The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-27
9, BURIED BY
WITCH MAY
Be EXHUMED
Police DeIve Deeper Into
Amazing Boarding House
Death Mystery.
NEIGHBORS IN TERROR
Attribute Weird Acts and
Powers to Wizened,
Silent Woman.
NEIGHBoRS IN TERROR

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, Aug. Determination
of the bodies of nine men, believed
buried with the aid Of cash from
their own insurance policies, may
be resorted to by police in their
efforts to determine whether Mrs.
Rose Veres, 40, witch" landlady,
speeded their deaths.
The woman, tight-lipped,
shrunken figure, who is blamed by
her neighbors in Detroit's Hun
garian colony for all manner Of evil
and witchery, was held today on a
technical charge of numbering Steve
Max, SO.
Mrs. Veres' eldest son, William,
18, also is held. Their arrests came
quickly following Mak's death
Wednesday after a plunge or fall
from a ladder propped against an
attic window at the woman's ROOM
ing house.
Made $4,000 in Deposits
Four witnesses to the fall said
Max appeared to have been pushed
off the ladder or thrown from the
attic window. Mrs. Veres, in her
few volube moments, insists he
fell. At any rate, Mrs. Veres was
beneficiary in his insurance poll
cies, police point out.
The circumstances of Mak's death,
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police, who are concerned chiefly
with the manner in which nine
other men, either husbands or
roomers of Mrs. Veres, met their
deaths in her home.
In the maze of significant evil
dence uncovered by George N.
Stutz, assistant prosecutor, it was
said to have been learned that Mrs
Veres made bank deposits of $4,000
over the twelve-year period during
which the ten died.
Seize Fifty Policies
In the woman's untidy dwelling,
investigators reported Selling more
than fifty insurance polices. Mrs.
Veres, referred to by terrified
neighbor women as the witch of
Delray," was beneficiary in most of
the policies, which generally we're
for comparatively small amounts.
Seven Of the suspected victims,
three Of whom are said to be former
husbands, we're given elaborate flu
nerals for which Mrs. Veres paid for
in whole or in part, records of Frank
Bicszo, east side undertaken, dis
closed.
In six of the seven cases, she had
commercial photographers take flu
neral pictures of the men at church.
The pictures showed open collins
banked with eo~'-~~ and mourners
grouped about. Mrs. Veres refused
to explain this strange practice to
inquisitors.
SCOTS at Investigation
Bicszo, who admits he got Mrs.
Veres' exclusive trade except in two
deaths in 1923 and 1924. has sup
piled police with death warrants
showing that Dr. j. S. Leszynski
signed six of the nine warrants.
LeszynSki was to make statement
to prosecutors today,
While the arrest of the witch"
woman caused furry of excite
ment for residents of her neighbour
hood. undertaken Bicszo and Dep
uty Coroner George S. Berg refused
to get excited over the strange and
mysterious gossip and reports about
the woman.
Berg, a veteran, said it is not I'M
usual for ten men to die in a tran
sient rooming house during a dec
ade or more. Furthermore, he as
serted, it is a common practice for
foreigners, living in almost native
surroundings, to have their land
ladies insure them for burial ex-
penses in the event they die while
on her bounty.
Stutz and homicide detectives re-
fuse to share the views of the I'M
dertaker and coroner'S deputy, how
ever. They want a satisfactory &C
CO1ntinC for nacb of tbo TON Saafbc