The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-07
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MUST STAND TRIAL
Poisoned Baby Boy and
Claims She Did 1t
M ~ By Mistake ~
sySsstst = rs $500 W ,sfSNN
HAD PREVIOUSLY
CONFESSED CRIME
Case Will Go to the Grand Jury Now
Girl Showed Wit in Undergoing
Examination by oficers - May Be
Sent to Reformatory.

NEW York; Aug. Though She
is but Is years of 'age, it was said yes
terday at the district attorney s office
in Brooklyn that there is no doubt that
Frances Sulinski, the Polish girl who
administered the poison that killed lit
tie Solomon Kramer of $50 Sheffield
avenue, Brooklyn, last week, will be
tried for murder The law provides
that any one over - years old may be
tried on this charge. District Attorney
Lewis and his assistants who subjected
her to firm, if kindly gruelling, found
her quick witted. clear in her replies
and of an intelligence which in their
opinien made her responsible for her
acts. Her ease will be presented to the
grand jury, which will return an in
dictment, and she will be tried In the
meantime, the police and the district
attorneys office viii try to get zorro
boration of the girl s story.
The affair was complicated yesterday
by Frances, who suddenly veered
around when questioned by District At
toney Lewis and repudiated the con
fassion she had made the day before.
She said she did not intend to poison
Baby Solomon. as she had declared: she
lust meant to give him some Garfield
tea for q cough. Asked if she had ever
given Garfield tea to him before she
.. said quickly that she had not, hut had
given it to her brothers at home.
And when | found | had made a
mistake and oiven Sollv lvsol l was
frightened - she said, "and to get rid
of the rest of the poison I dumped it in
the ieapot in the nurse s room I had
heard Mrs Kramer say she had missed
500, and | was afraid that if she knew
I poisoned her baby she would blam,
| me for taking the $50.
The girl showed no lack of uuicknes,
in getting out Of n difficult situation
She could recall her life as far bach
as when she was 4, and recalled whei
she first wsah,tq sYeJhS9la s1l.s at the age of 9
/ She told how She was now in the ~
grade at Public school lib. on Pennsyl
vania avenue, and that. the teacher hat
said she was bright and she had expect
| ed to leave soon and go TO work for.
wool man. She evidently was n,
neglected Cindereha; her parents ha'
| taken good care gof her according t,
| their means, had sent her to school reg
| ularly and kept her well. so that sh
shows no sign of underfeeding. He
mother and her baby brother. Peter
were in the Children s court vesterda,
when she was arraigned. and her moth
or declared that she could not believ
that Frances had poisoned the littl
Solomon.
tShe was always good Girl, Away
. fond of children; she minded her ow
brothers and the neighbors' childre
too. when they would let her. She wa
always GOOD until tow weeks ago, whe
she stole money from her father II
punished her and she ran away. l knor
she fell in with bad companions an
they led her astrav. | searched every
where for her when she left home, Blu
could not find her.
The girl and her mother look alike
tall and angular with the same peer
liarlv shaped long head. only Frances
much lighter of complexion and hal
They are alike too in being ready c
tongue. Frances looked carelessl
dressed yesterday, with the appearance
of having slep. in her clothes She pr
her hands before her face when pilot,
graphers tried to take her as she lei
the Children 5 society in charge of
woman attendant and she tried also [
screen herself from reporters.
II The impression is that if convicte
Frances viii be sent to Bedford Reform
atory for Women, where she can /
kent till she is 81.
This, by the wav, is one case whel
neither blood -curdling movies or IL
"pennv dreadful novels can be blame
for waywardness. Frances. QUESTION: