The Connecticut labor press., 1920-07-03
LABOR LEADER MURDERED
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some months after the meeting and
Sokolowsky and the widow became
good friends but according to the artist,
nothing more Their friendship how
ever excited the ire of persons in the
house, who presumably had tempered
with Sokolowsky's mail and learned of
his wife and child, and they wrote to
her telling of her husbands where
abouts. One morning in the early part
of this year, Soko1owsky who was then
a leader among organized workers, met
his wife and child suddenly face to
face on the street. The sight of the
child settled him. He took back the
erring wife, and shortly afterward was
sent to this city to assist in the Water
bury troubles.
The wife had agreed to mend her
erring ways and so far as was known
here had done SO. Meantime as soon
as his wife had returned, Sokolowsky
had severed all other than home con-
of several letters from the Nevelae
woman, Gliding him for again taking
up with the unfaithful wife and warm
ing him that she would not remain true
and that he was putting himself into
danger. These are the so-called mys-
ferrous letters that gave ground for the
theory of jealousy, but they are dis
counted as it is known that they were
no secret between the Soko1owskys.
While Sokolowsky, all through the
separation had remained true to his
wife and child, evidence turned up since
the tragedy discloses that she had not
done likewise Quite the contrary, as it
now develops that she not only lived
with the Italian who had broken up the
home but had posed for some months
also as the wife of a returned soldier
1t has also developed that she never
cared for the child but simply held onto
it as a weapon to use when the time
came to regain Sokolowsky, knowing
his affection for it. 1t worked out we'll
on the first and only occasion she used
their daughter as a trump card and was
again taken home.
Just what led to the final chapter of
the tragedy will not be known until the
woman is captured. Whether, as
neighbors now intimate, she was again
unfaithful, with perhaps either of her
previous paramours, or some other
reason caused her to wish to rid her
can not be said. That she did the trick,
however, seems to be the opinion of all
who have Investigated. She also tried
to cover her tracks and fix jealousy
as the motive apparently, for after
reaching New York she remailed one
Of the Nevelae woman's letters to her
then dead husband. But the handwrit-
ing on the enclosing envelope gave her
away and furnished the police with just
that much more of clue to her where
abouts.
Sokolowsky was buried from the
Lithuanian church Wednesday morning
and the funeral was attended by many
representative labor men, not one of
whom believe for an instant the pub
lished stories of his being a traitor to
the cause Meantime the child is in
the custody of the coroner and will be
cared for pending the capture of the
mother. Relatives have appeared and
asked the custody of the little girl, who
is in fact remarkably sweet child. Mr.
Ornburn took charge of the estate,
which amounts to little more than
enough to defray the funeral expenses,
if that, it consisting for the most part
of a second hand automobile, truly not
very handsome estate for a man re-
p1ted to be not only a we'll paid organ
izer for the A. F. of L., but also the
we'll paid agent and spy of the anti
labor element