Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-02-14
CONSTITUTION FOR LEAGUE ANNOUNCED TODAY
CRAzED BY JEALOUSY DIVORCE
DEPENDENT KILLS WIFE AND SELF

/ found the place in darkness, and eE
cent for the screaming Of the children
they found everything Guiot They re
turned TO the store, when little Anna
Morayit2 came running in. tell ng
them her father had shot her mother
Police Are Called.
Rabui'o telephoned Tor the police.
Upon their arrival ghasty st1ht
greeted them. Morayitz lay in the
door Of She bedroom in an immense
pool OF blood On one side Of him
lay the lamp and on the other was
the revolver. He was dead before
The police reached him
on the bed lay Mrs Morayitz, with
the blood gushing from the wound in
her head Her youngest child was
stil IN the bed. holding on to her
One OF the first men 20 enter removed
the baby and another took ,he boy
from the other bed.
Dr. H. NJ Sawyer was summoned
and pronounced M0rayitz dead The
wife was removed to Rybum Hospital,
where she died shortly after midnight
Children Destitute.
The three little children were taken
to the home of Mike Majkitrujsucki,
whore they we're this morning, wait
ing for someone 80 make provision FIR
them. They were dirty, unkemp. and
barefooted and heir home was the
Iilthiest place imaginable. Filth. dirt
and litter Of all kinds was to be
found on every hand, and neighbors
told stories Of gross neglect during
he lives Of the three unfortunate chill
drcn During he summer the mother
worked at the ottawa restaurant and
the children were allowed to run wild,
Home a Pitifu Sight.
This morning the family home was
a most pit.Iul sight On the wall, by
the bed where he mother lay as she
was shot, was an immense blood stain
and the wall paper, the bed and bed
clOlhing were covered with blood. On
the floor was another big pool Of
coagulated blood where the father had
fallen.
The three children were almost
crazed by fright, and hid every time
anyone approached the house where
they We're staying, The oldest girl
took refuge upstairs, while Steve, the
5-year-old boy, would hide under
table in the corner
Child Tells Story.
Anna MUrayitz's story Of the whole
affair follows:
My name is Anne Robetz, and am
in the second grade at the Lincoln
School | am s, and steve is 3 and
the baby is 2 Mamma went upl0wn
yesterday afternoon, and papa came
home and asked where she was He
went uptown and they came home 10
Gether. They ate their supper and
'hen papa went away. | don't know
where he went. He came home, ard
Went away again and got a gun, It
wasn't his gun; he borrowed it. He
came in and shot mamma Baby and
| went in the bed with mamma, and
Steve was in papa's bed. They fused.
| don't know what they fused about
or what either of them said. Papa
came in with the gun and shot
mamma. and | cried, and he told M
| If | screamed he would shoot me.
/ ran out and ran over to John kus-
mics house, over there (indiCaIng
a house more than a block away, and
/ told them my papa had Shot my
mamma Mrs. Kusmic wouldn't LET
! her husband come; she was afraid
ran back over to the Italian grocery
store, and the men there took me II
the back and called the police
Child Barefoot.
The child Wept freely, and when
the neiahbors asked her to tel the
cause of the family rows she onl,
cried the harder. Her run last nigh
was made in her bare feet. The child
was, still barefooted this morning
until a reporter for the Free Trader
Journal and Mrs. MaikkrujsucN wen
to the home to get the shoes.
1t Is said that Mrs Morayitz tol
a neighbor woman yesterday that sht
was going uptown 10 hunt job yes
terday afternoon trhelp pay the res
of the 500 owed on their lots on which
their three-room home was built.
People who knew MOravitz declare
the revolver with which he fired oh
fatal shOts-a 30 calibre revolver
belonged to him Three shots ha
been fired from the gun when it wa
taken over by the police. One shot
il is claimed, was fired last summe
by Moravitz when someone bothere
his chickens.
Defend Moravitz.
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