The New York herald., 1921-06-26
BARTLETT SLAYER'S
tale VERIFIED;WIFE
GLAD HE'S ARRESTED
Police Check Up Details of
COnfessiOn-Killed Her
With Chisel.
ROBBERY WAS MOTIVE
Woman Fought Him Off
When He Asked Money
He Tells Officials.
SANE, EXPERTS DECLARE
Spouse to Receive $1,000 Re-
ward for Giving Information
Leading to His Capture.
SANE, EXPERTS DECLARE

Lawrence Kubal, a Polish laborer
who confessed late on Friday that he
killed Mrs. Minnie S. Bartlett of Hemp
stead, l.. T., who was found mutilated
noon in the large house where she lived
alone on the outskirts of Hampstead
village, made a detailed confession of
the crime yesterday. 1t was checked
up carefully and verified at every
point.
On account Of the brutality of the
crime it was believed at first that
kubal might be Of unsound mind.
After he had been questioned thor
oughly and after physicians had ex-
amined him ne was pronounced sound
mentally.
In his confession he made it clear that
he considered going to Mr.. Bartletts
house to rob her for nearly twenty four
hours before he actually went to the
house and killed her. He did not design
taking her life in the first plan he made,
but killed her when she refused his de-
mands for money and resisted him when
he tried to ransack the house.
Kubal has a wife and two children.
His wife will become mother again
within a few weeks. lie mad been out of
work for three weeks, and 1t was while
he was out hunting for employment-not
because he wanted II, but because his
wife had driven him out to look for it
that he planned the robbery which he
finally carried through and killed Mrs.
Bartlett in accomplishing 1t.
AS Kubal explained on Tuesday. he
came upon several boys picking cherries
from a tree in Mrs Bartlett's yard. He
asked them II they were not afraid OF
arrest and they told hin, they were not
because the woman in whose yard they
were was kind. rich and lived alone.
What they said gave him an idea
There was a sign on the fence in front
of the house announcing that il and the
grounds about II were for sale He de-
cded that If the woman inside was rich
she could be frightened into giving him
money, so he went to the front door.
represented himself as a purchaser and
asked to be shown through.
She did not let him in at first. even
after he had given her false name
and represented himself to be a man in
solid circumstances. But he was not to
be put off out of hand. He went back
and tried again, and was refused ad-
mittance again. Then, after he had con-
sidered how he would set about robbing
her II she would finally let him In during
all Of last Wednesday morning he went
to the house a third time and was ad-
mitted.
Kubal told how he had told Mrs. Bart
lett as soon as he was inside that he
had come not as a purchaser but as
robber and demanded $500. She fought
him when he laid hands on her, and he
beat her and then killed her with a
chisel. Then after covering her body
with rugs he ransacked the house and
got $3.50 and two old fashioned watches.
The stolen watches were found in q
fruit store I'm Jamaica with man who
gave him So for them and took them only
because Kubal seemed wild" and told a
tale of a starving family. The chisel
with which he committed the murder
was found In a piece of woods exactly
where he said he threw II.
Kubal's wife will receive the reward
of 81 900 offered by the village of Hemp
stead for Information leading to the
Identification of Mrs. Bartlett's muir
derer. He told her when she tried to
drive him out to get work Friday after
noon that he had killed Mrs. Bartlett
and was afraid to go. She told her
brother-in-law. who informed the au-
thorities. She said yesterday she was
glad the police had arrested him. The
last Item Of his confession was verified
when a barber at Roosevelt told of clip
ping HIS hair and shaving his mustache
two hours after the crime.