The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-25

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The police took up the theory yesterday
that Jack Mano, the Syrian who recently
dropped out Of sight OF some of his friends
in this city, vas tho man parts OF whose
dismembered body were found or Sunday
in the vicinity OF Thirty-sixth street and
Eleventh avenue. On this theory the
sleuths Of the West Thirty-seventh street
station house arrested last night two Greek
conEectioners and held them on suspicion.
The arrests were made in spite OF the
fact thai earlier in the day a friend OF Mano
had called nj foiSos headquarters and told
Inspector Walsh hat Mano was alive and
we'll at the present time, but that for fear
OF prosecution on a charge OF fraud he did
not wish 10 divulge his present address.
The arrest Of the two Creeks was based
on the reports Of trouble between Mano and
them. He had sold out a candy store at
$50 Eighth avenue to them, n they COM
plain that he made Misrepresentation.
The Greeks described themselves at the
station house as George C~spenake, % years
old, and John Drandakes, 70 years old.
They both said that they lived In the candy
store, which until recently was theirs, at
$50 Eighth avenue.
The police base their suspicion against
these two men ON the bit Of gossip that was
brought to them by E. B. Goddard Of ass
West T~wenty-1rst street. Goddard went
to the Thirty-seventh street station house
Yesterday afternoon and told Detective
McIvor that he believed he could identity
the grain sack in which the trunk Of the
murdered man had been found in h pit
at Thisty- sixth street and Eleventh avenue
early Sunday morning. He also asserted
that he had overheard a certain Greek res
taurant keeper by the name Of Demos say
that he would be willing to give the two
confectioners, Capenake and Drandakes,
all the money they wanted to run down and
punish in their own way Jack Mano, who
had defrauded them in the sale Of the candy
store.
Goddard said that until very recently
he had been the manager OF Zachiel X.
Mano's store at 81 Washington street, that
he knew Jack Mano, the son Of the de-
ceased grain dealer very well and also was
aware Of the bargain young Mano had
made with the two Greeks, whereby he
sold them the candy store, concealIng the
fact that there was a mortgage on it. God
dard was taken to the morgue, where he
identified the sack as being one from Mano's
shop. This had been abundantly done
already. Mano's name was on it. He
could not tell by the hieroglyphics on IL to
whom it had been sold.
Then he was taken in hand by Assistant
District Attorney Cardozo. To him God
dard told the story OF the transfer Of the
title to the candy store. He repeated the
statement that Demos, the restaurant
keeper, whose shop is at Old Slip, had old
him he would see 10 il that the aggrieved
candy man got" Jack Mano either in the
courts or in their own way This threat
bad been made to him by Demos, Goddard
said, very recently.
Goddard was then taken to view the
Of the body, to which collection
had been added the two thighs OF the muir
dered man, found by Joseph Flynn in an
empty coal car at ~Thirty-eighth street and
Eleventh avenue early in the morning.
Goddard said he believed the mutilated
BODY was that Of Jack Mano, though with
/. out the presence of the head, which had not
vet been found, he could not be sure.
Mano had the habit of biting his nails
close Goddard said. The finger nails OF
the dead man showed evidences OF this
habit. The fact tina Mano wore square
the lead man was he, for the toes OF the
dead man are unnaturally cramped to-
gether. >,
After Goddard had told all be could,
Detective McIvor went TO the candy store on
Eighth avenue and arrested the two Greeks.
Capenake and Brandakes when !ques-
toned at the station house declared that
they had not seen Mano for over a month.
They said that they had been ~detrauded
out OF $500 by him, and that they had en-
deavored to get legal redress, but that
Mano had disappeared. They denied that
they had ever asked Demos to help them
get" Mano, or that Demos had ever volun-
teered 10 assist them in getting revenge on
the man for the deceit he had practised
upon them.
The Greeks answered all the detectives
questions readily. They said that they
lived in their store, sleeping on the ables
This the police were at first ready to doubt,
but investigation disclosed the fact that
they had bedding in their store, and A. Z.
Katekis, the man who bought their place
at auction a week ago, e~ubstantiated their
story. He is letting them stay in the place
a short time to sell out some stock that they
bought themselves.
TScl,Sh tkarc was no more evidence than
the reported threat Of Demos to help the
Greeks get revenge on Mano, the police
decided that they should be held as sus-
picious persons. This was the only arrest
they a v had a chance to make in the
case.
Demos denied last night that he had ever
made the statement credited to him by
Goddard. He said that when the Greeks
found that Mano had sold them property
with an encumbrance o 1t he went in their
behalf to an Armenian, Harpoutlian by
name, a relative, who was helping Mrs.
z. X. Mano to manage her dead husbands
estate. Demos urged Harpoutlian to AVE
Jack Manos settle the mortgage which under
the name Of Zakinan he had placed on the
store before selling IL, and thus save the
Greeks from ruin. As the holder Of the
mortgage was on the point Of bringing
foreclosure proceedings, Harpoutlian told
him, Demos says. that he did not kno
where Mano was and that he was powerless
to prevent the foreclosure.
The foreclosure was brought two weeks
ago and an auction was held on September
IS, when Katekis bought the place. Kate
kis, who is a Greek too, accounted for the
continued presence Of the two original
OWNERS in the store last night by say ing
that they were penniless, hat they had
Alittle stock in the store and hat he allowed
them to run it until their stock Of sweets
had been sold.
The police went down TO the place last
night and thoroughly ransacked it. They
found nothing hat would serve to sub
stantiate their suspicion against Capenake
and Drandakes.
Harpoutlian, the uncle Of Mano, told q
reporter yesterday afternoon that he was
in a position to know that his n ephew was