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Pole Charged with Pouring Burning Oil on Her—A Priest Charges Conspiracy. Special to The New York Times. JOLIET, UL, July 10.—Charges of wife murder by torture, met by counter charges of conspiracy to swear away a man’s life for his money, have stirred Joliet’s Polish quarter to excitement today. Frank Schref fler, one of the leading Polish citizens of Will County, lies in jail, accused of having deliberately saturated his wife’s clothes with gasoline and set her on fire. His ac cusers, who are his wife’s relatives, are charged by the Rev. Father Pawlowski with attempting to send Schreffler to the gallows in order to obtain possession of his $10,000 estate. ; . Mrs. Schreffler was burned by a gasoline explosion in her home shortly before mid night June 28. She died a week later at the hospital. Her two children were also badly burned, and her husband, no accused of murder, was badly hurt. However, Edith Zeentarski, whose husband is the dead wo man’s brother, has sworn out a warrant for Schreffler on a charge of murder. “My sister told me on her deathbed that her husband killed her, she said today. * She told me that he often threatened to do so. On that Saturday night she said he came home drunk and made her get up and iron curtains. She tried to fill the stove, and it exploded. Before she could get away he jumped up and caught the stove and held it against her while the burning gasoline flowed over her. ‘ We will die together, he had often said, and he tried to kill her and himself. When my sister, Josepha, ran from the next door, he barred the way and would not let her come in. ‘He killed me,’ his wife said on her deathbed. ‘He put the fire on me.’”’ Schreffler had been but a day out of the hospital when he was arrested on the charge. ‘Feeling ran high against him until Father Pawlowski appeared in his defense.
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Wed, Jul 11, 1900
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William G.
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