South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-15
First LoUe StirS
Clay Woman to
End Mate S Life
Esys She Directed Killing of
Husband Because He
Drowned Their Babe.
BY JACK JUNGMEYER.


SAN JOSE. Cal. July 14-Mary
yuyacich was Graded IN the melan-
=sholy Balkans TO the belief that
vomen creatures were 30 much ami
Snate clay 20 be bought. bartered.
znd man-handled az the within OF
i he male might dictate.
Z Thus she grew up--a girl without
soul. a wife without affection and
mother without maternal love.
j Knocked down" 20 the highest
bidder for her unwilling hand as a
maid or Is. she delibera tely knocked
ne life ont OF her husband when
another man raised the bid by stir
ping her dormant heart with clan
sestine court
She has confessed freely 20 d.
kecting and helping Jokose Jaramos.
boarder az her home. stab the hus-
band, Steven Vuyacich after she
had awakened him from sleep and
Bound him helpless on May 2. Ar
sested together with Jaramos. she
~. liberated for want Of evidence
ID again arrested while IN the act
4 exhuming the dead mans blood
STAINED clothes. Both are charged
with first degree murder.
RevulsiOn for Buyer
II didn't love steve" she ex-
5Dlained duly IT did love Jaramos.
4end So" she shrugs her shoulders
s she recites the murder. much as
man might tell Of dispatching a
4eef
4 The removal Of her husband hav-
Ing been accomplished. Mrs. Vuya-
<cich admits preparing to desert her
children quite as casually.
Mrs, Vuyacich. IS years ago, as
was the custom in ner district Of
Montenegro. was sold into a loveless
d marriage 10 Steve VuFacich, son OF
a wealthy farmer.
Mary. a peasant girl, saw her hus-
band and owner at the altar for the
4 first time-and disliked him.
he brought her 10 America. He
learned EngIish-his wife stayed at
home and bore his children. Then
came wanderings through Arizona.
Nevada and California, over "a period
of thirteen years Money was not
pIeStifuL Soon there were four
slAldren-twO had died.
II was decided 20 ta@vTn a board
er. JOkose Jaramos, a fellow Mon
|tenegrin. became a resident at the
Vuyacich home. When money was
scarce with Steve, Jokose took over
the burden OF the home. bought
shoes and clothes for the mother
and the children.
This is Mary's story as she tells
II. Neighbors say Steve was a good
husband.
Tiny life Haunts Her.
on Nov. II, last year. another
baby was born. But Steve, says his
wife. did not want any more chill
dren. He refused to call a doctor,
and when the baby came. drowned
il in a bucket Of water. Days later
JOkose Comeback from the fruit
orchards with plenty Of money.
He called a doctor. He saved my
life" defends the woman who ad-
mits she then began TO regard the
boarder with affection.
This child-though there is no
corroborative evidence of birth or
Of buriai-Mrs. Vuyacich speaks Of
as the one heeung. ennobling love
OF her life.
The babe haunted me for days, "
kshe says, "and II there had been one
spark Of liking for Steve it went out
when the child was gone"
Sheriff George W. Lyle. who
worked UP the evidence and made
&he arrests. doubts there was such a
zEhud. He believes II Is merely her
plea for sympathy.
For months they planned the muir
der. There was $500 in life insur-
lance.
NbTe woman left an old suit OF her
husbands In the yard for Jokose so
he would not get blood upon his
own clothes. While her husband
covered under the gun Of the board
er. the wife tied her husbands hands
and feet, and the two carried him
out into the yard.
Calls Her snake Woman"
Then. while the wife turned her
back, Jokose stabbed him TO death.
They left the body there. and Mary
turned in the alarm. saying burglars
had killed her husband. but later
confessed.
Jaramos loath 10 kill. as he says
IN hts confession. speaks OF the wom-
an whose love he awakened 10 a
killing frenzy. as "the snake wom-
an"
She. waiting stoldIy in a neigh
boring cell faces her doom as she
accepted marriage and motherhood.