The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-28
CONFESSES KILLING BROTHER.
ARMENIAN'S NERVE SNAPS AT
SIGHT OF. INITIATED BODY.
Aram Tashuan Tells IN HideOus Detail
az D~ismemberinS COrpse-Grews0me
RideIiKhts From Boy Murderer
[ smokes while Police Fish for Head.


Aram Tashjian, the young Armenian
arrested on Wednesday night on suspicion
AZ numbering his elder brother, Markar
EAshjIan, confeesedyeeterday I'M paroxysm
AZ horror caused by the sudden sight OF
his brothers dismembered body. He told
how he had out up the body and hidden
the fragments In the neighborhood OF
Thirty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue,
where they were found on Sunday and
Monday.
After he had made q full confeasion
Tashjian was led, handcuffed, by the police
to the foot of the pier at West Thirty-sixth
street and there put on a police launch
to direct the officers where to grapple Tor
the head Of his brother, hich he said ne
had cast into the East River the morning
after the murder, enclosed in a leather
handbag. For hours the graphing nooks
dragged the mud Of the river bed without
making the grisly catch. Tashjian sat
ON the bow Of the boat and smoked Gig
arettes.
The Armenian was put through the
sthird degree" in the Office OF Inspector
Mclaughlin on Wednesday night. Under
all the mental torture inflicted the mar
stuck with desperate ~tenacity TO his orlgi-
nal story Of his brother having sailed
for Egypt. In the morning Inspector
Mclaughlin had Detectives Doran
McCafferty take the prisoner to a closed
carriage. Tashjisn sat in the vehicle
ignorant OF wheie he was going.
The carriage stopped and he was hustled
through a doorway into a dark room. Then
the lights wore turned on. Tashjian saw
At his feet the trunk and severed limbs
- - 49,. -.kAnnal hy tho n0liNa from
the hole in the lot at West ThiIty-sixth
street and Eleventh avenue and from the
empty box cars standing on the tracks
Of the New York Central. a block away.
The PRISONER shrieked and then his nerve
snapped.
Il did i'll / did it," ~hescreamed. THAT
is my brother and l \ killed him."
Tashiian was hurried back to the ONCE
Of the inspector n there his full con-
fession was taken down. The first words
that he said were:
my brother deserved to die. He was
a stingy miser and he starved his mother
and my little brother. Death was too
good for him.
Then Tashjian detailed to Inspector
Mclaughlin why he had killed his brother
and how no had disposed Of the remnants
OF the body.
Il killed my brother Markar,' said he,
because he was the meanest man l had
ever seen. he had lots of money. He
would give none Of it to our mother when
ale was lying starving in our house. He
would give none Of it 70 our little brother.
Levon.
MANY quarrels we had together about
this subject. One day ! told Markar that
- HAL aAsIA-.n IN tho GfroAfa uvh an
they asked him for pennies were afraid
that he was going to kill them, he answered
them so wildly.
The last quarrel we had was on Saturday
night. We fought. | knocked Markar
down. Then the IDEA came to me that 1
should kill him. He was too stingy to live.
80 I woke up Ley9n, made him dress and
told him to get out-go out on the streets
and play.
when the boy went out Markar went to
bed. Then l got a knife and stabbed him
many times until he was dead.
Tashiian continued TO tell the inspector
how he had determined TO get rid Of tho
body by cutting it up in pieces and hiding
the members either in the river or in tho
railroad yards. With agonizing detail he
related the process of Remembering the
COHDSe Oh nIs DEOtLCIs ~ gOOh hAAh 80
~ o'clock until 8 O'Clock in the morning
TO cLmplote the bloody work.
Then, Tashjian said, he wrapped the
torso in the oilcloth from the kitchen table
which he had used to prevent the blood from
flowing onto the floor OF the room when he
vas doing his butcher work, and carried
IL to the pit on the corner OF West thirty
sixth street and Eleventh avenue, where
IL -AA For III hNNndI
he had made of the arms and calve and took
that down to the empty freight car. An
other trip he made with the thighs, which
be threw into the coal car.
Finally there remained but the head.
This he put into a black handbag, which
be had brought W WITH siln when be
came from Armenia-a bag which used to
belong to his mother-and carried 1t down
70 the foot OF the wharf at he end Of West
Thirty-sixth street. He picked up a piece
of iron Junk on his way down to the piers
end and put this in the bag with the head
30 that il would sink. He threw the satcheI
"a far out as he could. When he heard the
splash he went back to his rooms. q,
Tashjian said that when he went back
IN his room be took S65 OF his murdered
brothers money from his clothes. He told
the detectives yesterday that ne needed
LHAy BOO dLlu NIhl ~ Wab VIC as ANSASJ
he had ever got from Markar.
Tashjian's story as told to Inspector
Mclaughlin was supplemented later N
the morning when the wizened n hall
starved boy, Levon, was taken from the
Gerry society rooms, where he had spent
the night, down to the office Of Assistant
District Attorney Cardozo to be questioned
AT FIRST the boy was Ike a frightened animal
He would not talk except on the greatest
urging and he evidenced a keen desire to
shield his brother in all his statements
Little bv little the attorney drew from
him the story Of the bloody happening
In the tumbledown house OF all nations,
at 428 Eleventh avenue.
Yes, he knew that his two Older brother
had often had quarrels. He Thought, II
was over money matters: since his motnel
died some time ago-the neighbors say
ehe died of sta~rvation-the boy had a harc
time Of il. His two brothers did not care
for him and they beat him very often.
On Saturday night Aram and Marka.
ouarrelled again. Levon was IN the room
Al the time and saw Aram knock Markal
down. Then Aram told him to run out
doors ard play with the children for a while
T.von Uant outdoOrs. but il was all darl