The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-31
Fitted Duluth Descriptions.

Little was thought OF tne matter uH
til yesterday when clues began turning
gan looking up the employment agen-
cies but the description already fur
nisheh enough fo1, the Chicago po-
lice to work en-. The descriptions tally
well with those given by Thomas Viii
son. the Duluth hardware statesmen who
sold the knives to the murderers.
1t these men are the ones who COM
mitted the terrible crime, the two men
picked up at the Prior avenue station
must have returned to Minneapolis
s@early e hestisSr genre cit
with other members of the band. Three
of them; may have stopped off in Chi
cago ard the other two, accompanied by
the woman in order to ward off sus-
picion, went on, toward New York. ,
Wants Ohio Suspects Again. Z :
Police Superintendent Doyle is now
positive that the men arrested in Ohio
while on the train were the ones picked
up in st. Paul, They were released,
but dispatches have been sent out ask
ing to have them picked up and held.
The New York police are watching the
trains and ships and it will be hard for
them to get out of the country
-s Where Is Sixth Man7 =
What has become of the sixth man
and e knife he purch ased. in Duluth 3
Only FIVE knives were found by the
police who searched the house, and now
it appears that there were FIVE men
in the gang that left the city the morn
ing after the slaughter. Some Of ,the
detectives think that the sixth man
backed out before reaching the city,
while others think he escaped alone,
taking the knife with him for self de-
Tense in case. ar attempt might be made
to arrest him. la,- -" "'%ses~s-
This man may have been the leader.
they say, aud took every precaution to
look out for himself, allowing the others
to go their own way. In that case the
leader may be the wisest one in the lot
ard having most Of the none: in his
possession is still in hiding here.
Another theory is that the leader of
country a short time and that he was
the man who stepped out Of the car
riage that drew up before the house OH
Tenth avenue Sunday afternoon. He
may have announced that he was new
arrival and was greeted after the Gus
cheek. He may nave been Welcomed
with his three associates and stayed
long enough in the house to get ac-
quainted with the layout.
Petros Stoyanoff. the old man who
was helping the police yesterday
that stopped at the house Sunday after
noon, altho he was about the house
most of the time.
Looking for Hackdriver.
Work of the Minneapolis police will
now be directed toward finding the
hackdriver who took these four mer
there
Where did he first see them, ant
could any of them talk enough Eng
lish to engage his services9 Mrs
Thomas Sipult, 241 Tenth avenue S
who. saw the carriage and the men
gould rot remember how they were
dressed. ~@ ~. -. -. -
IF the hackdriver can be found, thi
question may be settled and may ever
rev eel she hiding place of one of thu
muir derers. If he wore a khaki uni
form the police will feel certain tina
the four men were murderers.
chicago. Detectives Passolt and JOIN,
son, who are in that city telephoned t.
Superintendent Doyle last night, tina
they wanted to spend more time there
and that they had found relatives 0
the Ralef brothers, four of the vic
TINS. The relatives claimed to knoy
nothing of themurder, but are helpin
the detectives in their search thru tn
Macedonian quarters. r. A@% ii
h Peter Stoyanoff went back to Dulut
early this morning, and will aid the pc
lice there in checking up the gang, i
which the six murdered men worked
The murderers were. pre- badly in tn
same. gang, and every man will be az
counted, for ifepossible. / g. = r.
Bodies Are Requisitioned. q
Legal complications have delayed tn
burial of the bodies of the victims Th
state university, today served notice o
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