New Britain herald., 1929-12-21
Woman Tells of Brutal Beating and Accuses Husband of Threaten ing to Decapitate Her and Children in Row. Married for Year.
Finds Husband With Weapon Near By and Hears Threat to "Cut Off the Heads of the Whole Crowd" in House on High Street.

She killed two husbands but she won't kill me" Walter Mynowski 3j, of 315 High street. declared in police court today, denying his wifc's story ol q brutal assault last night at their nome. She is not satisfied with me. She needs four or five men,"
 Mrs. Mynowslli, however, ac- cused him of beating her with both ends Of q broom until she bled from her arms and then striking her with a chair about the head. cutting her n two places, after which he punched her in the face several times, looSening two artiti cial teeth and causing her mouth to become swollen.
 As q finale, she said, he went into the cellar and returned with an axe after threatening that he would cut her head off and give the same treatment to the children. They were frightened, she said, and i fled before he came up from the 1 cellar. When Officer Otis Hopkins reached the tenement shortly before a. m., he found Mynowsii sitting in front of the kitchen stove, the axe beside him. and before sub hitting to arrest, MynosN declared that he would "cut the heads off the whole crowd.'
 Married One Year
 In his ownt defense, MynoWsk' accused his Yife of infidslity and declared that as recently as last Friday he met her in Adam Okula x club on Broad street. where she asked him to buy her drink. His tlrst wife died ten years ago and he married his present wife about year ago. Since then he has had trouble continually, he said, and II she does not mend her ways he will not live with her any longer.
 Last night ne came home ana found their 10 months old baby un, attended. Later his wife came in and he demanded 10 know where she had been and why she had left the baby alone. Asked by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney W. NJ. Green , stein about his wife's injuries, he said she caused them herself and he denied that he struck her. As to the axe, he did not threaten to , use it in the manner alleged, and : the reason he brought it up iron, : the cellar was to cut soup bone, l he said. He had bought 30 pounds l of meat as he does every Friday and had no other way of cutting it. Even when Officer Hopkins was called on to repeat what Mynowsk
 had said in his presence, Mynowsk denied It.
 Beaten Weekly
 Mrs. Mynowski told the court she has had weekly beating practical ly since her marriage. She com
 plained about it once and it wa: stopped, only to be resumed. She
 works every day, she said. and hel . husband takes her pay. using it tt
 help pay the household expense
 and the rent and spending what I: left of his own pay for liquor. Las
 night he invited friends who hat accompanied them on the trip aftei
 the meat, to come into their house T but she nudged him not to asl ' them as she had ironing to do ant did not want to entertain. After h. , went out angry because of her at ' titude toward his invitation, she fol
 lowed him. hoping to prevent hin 70 from spending his pay for liquor I,,,N 1T entity he reached home just as sh 1T and one of the children were con, tS ing in through another entrance if and as soon as he met her lnsid le the door he started to beat her wit D. the broom.
 Mynowski denied that his wifi
 worked every day. He said sh '' only turned over S5 or S6 in he l. envelope to him, so she could nc be working every day. He did nc N need her money. anyway he declar ed, as he earns S5 cents an hour. H - admitted that he had one drink C ,. wine and one drink of liquor las ~ night. Last Friday he said. hi /, wife was in Okula's place from Io p. m. to , q. m., drinking and car n. rying on with men.
 ,r Judge Traceski imposed a fine (
 S10 and costs and suspended ia ,; sentence of 30 days, placing Myr ,d owski on probation with warnin r- that his next conviction will resu
 in term in jail. The conditions ] !" the family will be investigated b