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Show Is Assassinated at the -Rectory by Three Masked Men Newark. N. J., March 10. The Rev. Father Eiasln Ansion, rector of the Polish church of St Stanislaus, was shot and almost Instantly killed by j three masked men' In his rectory early j today. Miss Antonla Scwrzytska, I housekeeper of the rector, who attempted at-tempted to prevent the assassination; was slightly wounded. As there has heen a dispute among the chuich loaders load-ers over its affairs, the shooting was at first believed to have been the outcome out-come of that disagreement. Three men. whoh were unknown to the ser- j vants, called at tho rectory and were admitted U the parlor while the rector rec-tor was celebrating mass in the church. As the rector entered the parlor the men opened fire on -him. One bullet penetrated the breast near the heart and the two others lodged in the abdomen. j Father Ansion died in the ambulance ambu-lance while on the way to the hospital. hos-pital. Other priests in the rectory, hearing the shots, rushed towards the parlor, whereupon the assassins flpd from the house and escaped. Four suspects sus-pects have been arrested, but the (Continued on Page Five) PRIEST IS SHOT TO DEATH. (Continued on Page Eight.) housekeeper was unable to Identify any of them. The tragedy Is bellovod to be the culmination of a series of factional fights which have disrupted the church for many months. Father An6lon was assigned to the church by Dlshop O'Connor O'-Connor last fall after the former rector rec-tor had been terrified Into fleeing from tho city. Strong opposition developed to Father Anslon, and he was threatened many times. The police said that Father Anslon had been collecting funds for a new church, and that this was tho cause of tho trouble. |