Two servicemen tried to favors the beautiful Weapon from Krzeszowice:the military police chief, Jaśko and the cavalry sergeant Steiner. There would be absolutely nothing strange in this competition for the heart of a good lady, if not for the fact that Bronia already had a husband. And that one of the suitors was ready to kill anyone who stood in the way of his feeling ...
On the market square in Krzeszowice, a small and charming town near Krakow, there was a restaurant called Oświęcimski. It was his wife that the aforementioned Bronia, to whom two soldiers courted. The married woman not only did not refuse them, but also clearly favored the chieftain. The cavalryman could not accept it. He desperately reproached the woman, and when no cries, screams and pleas helped, he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Weapons with an explosive character
On August 24, 1921, Bronia went for a walk with Jasiek in the forest. As Illustrated News later wrote: Steiner saw it and, driven by jealousy, swore both of them with bloody revenge. Armed with a revolver, he followed the sensitive pair into the woods and fired a series of shots at them here, but they missed.
Excerpt from the "Illustrated News" article.
The lovers probably did not even notice that someone was looking for their lives. After all, there were many hunters in the woods at this time of the year. Carefree Bronia and equally carefree Jaśko safely returned to Krzeszowice. The unsuccessful attempt, however, did not dampen the murderous zeal of Steiner. On the contrary. The boy learned from his mistakes and decided to ... switch to a weapon with a higher firepower.
Armed with hand grenades, he showed up at Auschwitz's resauraya in the evening and walking to the bar counter behind which Bronia was standing, having exchanged a few words with her, threw a hand grenade at her, which exploded. The effects of the explosion were terrible. Two bodies fell to the ground, Steiner fell dead on the spot, Bronia, fatally wounded, writhed in a pool of her own blood. The bar counter and walls had been destroyed, covered with blood and bits of flesh of the unfortunate victims of wicked love.
What a pictorial, human story, and with a moral:it is better not to romance two soldiers at once! The only thing missing is any comment from ... a betrayed husband. We know one thing for sure. He did not have to divorce the faithless Bronia. Grenade did the trick.
Explosive Bronka from Krzeszowice in the drawing of "Illustrated Now".
A farmhand is not a parade
One crime in August 1935 also had a moral, and quite the same. Dear readers, remember for life:romance with farm workers doesn't pay off. And even more so, romancing - of course - with two farm hands at once. Dziennik Poranny reported on a case that electrified Poznań. 30-year-old Franciszek Kistala was a farmhand at the Dębiński family. In turn, his predecessor in the same work was a certain Zygmunt Jezierski.
With Zygmunt, the mistress of the house, Jadwiga Dębińska, got tangled up in a stormy romance, and the young wage worker provided her with everything that her aging husband had skimped on. Unfortunately, Zygmuś was a good herb. In 1932, he was sentenced to three years for manslaughter. He went to sit, and Jadwiga was left alone as a finger (not counting, of course, her husband). Sooner, she decided to switch to a new farmhand. Now Kistala has become her lover. Mr. Dębiński supposedly knew about everything, but he did not protest, because Jadwiga threatened that he would ... poison or kill him .
Hot life in pre-war Poland.
Kistala quickly fell in love with the energetic hostess. Unfortunately for him, Ms Dębińska did not share these feelings. She considered Franciszek to be only a substitute player:
Jezierski returned from prison last August. Dębińska now began to favor the stranger. The role of the mistress of the hostess began to become ambiguous. Dębińska ignored Kistala more and more, and Kistala burned with jealousy and a desire for revenge at once. Every day he listened to the planks of the bed creaking under his beloved and disgusting Jezierski.
It finally broke :On the critical day of August 26, 1935, a quarrel arose between the former lovers, as a result of which Kistala murdered Jadwiga Dębińska. He slit her throat with a sharp knife and gave the dying man the last blows of the knife in her breast and stomach.
Rozalia Pałkówna. A victim of a "sexual murder" whose photo was published in "Illustrated News" in 1921.
Speaking of morals, it is worth adding one more:do not date madmen, let alone married madmen. This was probably the cause of the death of Rozalia Pałkówna, a young maid in the Krakow palace of the Counts Potocki.
The butler did it!
In February 1921, "Illustrated News" informed about a mysterious crime. It was made by a certain Józef Mazur:a forty-seven-year-old butler of the Potocki family, an exemplary husband and father of several children. This sedate and well-mannered man: fell towards the beautiful Róża (...) with a hot affect .
The girl had a fiancé, but she accepted these advances anyway, agreed to meetings with the butler and to joint trips to the cinema. It would be an ordinary affair, which was not lacking before the war, just as there is no shortage of them today, were it not for Mazur's professional problems.
The headline of the article published by Dziennik Poranny.
One day, his employer decided to transfer him to another property, and that meant separation from Rózia. What happened next? It is impossible to fully explain it. On a fatal day, Rozalia Pałkówna fell from the fourth floor of the palace "pod Jagniem" and died as a result of hitting the pavement.
Mazur explained that it was a suicide and that they both decided to kill each other. She just jumped out first and he… changed his mind at the last minute. As the newspaper reported:
He calmly walked downstairs, looked at the body of the unfortunate victim lying in a pool of blood without much emotion, and went to the police inspection.
However, the court did not believe such explanations. It was assumed that this strong and growing man threw the girl out of the window. And it didn't matter if he wanted to kill himself too - murder is murder, after all. The butler was sent to a maximum security prison for four years.
Of course, the perpetrators were not always men, as the examples above show. In Lodz, in 1934, a teenager committed a heinous crime with the help of her mother and half of her family. Dziennik Poranny reported the matter on the first page, which was not often the case. The headline screamed: Sensational process to cook fiance in boiling lard! But we will write about it tomorrow - in the second part of the Harlequins from real life.
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The article is based on source materials and literature collected during the work on the book "Upadłe damy II Rzeczpospolitej". You can buy the book with a discount at empik.com .