The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-27

? queer man. There was no reason why
ne should 90 70 the Morgue 20 look at the
trunS u .ks murdered man, he said.
While this was going on deteUtiV es wc-
gossip OF the neighbors. In the talk they
PGot some suggestions. The police some
times refer to the tenement as the House
OF Fights" because they are Of nightly
occurrence. One neighbor doesn't mix
IN the oub OF another, But It was diff
been good TO their mother and then the
women explained what they meant by this.
About six months ago the Armenians
went to the house TO live. Their mother
was with them then. About three months
ago she was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
said, and the boys let her be buried in
potter's field. That wasn't right, the
neighbors said, because they knew that the
boys had money-money that they thought
had been saved by the mother. The boys
still had the money. for sundry people
who lived across the hall from the Ar
menians, knew 1t because she was in the
house when the mother died looking after
things for the boys and she saw the bank
book.
Then Mrs. Rogers began to talk. She
wasn't a squealer, not she, because she
knew IL meant the House OF Detention;
but another woman had blabbed and she
wasn't going to keep quiet. There were
loud words in the Armenians' rooms late
on Saturday night, but she didn't pay
much attention to that, for it's something
that happens In the house every night.
But then things became quiet and she
heard sounds like a man gurgling.
About 3 O'Clock in the morning s,me-
body left the Armenians' rooms and ira nped
down the stairs. 1t was the prisoner, she
said. because she saw him through the
open door,. He carried a big bundle and
soon came back. Then be went out again
with another bundle. She didn't know
anything about his coming back.
The detectives also heard that Mrs.
Rogers had told somebody that she had
looked over the ransom into the Amenians'
rooms and saw things that she didn't like
to speak about,
explained; Il didn't intend to tell anybody,
but Mrs, McGrath, who lives downstairs,
told somebody
While the women were talking, the Ar
menian, stripped to the waist, with his little
brother stretched out on a couch nearby
was parrying the questions Of the detectives.
Every time they mentioned murder, he
said, Murder, no, no, no murder.
They went through everything in the
house. In a trunk which they broke open
the detectives found some red burlap.
The detectives said that Il was exactly OF
the same texture as the piece in which
the torso of the dead man had been wrapped.
There was also some cloth similar TO cloth
that was around the body. All his stun
was damp, as though II had been washed.
In another corner Of the room was a
big bag. When the detectives opened it
they found what they thought were blood
stains. II was a long bag and there were
imp ressions, which the Detectives said
were about the length Of the legs which
were cut OF h body and left in railroad
cars a few blocks away.
In the house the detectives found a pass
book on the New York Savings Bank at
Fourteenth street and Eighth avenue made
out to Marhar Markarian. II showed
that there was 1913 on deposit The pris-
oner said that Mahar Mark arian was his
brothers name.
m his own pocket was a handbook of
the Franklin Savings Bank at FOrty-second
street and Eighth avenue, showing that
$3.50 had been deposited. n Doo was
made out to Adam Vennies: That was
his name, he said. The three names. he
insisted, Jashjian, the one he gave at the
station house, Markarian and Vennies,
all meant the same thing in Turkish, Greek
and Armenian.
He said thai he was an Armenian, born in
Turkey. He gave little information about
his brother except 20 say that he was a
brass Dolisher employed by a firm at 12eth
street and Park avenue. he SAID that ne
was himself a wood polisher working Tor
Idens a Co. at Fourteenth street and UNI
versity place. The prisoner was told to
put on his clothes again, and he was rushed,
surrounded by a dozen cops. down the
halls and into the patrol wagon.
Over 5000 persons were IN the street
and thew followed to the station house.
The news had spread through the neigh
borhood and the street in front OF the build
ing was already blocked. The crowd from
Eleventh avenue simply Overlooked It.
Men and women crowded the fire escapes
70 get a look at the prisoner. n IRE escape
fell and several persons we're hurt, one OF
them a woman, dying later in the hospital.
The Armenian wasn't disturbed a bit by
the crowd and its mutGS-:n2s, he was
only kept at the station house a short time
and then taken to Police headquarters.
But while he was at the station house he
saw his little brother, Mrs. Rogers and
Mrs. McGrath brought in to be detained
az witnesses. The boy was put in charge
of the matron, Mrs. Ada Murray. He
hadn't been I alking to her a minute when
he bluTted out:
Il saw nv brother tie up my brothers
in paper and a k IL out. That was
early in the morning
on his way to Police Headquarters the
prisoner talked very little. He said that
his brother was very religious and that he
supposed that he had gone 70 Armenia to
entar a monastery. When he was asked
why he hadn't rome TO the Morgue to look
the trunk Of the body found he said he
didn't think il was worth while, as II COULDN'T
be Identified without Ane neAu. ne sdlu
his brother didn't think anything about
money, althoug Oh he told the police earlier
that when he saw him on Thursday be
l2OO. The prisoner when arrested last
niehtshad Slze in cash in his pockets.
The theory Of the police is that there was
A QuarreI between the two brothers over
They said that they had some
Information 10 show that the pair often
uuarrelled. There was no mattress on the
bed in the Armenians' rooms. The day
after the murder the police were told
a mattress being burned in Thirty
street near Eleventh avenue The
police are inclined to think that the man
was murdered, was struck over the head
in bed and that his body was dragged
the kitchen, where IL was cut up and then
taken away. They are quite sure they
have the murderer.
George Capenake and George Drandakex,
The two Greeks Of 1S0 Eighth avenue ar
on Monday night on suspicion be-
they had quarrelled with one Jack
Mano, who some people thought was the
murdered man, were released yesterday. (
Mano has been heard from.
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