Evening star., 1936-06-14
SUIT SPURS PROBE
/. OF POISON DEATHS
Insurance Company Seeks
to Prevent Beneficiaries
From Collecting.
BY the Ass ociated Press.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. June 49,
Suits filed by an insurance company
in Superior Court today against the
beneficiaries of a poison victims In
surance policy lent fresh impetus to-
night to the States investigation into
a half hundred deaths in nearby mill
town communities.
| Against Mrs. Teresa Dynak and
Walter Wadas. residents Of thickly-
populated Ludlow, the Boston Mutual
Life Insurance Co. moved today to
prevent them from collecting on poll
cies assigned to them by Frank Krol
of Ludlow.
Krol tumbled down a fight of stairs
to death at his boarding house-the
home of Teresa Dynak and her hus-
band-on May 25.
His death, one of several under in
vestigation in Ludlow, was first set
down as accidental. but toxicologist's
examination of his organs, District
Attorney Thomas F. Moriarty said.
revealed enough poison to cause death.
Was Known as "Tootsie."
Krol, a strapping 6-foot brass worker.
was known to the residents Of Ludlow.
declared Wadas, as "Tootsie."
"Tootsie, my wife and had few
drinks before going to bed the night
he died" Dynak said tonight.
Il went to Sleep" he continued.
but awoke suddenly with big COM
motion In the hail. I found Tootsie
lying at the foot Of the stairs. like
| this -"
Dynak curled up in knot at the
foot of the worn wooden stairs of the
two-floor home, "just Like that" he
said.
Sure" he asserted. 'Tootsie gave
us his insurance policy. He told US
he wanted to live with us always.
He had trouble with his wife in the
old country. He took us to a notary
public and put the policy in my wife's
name to make it legal"
Yes" added his wife in broken
English, land we paid his insurance
policies always after that"
Says Money Owed to Him.
From the other defendant in the
company's suit, Wadas, former tailor.
former grocer, now retired, came a
stormy protest of the suit. I'm going
to collect that money" he cried. tears
streaming down his cheeks.
"Krol owed me that money" he
| said.
He owed me nearly s78s for gro
! ceries," he continued. That's why I
insisted he turn over his $1,000 in
surance policy to me about four years
ago"
The insurance company contends
Krol had no insurance interests and
asserted that If Wadas and Mrs.
Dynak had been named in the origi-
nal application, the insurance would
! have been denied. The company
charged Krol, in applying for insur-
ance, denied previous applications had
been rejected and charged those de-
mails were false.
An inquest into Krol's death is still
pending.
Racket" Probe Begins.
That inquest comes under the juris-
diction Of Trial Justice George B.
Haas of Ludlow, whose inquest into
the death of Frank Halgas started an
investigation Of what he termed q
gigantic insurance racket"
Like Krol, authorities said Halgas,
a resident of Ludlow, died of poison.
A former newspaper man and trial
justice at Ludlow for Is years, Judge
Haas declared there have been nearly
a hundred suspicious deaths IN
this section during the past is years.
BY suspicious, he said, II mean
those who died were insured for
amounts far higher than they, them
selves, could carry"