Twenty-One Years of Illegal Imprisonment Suffered By A Beautiful Young Lady of the Polish Nobility

The Polish Detective, Masilewski, Is Put On The Track Of A Most  Outrageous Crime—Is There A “Woman In The Case”?—Jaromir Ubrik, The Gambler And Drunkard, Sells His Own Child—He Exchanges His Son For A Girl, Who Is Stolen Prom Him By A Jew—Bold Thefts Perpetrated In Warsaw—The Jew Is Found, But The Girl Is Lost—A New Track Found, The Child Is Lost Again—Kidnapped By Gypsies—A Gypsy Reveals The Future To The Countess Satorin—Judith In The Service Of The Countess— Jaromir At Last Rewarded For His Ardor—Mother And Daughter -—Pater Gratian And Sister Jovita—In The Apothecary—An Elopement Failed—An Infernal Compound—”Possessed Of The Devil”— A Nocturnal Flight—A Delirious Woman—The Flight Of A Lunatic A Victim Claimed—A Horrible Scene—Terrible Punishment— Escape And Surprise—Trial And Sentence—Punishment And Cunning—Searching The Convent—Interviewing A Lunatic—The Sad Duty Of The Detective

by George McWatters

When on my trip through Europe, I met with the Polish detective, Masilewski, who told me the thrilling incidents of the illegal detention of a handsome young lady of about twenty years, belonging to the chief nobility of Russian-Poland. The facts are so startling that I will faithfully render Mr. Masilewski’s story, first warning my readers to reflect that the Polish people do not belong to the most civilized nations, and that the crimes perpetrated, as herein related, were due, not entirely to premeditated cruelty, but principally to lack of intellect, which so often induces us to err, or to apply a punishment which, otherwise, we would have scorned the very idea of. The career of a detective is so variegated, so many incidents come under his observation, that often he is obliged, against his… Read More