Evening star., 1951-04-07
|ExiIed Polish Official
Found Hanged in
Apartment Here

Apartment Here
Julius Lukasiewicz. SO, WASH
lington representative Of the Lon
|don Polish government in exile
for the last six months, was found
hanged in his apartment at $500
% street NV. last night.
| The pajama-clad body of the
former Polish government Ambas-
lsador to both France and Russia
was discovered hanging from a
cord over a door closet at $40
pm. by Miss Grace Wells, resi-
dent manager of the Carlyn
Apartments, where he lived.
Miss Wells told police she found
the body when she went to Mr..
Lukasiewicz' room after friends re-
ported they were unable to reach
him by phone.
She was accompanied by DR..
Howard I. Weinstein. a physician
who lives at the apartment. DR..
lWeinstein pronounced the Polish
diplomat dead after police called
to the scene cut the cord from
his neck.
Notes In Polish Found.
Detective Sergt. Walter Cook of
the homicide squad said Mr..
ILukasiewicz had probably stepped
loff a small vanity stool which was
found by his feet. He said the
body was hanging by the neck
from a length Of heavy twine
Thrown over the door and tied to
the knob on the other side.
The diplomats feet, Sergt. Cook
said. were barely touching the
floor.
Sergt. Cook said many notes
written In Polish were found in
the apartment.
Sergt. Cook quoted friends of
MIR. Lukasiewicz as saying the
diplomat had been depressed for
several weeks.
Edward Weintal, Newsweek
Magazine correspondent at the
State Department and prewar
press attache of the Free Polish
Embassy here, said he had lunch
with Mr.. Lukasiewicz about five
weeks ago and that the diplomat
was seeking employment at the
time.
Had No Official Status.
Mr.. Weintel said Mr.. Luka-
siewicz was a so-called Ambas-
|sador Of the Polish shadow gov
|ernment" in London. The diplo-
mat, he said. had no Official
status because the exiled Poles had
not been recognized here and inI
London since England recognized
the Communist controlled regime
in Poland.
Another informant quoted al
friend Of Mr.. Lukasiewicz, Count
George Lasocki. as saying that
Mr.. Lukasiewicz had suffered al
nervous breakdown recently.
Last week. Mr.. Lukasiewicz'
friends said. he visited New York,
where he was told by a doctor
that he had a serious thyroid
condition and should take a rest.
While in New York, friends said
Mr.. Lukasiewicz attended the fu-
neral of a Polish exile and friend,
DR.. Ludwik Flojar Rajchman.
The death of DR.. Rajchman, who
had been working in BROOKLYN
factory, may have depressed him,
they said.
Helped in Riga Treaty.
Mr.. Lukasiewicz was born in the
Ukraine. He was graduated from
the Moscow Technical College and
entered the Polish diplomatic serv-
ice in 1920.
In 1921 he helped negotiate the
Polish Russian treaty of Riga, al
treaty between the then warning
Poles and Bolsheviks.
In 1886. Mr.. Weintal said, Mr.. |
Lukasiewicz was named Ambassa-
dor to France and served there
until the outbreak of war in 1899,
when he went to London.
Mr.. Lukasiewicz's first wife, a
Pole, committed suicide by hang
ing in the early 1930s. friends
said. He married a former Polish |
ballet dancer, who is now teach
ing In London, friends said.
They said he has two sons by |
his first wife. One of them, julius
Lukasiewicz, jr., is an electronics
engineer in Ottawa, and the other i
a chemist in London.
MIR. Lukasiewicz came to the
United States last September and
lived in Washington most of the
time since then. They said he
had a private income and was
still being paid by the Polish
government-in- exile.