Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-08
EDW. JAROSLOWSK|,
CHILD MURDERER,
BECOMES INSANE
Appears to Have Been Mentally
Unbalanced Since Commit
ting the Crime.
GOES TO FARNHURST

Edward Jaroslowslu. who at tho last
term Of the Court Of Over and Icrtmner,
was convicted of murder m the second
degree, in having poisoned To death ms
l4-months-old daughter, Naclawa, ana
who was sentenced Ia life imprisonment,
is 10 he transferred from the workhouse
to the State Hospital ut Farnhurst rs
insane
Action To this end was taken today
before Chief Justice PcnnewIll, and Judges
Rice and lIciscl when Attorney General
Rcnhardt asked the court to commit the
prisoner to Farnhurst as mentally IRE
sponshIc Mr. Rcinhardt SAID that
Jaroslowskl had shown signs OF being
mentally unbalanced and IN consequence
he had been placed under observation ana
later examined by ahensts, the result
beng that they decided him 10 he insane
MIR Rcnhardt 5 request Tor the order OF
commitment was granted
.Iarosluwski'S crime was particularly
atrociotS one. The evidence submitted
N mo Municipal Court ut his hearing
thcrr and at his trial in over and Icrmln-
ar showed that lie had entertained a
violent dislike of the child from the time
Of its birth Just prior to IFS death JaTos-
lowsAi went 10 a drug store m Market
street and bought - cents worth Of strych-
ma saving he wanted II to Kill a ioN. ana
that he lived in Newport, where he could
II buy he drug
When he was ready 10 administer
the poison to the child he sent his wife out
of their house To a grocery store, ms
object evidently being - got her out Of the
way When she returned he was dand!lng
The child upon his knee, thing That
struck her as remarkably odd, consider
ing his often expressed dislike OF y
4 little later the child was taken Ill and
died When il WAS buried the body was
50 swollen II hardly could be gotten INTO
its coffin Suspicion having been aroused
in the minds ot ms wife and her relatives
the police and detectives were gotten to
work upon the case the body cNhumcd and
examined and a sort of confession 70 the
effect that he didn { mean 70 90 IT. lis
arrest, trial and conviction followed.
During all this the prisoner showed
certain signs Of mental weakness. not
only through the remarkable nature Of hls
crime the staying 81 hI~ own offspring 10y
poison through apparent hate Of II but IN
other ways.
ACTED STRANGELY IN WoRKHoUSE.
On being taken to the workhouse to
serve the life sentence melted out to hun
.Jaroslowski began to show increasing
signs 81 irresponsibllity He was assigned
Is work al j sewing machine IN one OF the
workhousc shops where prisoners are en-
poycd IN the making Of pants. But
while 4 fairly good workman after he had
learned what he was 10 do he constantly
seemed to think his imprisonment Wa
onlv q temporary one and that he ought
to DC sent home Time and again going 70
and from his cell to the shop or from the
prison dining room h. would huttonhoie
one of the guards and IN broken English
>av that hc dld not like the place and
wanted IT, 20 home lie was placed under
observation and finally taken from duty
III the shops when hi- opportunities.
morning noon and night to he set free
convinced the guards and Warden ross
that he was unbalanced mentally The
result was examination by ahenists and
tadavs action IN court JaroaIowsA Is
likely to spend the balance Of his days III
Farnhurst INSANE department