New Britain herald., 1927-01-12
ROPE, HOOK, REPLY ID SOILED SHIRT
Man Who Asked Wife to Hang
 Herself Explains Action

NllOll lEt StuS nave been buffeting quite strenuousy for q long time, disputed each others stories before Judge w. c. Hunger ford in police court this morning, when Dimitry was arraigned on the charge of non-support, and after listening to both sides, the judge continued the case to January 26 and ordered the couple to confer with Probation Officer Connolly for the purpose of ironing out their diff faculties, if possible.
 Dimitry admitted authorship of a letter to his wife, requesting her to hang herself with a rope and ceiling hook which he enclosed, but said he was inspired to do so on receipt of a torn shirt stained with rabbit or chicken offal, which she mailed to him as gift for Russian Christ mas last week. He spent the last ! 15 cents he had to buy the hook and tho rope.
 He has been living in New Haven, while his wife and three children are at 122 North street. this city. The oldest child Is nine years and the youngest is three years. He worked as tailor and on leaving his family. agreed to send s10 per week to the probation officer for their support. Mir. Connolly testi-
 fled that he received sl0 and then the payment fell to s5. but since December 27, he has received noth- ing. He wrote to Dimitry to come ! here, but in the meantime the war
 rant for non-support was issued and the police served it when Dimitry
 dropped in yesterday.
 Dimitry said he cannot earn enough money in New Haven with
 out his tailoring outfit, which his wife will not give him. The last
 week he worked in 8 factory his pay was SIP, of which he used Ss7 1 for his own support and sent the | balance to his wife. He has been unemployed for two weeks, he said. Relative to a letter to his wife, writ
 which the charge was made that he
 had spoken i'll of his wife, and that l, he had a sweetheart with whom he
 was planning to elope, Dimitry said 1 he has had "enough bother" with
 one woman and does not want to
 risk more trouble with another.
 Mrs. Miasniak said she requires | s15 per week for the support of the
 children and s5 for herself. The
 reason she does not give her hus-
 band the tailoring equipment Is that
 she needs it to make clothing for
 the children. and it does not belong
 to him, either. because his own
 equipment has been taken by a civil
 officer. Dimitry is 35 years of age
 and lives at 219 Oak street. New Haven.
 John Smigel, aged 42, Of 435 North
 Burritt street, pleaded not guilty to
 the charge of breach of the peace. Sergeant O'Mara testified to making the arrest on complaint of Mrs. Smigel about 1:30 last night. The sergeant said Mrs. Smigels children | by former marriage are the cause of their trouble.
 | Smigel showed signs of having been drinking but he was not in- toXicated, the sergeant said. Efforts to quiet him were fruitless, so the sergeant arrested him.
 Yesterday. according to Mrs. Smi- gel, she and her husband and chill dren attended the wedding of her son and when the time came to go home her husband scolded her for her delay in getting ready. l He told her he would attend to her when they reached home, and he did, according 10 her story. Smigel testified that a man from | Pennsylvania who was guest at the wedding, induced Mrs. Smigel to go downstairs instead of leaving for home in the taxicab Smigel had called. This angered him, he said. Veronica Smigel, aged IS, testi- fled that her stepfather makes a practice of beating her and did so last evening.
 Judge Hungerford fined Smigel s5 and remitted the costs. He also im- posed a jail sentence of 10 days and suspended execution. placing Smigel on probation for six months. Frank Andrezyk, aged 34 of s5 Broad street, was fined $1O and costs and sentenced to jail for 15 days on charges of breach of the peace and assaulting Mrs. Stanley Kopka of 140 Grove street.
 Officer William Grabeck testifetd that Mir. Kopka complained to him Sunday night that Andrezyk assault ed Mrs. Kopka. He investigated and arrested Andrezyk at 44h Orange street.
 Mrs. Kopka testified that she was bathing and dressing Andrezyk's daughter, who had just arrived from Europe.
 Andrezyk wanted to take the girl and she objected. Then someone struck her and blackened her eyes. and otherwise injured her. She could not say whether Andrezyk or someone else committed the assault. but when Prosecuting Attorney Woods cross-examined her after characteriZing her as a hostile wit ness, she admitted she knew An drezyk struck her.
 The prosecuting attorney brought out that Andrezyk formerly boarded with the Kopka family. Mrs. Kopka denied that Andrezyk is her lover and she was positive that he does not call at her home when her hus- band is not there.
 Andrezyk testified that he was in- vited to the Kopka home Sunday. His daughter was there with other guests.
 Mrs. Koplla asked one of the guests for @ dollar and Andrezyk reprimanded her for her lack Of manners. whereupon she struck hin in the face three times. Then sht seized a stick and attempted to strike him again. He simply de-