The New York herald., 1922-08-24
North Bergen Man, Fugi-
tive Two Months, Caught
Hiding in Woods.
HEAD STUCK IN WINDOW
Young Victim Saw Bloody
Face and Hands Thrust
Through Glass.

There are just two persons living
who know the name of the man who
smashed, window and put his head
into the bedroom OF Miss Mary Sabo
10 years old, in her home on River
road. North Bergen. N. j., at midnight
last June IS. One of them is Miss
Sabo, but she went hopelessly insane
from the shock Of her experience. and
is now in Laurel Hill Insane Asylum.
unable even to recognize her father
and sister The other Is the man him
self, and the New Jersey police think
they have him under arrest in the
person of Frank Katoske of 169 Glen
wood avenue. Bloomfield.
Miss Sabos mother. Mrs. Katherine
Sabo. saw the intruder a few seconds
after he had smashed the glass. She
saw him put his head into the room,
bleeding from the cuts of the glass,
and she saw him reach forth with his
hands in an effort to seize the girl.
But Mrs. Sabo is dead. She also
went insane when she saw the head
and arms reaching for her daughter,
and she collapsed on the floor beside
the girls bed She. too, was sent to
the Laurel Hill Asylum and she died
there July s.
But tho North Bergen police think
they will be able to convict Katoske
by circums.antial evidence. He lived
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happened. and there was an entrance
to his apartment from the porch on
which tho bedroom window of Miss
Sabo opened. He was gone the next
morning. the police said, but there was
blood on the knob and panels OF his
door and inside his house there was
bloody water in a basin. There was also
liquor there and the police believe he
was drunk. 4a4
Detectives went to the county Jail and
later to the Laurel Hill Asylum to get
from Miss Sabo and her mother the
name of the man who had so fright
ened and shocked them. But neither
could talk coherently. They couldn't
even bear to see each other.
There was no sign of recognition, but
the sight of either seemed to bring
back to the weakened mind OF the other
a terrible recollection. so when they
saw each other they became hysterical.
Emil Sabo. father of the girl. told
the North Bergen authorities that for
some time previous to June IS Katoske
had annoyed Mary and her elder sister.
Pauline. Several times he had tried to
induce the girls to enter his apartment
and he had threatened Mary because
she would not marry him. The house
in which the Sabos and Katoske lived
has long back porch. On this porch
opens the window of the girls bed
room and the door of Katoske's apart
ment.
Mary also slept close to the window.
Her father and mother heard a crash.
the girl screamed and Mrs. Sabo ran
into her room but collapsed. screaming
at the sight she saw. Sabo hurried
after bu. the man had gone. His daugh-
ter crouched at the foot Of the bed,
screaming. His head!" over and over
again. At the door his wife lay cry
ing and screaming and shouting the
same words. A few seconds later Sabo
heard the slamming of Katoske's door.
Physicians told Sabo the next morn
ing his wife and daughter were hope
lessly insane. Mary Sabo on June 2.
was sent to Laurel Hill Asylum. She
will be there all her life. say the attend
home. as the physicians held a slight
hope for her recovery. but when on
June she attempted suicide by jump
ing out a window and IL became ap-
larent that she was obsessed by a fear
II windows. she, too, was sent to the
asylum. where she died soon afterward.
Katoskc left his apartment three
days later and never came back. but
on August IL John Taylor OF 1s Henckel
street and Anthony Sylaski of 10f
Thomas street, 10th OF Bloomfield. came
and asked for his furniture. They were
Immediately arrested. but were released
when they satisfied the authorities they
were only doing work for which thev
had been hired, with no knowledge OF
the case. But the news of their arrest
got back to Kntoske and he took to thr
woods. There he lived until day before
yesterday. when Detective Hudd went
into the woods and found him.