New-York tribune., 1903-05-24
HEAD NEARLY SEVERED,
SLAUGHTERED
Mann Points IN Case Recall Barrel
Murder.

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An unusually iendish and mysterious murder, re-
sembling in many ways the barrel murder, was dis
covered yesterday the top floor Of well kept
tenement house a No. 23S East Thirtieth-st- A
small boy named George Kelly entered the apart
rrents from the fire escape to shut off the faucet
which causing water TO leak through the cell
ing into the apartments on the ground floor The
lad who was sent through the window by the land
lord of the premises. Gerried z. Moore, stumbled
over the body Of the occupant, CARRIED ". Ken
tooni & Turkish Armenian from Kharput lying
the floor Of the main room near the front door
which bolted-
Policeman James T. Mooney. of the East Thirty
hfth-st- station, was called, and he summoned Dr..
Moore from Bellevue Hospital The latter said
that the man. who had been almost decapitated by
knife slash across the throat and had many stab
wounds on the chest and body and a cut the
back of the neck and head. had been dead at least
eight or nine hours He said il was clearly a case
Of murder. because the terrible cash across the
throat. which penetrated back TO- the spinal col
umn, severed the jugular vein. and there were
three deep stabs the heart. Those were all
fatal wounds. the surgeon said and could not pos
sibly have been self-inficted
When Captain Shire arrived with g troop Of
ward detectives and found that the door had
been found bolted the inside, he decided that
Kentooni had committed suicide. The fire escape
by which the Kelly boy had entered could have
been used by the assassin in making his escape
in the darkness Of the night. Two broken chairs
mute evidence OF q struggle as well as Ine
blood spattered IN all directions about the apart
rnent. A trunk was opened and had been searched,
as the tray with papers in It lying the
foor with three blood stained knives which had
been used in the butchery of the Armenian
Later on, after Coroner SchoIer had examined
the body and declared that foul murder had been
committed, Captain Shire reluctantly abandoned
his theory, and requested Inspector McClusky TO
aid him in the hunt for the assassin. Detective
Sergeant McCafferty assigned to cooperate
with the precinct authorities.
FORMERLY HAD a COMPANION.
Kentoonl had resided for nearly two years in the
house where he his death. Across the hall
lived Italian known as ?. Dnorenzo- He is
described being q shoemaker. who also lived
alone. The same fire escape connects the apart
ments OF the two men or the court side Of the
building
The landlord. who knew The murdered man sim
ply as the Amman told the police that nat Ken Ken
always pleading poverty, although ne WAS steady
menian had occupied the rooms h had as a com
panion fellow countryman who made candy in
they separate \reither man nor woman was ever
also that he knew little nothing about the
italian shoemaker VINO always kept 10 IN; nlhlseIl, @
IN the evening. Where Diorenzo worked Mr.. Moore
could not say but he understood mat FNei3{oonl
"dS - Feie5rt7re reTT1eno farej see
9g he Armenian bout The piace since Thursday
and the movements o. Liiorenzo had not been
when at last the police. decided that murder had
been done they ascertained that there We're
and that they frequented restaurants kept by their
3a is5 and q 159 East TWenty-sat enlist Word
that Armenian had been killed was carried e 10
The Slain man that Of F,entooni, He said that
nhfed 10 he saving sort Of fellow. AIr Tektek,
another restaurant proprietor, said he Knew me
his place on Wednesday evening. he thought i, II
M EaS
Cause s5ls.' u he Si'1 was as regular boarder
HAD BEEN ATTACKED N BED
The search of the room disclosed that Keutooni
had apparently been in bed when he was nrst al
-acbed The assassin may have come through the
window. Then followed the combat IN which the
man was brutally slaughtered. In the killing a
carving knife, ordinary table knife and three
hls ded nocket knife used There are distinct
u,o,,ds made by each OF three weapons on the
corpse The carving knife was certainly used to
cut KentonnI's throat from to ear Il vas
CHASTITY cut and was similar Jar 10 ] ne olg pie 0
Kentooni IT learned later at the uIne o. nI
death was employed in GarVlns s Tnachlhe 1d0'o''
m +e in the afternoon IN the presence Of Coroner
1bvejcisn perforrned an autopsy on the poqy, on
h s no. the slightest doubt the had been
murdered Dr Schultz found no less 81 ahan ck down
0ts 0nsrlv to the abdomen In addition, the 5agul gI
" tbs bea5 An examination of the wounds showed
mat # was alcost impossible they coqia 20 nav siht
I f~ 49,
direction wh reas. If they had been rii
@ororer SchoIer pointed out they would
- sjaT-fnc wounds. The Jugular was com
extending almost from ear 70 60
ITr,- fbe presence Of the abrasion al tle Do -
oIh h,E io-one- ScholeT formed the theory tildt
II ~ .oori i-ed f-st beer struck-perhaps hH ~
- +bat was found broken in the ioonla44i;u L I,.
tactyyyarT becoming wholly or pa Ile-Is
norscioIs and that then the stab wouhdS "eie "a
sicted. - ,,a-. --a many 7oirts Of
- u n this murder To the EuFGrt o. 80
seIIiJi1i I-ou-, as The barrel mystery sald t'ie
"KEhether or not II was ne W ~
49, er~fery do not know. but II Is posi- r
I5iio-1-nzo. the shoemaker Vlt, hN'S- ct
-,,r4 0oor in the rooms on the oppos4't ~ s5
" v,nc rh+ dad man i} CO. -
--=t night after having been al N"-I .i - I -
- Lis h-nfher Napoleon. Nnen fle ~. 80
w - -orrer4tirg the supposed murdti nc 9aI
W "a rcf known tfls dead maj! except ~
ii usual ruoT--inG gree net
49,. ~, cch5Ier said n" ana Ms "i''i''i "
yt--,+.,1nt or the stairs going 20 worn .,-, <.
Friday, f}iio-cnzr s''io. ne - i,.
- la hearing eome one MAINS ms - ,be
eiltL = ossr--tr.g a., and down on The moor ~
we're Jun -ptL.!7 ~ Leufoani Dorenzo SAID inad
- |Hoise soon stopped and he "elil I9 80 "a, -l,a
m m Natgaleo. also was 4F1aAtl-s -
fllS Eriaav ruorrire the uf"tl-TH d.l rI-,, al
an he stairs when to'a fr',i.
A,ict They thought ii sJTailst, - H. ,a+,,r-,ed
80. - $50 thought IL pecullaf W - - fo
Fa-e that .tgnt and noticed 1'e
hght Ia ~ said that ne ioIo tiir
me 80 -fr.ir but did not SioF tY 80 .i,f2sT-s
aooLL T,floreuzo said ttat Stityoti' - 5afftS
fnTthtf-a - ba = man ~ regular an 80 ,,a-tbS
aRpealtg1 - visitors eXcspt afo1t li.l tif+ea,,
arc NJ n s-0ung girl about fo1TtffL o1 - ne - I1~
ago "htH -Ied an him pilore1iso "a" i'7' ''''