The evening world., 1894-06-12
II MAY Be 4 MURDER.
Marines Body Left on a Licking
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-nve
years old, of 1911 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 n
superficial examination. He found no
marks on the mans body to-day. and
is OF the opinion that Marino died from
internal hemorrhage of the lungs.
Marine was bookkeeper for Rocco YER
refill, who keeps a banking establish
ment at 1913 Hester street and a saloon
ut 129 Mulberry street.
Yesterday verrrelli gave Marine $3.50
and sent him out to collect some bills in
Harlem. Besides the money. Marine
The money. watch and rings were gone
when his body was found.
iverrelli and some of the dead mans
friends, of whom a h~alf-dozen called at
satisfied with the theory. that he died OF
hemorrhage. They think he was sand
baEEed and robbed. .,
One Of the friends. joseph Gerrutti.
who keeps a cigar store at 33l East one
Hundred ard Fifteenth street. said Ma
rino called at his house yesterday after
noon and again In the evening.
Mnrino, he sail. had a fit OF coughing,
and he gave him a glass OF wine. The
dead man was not again seen by any
OF his friends after leaving Gerruttrs
The body was taken to ex-Alderman
Duffy's undertaking establishment, 1852
Third avenue, where Deputy Coroner
O'Hare will make another examinatIoh
sumptive-looking man. and the theory
or death from hemorrhage might easily
be believed were II not for the suspi-
cious circumstance connected with the
Ay,S1np of his bp1y.
rshortly after i o'clock this morning.
Jere Preston, a Waterman for the cable
road now being constructed In Lexins-
.en avenue. saw two men near One
Hundred and Sixteenth street. carrying
q third man between them. He sup
posed II was an ordinary case OF intoxi-
Waterman Milo w. Eddy Is stationed
ut One Hundred and Fifteenth street.
He saw the two men with their burden
come from the direction OF nc one ne Hun Hun
them place their burden on the stoop
Of h Verona flat-house. at 1861 Lex
ington avenue. and n OF the men said
"Weil, now we've done our part.
we've brought you home"
The Waterman moved on down the
street n said no more.
1T might have been fifteen minutes
later and Eddy was standing near One
Hundred and Fourteenth street. when
he heard a woman up the street shout
MS ". heip. As ne huiIieu w Inc
Hundred and Fifteenth street from
Lexington avenue n run towards
Third avenue. The man oil the steps
OF h eVrona nat was lying notion
Directly across the street there was a
woman leaning out of a second-story
window. She told Eddy she had seen
the W 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-
lily. Then he raj to One Hundred and
Fifteenth street and Third ayenue and
got Policemen Converse and Unkles.
man was dead. An ambulance was sum
lnoned from Harlem Hospital. All the
surgeon could say was that the man
was 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 a was
found he asked the ambulance surgeon
out drops" The doctor could not say.
Some of Marino's pockets were turned
inside out, and attached to n b~uttonhole
Of the vest was a silk corded watch
chain that was broker in two. as II by
some hurried ham that had no time &c
free h watch from It.
Ward. detectives Smith and Mooney
are trying to find the two men who car.
ried Marine.
Rocco Verrilli, the saloon-keeper anC
banker, of 1913 Hester street. has seer
n body and has positively identified II