The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-29
Bodies of Six Bu1garians
 Are Found.
TWO DEAD IN THE CELLAR
Others in Sleeping Room on the
 Second Floor.
Believed that Those Below stairs Were Murdered for Their Possessions and that Others QuarreIed
 Over the spoiIs..


 o'clock this morning the mutilated bodies of six BuIgarians. evidently workmen, were found lying in deep pools of coagulated blood in a little tumble-down house. No. s46 Tenth Avenue, South.
 Four of the bodies were found in a | sleeping room on the second floor, cut and slashed in most horrible manner. while in the cellar were two others with their throats cut from ear to ear. Near the four bodies were found large bowie knives and a blood-stalned hatchet.
 The dead: NicoIo Dinitri, KirIs Dimitri, Agne Karohl. Kerstan YoviEo. Unka Naudaba, Baaker Kapanni. The Dimitris were evidently father and son. All the men were compara- lively young and smooth shaven, their identity being established by letters found on their persons.
 The only clue possessed by the police which may lead to a solution of the crime was obtained from a drayman named Micklenberg. He says that he was approached Monday afternoon last by some men whom he took to be Ital- fans or Creeks, who wanted him to take six packages from the house where the bodies were found. to the union station.
 On arriving at the house. he found 
 some haggling about the price. he took them to the station. A young man. aged about 20 years, rode on the wagon with him. The other men walked The man who rode on the wagon said the party was going to Duluth. At the station he noticed that the men from the house were joined by several other men. a woman and little girl.
 Statement of Magnuson.
 From thls story the police adduced that the murders were committed some time between midnight Sunday and Monday morning. This suspicion IS strengthened by the statement 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 1t was who notihad Mag uson that a fight had taken place in the rooms over the ones occupied by the German Sunday night. The German said he heard seuffling in the rear of the house but thought nothing of 1t un- til today when he observed that the tenants above him were not moving about as usual. After notifying Mag nuson, the German disappeared and has not been located up to a late hour to- day. Magnuson at once called up Pa trolman Peterson, who broke open the doors and made the horrifying discov- cry.
 Magnuson told the police that four months ago a well dressed Italian rent ed the upper floor of the house and paid four months rent in advance. The Italian told him he was foreman of rf ilroad construction gang and that some of the hotels would not keep the men. The next day twelve men moved their few belongings to the house They went to work each day and returned in the evening. They never drank and made little noise and those about the place paid little attention to them. MaRnuson never inquired their names and merely entered them on the books as tenants for whom four months rent had been paid in advance. The men lived. slept and ate their meals In these little rooms on the second floor The foreman" was never seen again. Murdered for Money. | The police are inclined to believe that | the men found in the cellar were m,ir- dered for their money and that free for all fight followed over a division of the spells, resulting In the four other deaths.
 the bodies found in the upper room. Their faces were slsshed almost be- vond recognition and there were wounds all over the bodies, all, how ever. having deep slashes in the throat. One man had fallen against 8 hot stove and the right side of his face was burned past all identification. Be- side this man lay the bloody hatchet.
 The fight for money theory Is borne out by the finding near the bodies of one or more money belts in which was S5e in United States currency and gold. On one of the bodies was found a watch which was still going. Some of the bodies had been stripped, evil dently for robbery.
 At the morgue this afternoon J. MIcklenberE. the drayman, identified one of the dead men as the one who had met him at the house on the af- ternoon he had called to haul away baggage.
 Inquiry at the baggage rooms show the party checked most of their lug gage to Duluth.
 Duluth, Minn. March 2s.--The chief of police disclaims any knowledge of the arrival here of the party of Bull garians believed to be connected with the tragedy at Minneapolis. Officers are on the lookout for the men, how ever.