The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-26
MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY?
QUEER DEATH or a FARM HAND
VINO HAD BEEN ROBBED.
Found Hanging by tho Neck From the Fire
Escape OF n Washington Street Tenement
Police Say That He Committed Suicide.

Pound Hanging by tho Neck From the Fire
Escape of n Warrington Street Tenement
Police Say That He Committed suicide.
The body 81 John GaEsi. a farm hand, who
came here FROM Dclmar, Delaware. on Thursday
with $500 that he had .aved from his wages.
and had intended 10 carry back 10 hts home II
Aus iris. was found early yesterday morning
hanging by Tho neck by his own l'lt from
a sscond-s story Gro escape in tic rear OF
65 Washington street All iha, WAS left
Of his fortune WAS 81 20 in American
money. eight Austrian coins and a steefhgo
ticket on the steamship Maasdam which sailed
for Rotterdam yesterday morning al o'clock
Daniel J. FSour. a stoIekeeper at 63 Washing
ton street. discovered the body and reported the
case to the police oi the Church t.eet station.
Policeman boy Ian md McMapus cut the body
down and then made a search for some one who
he d known the dead man in the sa,oon and sail
ors' iodg ing houses OF. tho neg hborhood. From
NORTH Roseit a ticket seller and money changer
OF GO Greenwich street they learned that Gazsi
had been there on Thursday afternoon and cx-
changed $500 In American mony for lao
ruidcn. and purchased . ticket for oderberg.
G szI loft two bundles OF co hing IN Roseu'scus.
tody, and said that be would return for them on
Friday night From the moaey changers Gaysi
went to a sailors lodging house at 90 Green
and rem ained unt 5 o'clock Friday afternoon
When he left he told the laudlady that he was
going 10 get . shave. and then 60 aboard the
ship
He didn't re, shaved and didn't go 70 tho
AaasdAm. but spent tho evening at wur,en-
berg o sal Don and lodging house al o. Greou-
wich street He was seen there al 10 o dock on
Friday night by JohAn PERTH, one OF the lods-
ers. and that is the last trace the police fCund Of
him.
Tn. yards in the rear OF 90 Greenwich street
low saed between h two houses 10 the root VI
which person uilgnt easily ch b by means OF
on wren the SSdy Of ss
toun IL but SIP. The second hoor OF the
Mashln.n1 street hou,c is no, OCCUPIED
who shuG up shop early On Friday night Anton
ID, oele. Tho blacksmith. was Questioned by tho
se.s e Ss' n" ea ns the WISHING and rsS
wich stree, houses declare that early Saturday
morning they heard shouts q Murder !" and
been murdered for his money in one OF tho
lodging hou.es and that his body was after
the roof o. the shed and hung from tho nre
o' TSpsr, Va. no Gu, or srus. on the eoay end
aThrgulaton was widen Ny the cause OF death.
The police, after inye' ig aung The case. laug he'd
at the mo ey changers theory OF murder and
cries HH Tor S.,p The ,nocc say ,ha, Ga,si VAS
probably ro6ted in the neig hi orhooi and tha /
he then killed himself
John S,an,o a sailor. WAS as, a victim Of
thieves In the snrle n-iRhhorhood on Friday
night. He reported I" the police Of the Church
s,r ei station Yesterday mornug that he had
been robbed ~ soot in = saloon or lodg ing
housr. lie sal no hc had been in several u
The body Of GszIi was shown 10 Stnnko At the
police statio". End he WAS asked II he could
identify IL Th~ 50 Tor said that he hal seen
Gnz,i somew here the night before. but couldn't
remember wh"re