The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-29
SIX BULGARIANS
DONE TO DEATH
Horrible Tragedy in a Little Tumble
Down Frame Shanty at
Minneapolis.
NO CLUE TO MURDERERS
MONEY BELTS WERE NOT
TOUCHED.

TOUCHED.
Minneapolis, Mimi, March 2S.-The
hacked and mutilated bodies of six Bull
garians, evidently workmen, were found
lying in pools of coagulated blood in a
little tumbledown house, No. 245 Tenth
avenue. south, this morning Four of
the bodies were found in a sleeping
room on the second floor cut and
slashed in a shocking manner, while
in the cellar were two others with their
Threats cut from ear to ear. Near the
bodies were found five large bowie
knives with razor-edged blades nearly
eight inches long and a blOOdstained
Ratchet.
The Dead.
NikOlo DimitTi.
Kirle Dimitri.
Agne KarofiI
Unka Haudaba-
Kerstan oVkO-
BaakOn KaDanni.
Victims All Young.
The Dimitris were evidently father
and son. All of the men were compar-
atively young. None of the men bore
names about their clothing, those Civ
en- being taken from letters in the
sacks and satchels in the room where
four of the bodies were found
The nationality of the men were de
termined by Rev. Boskowicz, pastor
of the Greek church here. He found
among the papers a discharge from the
Turkish army, belonging to Agne Kar-
OIL.
Slight Clue Obtained.
The only clue to the wholesale muir
der which may lead to something def
mite was obtained from a drayman
named Mikleberg. He says he was ap-
preached last Monday afternoon by
some men whom he took to be Italians
or Greeks, 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 there
were twelve packages. and after 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 and 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.
From this clue 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. Nagnuson, owner
of the house where the murders Oc-
CURED.
Statement of the Owner.
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 Mag
nusOn that a fight had taken place in
the rooms over the ones occupied by the
German, Sunday night. The German
said he heard scuffling in the rear of
the house. but thought nothing of it
until 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 uD to a late hour to-
day MagnuSOn at once notified the
police. who broke open the doors and
made the horrifying discovery.
Rented by Italian.
four months ago a Well-dreSSed Italian
paid four months rent in 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 moved their
few belongings in. They went to work
each day and returned in the evening.
They were quiet. never drank. and
those living about the place paid little
attention to them.
MagnusOn never inquired their names
and merely entered them on the books
as tenants for whom four months rent
had been paid in advance. The fore
man" was never seen again, and the
police have absolutely no knowledge of
his identity.
Dead Two Days.
The two bodies in the basement ac-
COrdinE to Coroner Kistler, had been
dead nearly two days. The blood sur
the bodies in the upper rooms
was more fresh than around those in
the cellar. Also the wounds on the four
to have been made later The
men in the basement had been killed
by having their threats cut. and the
police are inclined to believe that they
were murdered for their money and
that a free-fOr-all-fight followed over
a division of the spOils This is indi-
Gated by the wounds on the bodies
found in the upper rooms Their faces
we're Slashed almost beyond recogni-
ton and there were wounds all over the
bodies, all however. having deep
SldSneS III lfAc IufOdlS- OUe man mad
fallen against a hot stove, and the
right side of his face was burned past
all identification. Beside this man lay
the bloody Ratchet.
Fight for the Money.
The fight for money theory is borne
out by the finding near the bodies of
one or more money belts i'm which was
S5O6 in United States currency and
gold. On one of the bodies was found
a watch still going. Some of the bod
les had been stripped evidently for rob-
berry. The police here and at st. Paul
are looking for two boys. aged about
u and 10 years, who were I'm the house
Sunday. and who are missing, but who
arc not supposed to have had anything
TO DO wiz the murders
In the two satchels found i'm the
house were. beside some woodmen's
a curious set of regalia. con-
sisting of caps, robes and kerchiefs
characters and embIems
which it Is thought may have belonged
to an order of the Greek church. There
were also beads and several other reli-
gious emblems.