House and the detectives.
Mrs. Kowalewski said:
MIR Edelstein came to the door of
my house Friday afternoon and asked
for my husband He was in the field
and l told the cattle dealer to go there
and find him. A short time later !
saw Mr.. Edelstein running down the
road with blood on his face"
The woman then set back in the
chair and wept.
My husband" she continued, on
somewhat regaining her cemposure
ran into the house and took a shot
gun which was in the dining-room
He put the gun to his shoulder and
fired. | heard two shots"
" My God, what have you done? ]
asked my husband.
Il have killed Edelstein and / am
sorry for it, he replied"
What did you and your husband
do then?' asked Marshal Carter and
Deputy Marshal House
Body In Road All Night.
I'VE went into the house, leaving
the man dead in the road At o'clock
the next morning my husband told me
he was going to bury the body.
My husband has left me with our
baby. love him and always will love
him. He is the father of my baby
But he killed Mr. Edelstein / know
he did because he told me so and be-
cause washed blood from his clothes
He never thought he would be caught.
"Mr. Edelstein demanded full pay
ment for the two mules he had bought
My husband in buying the mules,
which with a wagon and two sets
of harness cost $3.50, arranged to pay
for them in installments On Friday
Mr. Edelstein came to the farm and
demanded the money outright 4
can't pay You now my husband told
me he explained to Mr. Edelstein.