New-York tribune., 1906-09-25
TWO ARRESTS MADE.
Greeks Held an Connection zcith
Uest Side Murder Case.

The police, by arresting two Greeks last night
took their first real step toward the solution of the
mystery surrounding the dismembered body found
scattered through the West Side Sunday.
Both were taken to the West 37th street station
as suspicious persons. The men, both about twenty
three years Old. and living No. 139 Eighth ave-
nue. John Randakex and George Capenake-
Who the murdered is the police still do not
know. They have found out in two in
stances, however who he is not Louis Ottone. a
man reported missing from Jersey City. was
thought TO be the victim, but he was found last
night in the North Hudson Hospital at Union Hill
r Harpootlian. u cousin Of the Syrian importer
the late Z. h Mano. whose was in Arabic on
the burap bag wrapped around the torso Of the
murdered man. thought that the murdered man
might be Mano's brother Jack. He visited Assist
ant District Attorney Cardozo and then went to
the morgue the body. II lacked a tattoo
mark Jack Manos wrist
One opinion held by the police is that the mur-
derer a butcher the body having been dis
menlbered IN identically the same way that steer
or a sheep is cut. They also believe that the VIC
tim was butcher. His thumb nail is turned in. as
Is usual among butchers, who constantly hold
knife in their hands The unusual cleanliness OF
the body, the in the slaughter houses having
10 bathe daily. also supports this theory.
No crime has been quite CHASTITY this one
set the police so heplessly at naught since
the GuIdensuppe and the Pulitzer murders. Will
lam Guldensuppe vas killed by Martin Thorn
July %. 1897 at the insugation of Mrs. Mack.
The murder was committed in lonely cottage at
Woodside, Long Island, and the body dsmen
bered- The head was not found for some time
after the finding of the rest OF the body Thorn
was sent TO the electric chair and Mrs. Mack
teaced 10 fifteen years Imprisonment
Mrs Anna Pulitzer murdered and her body
dismembered and packed in a trunk in her fat in
West 18th street by William Hooper Young Sep
teulber Il. 1902. Young was caught. but his plea
Of insanity allowed him to escape the electric chair.
similar crime was the barrel mystery" when
on April a, 1908, the body OF Benedetto Manianno
was found packed in a barrel, the head nearly
cred and eighteen stab wounds in the body The
Secret Service turned over to the local police the
members of a counterfeitng gang. of whose guilt
there little doubt but the police failed to get
a single conviction. The murderers in the other
cases were caught through persons outside the Po-
lice Department.
Another parallel the murder and dis
memberment of Miss Susan Geary in Boston in
September of last year Parts of her body
found at various times in Boston Harbor
Harry Vodenberg. night watchman employed
DAY that just before midnight saturday he saw
five men pursue another through 9Sth street and
place for pushcarts He says they kicked and beat
nm I Inc man finally got away but was still fol
The other thigh of the murdered man was found
missing except The head! An empioye Of a coal
company found the thigh in an empty coal car in
cars along Eleventh avenue. and orders were given
oN inspector Mclaughlin to have the North River
dragged thereaboutS. While searching the exCava-
ton where the first parts of the body dscov-
cred on Sunday the police found knife about nine
inches long, on which stains that may have
been made by blood. The Health Department will
make a chemical analysis of the stains 1t was
"A butchers dressing knife. which further supports
the police theory Of the occupation of the murderer
RandakeN and Capenake were arrested following
lnfoTmatlo given 10 the police by James Goddard,
who had been manager of the Eighth avenue candy
store kept by Z. X Mano before his death.
Where the Oilcloth table covers in which part Of
the body was wrapped were purchased Detective
McIvor went 70 a small general store kept by Mrs
Adolf Breidi Al No 40 Tenth avenue. She told the
police that about two weeks she sold an Italian
three ollcloth table covers. two of which
Illustrations depicting the landing OF Columbus
while on the third was q picture of the Brooklyn
Bridge. Whether not Of those which she
sold IL the one which found wrapped about the
torso Of the body Will not he known until to-day,
when she VIII go to the corners office
The detectives. after searching the store. found
nothing InCrminating they reported. Although
the prisoners trunks in the cellar We're opened,
there nothing Of importance found. No bed
ding of any kind found.
The prisoners told Assistant District ATTORNEY
CaTdOZa and Inspector Walsh the story which
they did to the detectives. They asserted that they
tricked by Jack Mano and that they hSd not
seen him in some time INSPECTOR Walsh said that
he had learned from Detective Sergeant Dunn. of
Police Headquarters that Jack ManO alive
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