The evening world., 1920-08-02
ADMITS POURING
ACID ON HUSBAND
TO SPOIL HISLOOKS
Wife of Labor Leader Sokol-
owSky Held for Extradi-
ton to New Haven.

Mrs. Alexandria Sokolowsky was
arralgned this morning in the Tombs
Court on a short affidavit and held
TO await extradltion by the New
Haven, Conn, authorities on a charge
OF having killed her husband, Frank
Sokolowsky, agent for the American
Federation OF Labor in New Haven,
by pouring cnrbolic acid upon his
face on June 90 while he was sleep
ing. She was arrested last night by
Detectives Repetto and Petrizzo Of In
spector Cray's stan. at 124th Street
and Eighth Avenue.
According to the detectives and
Coroner Eu Mix Of New Haven, who
arrived early this morning, Mrs. So
loolowslSy has confessed TO the killing
but insists that she did not intend to
bring about her husbands death but
merely wished to "spon his good
looks" and keep him away from other
women.
Mrs. Sol1olowsky, who weighs
hardly 110 pounds and is exceptional
ly we'll dressed, spent the night at
Police Headquarters weeping bitterly
over her separation from her baby
daughter and the death of her hus-
band whom she says she loved dearly
and Of whom she was intensely jeal-
Gus.
New Haven officials are expected
here later in tho day to complete ar
rangements for her extradition 10
that city at once.
Coroner Mix with a stenographer
visited Mrs. Sokolowsky in the cell
at Police Headquarters this morning
and took down her statement giving
the details Of the killing Of the labor
/ leader The woman who has been
hunted for all over this country and
Capada said that she had been in
Canada, back in New Haven and in
/ New York, since her husbands death.
The SokolowslSys lived at No. 25
Beers Street. New Haven. At about
s.3O o'clock on the morning of June
/ 25 Sokolowsl1y, blinded, scared and
choking, ran from his first door
/ apartment shouting: Doctor. Po-
/ lice!" He fell dead upon the porch.
/ Immediately afterward his wife
sped 20 Bridgeport in a taxicab paid
the driver SIS from a roll of bills and
vanished. She took 800 with her the
police learned. SolSolowsky was one
of the leaders in a strike of brass
workers at Waterbury, Conn, and a
representative OF the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor.
After severe questioning at Head
quarters Mrs. Sokolowsky. with tear,
streaming down her checks. signed {
confession OF guilt the detectives say
The confession as given on, by tn
police was worded thus:
Il married Frank SokoloWsky b.
Canada in January, 1914. We Went &,
live in New Haven. We lived hao
PLY for three years, ana then he "a
gan TO stay away. He told me he haC
business to attend to. He would staN
away two weeks at time. On Jun,
4 1 found two letters written by ;
woman. They were written in Eng
lish-a language l could not read ver'
well.
"I took them 10 a girl friend, an
after reading them she told me the
( were love letters. on June ), IN
husband went to Brooklyn, but cam
back later in the night. / won 1erC
whether could spoil his handsom
looks. l thought OF carbolic aciC
The next day he wanted to go :
BROOKLYN, so l went with him. / sa'
the woman and saw that she wa
very much in love with him. A fe'
days later at the Grand Central Sta
ton he told me he had to go 70 JeI
sey City. On June "a l found anothC
4 letter and on June 25 my husband be
/ gan looking among some OF his paper
Q and 1 felt he was looking for the Lei
a ter. He went ont and came HON
q about I 80 the next morning.
-, During his absence l visited
man, who said. IT'S too bad; you
husband Is going to divorce you s
Z he can marry another woman
+ about 3 o'clock on the morning {
t June %, l went TO the medicine che'
/. and filled a glass with carbolic aci,
70 / threw 1t on my husband in bed.
4 did not mean TO kill him and whe
I did not hear him cry out / spoil
70 him, Then ran 10 the stree
where / met doctor. He came
the house and said, He is dead
During an investigation Of the mm
der IL was asserted that SokoloN
sky, while a paid agent of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, New Have
70 branch, and daily worker in the II
I terests OF that organization at Watel
n bury, where he Addressed the stril
ing brass workers, was secret ageI
d for an organization financed by Il
y factory owners.