The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-26
POLICE HOLD MEN
FOR AWFUL
MURDER
DISM MEMBERED BODY OF SLAIN
GREEK WAS WRAPPED I'M
ONE OF HIS SACKS.
HEAD is STILL MISSING
countrymen Suspected OF Staying Nut
importer to Get Even For Quarrel
Hated Him For Other
Reasons.


New York, Sept 25,--Police In
spector Walsh, in charge of the mur
der mystery in what is known as the
"Slaughter-house dihtrict," tonight
ordered the arrest of George Capen
AXE and John Drandake, Greek fruit
dealers They were taken into Gus
tody in No, 1873 Eighth avenue, in a
store which was formerly owned by
John Mano who has Deen missing for
several weeks.
The arrests followed the partial
Identification Of headless body in
the morgue as that of John Mano.
Evidence, it is alleged, has been OBJ
tanned that these two men claim to
have been swindled by Mano and
have made threats verbally and in
writing to take his life.
u, Y. Goddard, formerly manager
lfor z. X. Mano, the importer who At
I f,he time Of his death had a store in
the Syrian quarters, No G7 Washing.
on street, and whose name as the
manufacturer Of pearl wheat appears
upon the bag in which the torso Of the
headless victim was hidden, visited
the morgue this afternoon and said
hat the body rehembled in every way
that of Mano.
Implicated the Greeks.
Goddard told the police of the trans,
action in which the two Greek prison
ers and Mano figured, and which the
police accept as possible motive
for the killing Of Mano.
Goddard said that several weeks
ago Mano sold the fruit store at 13S
Eighth avenue, to Capenake & brand
axe for $3.50 cash and took a chatttel
mortgage of $3.50 in part payment.
About month ago George Debany,
who was formerly partner of John
Mano in store in Washington street,
called upon the Greks and exhibited
a chattel mortgage on the stock in the
store which bore the signature of |
John Mano Debany claims that all
the stock and fixtures In the store be- !
long to him. and said that if the mort |
gage was not paid off at once that he |
would foreclose it.
Threatened Foreclosure.
Goddard said that shortly after this
4 restaurant keeper named Demos, who
las small place near the Old Slip
Police Station, called in the store of
Iano, on Washington street, and told
lin that unless John Mano paid back
he money to the two Greeks that he
rad obtained through a swindle in the
ale of the store in Eighth avenue,
hat he would forfeit his life.
Sarah Hamley, a pretty Armenian
,irl, of Brooklyn, told two Central of
ice detectives that about three weeks
go she was visited by two Armen-
ans, who said that John Mano had
windled them out of $64O. She said
hat the men were trying to find ont
fhere Mano was, and told her they
tould bring a civil suit against him
nd have him arrested.
IF Jack Mano one of the Ar
lonians is reported to have said.
does not pay this money within a few
ays We will Kill him He has robbed ;
s and we will have revenge"
Miss Handy told the police that :
ohm Mano had many enemies who =
ad made threats against him because =,
e had failed to pay for the supplies y
ith which he stocked the store in .
ighth avenue
These are not the only enemies :,
lat Jack had" said Mis- Hamidy.
Perhaps the bitterest of all were '.
me Of his former friends. who were y,
'eply incensed because he had mar
ed a Jewish girl, which is considered r.
nong the Armenians as the worst =
,ssible offenge." y
Strange Coincidence. =,
In the investigation of this phase of =
e case the police are struck with :,
g possibility that if il is really the :.
'dy of Mano in the morgue that the !,
fe and child have met similar y
tc at the hands of the frenzied as -
ssins who decapitated and dismem- ~
red his. body.
John G. McCloskey. who lives at ~
Beach. visited the District ID
tCrney's off &c today and identified -
g gunsy bag found with the body as u. u
e which be had seen on a Third ave u"
e car about 6 o'clock Sunday morn
z. He said that Il man carrying the
& which seemed to be well filled
-m in trent % The Brooklyn bridge.
. pushed il tightly against the
D ed gate. This man was about IS ="
8rs Old Of medium height. had on
X grayish trousers a brown cloth
t. dark coat, tow-colored hair azd