Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-03-30
TRULY TERRIBLE.
AFFAIR al Minneapolis Was Of Most
Shocking Character.

AFFAIR at Minneapolis Was OF Most
Shocking Character.
Minneapolis. March 2s.-The killing
Of six Eulagrians in fight at st5
Tenth avenue. south. was a most san
culinary affair. The building 10 "A IN.
tie. tumble-down shack. -Four OF the
bodies were found In a sleeping room
on the second floor. cut and slashed
In a most horrible manner. while In
the cellar were two others with their
threats cut from ear to ear. Near the
bodies were found Ave large bowie
knives and a blood-stained hatchst.
The dead are: Nicolo Dimitri. lsgie
Dimitri. Asne Karofil. Kerstan I'd ko.
Unka Naudaba and Baakon Kapd pni.
The Dimitris were evidently father and
son. All OF the men were compare
lively young and smooth shaven. their
Identity being established by letter.
found on their persons.
The only clew possessed by the
police which may lead 10 a solution
OF the crime was obtained from a dray.
man named Micklenberg. He says
that he was approached. Monday az
ternoon last. by some men whom no
took 20 be Italians or Greeks. who
wanted him TO take six packages from
the house where the bodies were
found 10 the Union station. On arriv.
ing at the house he found there
were twelve packages. and after some
haggling about the puce. he took them
TO the station. A young man aged
about twenty years rode on the wagon
with him. The other men walked.
The man who rode on the wagon said
the party was going TO Duluth. Al
the station he noticed that the men
from the house were Joined by sew
eral other men. woman and n little
girl.
From this story the police adduce
that the murders were committed
some time between midnight Sunday
and Monday morning. This suspicion
Is strengthened by the statement OF
S. Magnuson. owner OF the house
where the murders occurred.
At about 10 o'clock Wednesday he
asked the police 10 search the house.
] lie said that an aged German who oc-
cupied the lower floor OF the house
could not be found. lie II was who
notified Magnuson that a fight had
taken place In the rooms over the ones
occupied by the German Sunday night.
/ The German said he heard scuffling
in the rear OF the house. but thought
nothing OF II until Wednesday. when
he observed that the tenants above
him were not moving about as usual.
After notifying Magnuson. the German
disappeared and has not been located
up TO a late hour. Magnuson at once
called up Patrolman Peterson. who
broke open the doors and made the
horrifying discovery.
Magnuson told the police that about
four months ago well dressed Italian
rented the upper floor OF the house
and paid four months rent in advance.
The Italian told him he was foreman
OF a railroad construction gang ard
that none Of the hotels would keep the
men. The next day twelve men moved
their few belongings 10 the house.
They went TO work each day and re-
turned In the evening. They never
drank and made little noise and those
about the place paid little attention
10 them. Magnuson never inquired
their names and merely entered them
on the books as tenants for whom four
months rent had been paid In adj
vance. The men lived. slept and ate
their meals In the little rooms on the
second floor. The foreman" was
never seen again.
The police are inclined To believe
that the men found in the cellar were
murdered for their money and that a
free-for.all fight followed over the d.
vision OF the spoils, resulting In the
four other deaths. This Is indicated
by the wounds on the bodies found In
the upper room Their faces were
slashed almost beyond recognition.
and there were wounds all over the
bodies. all however having deep cuts
I'm the throat. One man had fallen
against hot stove and the right side
OF his face vas burned past all recog'
milton. Beside this man lay the bloody
Ratchet.
The fight for money theory is borne
out by the finding near the bodies OF
one or more money belts in which
was $50 In United States currency
and gold. on one body was found a
watch which was still going. Some OF
the bodies had been stripped evidently
for robbery
At the morgue the drayman identi-
fed one OF the dead men as the one
who haG met him at the house on
the afternoon he had called 10 haul
away baggage
Inquiry at the baggage room shows
that the party checked most OF their
luggage 20 Duluth.