The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-29
Victims Comrades, Found at Duluth,
Glue Facts Which Let Light In on
the Shocking Slaughter
in Minneapolis.
7wo Men Believed to Haze Been the
Murderers Were Held at St. Paul
but Released Before Tragedy
Was Discovered. =

arose and fought bare handed the best
they could and were cut down like SO
many weeds. A handax in the room.
evidently used for splitting kindling, is
known to have killed one man. This
man, however, may have been one of
the murderers, as a knife was laying
by his side. It is thought that he at
tackled one Of the sleeping men with
his knife, that the other arose and
felled him with the ak that was close
That night attack was made when
at least some Of the victims were sleep
ing is an established fact, for the two
men found in the basement, thought to
be father and son, were clad only in
part. The other men were fully clad,
but it was the habit of these people to
sleep with their clothes on.
Two Had Much Money.
Superintendent Doyle is satisfied that
the "father and SON. were the first
and especial victims of the murderers.
Their names appear on nearly every pa
per found in the house, while they had
checks on different banks showing that
they had large amounts of money. From
certificates found among the papers it
is thought that the father and son had
more than ST 900, but much Of it was in
Chicago bank, and in the bank at Sa-
lem, N. D., where they formerly worked.
Several more names, undoubtedly
those of the occupants Of the house.
We're unraveled from the papers by Rev.
D: johnson, Of the Greek church, and
Attorney George B. Leonard this morn
Ing. The new names were 1ovan Kar-
Left, Iovan Sprov and Lazarj Vosolov.
karietf, it is known, was at one time a
teacher in a school in Macedonia. A
little note in the front of one of his
and was well versed in Greek, Macedo-
MAN and the Bulgarian dialects.
The men evidently were not all of
the same nationality, for. the letters
were written in these different Ian
guages and one of them was in Rus
sian. All the men were apparently well
read, for they. wrote good hands and
the translators. The letters, however,
were written to friends in the old coun-
try, simply saying that the writer's were
in good health and making money.
They had no bearing on the mystery.
A Search in Chicago.
Two detectives may be sent to Chi
cago tonight to look for the murderers
who may be there. Among the letters
anu papers 1Ouuu ny Cne police were
addresses of the gang before they. were
shipped to the northwest from Chicago.
The nlurderers may have taken train
for Chicago Immediately after their
crime. and the police hope to find them
there. 49,.
There are also several addresses in
Duluth and West Superior that may
bring good results. The names of Tom
Tomani, 521 West Superior street, Du-
luth, and Of Mike Vokadanos, 1919
Raleigh street, are being looked up.
| These are friends of members of the
gang and can undoubtedly tell some
thing Of value in the investigation.
| The police are still hampered by
| the peculiar habits of the occupants
| of the house. Sometimes more than a
dozen were there and at others one or
! two men would be living in the house
| alone. They always paid cash for
everything and never give their names.
| Of all the merchants they dealt with
along Washington avenue 8 not one
knows single name.
! Every day for more than two weeks
small Macedonian boy would go 10
| Wollender's bakery at Seventh ave-
rue s and Washington and buy dozen
| loaves Of bread. Monday and Tues
day the boy did not appear.
| There is little hope of catching the
men in the city now. Every police Of
| fcer has been on the lookout and not
clue has been turned up. The only
place they can 60 and avoid detection
even for a time is to the home of
/ friends in another city, and here the
police expect to find them.
|