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 a Victim of Knock
Out Drops or Sandbagging.

Michael Angelo Marine, thIrty-hve
years old, of 1871 Mulberry street, was
found dead on the stoop of 1851 Lexing-
ton avenue at 3 o'clock this morning.
Deputy Coroner O'Hare, who gave n
permit to remove the body, made a
superficial examination. He found no
marks on the mans body to-day, and
Is of the opinion hat Marine died from
Internal hemorrhage of the lungs.
Marine was bookkeeper for Rocco Ver-
relli, who keeps a banking establish
ment at 1893 Hester street and a saloon
at 100 Mulberry street.
Yesterday Verrrelli gave Marine $751;
and sent him out to collect some bills in
Harlem. Besides the money, Marine
had a silver watch and two gold rings.
The money, watch and rings were gone
when his body was found.
Verrelli and some of the dead mans
friends, of whom a h~alf-doZen called at
the station-house this morning, are not
satisfied with the theory that he died of
hemorrhage. They think he was sand
bagged and robbed.
one of the friends, Joseph Gerrutti,
who keeps a cigar store at 33l East one
Hundred and Fifteenth street, said Ma
rino called at his house yesterday after
noon and again in the evening.
Marine, he sail, had a fit of coughing.
and he gave him a glass Of wine. The
dead man was not again seen by n
of his friends after leaving Gerrutti's
house.
The body was taken to ex-Alderman
Duffy's undertaking establishment, 49,
Third avenue. where Deputy Coroner
later in the day. Marino was a IN
sumptive-looking man. and the theory
of death from hemorrhage might easily
be believed We're 1t not for the suspi-
ninnu nj rr,t r, ta nnnC NnnnnptaI with tho
finding of his body.
Shortly after / o'clock this morning.
Jere Preston, a Waterman for the cable
road now being constructed in Lexing-
Hundred and Sixteenth street, carrying
a third man between them. He sup
posed 1t was an ordinary case of intoxi-
Waterman Milo W. Eddy Is stationed
at One Hundred and Fifteenth street.
He saw the two men with their burden
dred and Sixteenth street. He watched
them place their burden on the stoop
of the Verona ~fiat-house, at 1861 Lex
ington avenue. and one Of the men said
well, now we've lone our part,
we've brought you home"
The Waterman moved on down the
street and said no more.
1t might have been fifteen minutes
later and Eddy was standing e. One
Hundred and Fourteenth street. when
he heard a woman up the street shout
ing for help. AS he hurried up the
street he saw two men turn into One
Hundred and Fifteenth street from
Lexington avenue and run towards
Third avenue The man on the steps
of the eNrona fiat was lying notion
less.
Directly across the street there was a
woman leaning out Of a .s~econd-story
window. She 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 that the man on the steps
was unconscious, and breathing heav.
Fifteenth street and Third e and
got Policemen Converse and Unkles
When they arrived at the stoop the
man was dead. An ambulance was sum
moned from Harlem Hospital. All the
surgeon could say WAS that the mar
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
found he asked the ambulance surgeon
II death could have been due to knock,
out drops The doctor could not say.
inside out. n attached to a %buttonholt
of the vest was a silk corded watct
chain that was broken In two, as II by
some hurried hand that had no time t.
free the watch from II.
Ward detectives Smith and Mooney
are trying to find the two men n car
ried Marine.
Rocco Verrilli, the saloon-keeper ant
banker. of 1919 Hester street. has seer
the body and has positively identified It