Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-11-28
8 TILL Think
Z WERE KILLED
Clash Averted at Funeral for
Mother-PoIice Fail to
Find Bodies

Aside from the theory that Eliza
beth Antal, twenty-four, Of 6g5
Charles street, killed or drowned her
four-and-a-haif and one-and-a-halr
year old children before meeting her
own death on the Central railroad
tracks at Boynton's crossing near
Sewaren LIST Saturday, the detecfaves
OF the local department. have other
important points with which to carry
on their important investigation in
connection with the search for the
children.
That there is bad blood hetween
Antal and the relatives of the dead
woman was apparent yesterday AZ
ternoon when the brother Of the de-
ceased, resident of New York.
tried to induce Lieutenant Detectives
Joseph Gutowski and Michael Mus
Ka TO prevent the woman's husband
from attending the funeral. This
the detectives could not do and then.
1t Is said, the brother-in-law picked
up a chair with the idea OF render
ing the husband unfit to be present
at the final ceremonies.
During her stay in the Cortland
street cigar factory, the Antal wom-
an made many friends and it Is prob
able she took her children to one
| OF these. recently married and re-
| siding in the vicinity of Port Read
ing or Carteret. Perhaps the wo1n-
an feared her children would be
taken away from her and decided
to take the kiddSas away until her
| newest trouble passed over. IL this
/ was done the mother mora than
| likely would tell her friend not td
! give the children to her husbands
| people under any Consideration.
Another angle for the detectives
to work on Is the possibility Of the
! husbands people taking the chils
dren away some time Friday nIg911
or early Saturday. The Antal Heu1<
an had trouble with one OF her
slsfers-in law all last week ana fh<
climax was reached in a battle 4.
the cigar factory on Friday. Mrs
Antal left the factory early and
burned her sister-in-law about the
head and face with a Iiouid she had
: prepared. this attack taking place In
the hall of the Charles street hout.
1 On Saturday morning the sister-in-
law set upon the Antal woman and
beat her and on SATURDAY. afternoon
I she left home. No one saw the
mother and children leaving the
home. Perhaps she was broodine
| over the disappearance Of her chill
dren along with the troubles she
was having with her sisters-in Law.
Unidentified Woman
Rumors current IN the vicinity OF
/ the Charles street home are 10 the
effect that the husband and the
slsters-in-law knew that an uniden-
tilted woman was at the Flynn un-
dertaklng parlors on East avenue
/ Following the accident near Sewaren.
fhe Identification was not made until
( tuesday night when Antal was ad-
! vised TO go 10 the parlors By Attor-
ney stephen Somogyi who was visit
ed for advice regarding the disap-
pearance of the wife and children
/ Lieutenant Detective John Murray
/ was first detailed on the case We'd
/ nesday morning when Capitals
Longs bureau was called in on the
/ children disap appearanee by Attorney
/ Somogyi. A search of the swan1pss
. creek. bushes etc. from North Am-
! boy TO Woodbridge was made We'd
! nesday morning. and on Wednesday
afternoon. Lieutenant Muska was
detailed on the case With Murrayi
| That night Lieutenant Gutowskt
took hand in the search. Speaking
several foreign Languages. Detectives
| Gutowski and Muska are real assets
| in a case Of this character.
Detectives GutOWski and Muska
were present at the funeral services
esterday afternoon. held in the Hun
garian Episcopal church on Cortl
land street, with Rev. Louis Nanassy
IN charge and interment was made
! in the Hopelawn cemetery. A
1 brother llnp1a =
/ the deceased attended the funeral.
three Of these being from New
Brunswick and the fourth, resi-
dent OF Woodbridge. The husband
| attended the final services as did one
of his four sisters, the four residing
in this city. In the opinion OF the
/ authorities, there would have been
some real trouble yesterday II De-
teetives Gutowski and Muska were
not present to prevent the dead wo-
mans brother from carrying out his
threats.
Until late wednesday night ana ali
day yesterday, the three detectives
carried on their work. Detective
Muska questioned trolley employees
and Detectives Gutowski and Murray
have been working along the rail-
road. As far as Is known She woman
and children Were not seen on d fast
line trolley car Saturday night and it
has been learned that the car does
not stop between Sewaren and Port
Reading. The detectives are Of the
opinion that the woman made stao
between the main crossing ID Se-
warren and the Boynton crossin,z
i where she was killed, as 4 Is said
she passed the first mentioned cross
ing a couple of minutes OTTER
O'Clock and the accident did not ne-
cur until almost a half hour later.
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