The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-11-01
FEDC|AA SISTERS KNEW FOUR YEARS AGO
NUNS REMAINS WERE UNDER |SADORE CHURCH
Milwaukee Detective Relates Alleged Prosecution Proves
discovered Remains Those Of Sister Mary John--Case
for State Practically Closed

Leland, Mich, Oct. 18th,
prosecution practically rested it
case at ten o'clock this morning
when they announced that but on,
additional witness would be placed
on the stand who was then on tn,
way to Leland.
This was unexpected and con
fusing to the defense as there wer,
still many witnesses who had beer
called to testify concerning tn,
searches in the vicinity of the con
vent, but had not been used.
The defense received a serious
blow yesterday when the alleged
confession was placed before thu
jury by Mrs. Tylicka of Milwaukee
who had been in the Jail with Mrs
Lypczynski and who testifes thai
the confession was made.
The policy Of the defense is tt
deny or discredit the confession
and to show that if such a confes.
sion was obtained it was through
mistreatment Of defendant which
made her mentally defective at the
time.
The priests, Bienowski and Pod.
laszewski were not in the court
room this morning, but seventeen
of the sisters were present whose
garb gave the place the air and ap-
pearance Of a convent.
1t will be the defense's point to
try and break down the evidence
submitted by the prosecution on
the ground that the confession was
never made, that the body was ney-
er buried, as they will show by
witnesses, under the church at the
time it is said it had been; that,
instead, it was done by some other
person, then in some manner taken
to the road where the dogs lost the
scent, that the barN on the Bic
nowski site had just had q new ce-
ment floor and that at one time it
was thought she may have been
murdered and placed under this
floor, that later it had been re-
and has since been in its
hiding place where it had been
by a pile Of lumber for sew
sral years.
Failing in this the non-compos-
mentiS condition Of the defendant
will be thoroughly gone into, and
i was announced by the defense
they expect it will not take them
.onger than about Thursday to pre-
'ent their case.
The sheriff, however, is in hope
hat, if a conviction is secured, the
respondent will break down, con-
'ess, and implicate the parties who
t is believed are at the real source
# this crime, and it is their belief
hat it was done at the direction
# other parties. They are trying
n every way possible, without in
uring their case to bring out these
acts, the defense as well aiding in
yetting to the real root of the
hing. The sisters are up in arms
md would like to see any one in
connection with this crime pun
shed whether this should strike the
ather or not. The defense may at.
empt to place the blame of the
rime upon a sister who was then
t Isadore who has since died, and
surmise a fake affidavit, claiming
0 be a confession Of this sister,
nay be introduced to clear their
'arty Of the crime now placed
gainst her.
The defense is expected to at
empt to show that the alleged con
ession was forced; and that the
ncarcerated defendant was SO
hamefully treated as to lose her
lind. /
I An outstanding feature Of the
ase, developed through and con-
rmed by numerous witnesses, is
ie laxity Of morals prevalent
mong the priests Of the parish /
nd that their relations with the
sters were decidedly unlike what
ne would expect from spiritual
'aders and devotees.
Priest Bienowski told how he
ent fishing to lake three or four /
Iiles distant on the day that Sis
r Janina disappeared. Mrs. Lyp-ll
yynski was his housekeepef from
poo to 1918 when she went awayl,
Ut afterwards returned to che