The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-07
ALLEGED TO BE 4 TURKISH SPY.
Armenians Want to Lynch Yarpoozhian,
 Sentenced to Prison Yesterday.

Ihefe IS an interesting story con- nected with s. J. Yarpoozhian, the Ar
 menian sentenced to fifteen years in
 state prison in the criminal side of the
 superior court yesterday for criminal
 assault on his f1ve-year- -old daughter
 It seems that the Armenians of New
 Haven have looked upon him with sus-
 picion since he came to this city early
 in the winter, and c. M. Luther, an
 Armenian teacher at 86S Chapel street, has in his possession copy of paper
 printed in Athens, Greece, which gives
 full account of Yarpoozhians alleg-
 ed perfidy. Yarpoozhian comes from
 the village of Yarpooz in Armenia, and
 his name means in English Stephen of
 Yarpooz. The. Armenian newspaper
 referred to above is the "Miootune," in
 English the "Union," and the article
 in question is in the issue of January
 20. It is from a correspondent of the
 paper who writes from Alexandria,
 Egypt, and the letter is dated October
 16, 1897.
 The article alleges that Yarpoozhian
 was about to accept the religion of Mo-
 hammed some years ago only, as the
 article says, Ito fill his stomach as a
 beast which is destitute of reasoning"
 The paper states that he was saved
 from this by some kind missionaries
 under whose care he was educated, and in 1892 he was ordained a Protes- tant minister to the people of Yoghoon Olook in Suadia. A rather free trans lation of the remainder of the article in the Armenian paper follows: "So the ignoble family of this unworthy clergyman has prepared three differ ent leaders on three paths to heaven, Stephen himself being Protestant,
 one brother being a Gregorian priest
 and another brother being a Moham-
 medan. Let us, however, overlook the innumerable treacheries of this base creature, perpetrated in his own coun- try, and take up the last blow which he wanted to strike decisively at those innocent Armenians who were enemies to tyranny and whom the Turkish | government was watching closely and on whom even the slightest pretext was sufficient to bring down the heav- fest punishments." The monster men tioned above, recently having in his charge several hundred pounds ster- ling sent by kind-hearted Americans for sufferers, used hardly the smallest portion of that sum for the appointed l purpose. Finally on account of his misconduct he was driven out from | the community of which he was pastor | by the consent of the majority of the l people, and he not considering that the money in his possession was the only hope of hundreds of hungry people, blinded by the greatness of his selfish
 ness, filled his pockets with hundreds of pounds and suddenly left the town, l getting a passport for Beirut from the | governor at Antioch, and embarked on a steamer at Alexandretta. He went | to Cyprus and from there wrote let | ter to fellow conspirators, well known l as such in his native town. The letter l was as follows:
 'To my friend MT. Kuboor at Yam | omola-Within the last few days Sho- | ken (who was wanted by the Turkish | government for the part he had taken
 as leader of the Armenians in a battle | fought between Armenians and Turks | at Tcheok- Marzban) and some other 1 famous revolutionists embarked from | here on a steamer, intending to land l in Suadia and having with them large l quantity of firearms and ammunit: )a. 1 Now, I advise you as a friend that | without any delay you inform the gov- ernment of the matter, so that the nec-
 essary steps may be taken at once to prevent the accomplishment of sheir designs. (Signed)
 | "Pastor Stephen" The letter was received by the con-
 spring friends and they made known
 it's contents to the governor of Anti l och, who notified the Vali of Aleppo, who in turn telegraphed to Constan- | tinople, from where an order was sent 1 to General Ali Bey ordering him to make haste to Suadia to investigate the case and suppress the revolution. This | order was obeyed and Ali Bey known as the Destroyer of Furnooz from the | fact that he had killed a large number l of Armenian women and children at | that place, left for Suadia. After reaching Antioch Ali Bey was warned 1 by the French consul M. Potonie that 1 he must not commit any atrocities in Suadia and convinced the general that
 there was no revolution in that prov
 ince. Not daring after this to do any,
 thing in Suadia, Ali Bey, in order to | satisfy the sultan, went to Alexandret- | ta and Mersona and arrested sixty Ar
 menians. The paper, after making these statements of facts, says that
 the statements are made in order tc
 caution patriotic Armenians in Amer
 ica against Stephen of Yarpooz The
 paper stated that Stephen had come tc
 America, but that it was not known in 1 what American city he was.
 The Armenians in New Haven are all greatly excited over Yarpoozhian's case 1 and C. M. Luther, one of the most | prominent members of the local Arme- | nian colony, said last night that letters | had been received in New Haven from Aremians in Boston, New York and other cities about the country propos- ing that Armenians from various parts of the country congregate at New Ha- ven and apply to the government fo1 | permission to take Yarpoozhian from prison and lynch him, they probably thinking, in their ignorance of Amer ican laws and customs, that this would | NTr. 1T