A DIABOLICAL CRIME.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6747, 1 May 1890, Page 4

A DIABOLICAL CRIME.

According to advices from Warsaw some details have now come to light about the dreadful child murders committed there by the midwife and Skublinski and some other women who have already been arrested. Skublinski resided in an attic, and the other inmates of the house, who all belong to the working classes, knew that Bhe secretly received young illegitimate children, " to nuree," as she said. In reality, she with several other women, carried on a regular trade in murdering infants. The attention of the police had already been drawn to this woman, and an unexoected examination of the house revealed several cradles wah two and three babies in each. Now, as Skublinski had no right to receive mothers and new-born children, she had to promise that from thenceforth she would take no more young Infants into her house. Notwithstanding thia, the police on a subsequent occasion found three little babies, and Bha was, in consequence, summoned, and the hearing was fixed for the 19th insr. before the justice of the peace. During the night of the 17th she set fire to her lodging, after having first murdered the children committed to her charge. Then thia inhuman woman went and stood in the yard of the house among the excited crowd and quietly waited to see what would happen. As the house was only built of wood, she evidently hoped it wou'd be completely destroyed. But on« of the inmates of the house suddenly remembered the wonr»n in the garret and her charges, and ca led out to the fireman to save the children. Then Skublinski was for the first time seen standing in the yard, and when she was asked if the children were already saved, she answered that they were no longer with her. In the meanwhile, the firemen had so far auceeded in subduing the fire that one ot them penetrated into Skublinski's lodging, and, not knowing what Bhe had sa d, immediately began to search for the children. He Boon found one little corpse, and then tw>> more. They were taken down to the yard, and a doctor who happened to be present declared that the children were not choked by smoke, but that a crime had been perpetra'ed. Then the police came forward and funr more corpses were discovered, on one of which were distinct traces of the skull having been battered in. Consequently Skublinski and the other women were arrested.