The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 269, Ed. 1 Monday, October 15, 1923 Page: 5 of 16
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her plea she made is clear
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second member of a highly in-
jVctual family to take the 'minis-
y#Btion of “justice” into her own
■iKands Mrs. Strutynsky will call on
•her lawyers to get across to the jury
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MONDAY.
some conception of the strange psy-
chology which led her to look on the
Rev. Mr. Basil Stetsnk not as an in-
dividual. but as a monster represent-
ing tyranny and oppression when she
shot him to death during Sunday mas*
in the Greek Catholic Church of St.
Michael as he raised his hand to make
the sign of the cross obove her head.
Mrs. Strntynskv admits that this
will be hard to do. »
So does her brother. Miroslav Sift-
insky. nrofessor in a Rochester N. Y..
university who has come here to aid
her.
But the brother at least compre-
hends.
“I understand her act. but I do not
applaud it” he ’said today.
“I felt the same way when I killed
Count Andres Pototsky the Polish
tyrant fifteen years ago.
“I did not have a qualm of con-
science about the deed.
“But when they told me that I bad
lied about it I could not sleep for a
week.”
Mrs. Strutynsky calmly awaiting
trial in the Cook county jail sought
to interpret herself to the writer in
an interview.
As a matter of fact she said the
decision of the jury is of little impor-
tance to her.
She fully expects to pay with her
life for her act.
But she is eager to be understood by
the American people.
Believes Act Justified.
“I killed him because it was just
that he should die.
“I was quite sane whet I did it"
she said.
“To die is nothing but to be misun-
derstood—ah that is the tragedy 1
“If the American people fail to un-
derstand I shall have killed him in
vain.
“It is not classes nor parties nor
nations but individuals who are re-
sponsible for the misery of the world.
“Individuals in high places who lead
the people on to false ideals and so
are cheats and hypocrites.
“Father Stetsuk was one of these.
“That is why I killed him.
“After my execution you will un-
derstand.”
Philosophy of this sort has never
THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT.
been heard before in the Cook county
Fellow prisoners who ae-epted her
into their sisterhood when the heavy
key on her now stare at her
in amazement then turn away and top
tlieir foreheads with a knowing wink.
But the alienists who come to talk
with her run tin against a snag
their efforts to find evidences of in-
sanity.
The speed and directness of the men-
tal processes of this fragile woman
baffle them.
They confess that they cannot grasp
the strange emotional complex which
brought her. a leader among L'krnnian
women and herself the wife of a priest
from Ramey Pa. to Chicago to kill
her husband's successor in the Chicago
parish.
Evin more baffling is her attitude
since the tragedy.
An air of calm radiance ns of one
who has risen to her duty and is will-
ing to abide the consequences per-
vades her presence.
She speaks of her “execution” with
a composure which makes even her
jailers shudder.
Native of Vkrainia.
Fully to understand Mrs. Strutyn-
sky perhaps one must lo to the
hot nassionate race from which she
sprang and the country which gave her
birth.
Vkrainia a tiny black strip of Ga-
licia between the Black and Baltic
seas a country storm-tos> ’ and op-
pressed since first its little flag flut-
tered to the breeze n target for tyrants
and vainglorious leaders one of the
keenest sufferers during the World
War—it was there that Mrs. Strutyn-
sky was born the daughter of a priest
a man of culture and some importance
in the state.
Her family suffered greatly in the
succession of political upheavals th„;
swept her country.
To kill an oppressor in the cause of
the masses was not a crime in Vkrain-
ia.
Neither it was a mark of honor.
“Perhaps” says Mrs. Strutynsky.
■perhaps it is thnt I have t ried to pour
the passionate ideals of Vkrainia into
the American mold.
“But if I was strong enough to do
this thing. I ntn strong enough to bear
the consequences.
“After 1 am executed—then they
will understand.”
Mrs. Stone Bickett
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AR6UE ABOUT BODY
British House of Lords May Have to
Settle Oglethorpe Controversy.
Cranham England Oct. 15.—The
question of the transfer to the United
States of the body of Gen. James E.
Oglethorpe may yet reach the House
of Lords.
If Chancellor Charles decides on the
strength of protests which may be
made by parishioners of the diocese
not to give the body to Oglethorpe
University' state of Georgia Dr.
T'rnnwell Jacobs president of that
institution to whose efforts the dis-
covery of the Vsiy was due may ap-
peal to the ecclesiastical court of
arehes at Cante-bury.
IS FOUND QEAD
Dallas Man Believed to Have Died
of Natural Causes.
D. A. Miller 00 was found dead in
his bed at 205 Avenue D. at 7 o'clock
Sunday morning. Death sdfhiincly.
had been due to natural causes. Th»
body is being hold at the Ludwig Un-
dertaking Company pending advices
from relatives.
According to information gained by
the police Miller registered at the
place on October 3 last. He was suf-
fering from heart affliction and it is
said was under treatment of a phys-
ician.
He registered from Dallas Tex.
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Bluejay
OCTOBER 15 1923.
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