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Show One Woman Like Tiliie One Too Many CHICAGO. Tillie Klimek, the squat little Polish storekeeper, who poisoned three husbands and sent a fourth to a West side hospital to fight a battle against death, enacted the last role of her "four act play" In Judge Marcus Kavanagh's courtroom. Dressed in a new black dress and wearing the same black silk hat she wore on the day she followed the coffin containing the body of her third husband to the cemetery, the little Jp- woman stood against the bar and heard Judge Kavanagh sentence her to Joliet penitentiary for the remainder of her life. Not a sign of emotion passed over her face as the court pronounced the dozen words that takes away her liberty lib-erty and gives her a gray cell and iron bars. When the Judge ceased talking she turned her face upwards and smiled. Then she passed out of the room, across the "bridge of sighs" and back to her cell. Mrs. Klimek was found guilty of a 0 charge of murdering her third husband, hus-band, FranlJ Kupczyk, by a jury before Judge Kavanagh. It was brought out by Assistant State's Attorneys William McLaughlin and Thomas Peden that the woman placed arsenic in . Kup-czyk's Kup-czyk's food and also in the "moonshine" "moon-shine" he drank. The case was brought back to Judge Kavanagh on a motion lor a new trial. The judge listened for several minutes to arguments by Attorney John Pry-stalskl Pry-stalskl and Assistant State's Attorney McLaughlin. "This is one of the most remarkable cases In the history of criminology," Judge Kavanagh said in denying the motion. "We have here a woman of average aver-age intelligence, a model housewife and a good cook. When she Is among women she Is affectionate and, It Is said, she Is the most popular woman In the jail. "Yet, the testimony showed, cold bloodedly, without feeling or remorse, she killed three of her husbands and attempted to kill a fourth. "If this woman was let loose today she would kill another man. She has a desire to see men with whom she was Intimate suffer. "I venture to say there are more husbands poisoned In this community than the police or authorities realize. But the knowledge that THIIe Klimek 'has gone down' will stay their hands." |