The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-11-08
PRIESTS HOUSEKEEPER FOUND GUILTY OF
MURDER IN FIRST DECREE--L|FE SENTENCE
Jury Out Nine orsDeense Comedies Identity Of Remains Bu
Insists that Alleged Confession Was Not Made by Defendant

lie approval as diligent execu-
tives."
He declared that the remains of
Sister Janina were not originally
buried under the church or they
would have been discovered by the
people who testified that they had
searched the church basement; and
insisted that the respondent would
have been unable to commit the
deed and cover it up with the sue
cess attributed to her.
He said that the missing bones
verified his assertion that the sis
ter came to her death at some other
place and was then buried under
the church to remove the blame
from where it belonged. He re-
called the statement of defense s
expert that the skull fracture had
been made after death which went
to show that death had resulted
from another cause.
His theory was that the sister
had left the convent by the route
followed by the dogs, and had been
met by someone with a vehicle in
the road. Also that the body bur
led as it was in a shallow grave
under the church would have ire
vealed its presence by the odor Of
decomposition.
"The two other sisters who were
at the convent had greater oppor-
tunity to waylay this sister than
the old lady" Referring to the
detective and the confession she
testified to having received, he
said; care you jurors going to
take the testimony of this fiend in
human form, and her cock and bull
storyH"
he said the respondent is the
goat in this case because Of the
public opinion that has been
worked up against her. He then
related how, after the detective Sc
cured an oral confession, the skel-
eton had been assembled and used
in such way as to make anyone
insane.
Gaffney for Defense
Attorney Gaffney, for the de.
Tense, declared that the county Of.
| ficials had done their duty, and
that they had prepared the case
with the greatest care; but it was
nevertheless the jury's duty to ren.
der a verdict of not guilty. Said
he: "Father Nowak is alive, and
the prosecution could have had
him here to testify; and that is the
very source of their alleged confes
sion story. Why did they moi
bring him herei
"This story starts with a deaC
man. Father Nowak is not dead
yet he Is not here. There is not ,
doubt ip my mind that such a con
fession may have been made Il
Father Nowak, the person making
it having some knowledge of th,
disappearance Of the missing sister
but she is not at the bar Of justice
Why not produce Father Nowak Il
Identity heri The confession wa,
never made by this respondent.
"I win concede the remains her,
presented are those of the missing
nun, Sister Janina; but there ar,
fifty bones missing. Docs this no
clearly show that the body ha!
been transferred from an unknown
gravel The theory Of the prosecu
tion in this case is simply this: tn,
doctor couldn't, the two sister
wouldn't and this woman mus
have committed the crime. Wht
committed this crime may never b,
known although Stanislawa Lyp
czynski, the respondent here, is Il
suffer for this most hideous crime.
Here the attorney declared hi
adherence to the Roman Catholi,
faith, and attacked the testimony
Of the aged woman from Travers'
City who testified to hearing de
fendant say Pray they don't flns
her. " "This old woman" said he
with one foot in the grave burnet
lher evidence (the envelope upor
which she said she had written it,
two days before she came here tt
testify. You saw her actions ant
her attitude which are that Of ey
Eery witness the prosecution hai
produced
He then attacked the confession
and the detective who testified con
lcerning it. cid rather, ? said he
"be this woman lpointing to tn,