The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-15
KILLED ANDPACKEDM BARREL
TBYRTEEN WOUNDS IN THROA1
or THE MURDERED NAN.

| Police Relieye-Nothing on the BOdy
| Partly Burned Note written by .
woman In the Refuse in the barrel.
the body Of a man who had been stabbed
| 10 death, apparently by more than one per-
son. was found early yesterday morning
between two piles OF lumber on East
Eleventh. street, just west Of Avenue d.
| The mans head was almost entirely
severed from his body. and he had been
dead less than two hours when found
On the sides Of his neck were the marks
OF eleven stab wounds. none Of which was
was deep enough to be fatal, and In tho
centre Of the throat two frightful plunges
Of knife had been made, the first OF which
undoubtedly caused death.
| VICTIM A GREEK, PoLIrE THINK
| The dead man was foreigner. an Italian
or Greek, the police said at first Later
they suggested that he might have been 4
| Syrian or an Armenian. That he was Greek
was the theory the police chung to most
tenaciously.
He was unused 20 manual labor, for his
hands were well shaped. soft and smooth
His clothing was of good quality and he
appeared to be a man in the habit of taking
| good care OF himself.
About his clothing were a number OF
things by which he might easily be identified
but up 10 late hour last night, although
the police had shown the body TO several
hundred persons, no one han been found
who had ever seen him before.
In the absence Of any Identification the
police last night confessed themselves
| powerless to make any Roadway In the
| mystery OF the mans oeath. That he was
murdered is plain. and there Is plenty OF
evidence that the murder was the result
Of carefully laid plot.
PERHAPS A SECRET SOCIETY CRIME.
The police are inclined to think that some
secret society brought about the mans
death and made the murder as revolving
az possible as a warning to others that
its rules must not be transgressed.
The spot where the body OF the man was
found In on the outskirts Of one Of the most
thickly populated Italian quarters In the
city. Eleventh street and Avenue d Ia in
the heart Of the gashouse district. but just
a block to the west are number Of Italian
saloons, and from that point to Second
avenue Italians are almost the only occu-
pants Of the tenement houses and stores
some Greeks and Syrians are scattered
among the Italians. but the latter are In
the large ma jority.
Just west OF Avenue D, on the north
side Of Eleventh street. Ia the factory Of
the New York Mallet and Handle Works.
1t Is long low building. and in front Of It
arc two plas Of pine plsnks about fifteen
feet high. They are just back Of the side
walk. and between the two piles Is space
about three feet wide, in which the muir
deres placed the barrel containing the
body OF their victim.
BARREL USED TO cARRY THE BopY.
Here the barrel was first seen. at $50
o'clock yesterday morning. by Mn. Frances
Connors Of 100 Avenue D. Miss Minnie
Osterman. who lives in Eleventh street
near First avenue, thinks that she saw tho
barrel at $50 clock, when she passed tho
corner.
The police think that she il mistaken, a
on patrol yesterday morning, passed the
two piles Of lumber at Sis O'Clock, and
looked between them to see IL any sramps
were sleeping there. He Is very sure that
there was no barrel there at that time.
LII ITO uIUccu Lulnutcb OctWcou LILO JkIuo
Sergt. Bauer left the corner and Mrs. Con-
nors passed and found the barrel, the body
Of the man was put where the woman found
IL. II is believed that when Sergt. Bauer
was podng around In the lumber for tramps,
the murderers. with their burden wcre
close to him waiting for him to get away
20 that they could rid themselves Of thsir
victims body. 1t Is likely that they wsrs
~ L. IA
discovered the presence Of Q police on3osr
and decided to get rid Of the body at onos.
DISCOVERED BIZ A WOMAN.
Mr.. Connors left her home early y1sesr-
day morning in order to buy some grocsrisa
before going to her employment. In pass-
ing the mallet factory she noticed ths
barrel, over the top Of which an overcoat
Of rough brown material had been thrown
She decided that the coat was good enough
10 make scrubbing cloths Of. WALKED up
TO the barrel and pulled the coat Oh Of ths
The face Of . man. covered with blood,
the eyes wide open. stared up at her from
the edge came the heavily shod feet.
Mrs. Connors dropped the coat and let
out a series Of piercing shrieks that brought
Joseph Mccall, a private watohnan In The
neighborhood. to the scene. Close behind
the Union Market station and Ssrgt.
Bauer. whose patrol had not carried him
far away.
QUICK YLI0HT OF THE MURDERKRs
As soon as Bauer and Winters learned
the cause OF Mrs. Connors's excitement they
ran across the street to the barrel and
looked in. II was obvious to them at once
that they had a murder on their hands.
and Sergt. Bauer realized that the muir
derers must still be within short distance.