Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-29
SIX BULGAR|ANS
MEET AWFUL FATE
BODIES HACKED AND CUT BY
BOWIE KNIVES
Horrible Tragedy at Minneapolis.
Theory Points to Falling Out
Among Theves-No Ar
rests Made
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS, March 2S-The
hacked and mutilated bodies of six
Bulgarians, evidently workmen, We're
found lying in pools of coagulated blood
in a little tumble-down house at 245
Tenth avenue South, this morning.
Four of the bodies were found in Il
sleeping room on the second floor, cut
and slashed in a shocking manner,
while in the cellar were two others
with their throats cut from ear to ear
Near the bodies were found five large
bowie knives with razored edges,
blades nearly eight inches long, and a
blood-stained hatchet.
The Dead
NIKOLO DIMITRI.
KIRLE DIMITRI.
ACNE KAROFIL.
KERSTAN YOVKO.
uNKA HAUDABA.
BAAKON KAPANNI.
The Dimitris were evidently father
and son. All of the men were COM
paratively young. None bore names
about their clothing, those given being
taken from letters in the sacks and
satchels in the room where the four
bodies were found.
The nationality of the men was de-
termined by Rev. Boskowicz, pastor IF
the Greek church here. He found
among the papers discharge from the
Turkish army belonging to Agne
Karofil.
The only clew to the wholesale mur-
der which may lead to something def
mite was obtained from a drayman. He
was approached last Monday afternoon
hv N1rbn ho
Italians or Greeks, who wanted him
to take six packages from the house
where the bodies were found to the
union station. Arriving there he found
there were twelve packages, and after
some haggling about the price he took
them to the station.
A young man about 20 years of age
rode on the wagon with him. The
other men walked. The man who rode
to Duluth. AT the station he noticed
that the men from the house were
joined by several other men, a woman
and little girl
What CIew May Lead To
From this clew the police believe
that the murders were committed
some time between midnight Sunday
and Monday morning. This suspicion
is clinched by the statements of S.
Magnuson, owner of the house where
the murders occurred
At about 10 o'clock today he asked
the police to search the house. He said
that an aged German who occupied
the lower floor of the house could not
be found. He it was who notified
Magnuson that the fight had taken
place in the rooms over the ones oc-
cupied by the German Sunday night.
The German said he heard scuffling
in the rear of the house, but thought
nothing of it until he observed that
the tenants above him were not NOV
ing about as usual. After notifying
Magnuson the German disappered and
had not been located up to a late hour
today. Magnuson at once notified The
police, who broke open the doors and
made the horrifying discovery.
Rented Rooms to Italian
Magnuson told the police that about
four months ago a we'll dressed Italian
rented the upper story of the house and
paid four months rent i'll advance. The
Italian told him he was foreman of a
railroad construction gang and that
none of the hotels would keep the men.
The next day twelve men removed their
few belongings in. They went to work
each day and returned in the evening.
those living about the place paid little
attention to them. Magnuson never in
quired their names and merely entered
them on the books as tenants for whom
four months rent had been paid in adj
vance. The foreman was never seen
again and the police have absolutely no
knowledge of his identity.
Two bodies in the basement, accord
ing TO Coroner Kistler, had been dead
nearly two days. The blood surround
ing the bodies in the upper rooms was
more fresh than around those in the
cellar. Also the wounds on the four
appeared to have been made later
Threats Were Cut
The men i'm the basement had been
killed by having their throats cut, and
the police are inclined to believe that
they were murdered for their money
and that free-for-all fight followed
over a division of the spoils.
This is indicated by the wounds of
the bodies found in the upper rooms.
Their faces were slashed almost beyond
recognition and there were wounds all
over the bodies, all, however, having
deep sashes in the throats. One man
had fallen against a hot stove and the
right side of his face was burned past
all identification. Beside this man lay
the bloody hatchet. The fight for money
theory is borne out by the finding near
the body of one or more money belts
in which was $5O6 in United States cur
rency and gold.
On one of the bodies was found a
watch still going. Some of the bodies
had been stripped, evidently for rob-
berry.
The police here and at st. Paul are
looking for two boys aged 12 and Is
years who We're in the house Sunday
and who are missing, but who are not
supposed to have had anything to do