Evening journal., 1918-05-08
father Who CAVE
POISON TO BABY.
FOUND INSANE
rroslawski, Convicted Of
,hild Murder, Will Spend
Life in Asylum
BOUGHT he OUGHT
TO Be Sent Home

Edward Jaroslawski. who at the last
term OF the Court OF Oyer and Termi-
ner was convicted OF murder In the
second degree. in having poisoned to
death his i4-months-old daughter
Waclawa, and was sentenced to life
Imprisonment, is TO be transferred from
the workhouse to the County Hospital
at Farnhurst. as insane.
Action TO this end was taken today
before Chief Justice Pennewill and
Judges Rice and Heisel, when Attor-
ney General Reinhardt asked the court
to commit the prisoner TO Farnhurst as
mentally irresponsible. Mr. Rcinharut
said that Jaroslawski had shown signs
OF being mentally unbalanced, ana IN
consequence he had been placed under
observation and later examined by
alienists. the result being that they de-
cided him to be insane. Mr.. Reinharts $
request for the order OF commitment
was granted.
Jaroslavyski's crime was q particularly
atrOclous one. The evidence submioeg
In the Municipal Court at his hearins
there. and at his trial in Oyer onc
Terminer Court. showed that he nae
entertained a violent dislike or h'
child from the time OF It's birth. JUS
prior to its death. Jaroslawski went t'
a drug store In lower Market stree
and bought % cents worth OF strych
nine, saying he wanted II TO Kill a iol
and thai he lived in Newport, wner'
he couldn't buy the drug.
When he was ready to administer IN
hn
on their home to a grocery store, hi
object being to get her out OF the way
when she returned he was dangling !
unon his knee. a thing that struck he
az remarkably odd considering hi
often expressed dislike Of it. A littl
later the child was taken III and died
when n was buried the body was 81
swollen Il hardly could be gotten int
ts CONN. Suspicion having beei
aroused In the mind OF his wife and he
velstives the police and detective
were gotten to work upon the case, IN
hodv exhumed and examined and sor
NJ confession to the effect that h
didn't mean to do IT, His arrest, trle
and conviction followed.
Durlng all this the prisoner Shove
certain signs Of mental weakness, nc
onlv through the remarkable nature
his crime. the staying OF his own on
spring by poison through apparent mai
of Il. but in other ways.
On being taken 10 the workhouse !
serve the life sehtence meted out I
him. Jarolawsh began to show IT
creasing signs OF responsibility. h
was assigned TO work at sewing mi
chine in one Of the wOrkh0use shop
where prisoners are employed in IN
making OF pants But while a fair
good workman, after he had learn,
what he was TO do. he CONSTANT
seemed TO think his Imprisonment WI
only temporary one and that he ougl
TO be sent home. Time and again
would 90 20 and from his cell to q
shop or from the prison diningroo
and would buttOnhole one Of the guar
and in broken English say that he d
not like the place and wanted to |
home. He was placed under observ
ton and finally taken from duty Ia u
shop. when his opportunities mornln
noon and night, TO be set free, co
vinced the guards and Warden Gro
that he was unbalanced mentally. IT
result was examinations by alienis
and today's action in court. Jarosla'
ski Is likely 10 spend the balance OF }
days in Farnhurst's insane departmeI