The evening world., 1894-03-20
ANOTHER MYSTERY.
Friends of joseph snoleck Think
He Was Murdered.
Police Accused OF MOI Making a
Rigid Investigation.
The Missing Nan Disappeared on
the Morning of Feb. IL.

The Police Headquarter. detectives
have another mystery to solve. which
may eventually develop into the discov-
cry thai Joseph smoieck. a Bohemian
tailor. t~wenty-etght years old. @: ;6d
First avenue. was murdered.
Smoleck disappeared from an East
Thirty-third street teuement-house in
the early morning OF Sunday. Feb. L.
He had gone there TO attend a birthday
party the evening before.
The facts in the case came on: to-day.
when a sister OF the missing man. with
whom he lived. went 10 Police Head
quarters to search the records for Some
clue in the case. The relative was &C
companied by Undertaken John Krtil. o:
I2ss First avenue. who acted as an in.
terpreter.
According to the story told. Smoleck
was unmarried. well educated. and
spoke FIVE languages. He came to this
country fourteen years ago. Up TO the
time of his disappearance Re was ON.
pIoyed by 1. Winter, a tailor. Of '6g
Second avenu
There was a birthday party in the
apartments OF Anton Stahlba. on thu
BeCCnl HOOE OF lVc blS NCAA-AhEI.T ~ "
East Thirty-third street. on the even.
ing Of Feb. II. smoleck used to live In
this tenement and without coat or vest,
with siippers on hts feet. and wearing a
brown derby hat. on th- evening OF sat
urdAy. Feb. II. he left his sisters house
to go to the party at StaAIoa > which
Il lust around the corner.
That was the last seen Of the YOUNG
man by his relatives. He stopped In the
saloon at the corner u First avenue and
Thi-ty-third street and drank ther"
While In the saloon he met John ArEot.
q matchmaker In kautrmau's cigar TAG
tory near by. Arnot lives with his wife
on the top floor Of the Thirty-third street
tenement.
II is said that Smoleck staggered NJ
TO Arnot. and pulling a cigar out OF the
1atter's mouth. threw IL. or. the moor and
ground 1t under his heel As far as was
Al 10 O'Clock Smoleck arrived a. the
Stahlba rooms, when the party was at
its height and beer vas flowing freely
The %StahIbas claim that smoleck Vas
told him TO go away. H. however, lin
gered for some time Il was bother
some.
The stories as TO the time OF the oc-
currence OF the next interesting thtnS in
this case differ. ArnNt says at 2l5 n
NJ. Smoleck went upstairs 10 the top
asked who was there. and says ne re-
ceived an obscene reply. which was re-
peated several times, while the door was
yet locked. Arnot says he then rscns
mixed the voice OF Smoleck. and opening
the. door. gave him a blow in the face.
Smoleck. Amot declares. and his wife
c~orroborates him in the statement, then
went downstairs. bur Immediately came
up again. Then Arn1t thinks he went
downstairs for good.
That Is the last seen ~ Smnleck by
any one. as far as can be learned.
The next morning SmoIeck's derby hat
was picked up in the hallway. not Far
from Arnot's doorway. bv Antonio Mach.
a young Bohemian girl living On the
same floor. II was crushed In at the
back OF the Gro wa. and there were two
holes. which appeared TO have been
made by an OF some kind
striking tt. possibly while on SmolsCk's
head. There were no blood stain. in the
hall The hat was taken TO Smoleck's
sister. She has IL now
The police OF the East T~hiCty-ftth
street station were Notified. bu, no great
effort apparently has been made to clear
up the mystery surrounding he case
Smoleck's sister believes That her
brother wss murdered. and tina: h.s
body was thrown into the East River.
not many fee: distant from the te7a-
ment. I: may Re t1a: ne ak mo
the river himself
John Arnot laughs at the idea Of Smo-
leck meeting death at his hands. tf-
says he IA troubled. however. over the
fact that Smnleck should have so u7rsta-
rtously disappeared. and from his ys-y
door. too.
To-day the hospitals a-e hs.ag s=arch=!