EXHIBIT D
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON NORTHERN DIVISION.
In the Matter of the Application of Tonka Bajlo for the Writ of Habeas Corpus. )
2459 No. 1328
AFFIDAVIT OF IVAN SKORICH
STATE OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF KING ) ss.
Ivan Skorich being first duly sworn on oath deposes and says: that I live at 815 Charles Street, Seattle, Washington; that I am a laborer by occupation and work wherever I can obtain work and at the present time am not doing anything; that Paska Bilin is my partner in paying for and keeping the house expenses paid up at 815 Charles Street; that we have as our housekeeper and cook in our employ Tonka Bajlo; that she has been in our employ since the first of February; that we agreed to pay her and do pay her the sum of $10.00 per month and her board and her lodging; that we have paid her this amount because she has been sickly, and unable to do the work part of the time; that we had two borders who slept in a separate room apart from Paska Bilin and myself. We had the middle room and Tonka Bajlo slept in the front room which faces directly on the street; that there are two entrances to the house, one to the middle bedroom which leads to a sort of an alley and the other to the kitchen which leads to the street in front along on the East side of the house; that the house is above grade and we have to go up steps to get into it; that we pay $10.00 a month for the house.
That I testified in the hearing had before Thomas M. Fisher, Inspector and Examiner, on April 7, 1913, Seattle, Washington, and the testimony alleged to have been given by me is as follows:
Q. "How long have you know her? (referring to Tonka Bajlo.) A. About a year."
Q. "Where was she living when you first knew her? A. She used to live at 917 Addition Street between 9th and 10th Streets."
Q. "Who was she living with there? A. Living there with a crowd of men."
Q. "Which particular one was she living with if you know? A. She was living with a fellow by the name of Paska Bilin."
Q. "Did she sleep with him? A. I don't know."
The answers wherein I have been made to state that she was "living with a crowd of men" and "she was living with a fellow by the name of Paska Bilin," have been misinterpreted by the interpreter. What I did say and meant to say was that she was living at this boarding house as cook and housekeeper and that Paska Bilin was at the head of the boarding house.
I never heard any one say that they had slept with her, nor have I ever heard any one say anything against her character until this hearing on April 7, 1913; that while at my house she was sickly and unable to do much work; that I have heard her state that her husband was very cruel to her and often beat her and had injured her health and that she could not live with him because he beat her so much; that I do not believe there was ever anything wrong between Paska Bilin and Tonka Bajlo, and I never heard from any of the boys that anything ever existed between her and any of the men boarders; that on or about the first week in February, 1913, Jack Bajlo came to my house at 815 Charles Street and broke in the door and I refused to let him in the house and he went away, and he came back two or three times after that and I refused to let him in the house because Tonka Bajlo had told us that her husband said he would kill her.
The house we lived in has a kitchen which connects directly with the room used as a bedroom by the two boarders and Paska Bilin, and this room has a door leading into the middle bedroom which I occupied alone. This room has an outside door and a door leading to the front bedroom occupied by Tonka Bajlo.
Ivan SkorichSubscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April, 1913.
Chas. H. Ennis.Notary Public in and for the State of Washington, residing at Seattle.
