The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-30

the time, their gold-laden bodies could
not help appealing to the murderers,
who had undoubtedly worked along
with them. They lived on So or So a
month, and the bandits knew they
boarded the rest. II
A week ago they were paid off and
all Of them received several hundred
this amount added to the other savings
on their persons, made q knife blow
worth the chance. They came to Min
neapo1is intending to go out on other
work and were undoubtedly sleeping on
their money when the murderers came
to the house.. -
At night, said stoyanoff, they would
hide their money in peculiar places.
Some feared that if they left it on their
the night and they often placed it in
crevices and corners of their bed. Others
kept 1t on their persons, willing to fight
for 1t. ..- -. -
To Check Up Whole Grew.
AS to the bandits themselves, Stoya-
nof knows nothing. They probably
worked on the railroad with the six
men, and 1t is now up to the police to
| check up every. man that was in that
gang week before last. Six of them
are dead. Some of them are in Duluth
and some in the mines. Those who
cannot be accounted for are the murder
ers and will have to dodge every officer
In the United States from now on. 1T
will be impossible for them to leave the
country. .... ,-...4. -. 49,. 49,
Stoyanoff will be released and he was
told that he could 90 back to Duluth,
but he prefers to stay to help the police
| If he can. e. E
Knife Buyers Were Murderers.
Thomas Wilson, a clerk for the Kelly
Hardware company, Duluth, came to
Minneapolis today with Detective Stay
10. He positively identified the six
knives as ones he sold last week to six
men who bought them in the Duluth
store. The firm g private costmarks
were still on the knives.
Mr.. Wilson visited the morgue, and
after seeing the faces of the dead men
there, declared that they were not the
men to whom he sold the knives. The
spect different.
This proves the theory advanced yes
terday that the victims of the murder
were followed from Alborn by the
murderers, who knew they had just been
paid off.
Duluth Suspects Innocent.
Police Superintendent Doyle is con
WINGED that the men locked up at Du-
luth were not involved in the murder,
for everything was quiet when they left
the city Monday afternoon. The ex-
pressman who moved the baggage from
the house on Tenth avenue s was in the
rooms where the murdered men were
found and says there was nothing
wrong. The value of the arrests in Du-
luth lies in the fact that those men
know who the murdered men were and
who was likely to follow them for their
money.
The men locked up at Duluth, how
i ever, say they cannot tell the names of
anyone who might be suspected of the
crime. They talk freely, but little in
1 formation has been obtained so far.
! All day yesterday Superintendent
4 DOYLE s office was crowded with Greeks
and Slavonians, who aided in the trans
lation of the letters. The letters shed
absolutely no light on the crime, but
simply showed where the men came
from and the conditions prevailing in
the old country. Nikola Karleff's ia
Their was surprised to learn that his SON
was making $1.75 day, and said he
did not know that man ever obtained
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