Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-11-15
CHAIN Of DEATH
INVESTIGATED
Two Chicago Women Be-
Iieved to Have Been Muir
derers of Many Persons

CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Wil Chicago
yield as notorious a case of sys-
tematic murders as that OF the re-
Gently g%uillotined "Bluebeard" Ian
dru in Paris or of Mrs. Belle Gun
mes, whose Indiana murder" farm
startled the country twenty years
ago?
Detectives today are weaving a
web of evidence around two women
whose trial, they declare, will equal
in sensational revelations those
which stirred up interest throughout
the world.
The m around whom this
worldwide notoriety may hinge, are
Mrs. Title Kliinek and her neighbor,
Mrs. Nellie Sturmer Koulik. Both
are being held by the police on a
formal charge of murder, while au-
thorities are studying the eXhumed
bodies of 20 people-adults and in
fants-for traces of arsenic poison
ing.
Out of these chemical researches,
coupled with criminal Investigations,
may arise a story of one of the most
audacious poison plots in the history
of criminology. Grand this is a
possibility which the police admit ex-
lSlS"lIS uOlS 5hI4OAA 1LAty ~
veal nothing more than a series or
most unusual condolences.
Bodies of former husbands of these
women have been disinterred and ex-
amined. And in each case, say the
police in charge of the investigation,
chemists have found traces of ar
senic poisoning. These discoveries
have led to inquiries into the deaths
of Mrs. Klimek's first three bus-
bands, a former sutton, three cousins
of her children, besides twin chill
dren, grandchildren and a former
husband of Mrs. Koulik.
TangIe of Events
The whole case produces a maze
of entangling revelations concern
ing the lives of these two women.
Coroner Peter NJ. Hoffman and the
detectives who are following the
mystery trails night and day, declare
the story they r unraveling rivals
anything in Poe's most fanciful stor-
les of death.
What first directed suspicion to
the women was the illness of Mrs.
Klimek's fourth husband. He is in
a. local hospital suffering from what
the attending physicians term arse
nical administration over a protract-
ed period" |
Police arrested Mrs. Klimek. From
her, they say, they obtained a par
tial confession in which Mrs. Kou-
lik's name was mentioned. shis led
to Mrs. Koulik's arrest.
Records show that Mrs. koulik,
who is As, has had Is children in the
past 80 years. OF these six are dead.
She gave birth to twins in 1917,
when she vas married to Wojcik
Sturmer. Sturmer refused TO
acknowledge paternity of the twins
a their Investigations have
A short time later both chill
dren died at an interval of a month
apart.
now has been exhumed and ex-
AHMED. 1t had in it sufficient arse
mic to kill a dozen men," according
to DR.. William D. McNally, who
made the examination.
Grandchildren Examined
From this point the avenue OF
leads Investigators to the
graves of Mrs. Koulik's grandchll-
dren( offspring of her daughter, Mrs.
Clement Spera. Three of the chill
lie in the same cemetery, ana
father has asked police to ex-
anime their bodies.
AS for Mrs. Klimek, ponce clalhl
definite evidence against her. They
rite the case of John GusZekeWskl, a
former sutton, who died mysterlously
after he had refused to marry her:
they also say they have evidence of
between Mrs. Khmek and
who. later, died under
strange circumstances. The BODIES
of these relatives are being ex-
amined.
ting evidence fails to perturb the
women in the case. Both Mrs, XII
mex and her cell-mate, Mrs. Kouhk,
remain quiet about the whole affalr.
Whether they r merely the VIC
Tins of a series of mysterious events
the center of a huge poison plo,;
M ono connected with the affair will
to deduce from the facts SO
far revealed.