The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-14
A BARGE OFFICE ENQUIRY.
Alleged Murder of aa Immigrant to
Be Investigated.

NEW YORK, Nov. i4.--{fEan lmnligFa-
| ton Commissioner Fitehie arrived at the
Barge Office this morning he started his
whole force at work to clear up the mys-
terry of the alleged murder Of an imml-
grant.
The stories published today concerning
the Barge Once mystery allege that an
/ aged Italian immigrant disappeared ahcut
four months ago and that Treasury De-
partment inspectors had discovered body
past Identification concesied in the Barge
Office
While the stories were ridiculed and
denied. they have caused considerable IN
easiness among the officials of the Emmi-
grafton Office, and the Investigation re-
ferred TO has been insugurated-
The man who disappeared " Mr.. Fitchie
said this morning was Isadore Termini
seyenty-two years old. He suffered from
senility and was held for a special board
of enquiry. He Was sent 30 Ellis Island
and disappeared His sor IN Buffalo en-
quired about him but ~ could get no
trace of him That is all We know about
it."
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor, who has genera. charge of the ad-
ministration of the immigration Offices OF
the country, said this morning that he
knew nothing of the story published in q
New York paper this morning represent
ing that a mans dead body had been
found in the New York Barge Once b. in
spectors of the Treasury Department No
inspectors. he said, had been detailed on
any such duty. He remembered the dis
appearance Of the Italian immigrant Ter
mini, several months ago, bar the depart
ment was no longer concerned with that
matter Mr.. Taylor said that if such
grewsome discovery as the one described
had been made in the Barge Office he
would certainly have been Informed OF il.
Commissioner of Imnigrs tioIa PowdeTly
also said he had received no information
regarding the finding OF body in the
Barge Office. That story is a fake, ne
declared.
While the officials are Teticent and in
clined TO call it q fake there appears
10 be some foundation. for the story OF
body being found in New York in Sep
tember which offieialS determined was
slat OF Isadore Termini, an old Italian.
whose son lives in Buffalo
Isadore Termipi came ever trom Italy
last May and disappeared from The Barge
Office. His soG al Buffalo expected him
and when he disappeared threatened to in
Stitute proceedings against the Government
Henderson G Co.. shipping agents al New
York, asked the Commissioner OF Immigra-
tion at Buffalo, to send them 215 for the
old mans expenses and ticket TO Buffalo.
which his son furnished. When the father
failed to arrive IN Buffalo the son demand
Cd his S15 back and Henderson & Co. claim
ed they had never received is. Tie COM
missioner at Buffalo. however, had docu-
ments to prove he had sent IL 70 them
IssdCre Terminus case vas Looked into by
the Treasury Department and no trace OF
him could be found although there was
record az the Barge Office Showing be had
arrived there The foundation for the
story II a New York morning paper of the
finding Of body in the Barge Office IS evil
IDENTIFY upon report from New York that
body washed ap on the Jersey shore in
September ard taken 10 the uoFgue was
Identified by Treasury inspectors as that
OF the old Italian. The mysterS ia the
case is th2t II this was So why the son al
Buffalo was not informed OF the fact The
case is being looked into by officials who
Hev II in, he