The evening world., 1894-06-12
IT MAY Be A MURDER
Marines Body Left on a Lexing-
ton Avenue Stoop.
Two Men Seen to Carry Him There
and Go Through Him.
Thought to BE q Victim Of Knock
Out Drops or Sandbngging.

Michael Angelo Marine, thirty-hve
years old, of 1871 Mulberry street, was
found dead on the stoop OF 1861 Lexing-
ton avenue at 3 o'clock this morning.
Deputy Coroner O'Hare, who gave a
permit to remove the body, made a
superficial examination. He found no
marks on the mans body to-day, n
Is Of the opinion that Marine died from
Internal hemorrhage of the lungs.
Marine was bookkeepcr for Rocco Yer
relli. who keeps n banking establish
ment ut 1893 Hester street and a saloon
at l29 Mulberry street.
Yesterday Verrrelli gave Marino $3.50
and sent him out to collect come bills in
Harlem. Besides the money, Marine
had a silver watch and two gold rings.
me money, watch and rings were gone
when his body was found.
Verrelli inc some of the dead mans
friends, of whom a half-dozen called at
the s~tation,house this morning. are rot
satisfied with the theory that he died OF
bagged and robbed.
One OF the friends, Joseph Gerrutti,
VINO Keeps a ciSnr store at Sl East one
Hundred and Fifteenth street, said Ma
rino called at his house yesterday after
noon and again in the evening.
Marlno. he sail, had n Mt of coughing,
and he gave him q glass of wine. The
dead man was not again seen by any
of his friends after leaving Gerruttis
house.
The body was taken 10 ex-Alderman
Duffy's undertaking establishment. 1852
Third venue. where Deputy Coroner
O'Hare will make another examination
later in the day. Marine WIS a con-
sumptive-looking man, and the theory
of death from hemorrhage might easily
be believed were it not for the suspi-
cious circumstances connected with the
finding of his body.
Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning,
Jere Preston. a Waterman for the cable
road now being constructed in Lexing-
Hundred and Sixteenth street. carrying
cation. and paid no attention to them.
.Watchman Milo w. Eddy is stationed
He saw the two men with their burden
come from the direction of One Hun
drcd and Sixteenth street. He watched
them place their burden on the stoop
of the Verona ~iat-house at 1861 Lex
ingt9n avenue, and one of the men said
Well. now we've done our part.
we've brought you home"
The Waterman moved on down the
street and said no more.
~ might have been fifteen minutes
later and Eddy was standing near One
Hundred and Fourteenth street, when
ing for help. AS he hurried up the
street he saw two men turn into one
Hundred II Fifteenth street from
Lexington venue and run towards
Third avenue. The man on h stenN
less.
Directly across the street there was a
woman leaning out Of n second-story
window. h told Eddy she had seen
the two men who ran away rob the
man on the steps. She had seen them
search the mans pockets, and had
heard the sound of money dropping on
the pavement.
Eddy found hat the man on the steps
wns unconscious, and breathing heav-
lily. Then he ran to One Hundred and
Fifteenth street and Third avenue and
got Policemen Converse and Unkles.
When they arrived at the stoop the
man was lead. An ambulance was sum
surgeon could say was that the man
WIS dead from some cause unknown.
Then the body was taken to the East
One Hundred and Fourth street sta
ton.
When sergt. Joyce understood the cir
cumstances under which the man was
round he asked tho ambulance surgeon
II death could have been due to knock
out drops" The doctor could not say.
Some of Marino s pockets were turned
inside out, and attached to n buttonholn
of the vest was a silk corded watch
chain that was broken in two. rs II by
some hurried hand that had no time to
free the watch from II.
Ward detectives Smith and Mooney
are, trying to find the two men who car
ried Marine.
Rocco Vcrrilli. the saloon-keeper and
banker. of 1879 Hester street. has seen
the body and has positively Identified It.